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D<\/b>ecember marks the end of the year. It is the dying of the seasons, the lengthening of the night, the shortening of the days. Just as God has made His world \u201cfor signs and seasons, for days and years,\u201d He has made human beings to live and to die. Life came by the creative hand of God, death came by the sin of mankind. By God\u2019s grace, however, \u201cdeath is swallowed up in victory\u201d by faith in Jesus Christ. I want to end this twelve-month series speaking of death for the believer. That may sound odd for a December article but it is fitting for the end of the life cycle about which I have been writing.<\/p>\n

Just as winter brings an expected end to the seasons, spring always follows with new life. The death of the believer brings an end to earthly life, but it brings the beginning of eternal life with God. I believe Christians ought to look forward to this transition we call death. This is not to say that death itself is enjoyable or easy, but it is to say that we are \u201cearnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven.\u201d Given a choice between the two, I would choose \u201chaving a desire to depart and be with Christ which is far better.\u201d The Puritan William Bridge said, \u201cDeath is terrible. It is called the king of terrors. But to sweeten this, it is called sleep.\u201d So let me give a few biblical facts that sweeten this thing we call death.<\/p>\n

Facts about death. First, we should understand that death is not a punishment for the believer, it is just the last debt we owe to our human existence. Jesus has \u201cabolished death and brought life and immortality to light\u201d for the believer even though \u201cit is appointed unto man once to die.\u201d Thomas Wentworth, at his death sentence said, \u201cI come to pay the last debt I owe unto sin, which is death, and by the blessing of God, to rise again through the merits of Christ Jesus to eternal glory.\u201d Second, death does not separate us from our union with Christ. \u201cThe dead in Christ will rise,\u201d and \u201cso in Christ shall all be made alive.\u201d Third, dying is the culmination of our progressive sanctification. This is perhaps the greatest opportunity for Christian testimony in our life. The words of great saints become more pointed and effective as they approach death, and their memorial brings many tears to doubting eyes. \u201cThe way of life winds upward for the wise, that he may turn away from hell below\u201d (Prov. 15:24).<\/p>\n

Analogies about death. There are well over twenty analogies of the process of dying. The more common ones are: going to sleep and waking (1 Thes. 4:13; Psa. 17:15); folding a tent and putting it away (2 Cor. 5:1; 2 Pet. 1:14); sowing a seed that produces a new form (Jn. 12:24; 1 Cor. 15:38); a ship departing from its moorings (2 Tim. 4:6; Phil. 1:23); flying away (Psa. 90:10).<\/p>\n

Testimonies about death. Believers have always been encouraged by the testimonies from great saints as they were entering the valley of the shadow of death.\u00a0 Philip Doddridge influenced great men such as Isaac Watts and C.H. Spurgeon who referred to his book as \u201cThat holy book.\u201d Doddridge wrote, \u201cI acknowledge, O Lord, the justice of that sentence by which I am expiring; and own thy wisdom and goodness in appointing my journey through this gloomy vale which is now before me.\u00a0 Help me to turn it into the happy occasion of honoring thee and adorning my profession!\u00a0 And I will bless the pangs by which thou art glorified, and this mortal and sinful part of my nature dissolved. . . let me close the scene nobly.\u201d The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul<\/i>, p. 319.<\/p>\n

Other observations on Dying<\/b><\/h3>\n

Richard Baxter: \u201cThe thing to be considered is our unreasonable unwillingness to die, that we may possess the saints\u2019 rest.\u00a0 We linger, like Lot in Sodom, till \u2018the Lord being merciful unto us,\u2019 doth pluck us away against our will.\u00a0 I confess that death, of itself, is not desirable; but the soul\u2019s rest with God is, to which death is the common passage.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The Saints\u2019 Everlasting Rest<\/i>, p. 241.<\/p>\n

