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All day long be urgent or solid to stand firm.

We who believe in the name of the Son of God and His word should be taking a big step from Death to Life. It is well with us if we understand and grasp the words of Jesus in our text.

It starts with the hearing, and when we open up our hearts our faith is then blessed. When we ponder over the death of our Lord and ponder thereon, it fills us with uneasy sentiment. Most of all, the people in our day, when they think of the death, do not think of it seriously, but shun the issue and push the thought from their mind.

It is understandable that our life and lifestyle, as long as it suits us, we uphold it. There is also the earthly goal which we strive for. Therefore, we should not exchange the first one, as we have no permanent place of abode here on this earth. Sure, it is natural for us, if we live according to the life of Jesus, our life will be noted. We cannot yield or cover over our life like people who do not know Jesus, but we can be assertive and not yield to the tempter, but consider the facts as they stand. We must live a life in the shadow of the cross, and God will help us to be strong to live a new life with Jesus. He gave His only Son to the death on the cross so that we might have everlasting life.

Through Jesus we have a part of His life, and a strength through His death. “Who can separate us from the love of Christ?” So wrote Apostle Paul to the Romans, and he showed his faith in Romans 8:35-39, “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” If we have risen from death to life our striving has been through the help of the Holy Ghost to live a life of candour or revelation. Our Christian life will always be menaced, and will always be in danger. Our faith must be kindled. Our life is often torn between Hearing and Doing and moves between Willing and Refusing. We should at all times be awake and active to know the difference between the two. We cannot deny the words of Jesus when He says, “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” We should give the Holy Ghost sufficient room in us and in the community; that means to give more time to the Holy Ghost in our prayers, and not to be troubled. The Holy Ghost is life and strength within us. Jesus says, “All things that the Father hath are mine; therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you. “ (John 16:15). We shall in this life find life through the Grace of Christ.

Our thoughts are often for those that have gone to the Great Beyond. They are resting and our thoughts go out to them. We think of them in love. If they have lived according to their faith they will have nothing to fear. They are waiting for the return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Apostle Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14, “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. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”

Those who have gone to their rest and have not understood the great love of God, we commend them to the compassionate love of God. Let us be comforted with the words of the Psalmist who writes in Psalm 68:20, “He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto God the Lord belong the issues from Death.”