Death is something we despise not because it marks the end, but because it was never meant to be here at all from the beginning. Death was never meant to be part of God’s good world. Death is a pain that feels like no other. Because it’s a pain that not only produces hurt, it produces hate. We hate death. We hate what death does. We hate what death takes. We hate that death exists. And that’s because we know deep down that death ought not to be. We tend to say that death is a part of life. That dying is what humans do. We have been dying ever since the beginning. The reality is that death is an abnormality. But even though the abnormality of death is now a reality in our world, the good news is that death will one day be defeated and wiped away forever.
For the sign of life that Jesus gives in declaring himself to be the resurrection and the life is the basis of our hope. A hope that says while death is a reality, it is in fact an abnormality that will be defeated through the immortality of Jesus who victoriously says “I am the resurrection and the life!”
Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48933931
22.08.14
