Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Be Comforted By This
Thanks and praise to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
We have all had loved ones pass away. It is a time of mourning for us all. But if Christ is in us and also was in them, as being saved, we will see each other again when Christ returns. It tells us in the Bible that the dead will rise first then those alive, that are of Christ, will gather together in the clouds. What a joyous time that will be. There is nothing harder to endure than a loved ones passing. But be comforted in knowing that we will see them again. Praise God in all His power. There are a lot of things that we yet cannot understand because we are in these earthly vessels. Those things of Heaven we do not understand how these things are possible but through Jesus Christ all things are possible. This is where our faith in God comes in. We live in that faith and it gives us comfort to know such things. "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." Revelation 21:4
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
13: But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14: For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15: For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18: Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
13: But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14: For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15: For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18: Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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