1 Corinthians 15:56, The Sting of Death is Sin

1 Corinthians 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

When Adam and Eve disobeyed the direct command of God not to partake the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the curse of sin which is death fell upon them. The record of Adam’s death was given in Genesis 5.

 Genesis 5:1-5 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

And it is the law of God that helps us to know the will of God so that we may see by the standard of the law that we are miserable sinners. It shows our weakness and failure to obtain righteousness with God by the keeping of the law. We fail miserably. And because of our sins that death falls upon us. And the law shows our inability to find righteousness with God but to seek it through Jesus Christ, as revealed in the gospel. Thank God the sting of sin is overcome by Jesus Christ. Indeed, the just shall live by faith in Jesus Christ’s finished work of redemption. Amen.