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Selwyn Hughes

For Reading and Meditation:     2 Timothy 1:1-18

Several of the world's religions, when faced with the perplexing issue of Christ's return from the dead, explain it in terms of reincarnation. A proponent of one of the Eastern religions says: "Christ's resurrection was really a reincarnation - another soul in another body." I once heard a Christian minister declare...

Bible Verses: 2 Timothy 1:1-18Colossians 1:18Ephesians 1:1-20Romans 4:251 Corinthians 15:3-51 Thessalonians 4:13-15

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Charles Spurgeon

Let us not imagine that the soul sleeps in insensibility. "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise," is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint. They "sleep in Jesus," but their souls are before the throne of God, praising him day and night in his temple, singing hallelujahs to him who washed them from their sins in his blood. The body sleeps in its lonely bed of earth, beneath the coverlet of grass. But what is this sleep? The idea connected with sleep is "rest," and that is the thought...

Bible Verses: 1 Thessalonians 4:14

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William MacDonald

How are we to react when one of our loved ones dies in the Lord? Some Christians fall apart emotionally. Others, while sorrowful, are able to bear up heroically. It depends on how deep our roots are in God and how fully we appropriate the great truths of our faith.

First of all, we should view the death from the Savior's standpoint. It is an answer to His prayer in John 17:24, "Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be...

Bible Verses: 1 Thessalonians 4:14John 17:24Isaiah 53:11Psalms 116:15Isaiah 57:11 Thessalonians 4:131 Thessalonians 4:16-17Job 15:11

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George Bowen

The Jews who gnashed with their teeth on Stephen, hurried him forth without the walls of Jerusalem, and stoned him to death with a fury like that with which they had crucified his master and forerunner, would have been confounded to learn that the stoned Stephen was after all not dead, but sleeping a heavenly and exquisite sleep. They will see him when he awakes; when he comes forth again, his spirit from the chambers of the skies, his dust from the chambers of earth when Stephen, with his...

Bible Verses: 1 Thessalonians 4:14

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James Russell Miller

Luke 24:1-12

The important question in all that refers to Christianity is, "did Jesus truly rise again?" Paul says that if He did not rise, our faith is vain, we are yet in our sins, and we have no Redeemer (see 1 Corinthians 15:14). Until that morning Death had been an unchallenged conqueror. All the generations of men had been taken captive by him, and not...

Bible Verses: Luke 24:1-121 Corinthians 15:142 Corinthians 5:81 Thessalonians 4:14

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James Russell Miller

Luke 24:1-12

The important question in all that refers to Christianity is, "did Jesus truly rise again?" Paul says that if He did not rise, our faith is vain, we are yet in our sins, and we have no Redeemer (see 1 Corinthians 15:14). Until that morning Death had been an unchallenged conqueror. All the generations of men had been taken captive by him, and not...

Bible Verses: Luke 24:1-121 Corinthians 15:142 Corinthians 5:81 Thessalonians 4:14

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Samuel Bagster

It is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. § The Spirit of truth … will tell you things to come. § Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who...

Bible Verses: Revelation 1:191 Corinthians 2:91 Corinthians 2:10John 16:13Revelation 1:71 Thessalonians 4:131 Thessalonians 4:141 Thessalonians 4:161 Thessalonians 4:17

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Samuel Bagster

I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished… But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become...

Bible Verses: John 11:111 Thessalonians 4:131 Thessalonians 4:141 Corinthians 15:161 Corinthians 15:171 Corinthians 15:181 Corinthians 15:20Joshua 4:1Joshua 4:3Joshua 4:7Acts 2:32Acts 10:41

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Samuel Bagster

Man who is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower and fades away; he flees like a shadow and does not continue. § My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.The Father … will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever … The Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name. § Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who...

Bible Verses: Philippians 2:1Job 14:1Job 14:2Psalms 73:26John 14:16John 14:262 Corinthians 1:32 Corinthians 1:41 Thessalonians 4:14

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Samuel Bagster

The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. § There is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding. § The first man Adam became a living being. § The spirit of the sons of men … goes upward.While we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord … We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. § With Christ,...

Bible Verses: Ecclesiastes 12:7Genesis 2:7Job 32:81 Corinthians 15:45Ecclesiastes 3:212 Corinthians 5:62 Corinthians 5:8Philippians 1:231 Thessalonians 4:131 Thessalonians 4:14John 14:2John 14:3

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