Displaying Christian Sermons by tag: death

Watch Robert and Debbie Morris: The Shadow of Death. The Gateway Church pastoral couple talk about the trauma of Robert's near-death experience.

Watch John MacArthur Sermon: Scared to Death 

Life Out of Death - Creflo Dollar Sermon. 

David Jeremiah - Watch Sermon: Overcoming Death With Life. The sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ has given us all the benefits and blessings of being a child of God.

Charles Stanley (December-15-2023) Daily Devotional: What Happens After Death?

Now is the time to decide where you will spend eternity.

Luke 16:19-31 - ``Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day.

``And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,

and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man's table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.

``Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.

``In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom.

``And he cried out and said, `Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.'

``But Abraham said, `Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.

`And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.'

``And he said, `Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father's house--

for I have five brothers--in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.'

``But Abraham said, `They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.'

``But he said, `No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!'

``But he said to him, `If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.'"

 

Death is inevitable, but most people give that reality little thought until it’s too late. Now is the time to think seriously about what follows our earthly existence—while we still have the opportunity to make a decision that will affect our ultimate destination.      

This life is not all there is; eternity awaits all of us. Some will live eternally in God’s presence, but the alternative is to experience everlasting torment, forever separated from Him. If we receive Jesus as Savior, our penalty for sin is paid, we are adopted into God’s family, and heaven is our eternal home. But if we suppress the truth and reject Jesus, we remain alienated from God, under condemnation for our sin, and destined for unending agony. 

Some say that there are many ways to God, but don’t believe it. There is just one way—through the Lord Jesus Christ (John 14:6). He is the only mediator between fallen mankind and holy God (1 Timothy 2:5). 

God welcomes every person who comes to Him through faith in His Son, regardless of background, age, or current situation. If you realize you’re a sinner and believe Jesus died on your behalf, ask Him to be your Savior. Then you can be confident that you’re forgiven and are now and forever a part of God’s family.

John MacArthur (November-21-2023) Daily Devotional: Defeating Death

"By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even regarding things to come. By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones" (Heb. 11:20-22).

Faith triumphs over death.

Commentator Matthew Henry said, "Though the grace of faith is of universal use throughout the Christian's life, yet it is especially so when we come to die. Faith has its great work to do at the very last, to help believers to finish well, to die to the Lord so as to honor Him, by patience, hope and joy so as to leave a witness behind them of the truth of God's Word and the excellency of His ways."

God is honored when His people die triumphantly. When we've lived a life to His glory, and joyfully left the world behind to enter into His presence for all eternity, He is pleased, for "precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones" (Ps. 116:15).

Many believers who have dreaded facing death have experienced a special measure of God's grace that made their final hours the sweetest and most precious of their lives.

Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph are examples of men who faced death with great faith and confidence. Each "died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth" (Heb. 11:13). They hadn't seen all God's promises fulfilled, but by faith they passed them on to their children.

These men didn't have perfect faith. Joseph was exemplary, but Isaac and Jacob often vacillated in their walk with God. Yet each ended his life triumphantly. That's the reward of all who trust God and cling to His promises.

Like every believer before you, you haven't seen the fulfillment of all God's promises. But certainly you've seen far more than Isaac, Jacob, or Joseph did. How much more then should you trust God and encourage those who follow you to do the same?

Suggestions for Prayer - Thank God for His marvelous grace, which triumphs over sin and death.

Charles Stanley  Forgiveness: A Matter of Life and Death. From 1985: Dr. Charles Stanley shares the path to heaven - eternal life through Jesus Christ. Enjoy this classic teaching segment from In Touch

The Savage Events That Led To Queen Jezebel's Death: One Of The Worst Deaths In The Bible

Charles Stanley (October-21-2023) Daily Devotional: After Death, What Then?.

At death, believers move directly from life on earth to life in heaven.

2 Corinthians 5:1-9 - For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven,

inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.

For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge.

Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord--

for we walk by faith, not by sight--

we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.

Charles Stanley (October-20-2023) Daily Devotional: How the Cross Impacts Death.

Because of the cross, death for believers is just the doorway to heaven.

Genesis 3:1-24 - Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, ``Indeed, has God said, `You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"

The woman said to the serpent, ``From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;

but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, `You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.'"

The serpent said to the woman, ``You surely will not die!

``For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.

They heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, ``Where are you?"

He said, ``I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself."

And He said, ``Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"

The man said, ``The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate."

Then the LORD God said to the woman, ``What is this you have done?" And the woman said, ``The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

The LORD God said to the serpent, ``Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life;

And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel."

To the woman He said, ``I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you."

Then to Adam He said, ``Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, `You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life.

``Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field;

By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."

Now the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.

Then the LORD God said, ``Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"--

therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.

So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.

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