Old Testament Scripture Reading: (Hosea 13:14 KJV)
Hos 13:14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
New Testament Scripture Reading: ( 1 Corinthians 15:51 – 57 KJV)
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Co 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1Co 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Transforming Power Statements:
1) The penalty for sin from the very beginning in the days of Adam, the father of all humanity was the curse of death, which was not intended to be a part of the system, but has been the very worst thing to ever happen from the very beginning even up until now.
2) God our Father began to speak about His solution for the problem of ‘death’ as soon as the penalty of death and the grave was inflicted upon mankind, and He had provided His solution which would be manifested through a “single Mediator”; His Only Begotten Son, Who Is JESUS THE CHRIST, Who would be revealed more and more throughout God’s WORD, The Holy Bible, and disbursed in time through the Covenant People, Israel and the writers of the New TESTAMENT!
3) It is the Resurrection of JESUS CHRIST from the dead that is proof positive that the Power of GOD is GREATER than the grave and all the works of the flesh and the devil that confirms the equation that LOVE over death Equals VICTORY for EVERYONE who believes that JESUS is the Son of God and that God has raised Him from the dead!