Hades On the one hand Christ entered into death and took a tour of death and Hades, preaching the gospel and proclaiming His victory over Satan, but on the other hand Hades could retain the Lord only for three days. In Christ there's no death, and Hades cannot stop Him or keep Him. He walked out of death and He took the keys of death and of Hades with Him. In the church life today death and Hades should have no power over us -- Christ has the keys of death and Hades in His hand! In ourselves, we are powerless when it comes to dealing with death. But when we allow the Lord to have the full ground in us, when we give Him the free way in our being, and when we give Him opportunity to operate in us, death and Hades are under His control. Our simple cooperation in a continual way will eliminate any kind of death from the church life! Our Christ is victorious over death, Satan, Hades, and the grave -- He overcame them all, and now all these things which are very troublesome to us are under His control. We simply need to be organically connected to Christ as the living One in resurrection, allowing Him to dispense Himself into us and operate in us, and death will have no power over us! He has the keys of death and of Hades, and by being one with Him we also become living and