Death Defeated

I think about waking up to Grace death defeated only knew one tells the story of twins in the womb said you're going to need to Vons cuz I'm going to click on recently says home Renu on a friend told me about twins talking to each other in the womb. The sister said to the brother. I believe there is life after birth brother put rice protested violently. No, no. No, this is this is a dark and cozy place and we have nothing else to do but cling to the cold. Faces. The little girl insisted that must be something more than this. Place must be something else a place with light where there is freedom to move still. She could not convince her twin brother. Autism silence the sister said hesitantly I have something else to say but I'm afraid you won't believe that either but I think there's a mother. Brother became. What are you talkin about? I've never seen a mother who put that idea in your head. That's all I told you. This place is all we have. Why do you always want more? Cuz she's not such a bad place after all we have all we need. So let's be content. His sister was quite overwhelmed by her brother's response and for a while didn't dare say anything more, but she couldn't let go of her thoughts I'm saying she tiny had her twin brother to speak to she finally said and you feel those squeezes every once in awhile that quite unpleasant and sometimes even painful. Yes yum soup. What's special about that? Well, this is to say I think these squeezes are there to get us ready for another place much more beautiful than this way. We will see a mother face to face. And you think that's exciting? It's not about serious waking up to Grace. We were 10 to the woods of eyes on a man giving great insight and truth about the grace of God who wants to see what he says he wants us to see what he sees to trust God through that he trusts. But we need to understand that he was a man of great faith who stood a long way from those around him. If you saw things the way eyes, I I did in 8th Century BC. It was a well that did not know of Jesus did not know of one who died to bring life did not even have much insight into what happened after life. Writing 200 years later Greek playwright aeschylus said when a man dies and the Thirsty sucks up his blood there is no Resurrection. 200 light years later and Isaiah others was still thinking that there was no real afterlife. Send that against the things that I saw I was describing describing and we can I need picking to draw spell revolutionary. He was being even Jacob won the great Patriarchs of Israel. Could I request that when his people return back to Canaan? They would take his bones his Dry Bones Andre bury them in the promised land. We read in Genesis 50 that shows if a man of great faith when his father died threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him when he died. Pacino's Jacob for shows if it was goodbye. It wasn't over there was no sense. So ever seeing his father again, even the song is could claim my More Than This precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints for the Summers Death is certain and the best the Lord say something valuable precious in the end of life for a person on the Earth. That's because in the Old Testament by and large, there was no concept of life after death. They couldn't conceive it anything more than the spirit leaving the body Witness by Isaiah. He first time so the destruction of Jerusalem, he saw the devastation and the death happening all around him to the city residents both in war and in Sage renewed death right close to him and yet despite as a maybe because of it. He had hoped for something better. So I can understand that what I saw I was describing here for the people to say something that never seen before. I want to say that I saw I was waking up to Grace something wonderful was doing in his heart and he was bold enough to speak them out. In effect as I was saying to his contemporaries these unpleasant and painful squeezes are there to get us ready for another place much more beautiful than this way. We will see your heavenly father face-to-face don't you think that's exciting?

Death defeated with thinking about some of you will think well, that's a long way off. You're young you think well, I haven't even thought about that. Brother's death may have come much much closer to you. You seen a loved one die. You've seen a loved one suffer may be a painful and protracted illness leading today. Then you may hold secrets and fears and doubts about the end of life for yourself. Open apps it's for someone you care for your word about that maybe because they haven't come to Faith and you one drink what will happen to the maybe because in your eyes I have lost their faith. And you wonder what will happen when they die.

