Pastor Rick Jackson
Some people know about the Jackson 5, Tom, Marc, Bruce,
Becky and myself. Most people did not know that on Feb. 20, 1954 my mother had
twins. After 50 years Mom would still grieve for her twins. We have all had
loved ones die. It doesn’t matter if it’s been almost 26 years ago like my
father, over 10 years ago like my mother or any other measure of time.
Sometimes the pain returns. It may be a word, a thought, a smell that jars the
memory and sometimes those memories bring a smile but sometimes the pain of
losing that person returns. Someone says but Christians aren’t supposed to
sorrow as others who have no hope and that is true. But we are allowed to
sorrow, but as those that have the blessed hope not like the lost. When the
pain returns it can be helpful to remember:
I. CHARACTERISTICS OF
DEATH (RM. 6:23)
1. Death is an enemy (I Co. 15:26)
2. Death is inevitable (James 4:14, Hebrews 9:27)
3. Death is an instrument of Satan (Heb. 2:14)
Just as we might do
well to remember the cost of death and the pain it causes, remember also:
II. THE CURE FOR THE
PAIN OF DEATH
1. Christ (Heb. 1:1-3, 13)
Life
is short, death is sure. Sin the curse, but Christ the cure!
2. Calvary (Heb. 2:9-17)
3. Conquest (Rm. 8:34-39)
There is pain but there is the cure, and
through the cure we can remember:
III. THE CAUSE IT
GIVES (I Sam. 17:29)
1. We know of the Place (Heb. 11:8-10, Jn. 14:1-6)
2. We know of the Peace (Jn. 14:27, Rm. 5:1, Ph. 4:7)
3. We know the Purpose
(I Jn. 3:8, Ph. 1:21)
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