The topic of death concerns everyone. This event may happen next week or it may happen in seventy or eighty years. It is certain that if Jesus does not return that we all will meet this appointment. What have we done to prepare? What have you’ve considered? Are you concerned? It is certain that this topic should capture your interest. I propose that we start and end with the words of the Holy Bible. First, consider Jesus’s words in Luke. According to Luke 23:46 we read here that our Jesus Christ cried out with a loud voice, “Father into your hands I commit my spirit.” After Jesus yelled these words He took his last breathe.
These few, but powerful words: Father, Spirit, and Commit were spoken by Jesus. The word death simply means the temporary separation of our body and spirit. The Bible teaches us of The Resurrection. Remember, on the third day Jesus arose? Then, the good news is that those who believe will share in his inheritance. Our spirit will be clothed in a new body equipped for entirety. Finally, the Bible uses the images in words to explain the union of our body and soul. The union of the body and soul is what God used to form us. God created us by combing His spirit in a substance (body) that we can biochemically analyze. The body then makes since is of the Earth and one day will return, but the spirit is of God and will one-day return. Our Bible study will include the study of Adam, but for now remember his lifeless body on the ground? The breath of life?
To examine a couple of pictures I would like for you to read, Solomon’s words, in Ecclesiastes 12:6 6 “Remember him-before the silver cord is severed, and the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, and the wheel broken at the well,”
What on Earth do these things mean?
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The human survives only as a body and a spirit merger. The day a believer dies and until Jesus returns the body and spirit are apart. King Solomon wanted his readers to realize God existed before everything. So, let’s take the example of the cord. In Solomon’s day, he would have been talking about a cord (string) that lead to the lantern. The cord represented the power (spirit) of God, the oil inside the lantern is the breathe spirit, and the lantern represented the body. Death is then, the separating of spirit and the body spiritually, but physically the lantern is separated by the cord. In contrast, just the opposite for the water in the pot. At the spring, when the pot is dropped, the water freely flow exits. Similarly, your life is like the pot of water. The water and the pot have a connection. When the pot shattered this represented your broken body going back to the Earth, while the spirit lost its house. Finally, as for the wheel, the two entities could not perform the same task (life) without the union. There is no more function, on Earth, for the two pieces.
These three pictures are exact examples of how God created us to exists. This is why when we think of death we become afraid. Death is a complete separation of who we are and all of what we have learned. It is a shattering of God’s creation and the separation of the body and spirit. For a Christian, when it comes to life’s hardest questions we have peace that Jesus has already prepared the narrow path.
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