is a Facebook Storia it was noted on the BBC news websites about a boy 7 year old Jason Jason heinemann 7 year old whose father had died some years ago and he wrote a letter to his father in Heaven and he's put it in the in the post box and the Royal Mail came back to him to say that they had done what they could So the vehicle had to go to Alaska from the Royal Mail saying I just wanted to take this opportunity to contact you about how he succeeded in the delivery of your letter to your dad in heaven. This was a difficult challenge avoiding Styles not the galactic objects on route to Heaven. I will continue to do all that I can to ensure delivery to Heaven cats are safely. People are struggling with death. You can seven-year-old children one drink where the lost ones and loved ones are. So wherever we stand on this subject why we haven't thought about it whether it's constantly in our mind. Let the spirit of God be your comforter by the word of God be healing fuel solenoid to your mind this week 12 from Lyman on this vision of ice, Ohio. The first couple of us is we see that he says Lord you are my God. I will exalt you and praise your name print perfect faithfulness. You've done wonderful things things planned long ago.

Fries are there was a faith that God does wonderful things has done wonderful things will do wonderful things all of which were planned long long again more than that. They will plan in perfect faithfulness. Literally the word the phrase says faithful faithfulness. Grace say God is faithful and he promised and he's chosen us before the beginning of time. And when we put our trust in him, he's forgiven us everything in Jesus. and long long ago before the creation of the world Heavenly Father planned all this sound if you dwell on that too long, you'll blow off late fees too wonderful to comprehend. I can understand it fully but I can't believe it. I can trust on it just as I was trusting on it. And you may have seen the hand of God work in your life. You will know that outcomes and events convey. I'm not your second stumps and Sean's you'll know that God has planned out something that we couldn't have even dreamed or imagined and those things are wonderful. And God is working his purpose out as a wart is coming to say he's transforming the undrinkable to the drinkable the polluted to the pure. God is at work. He's working in and through it's in the price and in the pain in the Delights and in the disasters, his hand is at work all around and his Spirit lives. He lives in you and he loves you in perfect life honest and faithful faithful honest. He's worked for you. The next couple of verses will be safe that made the city a heap of rubble. Is a spiky was probably surrounded by the devastation of a ruin Jerusalem text with his immediate reality City Wolves with crumbling the Babylonian enemy was at the gate but he's so beyond that he saw a picture of what would have been sea take place for their enemies. He was saying to others look beyond what today in see the final outcome. And I'll be any mean by pay at your gate 13 discouragement may come to you and the devil may seek to destroy your house. It's his house is destroyed and his kingdom it lies in Ruins sites realize we're being told look Beyond today and see the final outcome.

The next couple of verses you being a refuge for the pool in The Shelter From The Storm. Call Lisa Refuge app for the poor and the needy in a shelter for those in storm. The ruthless were pounding on the city walls and Gates bang for blood lies. I could say was that God would protect them and tell them that situation back on the enemies and whatever. The anime's would do to them would eventually come back to the enemy. Still truck true today. Whatever Others May seek to do to you because you stand for God. God will turn back on them God willing to take punishment. God will inflict retribution because those who stand against him have already been defeated matter what you may do What Others May do to you what you want to see my face. God will defeat his enemies and all those who stand against him. So done with with totals look Beyond today and see the final outcome. Grace is a refuge a protection. That's why we should be two brothers for the poor and the needy we should be the Refuge that protection because God has done that for us. The six and seven on this mountain the Lord will prepare. A feast of rich food for old people. Could you about to slap face for about 18 months? They became scarce prices rocketed many was starving we learned that people were even reduced to eating their own babies. That's how shocking it was. And yet I saw in the midst of that class only found in in this place in Jerusalem, that will be a feast for all nations the best meat and the finest wine a banquet where I caught will run over. A picture of having this name. I promise we'll so full today.

