Conquering the Enemies: Sin and Death

Readings:
Job 27
I Corinthians 15:20-28

Focus:
I Corinthians 15:25-26: "For he is destined to reign until God has put all enemies under his feet; and the last enemy to be deposed is death."

Some people misunderstand when they hear Christians talking about enemies like this. They think we mean other people, and that Christians want to be conquerors.

But for Christians, the enemies are evil, sin, death, oppression, injustice, and all that is against God's will. Christians do want to conquer, but not to conquer other people. We want to conquer evil, to conquer sin, to conquer death.

We can only do this with the help of God. In fact, he is the one who does it. And he will do it completely. He will put all those enemies in subjection under Christ, and depose them all, even death. What a great day that will be!