Just a Few Generations
Do you remember your great grandparents? If they were like most people, they had a family, career, hobbies, hopes and dreams. Sadly, all of that is forgotten now. Perhaps they lived a full life, 60, 70, 80, maybe even 90 years of life. But now they are a fading memory.
What Is Your Life?
In a few generations you and what you treasure most will be forgotten. Life is so precious yet so short. No one knows when their life will end. Will you not take a few moments to consider your own life and death?
Living Like Like Has No End
We naturally do not want to think about our death. We would rather live in the moment, live for today. We ignore our coming death and live like a terminally ill patient who only has a week to live but continues to go to work, plan a vacation, and contribute to RRSPs.
We would rather not think about it and so live in denial of the truth that death awaits us. Please do not to do this, but consider your life and your death.
What Are Your Beliefs?
Everyone has an opinion about these things and you’re free to believe what you want. But, is what you believe true?
What is the basis of your beliefs about death? Is it based on reality or wishful thinking?
Can anyone know for sure? Yes!
Death Defeated
What is amazing is that Jesus of Nazareth was tortured and killed and rose from the dead three days later! This is no myth. In fact, besides Christian writers, Roman and Jewish historians in the same time period speak about Jesus being crucified under the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate.
What is also known is that his tomb was empty three days later. His followers said he rose again. They died for this claim with no benefit to themselves. Not only that, but hundreds of eyewitnesses saw Jesus after he rose again and were alive when the New Testament (the second half of the Bible) was being written (1 Cor 15:6). That’s better evidence than you get in court today and it’s written for us in the most reliable book of antiquity.
This shows that Jesus really died and rose again. Jesus came and died publicly so that our faith might not rest in myth and legend, but on historical reality.
It is what Jesus taught that causes people to reject him. Jesus taught that God created the world (Mark 10:6), and that he made mankind to love and honor him (Mark 12:29–30). Jesus described God as being perfect in every way. Eternal, infinite, all-powerful, and all-knowing. Jesus also described mankind as being cursed with a heart problem. Jesus said that neither weapons, money, lack of education or employment, nor any other external reason is the problem with humanity. The problem with humanity is the wickedness that comes out of the human heart—sin (Mark 7:20–23).
It is this sin, guilt, and shame that Jesus came to die for (1 Pet 3:18). The Bible says that God’s justice demands that our sinful actions deserve eternal condemnation in hell (Rom 6:23). Jesus came to rescue us so that we might have eternal life (John 3:16–18). For those who desire to have their guilt and shame removed, those who desire to be forgiven by God fro their sin, all they have to do is turn to Jesus (Rom 10:9–13). Turn from your sin, and believe that Jesus is who he said he was and that his death and resurrection is sufficient to forgive your sins (Rom 3:9–26).