Vintage Grace: Enduring Word Bible- Always with the Lord

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Enduring Word Bible-

The Coming of the Lord

1 Thess. 4:13-18

I have been settling into thoughts about

the Saints gone before us this week.

Here Paul brings comfort to the Thessalonians

who mourned the death of family and friends.

Grieving is a part of life, but tempered with hope.

He warns them to not be like the Gentiles-

who have no hope.

Christians have the MOST SURE HOPE

of eternal life after our time here on earth.

This hope is greater than all

the griefs and tragedies of life.

We don't really understand the complexity

and mystery of death.

It is an unknown territory.

But, believers in Jesus- sleep in Him.

In this time of rest their assurance

is the Resurrection of our Lord.

This changes everything.

When the Lord descends from heaven,

there will be the sound of the trumpet of God,

and the voice of an archangel.

v16..."And the dead in Christ will rise first.

Then we who are alive, who are left,

will be caught up together with them in the clouds

to meet the Lord in the air,

and so we will always be with the Lord."

This gives us great courage

and we are called to share this good news with others.

We too, will be gathered with the Saints-

to ALWAYS be with the LORD.

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