Death -- It's Certainty (Part 1)

(#6, Yermo ?, Imperial 1957)

Read Heb. 9:27; Eph. 2:1-5.

w   Does death mean annihilation?

w   Is death followed by punishment?

w   What is the meaning of death?

w   Is there really a life hereafter?

Where is the man whose life has not been bothered by these thoughts?

 A brilliant young chemist of Brooklyn, NY, rigged up an apparatus that dripped ether into an inhaler attached to his nostrils in an attempt to look into the hereafter.  With each successive experiment he went one drop nearer death.  Then coming out of his stupor he wrote down his experiences.  "I am on the verge of discovering the great secret of the hereafter" he told friends.  Finally the drug carried him beyond the curtain.  No one knows what he discovered, his body has been buried.

The proper way of "looking into the hereafter" is with the aid of the revelation which has come from Him Who "revealeth the deep and secret things."

What is death?

Two types of death are spoken of in Scripture.

ƒ    Spiritual death.

    1.  Alienation from God, Eph. 4:18.

    2.  Being dead in sins, Eph. 2:1.

    3.  Christ can deliver one from this death, Eph. 2:5.

    4.  Thus, this death can be temporary or it can be the eternal, second death, Rev. 21:8.

ƒ    Physical death.

    1.  Separation from body and soul, Eccl. 12:7.

    2.  It happens to everyone, Eccl. 8:8; Heb. 9:27.

How to be a "gainer" by dying. (Phil. 1:21-23; 2 Tim. 4:6-8)

Paul said after 30 years of Christian life that he would be a gainer in dying.  He was a gainer because he had said YES to Jesus Christ on the Damascus Road.

Have you said "yes" to Christ?