The Lord of Life and Death: Where O Death is Your Victory?

In our text today, Dr. Luke shows to us three situations where death looms darkly and oppressively over the people who are powerless to do anything about it. Jesus enters all three situations showing himself as the glorious Victor and Conqueror over death. In the Person and Work of Christ in Luke 7:1-23 we see that the Messianic Age has dawned in Jesus and we get a foretaste and glimpse of what the New Heavens and New Earth will be like when God has climatically conquered death, and will wipe away every tear from our eyes (Revelation 21:1-4). In the work of Christ, we rejoice and should think of the Apostle Paul’s question in 1 Corinthians 15:55: “Where O death is your victory?” “Where O death is your sting?”