William Bode

Wednesday, July 10, 2013 Last Enemy 1 Corinthians 15:26 NLT And the last enemy to be destroyed is death. ----------- I got news this morning that a friend died. He was only 51. Premature death came to my life early with the death of my grandfather. And then the life changing, gut wrenching, loss of my best friend and only brother (and only sibling) visited my life when on the 4th of June 1987, Daniel Allen Bode suddenly and unexpectedly died. I was irrevocably changed by these deaths. Death is inevitable. Death is our enemy. But death is not the end. I've pasted in at the end of this note the whole passage from 1 Corinthians 15 about Jesus power over death and his ultimate victory over death. Another passage that really helped me face death and make sense of it, is found in Hebrews chapter 2. ----- Hebrews 2:14-15 NLT Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the de