Column - Scold loudly death

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Column - Scold loudly death

“O death, where is  your sting ? O grave, where is your victory?” (1 Corinthians 15:55)

1. A pastor joked to his followers on Facebook about being spit on 30 times and feeling exhausted. I asked, "Where is the life of Christ? What about spit?"

and I chided him, asking, "How can such foolishness save anyone?"

If I could meet him face-to-face, I would rebuke him like Paul rebuked Peter...

That's not a personal feeling, but an act that creates weak Christians who groan in the face of death.

I've also seen articles about a successful business woman, a doctor named Esther, struggling with depression.

I've also heard stories of lecturers who, like talent showcasing their talents, gain popularity through broadcasts and lectures, struggling with depression.

It's infuriating.

Why did Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, despite being noblemen with money and fame, still feel so depressed that they longed for death?

Hemingway gave readers hope by telling the story of  an old fisherman who dreamed of a lion after trying   to catch a marlin for 84 days but  ended up as shark food.

But he himself ended up committing suicide.

No amount of bragging rights, no matter how talented you are at writing or wordplay, can overcome death.

2. By preaching the word of Christ, we are freed from the law of sin and death by the Spirit of life in Christ, and by living according to the Spirit, we attain life and peace (Romans 8:6), standing on the other side of death, we cry out, "O death, where is your victory?"

This is complete healing without relapse.

However, I see countless people who have lived a long life of faith, but have accumulated virtue(?) through outdated religious rituals such as Sunday observance, tithing, and performing non-essential tasks like volunteer work, only to eventually collapse by death. 

It's heartbreaking.

Our greatest enemy is death, but to destroy the devil who holds the power of death, our Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose again, rescuing us and transferring us to the kingdom of new life within Him. However, because this grace of redemption is mixed with empty words without revelation, death still reigns supreme.

That's why they are tired and withered.

Like a tree by a stream, its leaves should be fresh, but they're withering.

They blame it on age, overwork, and other factors, and they're waiting for the doctor's appointment number to ask, "How much longer do you think I have?"

If this is Christianity, then throw it away.

3. Death is a higher being than Satan, the Antichrist, or the false prophet.

Death is an enemy who will ultimately be condemned to the lake of fire (Revelation 20:14).

It always carries the bag of Hades, shooting humans to death with the law and placing them in Hades.

It causes them to struggle with depression and anxiety disorders, and to suffer from weakness and disease.

This death began with one man, Adam (1 Corinthians 15:21).

Adam is the progenitor of humanity, but he is also the progenitor of death.

The first man, Adam, was a living soul (1 Corinthians 15:45), without life. Only Christ, the last Adam, is the life-giving spirit.

But why will the first resurrection, in which we die and rise again with Christ, be in the future?

This is likely due to dispensationalism.

By participating in the first resurrection, we receive the blessing of nullifying the power of the second death (Revelation 20:6).

We receive the blessing of becoming royal priests and reigning with the Lord.

It is an eternal law that the defeated become slaves of the victor.

Struck by the arrows of sin that death shoots, many stand before the law, wondering what to do, and  receive the wages of death and groan. (Romans 6:23).

That's why hospitals and nursing homes are thriving.

4. Hospitals have no other recourse than cutting, burning, and administering medication.

They don't even understand the existence of death.

They, too, have become slaves to death, weary and suffering from depression.

Please, welcome Christ, the resurrection, Christ, the life, Christ, the kingdom of heaven, into your midst.

That is the essence of receiving to become a child of God (John 1:12).

Stop the teasing about accepting Jesus and walking with Jesus. Instead, hear the entirety of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word, and accept his entire being, his redemptive work accomplished on the cross, and his entirety, still alive and sitting on the throne interceding for us.

Christ, the resurrection and life, is now within you.

Isn't he our light, our life, and our love?

If Christ, the resurrection and life, is outside, how can salvation, the washing of regeneration and the renewal of the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5), proceed?

By the atoning grace of Christ's death and resurrection, we have been put to death to the law and brought into Christ, so that we may bear fruit for God (Romans 7:4).

What good fruit can there be without life?

They will say, "Wretched man that I am!" (Romans 7:24), they will only worry about which hospital to go to to heal this mortal body.

Receive the Spirit of truth, come from death and follow Christ.

Practice godliness that abides in Christ, the vine that the devil, the prince of this world, cannot touch.

By the atoning grace of Christ's cross, we have died to sin and death and have new life in Christ. Let us become men who cry out, "O death, where is your sting?"

Our Lord Jesus Christ is alive and working.

He continues to give us eternal life through the life-giving Spirit (John 10:28).

Written by Pastor. Yohan Kim

Translated by Missionary Sookyung Chung

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