1 Corinthians 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.

Immortality is the end of death. Isaiah 25:8 promised the Lord would swallow up death in victory. Praise God but how do we, as mortals, obtain that victory? The promise above is accessed by following the process in order.

First, what caused the corruption? As we said yesterday, death entered in because of original sin. We are all born into sin by virtue of the laws of genetics. We are sinners because our parents were sinners. This has absolutely nothing to do with personal performance. Moral people, as stated yesterday, who have not sinned after the sin of Adam still die. Death reigns over all of us. Get over any issues you have about being good enough for heaven. Access is not granted by performance.

There is nothing you can do to remove sin from your life. No amount of human effort will satisfy the demands for justice. God will not accept man’s human sacrifice to justify man before His court. In order that God might have His creation join Him again without sin, God had to deal with sin Himself.

Romans 3:20, 24 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Justification is a bookkeeping term. It is a record of debt paid. Here we see that nothing we do can remove that debt incurred by our sin. We also see that debt is paid by Jesus Christ via redemption.

Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

As I said yesterday, the things of this world will not fill the emptiness inside you, that loneliness. God has promised you that He will not only fill your heart with all joy, but that He will not leave you nor forsake you.

This point to the bigger problem. How did we come to this state of emptiness in the first place?

Romans 5:12,14 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

All of us will die and whatever relationship we have on this earth will end because of death. Mother’s and father’s die. Sisters and brothers die. My son and I both lost wives. Sadly even our children sometimes die untimely deaths which seems the most painful loss of all. Because this is true then allow me to point to God’s cure for all our loneliness since death is the ultimate enemy.

Isaiah 25:8 He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

1 Corinthians 15:56-57 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.