Victory over Death |
Use your will, weak as it is, and ask God for the Holy Spirit to come into my will, this will strengthen it which is really His will because it is God who works in you to do His will.
l Thess. 4:13 -Death is the basis of all fears, and which births all other fears. Death reminds us that the whole of existence is without meaning.
We grieve as others do, it is normal but it is not the despair of the world. Because of what Jesus did on the cross, there is no despair. All His promises will be fulfilled. Hope looks on and looks to the end.
Faith is the present, the now receiving God's grace, hope is faith extended on to the future. Hope of the believer is Jesus Christ Himself. "I am the resurrection, ". Resurrection is the seal of our salvation. It is the guarantee of my physical being in the new heaven and earth. We are a spirit that lives in a body, made of dust and mud. Our dust is sacred because He lives in it. This human being is the lord of the universe.
When man fell, the rest of the universe was affected. God entered into creaturehood via Mary. Jesus is a human being in all aspects. It had to be a human to get us out of this mess. Jesus abolished in His flesh, the enmity. He reconciled us in His fleshly Body thru death.
Second coming is the hope of the believer, but doom to the unbeliever. True faith faces death and old age and says "You are already lost but I will stand in eternal youth one day".
Second coming is the death of death. Jesus said who lives and believes in me, shall never die. Fulness of joy and pleasures evermore await us.
Little boy dying ask if his teddy bear will be with him in heaven. The answer is yes, he will have a 1000 teddy bears. All what that means is a sense of fulfillment and all the security that bear meant. For the little lad will have that and more.
Kingdom of God is in the Holy Spirit, righteousness, peace and joy. Every part of my being was made for eternity. Thus, we look for that blessed hope, Our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
AMEN !