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Topic: CONFIDENCE IN DEATH
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Carol Swenson
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Amen!
I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6)
1 Corinthians 15:51 - 58 (NASB)
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.
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WildB
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D am Matt, sorry for trials,
Keep the faith!
if the lord would let me, and i pray that he will, give me 20% of your burden.
i can take it, im under burdened right now, load me up...lol
maintain.....
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MentorsRiddle
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WildB,
I really loved this post.
As a person who has suffered from anxiety and panic attacks throughout my life, I have often times believed that I was dying.
I can attest to everyone that when you believe you are dying you reprioritize your life and view things very differently.
I am reminded by this post at how fruitless I thought my life was on one occasion – I felt stupid for having wasted my time.
Once I had a major revelation. I was laying in my bed, stricken with an anxiety attack and reflected on the flesh and the ways of the world and laughed at how amazingly trivial this world’s delights are. While we are wrapped up in our own little lives, we often forget how meaningful and how dominant the spirit and Will of God should have been in our lives.
Everything that I had once thought so important seemed as a sick joke. I thought about everything I had done, everything I had said and everything I had believed – and wept at how deceived I truly was.
This world is nothing compared to the Will of God and the purpose he has for us.
Through Jesus Christ alone we have assurances that he paid our debt(s) for us and that we will have eternal life with the Lord Almighty.
Thanks for taking the time in posting.
Regards,
~Matt
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With you I rise,
In you I sleep,
kneeling down I kiss your feet,
Grace abounds upon me now,
I once was lost
but now I'm found.
The gift of God dwells within,
To this love I now give in.
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WildB
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by Cornelius R. Stam
In the forty years of my ministry I have seen many people approach death and have seen some die.
Some, who knew Christ as their Savior, were ready, even eager, to go to be with Him. Some passed from this scene with songs or words of praise on their lips. Others, who had failed to prepare, died in mortal fear, not merely of death, but of what lies beyond.
These things do not always run true to form, however, for I have also seen the most hardened unbelievers go out of this life joking and seemingly unafraid, while, on the other hand, I have seen sincere Christians cringe with fear at the approach of death. These human reactions did not change the fact that the unbelievers had reason to be afraid, while the believers need not have feared.
The Word of God tells us that "it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Heb. 9:27,28). It is the "after this" that makes men so afraid to die. They fear the truth of Rom. 14:12, that "every one of us shall give account of Himself to God."
But wait: we did not quote all of Heb. 9:27,28. The full passage reads as follows:
"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment; so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time apart from sin, unto salvation."
This can mean only one thing: that Christ died for us and bore the judgment for our sins, the "second death." This is why Heb. 2:9-15 declares that "by the grace of God" Christ "tasted death for every man... that through [His] death He might... deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage."
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