Are you hungry? Now? You sasti. Are you wondering how to provide for others will who will provide for you? I thought I tells his fiancee God will provide and you need to trust him. He's already provided. He's already invited you to come you who are thirsty come to the waters and you have my money come by and eat come buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Poopy on today and see the final outcome. 407 on this mountain he will destroy the Shroud that in folds old people. Again, the immediate situation for I saw that they were burying it that they were wrapping them in Trout's. I know I saw it says that trout we lifted and taking and removed from me from old people's it will be taken. This crowded in folds older people on this mountain in this place. He will swallow up. God will swallow Up For Ever wipe away the tears remove his people's disgrace. Buy this now. Space the nether in the grace of God that despite the circumstances. God will still have to final victory. Also, I was surely Clemson waking up to the grace of God and the New Covenant of Jesus the covenant made in his blood where it's not what we've done that matters. It's what he's done and we celebrated that this morning God's grace extends a gracious talking to all who have sinned forgiveness to the broken freedom from guilt the most joyous Lee death defeated.

And you might say well no one can live forever. I need a dog's could do that. So how can we say to death is being defeated one of your correct for athanasius famously said God became man. That man might become God. God became man, Jesus became as we also the we might become as he is. But if another ways of familiar, why is Jesus died that we might have life. Jesus takes away that death he removes the pain from Isom removes his I would disgrace to give us Grace you remove. Disgrace to take out. Grace

Larry laprise the man that wrote The Hokey Cokey by peacefully at the age of 93 on the 2nd of January 1996. The most people name is left like him and that's when the trouble started.

One day they might put me in a coffin. But I know I'll be getting out again. It says that the dead in Christ shall rise to meet him in the sky and as he comes down bringing heaven to us. So those who died in the Lord will rise as Jesus did a bodily Resurrection with a new spiritual body. We need to look Beyond today to see the final outcome. There is no need to fear death if we could have balance on the slides. I found this line in the in a hymn by ww.w. How life is dark without the death with the Sprite. You see Jesus, so we can lose the fear of death. The pain of death. Yes, that will be there. Even Jesus wept over the death of Lazarus even a painful that was not to be eradicated necessarily. By the fear of that. Yes, that's gone in Christ's death really is defeated at the conclusion. That is really the face. I saw I see season Jesus proves it we need to grasp it in faith. and yet To have eternal life. You must die before you die. X-lite, please to have a title life. You must die before you die. Can I have the shroud of death lifted from you? You need to come before the Lord of life? And say take me as I am all that I am old enough time. That I may become like you take my failure my sinfulness my Brokenness. Give me your wholeness. Give me your forgiveness Give Me Your Love. And the grace of God comes I need to those who died who forsake themselves take up their cross and follow him.

And surrender that old to Jesus that's in that control that Pride that tossed and if you've not done that I hurt you to die before you die to die to your old self. Do you might rise with Christ in your life? I thought I told us at the outset of this passage imperfect faithfulness. God has done wonderful things things planned long ago. It's job done. He's fulfilled it. He still filled it in perfect faithfulness. Once more I come into you look Beyond to die and see the final outcome. This is the picture that I saw he gives to us without even knowing we'll meet single seeing Jesus with his own eyes. It's not hope that God is more gracious and ever we could not God wanting to take this from us. I'll pay no failure. But even the sting of death that that should be gone from us and how does eyes I complete suspicion. He says there's four words. The Lord has spoken makes light the Lord has spoken. This isn't just some wild idea revised are some mad longing. This is the word of the Lord and he spoke and God doesn't take his words back. He doesn't say why didn't mean that he didn't say I can't fulfill that he doesn't say delivered over promised in, deliver when he says something he means it. He's lifted the shroud of death from us and need not have no fair for us anymore because we've died already and we are with the Lord. Travis being removed the sting of death is being defeated because of the grace of God and I should change the way we live as it did for his no caring for his personal second stance not even allowing his immediate circumstances to Benjamin out of shape because his trust was in what God would do. That he would provide that he would protect that he would turn back on the enemy the destruction that they sought to put on to him and Festival that the shroud of death would be destroyed forever and he would swallow up death himself.

Because of the grace of God we can be sure two things first date is life after Beth. Hopefully, we know that anyway. The second latest life after death and that's where all Faith needs to guy. That's how Grace needs to transform us so that we lose that fear of that and say we're with the Lord and will be for ethanol a man.

Let's sing together.