DEATH AND THE LIFE AFTER (6)

“For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

—Philippians 1:21

Whatever desires that are not in the service of Jesus Christ must go. Christ must be the very reason you live. No one can say to die is gain unless they can truly say “For to me to live is Christ.” Only those who live for Christ are those who gain when death comes a calling … and make no mistake about it … death is coming for each of us. And death apart from Jesus Christ is eternal torment of body and soul in Hell (Matthew 25:46).  

But for the child of God, even death cannot separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:37-39). Christ has conquered death, hell, and the grave for every believer by His righteous life, and sin atoning death. May God give us the grace to look to Jesus by faith so that we also might declare with the saints in glory, “Death is swallowed up in victory. O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 15:55-57). Amen!

—Pastor S. Henry