For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received:
THAT CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCRIPTURES,
THAT HE WAS BURIED,
THAT HE WAS RAISED ON THE THIRD DAY
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCRIPTURES.
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
"THE APPOINTMENT OF DEATH (HEBREWS 9:27a)
God has appointed man death and he must experience it.
Speaking about death, Job said in, (Job 7:1) “Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth”.
We each have an appointment with death.
It says in, (Hebrews 9:27a) “It is appointed unto men once to die”.
We all know the truth of this statement do we not?
Most of us have family and friends that have kept their appointment with death.
We will keep ours also, at God’s appointed time.
Alison Krauss - I'll fly away
Why is it so that man must die? It was never part of God’s original creation. When sin came in death came in. God said to Adam, (Genesis 2:17) “In the day that thou eatest thereof (the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) thou shalt surely die”. Adam and Eve disobeyed and sinned against God and death came in. It says in (Romans 6:23)” The wages of sin is death”.
It says also in, (Romans 5:12) “Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned”. Death is the direct result of sin. The brevity of life, which is emphasized over and over again in scripture, is also the result of sin.
There are no “Methuselah’s” in these days that live to be 969 years.
There are no “Abraham’s” in these days who live to be 175 years.
(Psalm 90:10) gives us the divine allotment of the life of man in the normal course of events.
It says, “The days of our years are three score and ten (70) and if by reason of strength they be fourscore (80) years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away”.
Mankind, however, can not count on having seventy years.
There are many whose lifetimes are much shorter because of disease, accidents, etc.
It is a sobering experience to walk through a cemetery, any cemetery, and observe the ages of those who have died.
Many were relatively young when they kept their appointment with death.
It says in, (James 4:14) “Ye know not what shall be on the morrow, for what is your life? It is even a vapor (a puff of smoke) that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away”.
Life is not only brief it is uncertain.
It says in, (Ecclesiastes 9:12) “Man knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them”.
Dear reader, are YOU prepared for eternity? Are YOU prepared to meet God? Have YOU taken refuge from the coming storm of God’s wrath and judgment?
Death will end your opportunity to be saved. If you die in your sins there will be sudden and eternal confinement in hell and the lake of fire. Man has another appointment following death.
God has appointed man a time for judgment and man must appear for it.
It says in, (Hebrews 9:27) “It is appointed unto man once to die, BUT AFTER THIS THE JUDGMENT”. Those who die in their sins, unsaved, will be resurrected for judgment.
It says in, (John 5:28, 29) “The hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice (the Lord Jesus Christ), and shall come forth … they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation (judgment)”.
God gives strong encouragement in His Word to all who have fled to Christ for refuge from coming judgment.
It says in, (Romans 8:1)”There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus”.
To be “in Christ” means that one has believed on Him and received Him as their personal Savior. (John 3:18) “He that believeth on Him is not condemned (judged): but he that believeth not is condemned (judged) already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God”.
(John 3:36)”He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him”.
Have you believed on Him? Are you “born again”? Are you “in Christ”? It says in, (2 Corinthians 5:17) “”If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (creation): old things have passed away; behold all things are new.”
Have you had this conversion experience?"
Wings Of A Snow White Dove ~ Ferlin Husky
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Disclosure: Much of what is in my posts are things I have compiled through the years and I do not know if they have copyrights. What I do know about origin or website I give credit and have tried to always post a link to the origin. I do not market anything in any way on this blog -- I merely hope it will encourage and inspire others.
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Disclosure: Much of what is in my posts are things I have compiled through the years and I do not know if they have copyrights. What I do know about origin or website I give credit and have tried to always post a link to the origin. I do not market anything in any way on this blog -- I merely hope it will encourage and inspire others.
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