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Render to God

November 01, 2014

Jesus reveals to the Pharisees that human beings exist and live in two realms, and that He (Jesus) is the Lord of both. The Pharisees bring some friends along as they attempt to catch Jesus in a trap of His own words. They ask whether it is right to pay taxes to Caesar. And everyone knows it is a loaded question. To say “yes” is to offer support to the Romans who everyone despises. If Jesus says that they should indeed pay Caesar’s tax, then He could very well lose the favor of the people. To say “no” is to call down the wrath of the Romans. If Jesus tells the people that they should not pay the tax, then He could be arrested or killed. ...

I Corinthians 15:51-58

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.