Beautiful Assurance

A very good morning to you. It is Sunday morning. I greet you in the precious name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! Today is the 27th of November, 2022, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

Jesus says: 

“A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.” 
John 14:19

What a beautiful assurance. Then we go straight to 1 Corinthians 15:55: 

“O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” 

O hell - where is your victory? Well, I want to say one thing to you, if you love Jesus Christ this morning and He is your Lord and Saviour, how can we, therefore, die, if He lives forever in us? We can’t. We are one in Christ Jesus. So when I die, don’t believe what the news states. That’s what Billy Graham said.

“When you read it in the newspapers, “Billy Graham has died.” Don’t believe a word of it”, he said, “I will not be dead, I will simply have changed my address.”  

Maybe today you are mourning, you have lost a loved one and you are saying, “Will I ever see him, will I ever see her again?” I want you to know that if they loved Jesus Christ, you will definitely see them again.

When I go to Israel, one of my favourite places is to go to the Garden Tomb. You can go into that tomb and the amazing thing is, nobody is lying in that tomb. It is empty. There are no bones, no! I know many religions will take you to where the remains of their leader lie, but for us the tomb is empty. Why? Because He is alive. He is not dead. Death has lost its sting and we know as believers, we live forever. Isn’t that wonderful news to know in a turbulent time like this? 

So, if we live, we live for Jesus and if we die, we go home to be with Him forever. 

“For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
Philippians 1:21 

“And because He lives,
I can face tomorrow,
Because He lives,
All fear is gone.
And because I know, yes I know,
He holds the future
And life is worth the living
Just because He lives.”

Have a wonderful Sunday,
Jesus bless you and goodbye.