Christian Response to Death i) our Days are Numbered

Christian Response to Death i) our Days are Numbered Psalm 90.12 Teach us to number our days, that we might get a heart of wisdom   Hebrews 9.27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgement … Ecclesiastes 3.19 For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts are the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity

Christian Response to Death i) our Days are Numbered ii) there is an Empty Tomb

Christian Response to Death i) our Days are Numbered ii) there is an Empty Tomb 1 Corinthians 15.3 – 6 … Christ died for our sins, in accordance to the Scriptures, that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures and that He appeared to Peter and then to the 12. Then He appeared to more than 500 brothers at one time …   Acts 2.23 – 24 “Men of Israel, this Jesus, whom you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men, God raised Him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for Him to be held by death …”

Christian Response to Death i) our Days are Numbered ii) there is an Empty Tomb Romans 1.4 He was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by His resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord

Christian Response to Death i) our Days are Numbered ii) there is an Empty Tomb iii) the Death of death

Christian Response to Death i) our Days are Numbered ii) there is an Empty Tomb iii) the Death of death John 11.25 “I Am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me will live, even though they die, and whoever lives by believing in Me shall never die …”

Christian Response to Death i) our Days are Numbered ii) there is an Empty Tomb iii) the Death of death Revelation 1.17 – 18 “Fear not, I am the First and the Last and the Living One. I died and behold I am alive forever more and I have the keys of Death and Hades”  1 Timothy 1.10 This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus … who has destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel

Christian Response to Death i) our Days are Numbered ii) there is an Empty Tomb iii) the Death of death

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House 2 Corinthians 5.1 We know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes 2 Corinthians 5.4 For while we are still in this tent we groan, being burdened – not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes iii) Falling Asleep

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes iii) Falling Asleep Acts 7.60 Falling to his knees he cried out in a loud voice, “Lord do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this he fell asleep

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes iii) Falling Asleep John 11.11 “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.” The disciples said, “Lord if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” … Now Jesus had spoken of Lazarus’ death, but they thought he meant resting in his sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died”

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes iii) Falling Asleep 1 Thessalonians 4.13 Brothers & sisters, we don’t want you to be uniformed about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes iii) Falling Asleep iv) Being with Christ

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes iii) Falling Asleep iv) Being with Christ Luke 23.43 “Truly I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise” Hebrews 12.1, 23 Since we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses … you have come to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes iii) Falling Asleep iv) Being with Christ Philippians 1.21 – 23 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I live in the flesh, that means fruitful labour for me. Yet which shall I choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better …

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes iii) Falling Asleep iv) Being with Christ v) Going Home

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes iii) Falling Asleep iv) Being with Christ v) Going Home John 14.1 – 3 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you … that you may be there also”

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes iii) Falling Asleep iv) Being with Christ v) Going Home 2 Corinthians 5.8 Yes we are of good courage and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes iii) Falling Asleep iv) Being with Christ v) Going Home Revelation 21.3 “Behold the dwelling place (Heavenly Home!) of God is with man. And He will dwell with them and they will be His people and God Himself will be with them as their God”

Death Defining : Bible Words i) Moving House ii) Changing Clothes iii) Falling Asleep iv) Being with Christ v) Going Home

The “Waiting Game” : our Resurrection Philippians 3.20 – 21 … our citizenship is in heaven and from it we await (“Intermediate State”!) a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the power that enables Him even to subject all things to Himself 1 John 3.2   Beloved we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared (“Intermediate State”!); but we know that when He appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as He is

The “Waiting Game” : our Resurrection 1 Corinthians 15.47 – 49 (& the whole Ch!) The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second Man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the Man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the Man of heaven   cf. Luke 24.36 – 43