THE STRANGE BUSINESS OF DYING

Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
Ecclesiastes 8:8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. THE DEATH SENTENCE [Rm. 5:12]

1. Brought on by man

2. Birth of world-wide destruction [8:22]

3. Bolstered by individual responsibility

II. THE DEADLY EARNINGS [6:23]

1. Spiritual Death [Gn. 2:17, Eph. 2:1-6]

2. Physical Death [Jn 19:30-33, Eccl. 8:8]

3. Second Death [Rev. 20:4-15]

III. THE EMBRACING OF DEATH

1. The Death of the Substitute [Is. 53, 2 Corinthians 5:21]

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

2. The Death of Self [ Jn 12:24, 1 Corinthians 15:31]

I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

3. The Death of Separation [Phil. 1:20-26]