The death of the Christ. The certainty whereof may appear to any considerative man from these three things —1. The appearing of man after death. 1. Power cannot awe Him; wealth cannot bribe Him; cunning cannot deceive Him. But though the presence of the universal race of Adam in that day shall enhance its horrors for the wicked, it is not to them that we are responsible; it is not they that shall fix our doom. aware that our lives will end someday. sinners like us can be redeemed from our sins, 1 Pet. The first impression may have been deep, the second slighter, the third slighter still; and before the catalogue has been gone through, attention flags; some new trick of the tempter's art dazzles the eyes; and the man turns again, forgetting the burden on his back, to chase the butterflies of his childhood. He will appear to perfect the salvation of his people. Neville, B. D.I. I speak of that mean cowardice of soul which makes a man forsake an oppressed innocent sufferer, and keep a criminal silence in regard to the oppressor. But in one sense death is not permanent at all. that referred to “the turning point in a disease.” It is appointed for men once to die and after this the judgment. If we are tried before a petit jury, and the case goes against us through some technicality of the law, we get a new trial. However, there are also three spiritual deaths. H. Spurgeon.Is it not foolish to be living in this world without a thought of what you will do at last? 1. At the entrance to hell, Boyle saw the inmates chasing the same pleasures they had pursued in life. In Jesus Christ we shall see not only a glorious person, but yet more distinctly the glorious mind and spirit. When He came before He came to save. WHO ARE THEY THAT LOOK FOR HIM?1. Eph. We must expect judgment after death just as naturally as we experience it in the great crises of life. That’s the conclusion of an organization in Canada that is seeking to decrease accidents between cars and trains. The examining officers said to him: "Have you any contraband goods?" In that day the Church, which is called the body of Christ, shall be complete, which must add to the happiness of every saint in particular.3. How are we to account for this great law? So will it be with everything in a spiritual world; the mind in things will be more apparent to us, and will affect us more powerfully, than the external appearances. Tap the title above, next to the arrow, to go to that lesson with a link back to this page. Neville, B. D.)Personal responsibility of man in the great accountR. Entire justice in God is no quality, that may be got and lost again; but His very nature and essence. IV. He will come to bless those who do wait for Him, just as He did at the first.5. H. Spurgeon.I. The secrets of all hearts are to be laid open. Ephesians 4:15 . Those natural hopes and expectations which good men have of a state of perfect happiness.3. 4. Intro: The writer of Hebrews is telling his readers that Jesus Christ is a �better� sacrifice. If the soul be immortal, as certainly it is, and that, parting from this, it enters upon a better life than this, we may well then be contented to die upon that account. But oh! It will be no time to plead ignorance or lack of memory, when the light of the Judge's countenance shall illuminate the secret chambers of all hearts. Their faith will conjoin them more intimately with His thought; their love will unite them with His heart; and these will cause their characters to fall into perfect harmony with His. THE CHARACTER OF THOSE TO WHOM THIS SECOND APPEARANCE OF OUR LORD SHALL BE COMFORTABLE. 20:12–15, C. Those “in Christ” are delivered from the “second death”. Tap the title above, next to the arrow, to watch this lesson on YouTube. X. This death occurs but once. Then think of His justice. God doth not always afford it; but, sometimes, He doth execution before He shoots off His warning-piece. (3) The ends contemplated by it. Are you living for Him? They are proud, envious, self-willed, unloving, unmerciful, and unjust; their Christian creed enters only their heads, while the creed of the world possesses their hearts and rules their lives. There is an after-death to which our moral nature points, of which it makes demands. The precise character of the power of the presence of Christ will be better understood if we remember that His coming will take place in the spirit-world. Such too were the feelings of our own venerated Hooker in his dying hour. Any great experience — a death, a misfortune, a grave temptation — will similarly vitalise memory and conscience. Look at Enoch walking with God, who through faith was exempted from death, and was not, for God took him; at David comforting himself in the close of life in the assurance that God had made an everlasting covenant with him, ordered in all things and sure; at Paul joyfully declaring in the near view of death, "I know in whom I have believed"; at the dying missionary, Ziegenbalger, exclaiming, "Washed from my sins in the blood of Christ, and clothed with His righteousness, I shall enter into His eternal kingdom"; at Swartz sweetly singing his soul away to everlasting bliss; at Baxter, saying, amid the sinkings of nature, "I am almost well"; at Owen lifting up his eyes and his hands as in a kind of rapture, and exclaiming to a friend, "Oh, brother, the long looked for day is come at last, in which I shall see the glory of Christ in another manner than I have ever yet done"; at Edwards comforting his family, as they stood around his dying bed, with the memorable words, "Trust in God, and you have nothing to fear"; at Martyn in the solitudes of Persia, writing thus s few days before his death — "I sat alone, and thought with sweet comfort and peace of God, in solitude my company, my friend, and comforter"; at Dwight exclaiming, when the seventeenth chapter of John was' read to him, "Oh, what triumphant truths!