A gentle divine hand was guiding Mathew Feeley, using multiple influences to work together to speak to his conscience. When Mathew’s close friend James was tragically killed by a drunk driver in a car accident, he was struck by the fragility of life, and had to confront his own mortality. A few weeks later, Mathew attended a youth week of prayer, and during those meetings he was deeply touched by the messages and came to understand and accept the Bible’s promise of salvation and was baptized.
Mathew Feeley, now an ordained pastor and evangelist, shares the rest of his story of how the goodness of God rescued him from a life of conflict and confusion to one of confidence and contentment in a saving relationship with Christ Jesus, his LORD. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2ef-AiZyQ
Sunday: Hope Beyond This Life
The ancient Greek historian Herodotus (5th century BC) wrote about a tribe that, at a birth, began a period of mourning because they anticipated the suffering that the infant would face if it lived to adulthood. However alien to us the ritual might seem, there is some logic to it.
Millennia later, an advertisement in America in the early 20th century read, “Why live, if you can be buried for ten dollars?”
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Life can be hard enough, we know, even if we believe in God and in the hope of eternity. Imagine, though, how hard it is for those who have no hope of anything beyond the short and often troubled existence here. More than one secular writer has commented on the meaninglessness of human existence, since we all not only die, but we all live with the realization that we are going to die. And this realization is what makes the whole project of human life, which is often hard and sorrowful in and of itself, seemingly of null and void. One thinker referred to humans as nothing but “hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.” Rather macabre, but, again, it’s hard to argue with the logic.
Of course, in contrast to all this, we have the biblical promise of eternal life in Jesus. And that is the key: we have this hope in Jesus and what His death and resurrection offer us. Otherwise, what hope do we have?
Read 1 Corinthians 15:12-19. What is Paul saying here about how closely related Christ’s resurrection is to the hope of our own resurrection?
Paul is explicit: our resurrection is inseparably tied to Christ’s resurrection. And if we don’t rise, then it means that Christ has not risen, and if Christ has not risen, then — what? “Your faith is futile; you are still in your sins!” (NKJV). In other words, when we die we stay dead, and forever, too, and thus, it all is meaningless. Paul all but says that in 1 Corinthians 15:32 (NKJV) — “If the dead do not rise, ‘Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!’”
If our present existence as carbon-based protoplasm is all there is, and our “threescore and ten years” (if we are fortunate; more if we don’t smoke or eat too many hamburgers) is all that we get, ever — we’re in pretty tough shape. No wonder Ellen G. White adds, “Heaven is worth everything to us, and if we lose heaven we lose all.” — Sons and Daughters of God, p. 349.
| Think about how precious our hope and faith is. Why must we do all that we can, by God’s grace, to preserve it? |
Amen!
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8.1 Hope Beyond This Life – THE NEW TESTAMENT HOPE | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series ON DEATH, DYING, AND THE FUTURE HOPE with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
8.THE NEW TESTAMENT HOPE |
Eternal life is possible through Jesus Christ. |
Memory Text: 1 John 5:11.12 – And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
8.1 Hope Beyond This Life
Life after death through Jesus…
My God bless you today and always.
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