Today's encouragement comes from Paul's words, as they are found in Acts 26:8:
"Why should it be thought incredible by you that God raises the dead?”The idea of resurrection is ingrained in the human psyche—being put there by God Himself. But resurrection presupposes and necessitates death. Therefore, in the pre-fallen original state of mankind, our spiritual and material "DNA” included in it the fact that “life” (existence) would always prevail.
Every body will rise from the dead on the great Judgment Day. There will be no exceptions to this inevitable “rule.” Those who are in Christ will be raised in their glorified body; those who are not in Christ will be raised in their con-demned body. Let us be raised in our souls (already), by faith in Jesus.
[Puritan quote of the day: "It is not so much the sins we have committed that so provoke and grieve Christ as that we refuse the medicine of repentance which He prescribes.” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Doctrine of Repentance"]
[Puritan quote of the day: "It is not so much the sins we have committed that so provoke and grieve Christ as that we refuse the medicine of repentance which He prescribes.” —Thomas Watson, in, "The Doctrine of Repentance"]