The Children’s Class Each of the following quotations is a part of a verse in Romans, chapters 1-8.
1. “Christ died for us.”
2.“All things work together for good.”
3.“Not ashamed of the gospel.”
4.“There is none that doeth good.”
5.“But was strong in faith.”
6.“The riches of His goodness.”
7.“Let not sin therefore reign.”
The Young People’s Class Death
Men have all kinds of ideas about what happens at death, but let us follow what God has said and be sure. Death is not the end of man; let us be sure of this, first of all. The spirits of those who die in their sins go to the prison house of the lost (I Peter 3:19), where they are consciously in torment. (Luke 16:22, 2322And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. (Luke 16:22‑23).) Those who die in the Lord are “absent from the body... present with the Lord.” (2 Cor. 5:88We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8)) —consciously “with Christ; which is far better.” Phil. 1:2323For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: (Philippians 1:23).
At the coming of the Lord the dead. in Christ are raised—their spirits reunited with their renewed bodies, to be like Christ and forever with. Him.
Those who have died in their sins will not, he raised until about a thousand years, after this (Rev. 20:55But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. (Revelation 20:5)), and then they are raised to stand before the great white throne in their sins. The second death, which will be their portion, is the separation of the whole-man from God, under His judgment forever. Death is not the cessation of either existence or consciousness, in the case of saved or unsaved. Reader, are you ready?
1.How did death enter the world? Romans.
2.How did the Lord say those would die, who did not believe in His deity? John 8.
3.What will happen to the dead in Christ at His coming? 1 Thessalonians.
4.Why did Christ die? 1 Corinthians 15.
5.Will all Christians die (sleep)? 1 Corihians.
6.Should a believer fear death now? Hebrews 2.
7.What comes after death for those who arc unsaved? Hebrews.
ML 09/02/1951