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A good man never dies—
In worthy deed and prayer
And helpful hands, and honest eyes,
If smiles or tears be there;
Who lives for you and me—
Lives for the world he tries
To help—he lives eternally.
A good man never dies.
--JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY (1849–1916)
A funeral among men is a wedding feast among the angels.
--KAHLIL GIBRAN (1883–1931)
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
--JOSEPH STALIN (1879–1953)
Death is the end of labor, entry into rest.
--WILLIAM ALEXANDER
ON DEATH
1. To return to the dust. (Eccles. 12:7).
2. When God takes away their breath, they die (Psalm 104:29).
3. It is the taking down of our “earthly tent” (2 Cor. 5:1); the “earthly dwelling” (2 Peter 1:13-14).
4. Being “found naked” (2 Cor. 5:3-4).
5.“Falling on sleep” (Psalm 76:5; Jeremiah 51:39; Acts 13:36; 2 Peter 3:9.
6.“I go and I shall not return” (Job 10:21); “Help me to know my end” (Psalm 39:4); “to depart” (Phil. 1:23).
The grave is represented as “the gates of death” (Job 38:17; Psalm 9:13; Psalm 107:18). The gloomy silence of the grave is spoken of under the figure of the “shadow of death” (Jeremiah 2:6).
Death is
the effect of sin (Hebrews 2:14),
and not a “debt of nature.”
It is but once (Hebrews 9:27),
universal (Genesis 3:19),
necessary (Luke 2:28-30).
Jesus has by his own death taken away its sting for all his followers (1 Cor. 15:55-57).
There is a spiritual death in sins, i.e., the death of the soul under the power of sin (Romans 8:6; Ephes. 2:1, 3; Col. 2:13).
The “second death” (Rev. 2:11) is the perdition of the wicked (Rev. 21:8), and “second” in respect to natural or temporal death.
THE DEATH OF CHRIST brings salvation from death to all his people. It does not make their everlasting life merely possible, but certain (Matthew 18:11; Romans 5:10; 2 Cor. 5:21; Galatians 1:4; Galatians 3:13; Ephes. 1:7; Ephes. 2:16; Romans 8:32-35).
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