Title: Ecclesiastes 12:1-6
1Ecclesiastes 121-6 Remember your Creator in the
days of your youth, before the days of
trouble come and the years approach when you will
say, I find no pleasure in them before the sun
and the light and the moon and the stars grow
dark, and the clouds return after the rain when
the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong
men stoop, when the grinders cease because they
are few, and those looking through the windows
grow dim when the doors to the street are
closed and the sound of grinding fades when
people rise up at the sound of birds, but all
their songs grow faint when people are afraid
of heights and of dangers in the streets when
the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper
drags itself along and desire no longer is
stirred. Then people go to their eternal home and
mourners go about the streets. Remember
himbefore 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
2The Human Body
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3Hebrews 927
- people are destined to die once
4Ecclesiastes 126-7 Remember himbefore 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, and the
dust returns to the ground it came from, and the
spirit returns to God who gave it.
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10Ive tried to explain that hes going to be with
me forever, but he just doesnt get it
11Ecclesiastes 127 ..the dust returns to the
ground it came from, and the spirit returns to
God who gave it.
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13Hebrews 927
- people are destined to die once, and after that
to face judgment
14Hebrews 927-28
- Just as people are destined to die once, and
after that to face judgment, so Christ was
sacrificed once to take away the sins of many
and he will appear a second time, not to bear
sin, but to bring salvation to those who are
waiting for him.
151 Cor 1512-20
- But if it is preached that Christ has been raised
from the dead, how can some of you say that there
is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no
resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ
has been raised. And if Christ has not been
raised, our preaching is useless and so is your
faith. More than that, we are then found to be
false witnesses about God, for we have testified
about God that he raised Christ from the
dead. But he did not raise him if in fact the
dead are not raised.
161 Cor 1512-20
- For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has
not been raised either. And if Christ has not
been raised, your faith is futile you are still
in your sins. Then those also who have fallen
asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life
we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most
to be pitied. - But Christ has indeed been raised from the
dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen
asleep.
171 Thess 413, 14 18
- Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be
uninformed about those who sleep in death, so
that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind,
who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died
and rose again, and so we believe that God will
bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in
himTherefore encourage one another with these
words.