1 Corinthians 15
Oh Death, Where is Your Sting?
© Song by Xander Stok, Project of Love.
January 16, 2026.
1 Corinthians 15 - Oh Death, Where is Your Sting?
55. O death, where is your sting?
Grave, where is your victory?
54. Death is swallowed up in victory.
21. Just as death came into the world through a man,
now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man.
22. Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam,
everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life.
42. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die,
but they will be raised to live forever.
43 Our bodies are buried in brokenness,
but raised in glory.
Buried in weakness,
but they'll be raised in strength.
20. Christ has been raised from the dead.
He's the first of a great harvest of all who have died.
New Living Translation (NLT)
Verse 55: 'Grave' from King James Version (KJV)
"My people don't die, they transfer."
A while ago, I watched a documentary about people around the world sharing their extraordinary testimonies of their walk with the Lord.
There was this one story that stuck with me. A man preached in a church in South Africa; I forget who he was, but during the service, one of the parishioners died (that must've been some sermon...).
The preacher told the congregation to stand around the man and pray, commanding the body to live again while he preached on.
A half hour later, the man came back to life and told about what he'd experienced. The moment he died, he saw God and asked Him, "Am I dead?" And God said, "My people don't die; they transfer."
I love that story. It's profound and comforting at the same time.
This body of ours is 'just' a tent—a dwelling place for our spirit to live in. The body wears down eventually, but our spirit lives on forever.
When you die, it's not the end; you just open a door to the next life, spending eternity with God. Isn't that something? And don't think it'll be boring either. There are thousands of testimonies of near-death experiences that talk about the amazing life awaiting us. This life is the shadow, but the next life is more real than all your experiences here combined.
You want to know the irony?
Before I surrendered to God, I spent most of my life longing for death 'cause I couldn't handle life. And I mean longing for death, as in finito, no afterlife, just over and out.
Then I had an encounter with God that dramatically changed my life.
And God showed me that death (for His people anyway) was just the beginning of something beautiful.
Death has got nothing on us anymore. That's why Paul boldly says, "Oh death, where is your sting?"
'Cause, "my people don't die, they transfer."
