The Greatest Hope
Good Morning; what a Hope we have in Jesus, a Hope that does not fade away in death, a Hope that reaches beyond death, a Hope that has conquered death, hell, and the grave. In Thessalonians 4:13-18, Paul encourages our hearts concerning the believers who have died in the Lord. “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope” Thess. 4:13. Sleep in reference to the Christian in Scripture refers to the body; our body is going back to the dust. The soul is eternal, we have no reference of the soul sleeping in the scripture, but we do have a reference of the body sleeping and Jesus calling them out. “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him” (v. 14). I am looking for the church’s rapture, and my friend, everyone who has died in the Lord, I know you have relatives, a mother, father, brother or sister, some of you even have children right now in the presence of Jesus. I felt a shout right there!! “Some interpret the phrase God will bring to mean that the spirits of dead believers will come from heaven with Christ to meet their resurrected bodies. Others see in it the truth that at the Rapture, God will bring all believers, living and dead, back to heaven with Christ”. Know this morning that all those who have died in the Lord, we will meet them again in the Rapture!! What a hope we have in Jesus, what a time we will have in the sky! I am so excited thinking about this great event, my friend; don’t you miss out on this grand celebration in the sky! Be Blessed in Jesus’ Name!