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Death vs. Eternal life     Through one man, Adam, sin entered the world, and death came through sin (Rom. 5:12). The wages of sin is death (6:23).   Here, "death" refers to:   1.        Spiritual death, separation from God. 2.        Physical death, the separation of body and soul. 3.        Eternal death, being completely separated from God and facing eternal damnation.   However, through one man, Jesus Christ, we have been justified and received the gift of eternal life (v. 18, 6:23). The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (6:23).   Here, "eternal life" means:   1.        Being connected to God through Jesus Christ. 2.        Knowing the one true God and Jesus Christ (Jn. 17:3). 3.        At the Lord's return, expe...

Death is not the end       “So be on your guard! Remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.   …   In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' ” (Acts 20:31, 35)                       As I meditate on the word of God, I have a view of life that God the Holy Spirit is planting in my heart.   One of those views on life is that people come to dust and return to dust.   In other words, the perspective that God the Holy Spirit instills in my heart through the word of God is the perspective of death.   Look at the Bible Ecclesiastes 7:2 – “It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living...

‘The living should take this to heart’         [Ecclesiastes 7:1-4]     ​   ​               On Thursday, April 20, 2008, there was interesting news in South Korea YTN 11 o'clock night news.   The news was about some people taking pictures for their funerals, writing their last will letters, reading that letters in a mortuary room.   I saw most of them crying when they were reading down their letters.   Not only did they read down their letters, but they actually went into their coffins in the mortuary room.   Then the other person slowly poured the soil over the coffin with a shovel.   When I was watching that moment I thought if a person who was inside the coffin heard that sound of the soil, he would probably felt real about his death.   The response of those who experienced their dying process was "I wanted to live more."   And the...

  https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/how-do-i-face-the-deaths-of-others How Do I Face the Deaths of Others? Guy Waters 10 Min Read When considering death, what is our hope? Strictly speaking, our hope is not a  what  but a  who . It is Christ Himself and all the benefits that we enjoy in Him. Hebrews tells us that we have a “hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf ” ( Heb. 6:19–20a ). Ralph Wardlaw’s well-known hymn praises “Christ, of all my hopes the ground.” Our hope is in Christ, and our hope is Christ. In particular, the “blessed hope” of the believer is the “appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works” ( Titus 2:13–14 ). Our great hope is the return of Christ in glory. Every Christian eagerly awaits the return of Christ and...

The risen Jesus (3)       [Luke 24:1-12]       We have already meditated on “The risen Jesus” twice [“The risen Jesus (1)” centered on John 20:1-10, “The risen Jesus (2)” centered on Matthew 28:1-15].  Today, I would like to receive grace by meditating on the third word under the title of “The risen Jesus (3)” centered on Luke 24:1-12.   In today's text, Luke 24:1-3, the Bible says, “But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.   And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb.”   Here, “the first day of the week” refers to Sunday, the first day after Saturday, which is the Sabbath day.   Also, “they” refers to Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and the other women who were with them (v. 10).   When these women went to the tomb of Jesus with the spices they had prepared on Sunday morning, they saw the stone rolled aw...