God Gives Us The Victory

“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” (1 Corinthians 15:56-58 NIV)

All of us one day are going to die a physical death unless Jesus returns before that can happen and he takes his faithful bride to be with him for eternity. But death is not just physical. There is also spiritual death. Those who are of genuine biblical faith in Jesus Christ, who remain in Christ in obedience to him until the very end, although we may face physical death in our bodies, we will live with Christ for eternity. But those who remain in their sins, making sin their practice, will die in their sins and not live with Christ.

Now, when this Scripture states that the strength of sin is the law, that is a difficult concept to understand, and even the old commentators struggle with its meaning. But it is not teaching that the commands of God are sinful or that they encourage sin. For our Lord’s commands forbid that sin should be our practice, and they teach that righteousness and faithfulness to our Lord must be our practice. But it is teaching that the strength of sin, sin’s evil nature, and the consequences of sin are made known to us by the law.

For, although we who believe in Jesus Christ are not under the Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, circumcision, dietary, and Sabbath laws, we are not to be lawless. God’s moral laws never went away, and obedience to his New Covenant commands are required of us of God as part of biblical faith which saves. For if sin is what we obey, and not God’s commands, then we are not in fellowship with Christ, we don’t know God, and we do not have salvation from sin nor eternal life with God in heaven.

But obeying God’s commands and ceasing to make sin our practice are not something that we can do in our own flesh. For it is God who gives us the victory over sin and Satan and self. It is only because of what Jesus did for us on that cross that any of us can, by faith in Jesus Christ, deny self, die to sin, and obey God and his commands, in practice. For even the faith to believe in Jesus comes from God, is authored by God, is gifted to us by God, and is persuaded of God that we must deny self, die to sin, and obey God.

Therefore, as those who profess faith in Jesus Christ, we are to be steadfast in faith, immovable with regard to our faith in practice, always abounding in the work of the Lord. And what is the work of the Lord? It is the power to deny self, die to sin, and obey his commands, and it is living for him and for his will in the power of God. And it is following his leading in going wherever he sends us, and saying whatever he gives us to say, and doing whatever he commands we must do as his followers, for our toil is not in vain in the Lord.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22] 

Wake Up!  

Based off Ephesians 5:1-21; Revelation 3:1-6

An Original Work / November 25, 2011

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead.

Your God awaits you to do what 

He says to you. 

Be not conformed to your selfish will.

Trust in the Lord. Do what He says. 

He will give you victory.

Do not walk in darkness; 

Come into the light of love.

Listen to your Savior calling

You to obey all His teachings.

Repent of your sin, and 

Christ will shine His love on you.

He waits patiently for you to

Heed His whispers to your heart.

Will you hasten to obey Him;

Not from Him depart?

Live your life from this day forward,

Walking in His love and mercy.

Let Him cleanse you of all your sins.

Dwell with Him today.

Do not insult God’s grace to you.

Do not make light of your sin.

Let the light of His truth come 

And free you from within.

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God Gives Us The Victory

An Original Work / April 20, 2026

Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love