THE BRIGHT SIDE OF DEATH (2)
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THE BRIGHT SIDE OF DEATH
Who can count the dust of Jacob,
And the number of the fourth part of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,
And let my last end be like his!
There is a holy covetousness.
We may covet love, sympathy, wisdom, holiness, usefulness, to die like the righteous, and entrance into heaven itself.
Most people look upon death as a dark and gloomy thing without one redeeming quality.
But the death of the righteous, has a bright side and a silver lining.
DEATH IS SOMETHING WE SHRINK FROM
True to our natural instincts we shrink back from death.
With the Christian, it is only the supposed pain of dying he fears.
But the highest authority now declares that there is necessarily no pain in dying itself.
DEATH IS THE START OF ETERNITY
1) With the wicked, death is a final goodbye to all Gospel opportunities and holy companionships, and a plunge into the night lost without God.
With the Christian it is moving out into eternal daylight.
DEATH IS BRIEF AND TEMPORARY
Our intelligent and spiritual parts are essentially imperishable.
Death does not destroy the inhabitant.
It only takes down the house in which he lives this body,
The faithful believer never dies.
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
DEATH IS PUTTING ON IMMORTALITY
The grave is only an inn.
Man was created immortal and he shall rise from the grave and live forever.
Death shall be destroyed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
DEATH IS OUR ENTRANCE INTO HEAVEN
1) It is the soul’s liberation from all bondage, and limitations that mar its larger pleasure.
It is like the worm that bursts its cacoon and comes forth a thing of larger life, liberty, and beauty.
2) It secures to the believer an immediate increase of all that is good in itself.
It is going from large opportunities to larger ones.
He is like one who moves from the poorhouse into king’s palaces and from plain fare to everlasting banquets.
It is departure from friends “to an innumerable company of angels,” etc.
Death is his last conflict for his crown.
3. It is recovery of and everlasting reunion with departed loved ones.
Closing Prayer
Faithful Father, we thank you that you are the Lord of life. We praise you that we are made in your image, reflecting your truth and light.
We thank you for the life of your child, the love he received from you, and the love with which he loved us.
We wait with eager anticipation for the resurrection of the dead at the return of Jesus Christ.
We thank you that we will share with all your people in a world with no sin, pain, or death. We long to see you face to face and be reunited with our loved one.
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.