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Weekend
Gospel message to follow for All Hands (25-27OCT19)
Heads-Up --- Please find enclosed encouragement in SO GREAT SALVATION by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace -God's unmerited favor- from their sins and from Hell:
NO FEAR OF DEATH
"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and
blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He
might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver
them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage"
(Hebrews 2:14-15). It is only because of the substitutionary death and
resurrection of Christ that believers may face death without fear. Death, the
penalty of sin, has already been endured for us by the Savior. In fact, rather
than us dying, the Savior said to Martha, in John 11:26, "And whosoever
liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?" When
believers pass from this life, they "sleep in Jesus" (1 Thessalonians
4:14); the soul goes to paradise and the body sleeps in the dust, awaiting a
glorious resurrection. "Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out
the lamp because the everlasting dawn has finally arrived. Dying saints may be
justly envied, while living sinners are justly pitied" (Matthew Henry). It
doesn’t matter where you die, when you die or how you die; all that is important
is to die in Christ.
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