The Captain of our Salvation ~ MIGHTY TO SAVE!
"O, death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory?" -I Corinthians 15:55 [KJV] Says a celebrated poet, “All men think all men mortal but themselves.” True, there is a natural philosophy in us so to think; but new-born souls, not only know they are mortal, dying creatures, but, in the exercise of grace, they can indulge the thoughts of death with pleasing reflections. For death is not only a conquered enemy by the Captain of our salvation; but he is also enumerated in the catalogue of our blessings.— “Death is yours.” Yours, to deliver you from all your evils of sin, sorrow, and temptations; yours, to introduce you into the presence of your God and Saviour, and into the enjoyment of all the glory and blessedness of His kingdom. But death has a sting, and the grave a victory: this sting is sin. And what gives strength to sin, and victory over the sinner, is, the law. The darts that sting into us, and so fixes it in us, that, for any thing that we c