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The World Is Not Out of Control: God Controls Even Death

When you’re making a list of the things that make the world look out of control, surely death will be near the top. What is more terrifying than seeing someone you love in a coffin or watching your own life slip away? Undertakers do their best, but death is always ugly. It is a violent, unwanted intruder in the paradise that God first created. Has it stolen someone you love? Are you afraid of death?

In Luke chapter 7, the Bible tells the story of how Jesus interrupted a funeral procession leaving the little town of Nain. First He told the sobbing mother, “Don’t cry.” Then He did something even more arresting - He raised the corpse of her son back to life. It is Jesus’ intention to re-enact that astounding miracle, but on a grand scale. He intends to give each of you that same gift - resurrection of your body and life forever with Him.

It is yours simply through faith in Jesus’ promise. It goes like this: “He who believes in me will live, even though he dies, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die” (John 11:25,26). Does that interest you? Do you know someone who could use that assurance?