Thursday, January 28, 2016
Death Our Servant
Bible Questions Answered:
“Paul says that death is our servant-
What?...”
Curtis/ Perth, Australia (Western Australia)
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
I Corinthians 3:21-24 TLB
21 So don’t be proud of following
the wise men of this world. For God has already given you everything
you need.
22 He has given you Paul and Apollos
and Peter as your helpers. He has given you the whole world to use,
and life and even death are your servants. He has given you
all of the present and all of the future. All are yours,
23 and you belong to Christ, and
Christ is God’s.
Death The
Servant Of The Redeemed:
Death is only a
shadow for the redeemed.
Psalm 23:4 KJV
Yea, though I walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with
me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Psalm 68:20 NLT
Our God is a God who saves! The
Sovereign Lord rescues us from death.
Philippians 1:21
KJV
For to me to live is Christ, and to
die is gain.
Death holds no fear
over the child of God.
I John 4:18 KJV
There is no fear in love; but
perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that
feareth is not made perfect in love.
Psalm 37:37 KJV
Mark the perfect man, and behold the
upright: for the end of that man is peace.
Only the Christian,
truly know how to die, for he has put to death his carnal nature,
during his earthly existence:
Romans 8:12,13
NLT
12 Therefore, dear brothers and
sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges
you to do.
13 For if you live by its dictates,
you will die. But if through the power of The Spirit you put to death
the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live.
Death brings
victory, over pain and suffering, and all the trials of life, to the
child of God:
I Corinthians
15:54-57 NLT
54 Then, when our dying bodies have
been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will
be fulfilled: “Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is your victory? O
death, where is your sting?”
56 For sin is the sting that results
in death, and the law gives sin its power.
57 But thank God! He gives us
victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.
All labor has
ceased for ever:
Psalm 116:7 KJV
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for
The Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Hebrews 4:3,9-11
KJV
3 For we which have believed do
enter into rest..."
9 There remaineth therefore a rest
to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into His
rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His.
11 Let us labor therefore to enter
into that rest..."
Revelation 14:13
KJV
And I heard a voice from heaven
saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in The Lord
from henceforth: Yea, saith The Spirit, that they may rest from their
labors; and their works do follow them.
Sorrows forever
gone:
Psalm 16:11 KJV
Thou wilt shew me the path of Life:
in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are
pleasures for evermore.
A heavenly spiritual body
awaits for what will one day become a glorified body as our Lord's:
II Corinthians
5:1-9 NLT
1 For we know that when this
earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave
this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body
made for us by God Himself and not by human hands.
2 We grow weary in our present
bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing.
3 For we will put on heavenly
bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies.
4 While we live in these earthly
bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get
rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new
bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life.
5 God Himself has prepared us for
this, and as a guarantee He has given us His Holy Spirit.
6 So we are always confident, even
though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at
home with The Lord. (The
inference is clear-Then for the Christian, to be absent from the
body, is to be present with The Lord!)
7 For we live by believing and not
by seeing.
8 Yes, we are fully confident, and
we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will
be at home with The Lord.
9 So whether we are here in this
body or away from this body, our goal is to please Him.
An eternal home
awaits God's child:
John 14:1-3 KJV
1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye
believe in God, believe also in Me.
2 In My Father's house are many
mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a
place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I
am, there ye may be also.
After death,
rewards await the servant of The Lord:
I Corinthians
3:11-14 KJV
11 For other foundation can no man
lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man build upon this
foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13 Every man's work shall be made
manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed
by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
14 If any man's work abide which he
hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
Mark 9:41 KJV
For whosoever shall give you a cup
of water to drink in My name, because ye belong to Christ, verily I
say unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
Reunion with
Christian loved ones who have gone on before:
Colossians 1:12
NLT
Always thanking The Father. He has
enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to His people,
who live in the Light.
Ephesians 2:19
KJV
Now therefore ye are no more
strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of
the household of God;
Jude 1:14 KJV
And Enoch also, the seventh from
Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, The Lord cometh with ten
thousands of His saints,
Death ushers the
Christian into his eternal inheritance:
Colossians
1:11,12 NLT
11 We also pray that you will be
strengthened with all His glorious power so you will have all the
endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy,
12 always thanking The Father. He
has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to His
people, who live in The Light.
Hebrews 9:15 NT
That is why He is the one who
mediates a new covenant between God and people, so that all who are
called can receive the eternal inheritance God has promised them..."
I Peter 1:3,4
KJV
3 Blessed be The God And Father Of
Our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath
begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead,
4 To an inheritance incorruptible,
and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
Dear friend, when
death knocks at your door, will he be an everlasting enemy, or a
liberator to Godly eternal blessings without end?
Numbers 23:10
NLT
"...Let me die like the
righteous; let my life end like theirs.”
I Corinthians
2:9 KJV
But as it is written, Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the
things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.
Death and its end:
I Corinthians
15:26,54 KJV
26 The last enemy that shall be
destroyed is death.
54 So when this corruptible shall
have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is
written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
II Timothy 1:10
KJV
But is now made manifest by the
appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and
hath brought Life and immortality to light through the gospel:
Revelation 21:4
KJV
And God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow,
nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former
things are passed away.