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Some of you call Earl your Friend
Others of you call Earl Dad or Grandpa.
Nancy calls him husband.
And in many ways his death is loss to us all, a reminder that we live in a suffering and broken world.
Death is a sad, hard reality of the brokenness of this world.
It is natural to ask the question why?
One of the great life questions,
is why is their death?
and
Where did death come from?
But why is it broken?
Fortunately, God’s Word answers this question.
And if we understand from
We understand that death, is a result of sin, which entered the world when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden.
We understand that death, is a result of sin, which entered the world when Adam and Eve sinned in the garden.
So where did death come from?
and Why did death come into the World?
Because of sin, and because of sin, it was passed on from generation to generation.
And we might despair.
We might believe there is no hope and we are doomed to pass on from generation to another generation, the heartache of sin and death passing from us to our children and our grand children and their grand children.
But may I say that is not what God’s Word says, nor what Earl believed.
If I understand correctly, Earl’s favorite verse was .
And for many of us, we understand Why.
This describes a time in Israel’s history when God allowed a great suffering to occur, for their own good.
(Note: “For” is a translation for a Causal {כִּי֩})
And though we are not Israel, there is a timeless principle here that God directs our path.
And intends for that path to be ultimately for our Good.
That is what God desires for us.
What path would God have us take?
And may I say this is the same path that Earl has taken and would desire us to take.
PROPOSITION: God desires for us to follow 4 trail markers to the path of Eternal life.
What path would God have us take?
1) The first trail marker is: Belief in the Gospel.
Belief in the Gospel.
We are doomed to sin, death, and ultimately eternal punishment.
But God would have us to take a different path.
tells us:
Understand what this death is.
A world that become broken when sin and death
Where did death come from?
Proposition: God has Plans for you!
TRANSITION: and there are 5 plans that Earl would want you to know about.
Jesus told us what this eternal punishment looks like.
This punishment is necessary because God is the righteous judge of this world.
But God is also a God who loves us and in his compassion does not want us to follow a path of eternal destruction.
Instead, he sent his son to dies for us.
declares:
In God’s love, he sent his son.
His son was born to for our sins and that is what he did.
What is the Gospel?
The Son of God came to earth, died on the cross, and rose again so that we might be saved from our sin.
We deserved punishment.
Just like a righteous judge must judge and order punishment for breaking the law.
God as a righteous judge must judge our sin and order punishment.
So instead of punishing us, he sent his son to save us from that punishment.
That is the first trail marker: To Belief in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
God desires us to believe in the hope of Jesus Christ and trust him to save us from our sins.
This is what God desires and this is what Earl desired.
Earl trusted in Christ to save him from his Sins.
Which meant, when he died, he had the privilege of leaving the suffering of this World and being with Christ.
2) The 2nd trail marker: To be Present with God.
There is one guaranteed reality of this World.
We all who are born in this World will also die in this World.
We are guaranteed that one day, we will die.
That is a hard, sad reality for Earl.
That is a hard, sad reality for all of us.
So one of the questions remains.
Where do we go if we die?
If we miss that first trail marker, Believing the Gospel, than our next trail marker is eternal punishment.
You see, to deny Christ, is to ignore the only salvation that is available to us.
We can’t get their on our own, because the entire world has sinned.
Our works are works of sin.
But, if we follow the Path God desires for us of belief in the Gospel, we get to go on to the 2nd trail marker.
2nd Trail marker: To be Present with God.
This is where Earl is at.
So if we believe in the Gospel, death is simply the gateway to eternal life with God.
God doesn’t want you to miss that first marker, because God wants to spend eternity with you.
Earl doesn’t want you miss the first marker, because he wants you to come spend eternity with God, where he is at.
If we follow the first Mark: Believing in the Gospel, then we get to go to the 2nd marker: To be Present with God.
But God has a 3rd marker he wants us to Go to.
- one that should comfort us as we mourn the loss of Earl.
3) 3rd Trail Marker: The End of Death and Sin.
1 Cor 15:50-57
one that should comfort us as we mourn the loss of Earl.
We were born with corrupted bodies which forced us to be enslaved to sin and death.
It is one of the reason’s we can guarantee each one of us should be under the judgement of God.
This sin and death, has been passed down in human flesh since Adam and Eve.
This sin and death, has been passed down in human flesh since Adam and Eve.
But Christ accomplished a victory none of us could accomplish.
But Christ accomplished a victory none of us could accomplish.
He defeated sin and death!!
Our passage boasts a grand battle cry.
Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting
If you are a believer, Earl included, then one day we will be given bodies that are free of pain and death.
The sorrow we feel for Earl’s loss, will be a think of the past, overshadowed by the immortal pain free body God will give us.
This is the 3rd Trail Mark: The End of Death and Sin.
CHALLENGE: Now I cannot emphasize enough, you only get to go to the 2nd and 3rd trail markers if you believe in Christ.
The first trail marker.
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