C.H. Spurgeon: \u201cO Lord, let them not die without hope, and may thy believing people learn to pass away without even tasting the bitterness of death.\u00a0 May they enter into rest, each one walking in his own uprightness.\u201d\u00a0 Spurgeon\u2019s Prayers<\/i>, p. 114.<\/p>\n

Matthew Henry: \u201cIf it be the will of God that I should finish my course this year, let me be found of Christ in peace, and by the grace of God death shall be welcome to me.\u201d\u00a0 Biography of Matthew Henry<\/i>, p. 112.<\/p>\n

Gregory Spencer: \u201cThe Black Plague.\u00a0 Brutal war.\u00a0 High infant mortality.\u00a0 No antibiotics.\u00a0 Perhaps because death seemed to walk constantly with those in the Middle Ages, the church thought that believers needed to prepare to meet their Savior, to learn to \u2018let go\u2019 of this life and die with grace.\u00a0 They called this practice ars morendi<\/i>, Latin for \u2018the art of dying well.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Awakening the Quieter Virtues<\/i>, p. 150.<\/p>\n

J.C. Ryle: \u201cMost men hope to go to heaven when they die; but few, it may be feared, take the trouble to consider whether they would enjoy heaven if they got there.\u00a0 Heaven is essentially a holy place; its inhabitants are all holy; its occupations are all holy.\u00a0 To be really happy in heaven, it is clear and plain that we must be somewhat trained and made ready for heaven while we are on earth.\u201d Holiness<\/i>, p. 58-59.<\/p>\n

A.W. Tozer: \u201cI thank God that heaven is the world of God\u2019s obedient children.\u00a0 Whatever else we may say of its pearly gates, golden streets and jasper walls, heaven is heaven because children of the Most High God find they are in their normal sphere as obedient moral beings.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Mornings With Tozer<\/i>,<\/p>\n

Robert Freeman: \u201cWhen I go down to the sea by ship, and death unfurls her sail, weep not for me, for there shall be, a living host on another coast, to beckon and cry, All hail.\u201d WWII Memorial, Alaska.<\/p>\n

A Dialogue\u2014Anthem<\/b>, By George Herbert (1593-1633)<\/h3>\n

Alas, poor Death! Where is thy glory?
\nWhere is thy famous force, thy ancient sting?<\/p>\n

Alas, poor mortal, void of story!
\nGo spell and read how I have killed thy King.<\/p>\n

Poor Death! And who was hurt thereby?
\nThy curse being laid on Him makes thee accurst.<\/p>\n

Let losers talk, yet thou shalt die;
\nThese arms shall crush thee.<\/p>\n

Spare not, do thy worst.
\nI shall be one day better than before;
\nThou so much worse, that thou shalt be no more.<\/p>\n

From The Temple<\/i>, 1633, by George Herbert.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/www.ccel.org\/h\/herbert\/temple\/Dialogue.html<\/p>\n

The Great Concern<\/b>, Edward Pearce (1633-1673)<\/h3>\n

\u201cTruly, this is the posture which some (though but a few) are found in; they make conscience to discharge the duty that is incumbent upon them; they say with their Lord, \u2018I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work\u2019 (John 9:4). They see night coming, death coming, judgment coming, eternity coming, and accordingly they desire to lay out their whole souls in the work of God, to live up to the laws of Christ in every relation, and they look upon that day as lost wherein they have not done somewhat for God and their own souls. And how comfortably may such look death in the face when it comes! I have read the life of a holy minister who was seized upon by sickness, which was unto death, while he was preaching the everlasting gospel, and lying sick a few days sick before he died, a fellow laborer of his, another holy minister, coming to visit him, and seeing death in his face, cried out in some passion, \u2018O dear sir, are you going to heaven from us?\u2019 To whom he replied, \u2018Yes, I bless God, that my Master found me in his work.\u2019 Truly, might a man have his choice and option, he would have death to find him while he is engaged in the work of God.\u201d The Great Concern: Preparation for Death<\/i>, p. 102.<\/p>\n

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