UNDILUTED TEACHING ABOUT DEATH AND RESURRECTION There’s probably no other subject harder to preach or teach than that of the state of the dead. We humans are very sensitive about what happens when we die. Almost all of us are in one stage or another of grieving for a loved one. And someone, who is struggling with a terminal illness or knows someone who’s struggling, will most likely find the subject disturbing. It’s not a subject we enter into lightly, but is something that Jesus Himself confronted on more than one occasion and most of us want to know what He taught about death. Humans seem to be the only animals on earth that are disturbed by death thought. It’s only natural that we are, because God did not create us to die. He had eternity in mind for us from the very beginning. Until this foreign element of sin and death entered the picture, we were meant to live forever. Mankind has always taken this desire to...
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