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O.G.

It's a story based on those words in verses 55 to 57.

O death, where is your sting?

Oh death, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin and the power of

sin is the law but thanks be to God who gives us the victory through Jesus Christ

and the story I have to tell is about the conversation

that Victor had with death.

Hello death. My old enemy, my old slave master, have you come to talk to me again to me?

Have you come to talk to me again to frighten me?

I'm not the person you think I am.

I'm not the one you used to talk to.

Something has happened.

I'm not the same anymore.

Let me ask you a question, death.

Where is your sting?

My sting is your sin, Victor.

Death answered sneering.

You're a sinner, Victor. You are a sinner and that is my sting. I sting because you sin. If you had no sin I'd have no sting. You would just fly away to God where

sinless people go, but there are no sinless people, Victor Waters, I sting them all, including you. I am death and your

sin is my sting. Victor said, I know that death. I know that, death. I know that, but that's not

what I asked you.

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