{"id":8781,"date":"2021-05-01T13:54:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T13:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/?p=8781"},"modified":"2022-02-02T04:45:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T04:45:37","slug":"lay-hold-on-eternal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/lay-hold-on-eternal-life\/","title":{"rendered":"SS&S – Lay Hold on Eternal Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may seem unusual to most people to talk frankly about death. But as seniors, this should be the first thing we have settled in our minds. why should we not want to go to heaven? Augustine put it this way, \u201cFor sooner or later every man must die, and we groan, and pray, and travail in pain, and cry to God, that we may die a little later.\u00a0 How much more ought we to cry to him that we may come to that place where we shall never die!\u201d1<\/sup> The most important testimony for a Christian is that there is an eternal life after this one, and for the believer, that eternal life is in heaven. Death just happens to be the gateway from this place to that place.<\/p>\n

As we draw nearer to the end of this life our physical appearance takes on the trappings of that journey but that is just the necessary changing of clothes. \u201cNot because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life\u201d (2 Cor 5:4). Death is the last statement we have to make while wearing our older clothes. Here are five facts about death for the Christian.<\/p>\n

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  1. Death is inevitable. It is \u201cappointed\u201d to us by God because of sin (Heb 9:27). \u201cAs in Adam all die\u201d (1 Cor 15:22). Since we know it is coming, shouldn\u2019t we be prepared for the event? Not just in salvation of the soul, but in the making of the journey. \u201cThe time of my departure is at hand\u201d (2 Tim 4:6) and so we should be packed and ready.<\/li>\n
  2. Death is instantaneous. Jesus said \u201cHe who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live\u201d (Jn 11:25). It is the dying process that takes time. The valley of the shadow of death may take years for some or it may come quickly for others but death itself is but a moment. As soon as we are absent from the body we are present with the Lord (2 Cor 5:8).<\/li>\n
  3. Death is enviable. \u201cTo die is gain,\u201d \u201cto depart and be with Christ is far better\u201d (Phil 1:21,23). Spurgeon said, \u201cO worker for God, death cannot touch thy sacred mission! Be thou content to die if the truth shall live the better because thou diest.\u201d2<\/sup> Doug McLachlan recently wrote, \u201cDeath for the believer in Christ is no longer the grim ogre it once was\u201d and likened it to a bee without a sting, a \u201cstingless scorpion\u201d (1 Cor 15:55).3<\/sup> If death transfers us to heaven with such confidence of what awaits, why should we dread the crossing? I don\u2019t minimize the painful process some must experience but in such cases death is the relief designed by God.<\/li>\n
  4. Death is a memorial. Peter said, \u201cMoreover I will be careful to ensure that you always have a reminder of these things after my decease\u201d (2 Pet 1:15). Jesus prayed to the Father, \u201cBut now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves\u201d (Jn 17:13). At your funeral no eyes will be wider and more attentive than your children and grandchildren. The confidence you display at the time of death will stay with them the rest of their lives.<\/li>\n
  5. Death is a stewardship. When you walk through the valley of the shadow of death without fear, it is a testimony that the Lord is your Shepherd and you want or need nothing else. Someone said, \u201cThe last days are the best witnesses for a man. Blessed shall he be that so lived that he was desired, and so died that he was missed.\u201d4<\/sup> Paul said, \u201cNor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God\u201d (Acts 20:24).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Let\u2019s show this world that what we believed and preached is true and will sustain us in our last moments on earth. As we have daily died with Christ, let us finally die with Him. Let\u2019s die because we are going to heaven not merely because we are leaving this world.<\/p>\n

    Notes:<\/p>\n

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    1. St. Augustine, \u201cDiscourse on the Lord\u2019s Prayer,\u201d Hazeltine, Mayo W. Ed. Orations from Homer to McKinley<\/i> ( New York:\u00a0 P.F. Collier & Son, 1902) 1189.<\/li>\n
    2. C.H. Spurgeon, C.H. Spurgeon\u2019s Autobiography<\/i>, Vol. I (Pasadena: Pilgrim Publications, 1992) 4.<\/li>\n
    3. Douglas McLachlan, Thirsting for Authenticity<\/i> (St. Michael, MN: Reference Point Pub., 2017) 357.<\/li>\n
    4. Robert Harris in Paxton Hood\u2019s, Isaac Watts His Life and Hymns<\/i> (Belfast: Ambassador, 2001) 257.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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