Notes

Jesus Overcame the Greatest Enemy—So You Can Defeat Yours

1 Corinthians 15:54b-57 (NLT) “Death is swallowed up in victory. 55O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

56For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. 57But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:23b-27 (NLT) I have worked harder, been put in prison more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again. 24Five different times the Jewish leaders gave me thirty-nine lashes. 25Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once I spent a whole night and a day adrift at sea. 26I have traveled on many long journeys. I have faced danger from rivers and from robbers… 27I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm.

Philippians 1:21 (NLT) For to me, living means living for Christ, and dying is even better.

Our Grave Clothes Don’t Fit Anymore

John 20:6-7 (NLT) [John] stooped and looked in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he didn’t go in. 6Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, 7while the cloth that had covered Jesus’ head was folded up and lying apart from the other wrappings.

John 11:43-44 (NLT) Then Jesus shouted, “Lazarus, come out!” 44And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound in grave clothes, his face wrapped in a headcloth. Jesus told them, “Unwrap him and let him go!”