Scripture Memory Verse for Week of April 6

My apologies for the two weeks' absence. One week I was in Oaxaca Mexico on a medical mission trip helping to provide cataract eye surgery to those who could not afford medical care. It was a great experience! The second week of absence was because of recovering from my trip and enjoying my grandson, Samuel Kekoukaua Woodward III. My parents came out to see him and on Sunday we had four generation together as we dedicated baby “Kamu” to the Lord.

With Easter coming up this Sunday we are reminded in this week’s memory verse of the certainty of the bodily resurrection of Jesus for our salvation.

The verse for the week of April 6

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 1 Corinthians 15:20

Bible Passage for the Month of April

In 1 Corinthians 15 Paul shows that since Jesus has been raised from the dead we can have the assurance that we too one day will be raised from the dead. This gives us hope to persevere in this life

1 Corinthians 15:50-58

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—

52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?”

56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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