1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

From Background Notes [BN] for July 16th & 17th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Why do we know that our labor is not in vain? Because a day is coming when it will be incorporated into the restored creation where Christ is the center and resurrection is the source of new life. And how will that restored creation at last unfold?

1 Corinthians 15:51-57 (NIV)

⁵¹ Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— ⁵² in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. ⁵³ For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. ⁵⁴ When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”^[a]
55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
    Where, O death, is your sting?”^[b]
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. ⁵⁷ But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  [BN,10]

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