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Sunday Devotional: The children of God will rise from the dead

Posted on November 10, 2019 by Dr. Eowyn

Luke 20:27, 34-38

Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,
came forward.

Jesus said to them,
“The children of this age marry and remarry;
but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age
and to the resurrection of the dead
neither marry nor are given in marriage.
They can no longer die,
for they are like angels;
and they are the children of God
because they are the ones who will rise.
That the dead will rise
even Moses made known in the passage about the bush,
when he called out ‘Lord, ‘
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;
and he is not God of the dead, but of the living,
for to him all are alive.”

The Empty Tomb

Two months ten days ago I lost my husband, whom I have loved since I was 22.

Several years ago, I was told by my guardian angel: “You will miss him when he’s gone.”

I miss him, sorely.

He was my intellectual mentor and my best friend, with whom I shared important beliefs and values — the Christian worldview and morality, and the conservative political ideology.

My loss would be unbearable if I did not believe that though his body is gone, his immortal soul lives and is with God, having received the holy sacrament of the Last Rites before he breathed his last.

I am familiar with old people, whom I regularly saw, conversed with, and befriended in the assisted living facility where my husband spent his last three years. Most of the elderly in the facility are not Christians. I often wonder how they cope with old age and their impending death without the Christian beliefs that we have souls, which are immortal; that Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead; and that we are promised that as His children, we too will rise from the dead.

How utterly unbearable old age and dying must be for the unbeliever . . . .

See also:

Evidence of the Resurrection
Easter Sunday: The science of the miracle of the Resurrection
Physicists discover humans have souls
Near death experiences prove we have a soul
Proof of Soul’s Existence?
Christian seminary president doesn’t believe in Resurrection, Virgin Birth, Heaven or miracles
On resurrecting from the dead
I believe Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead, and that we also will.
I believe Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead, but human beings will not.
I don’t believe Jesus Christ resurrected from the dead.
I believe that when we die, that’s the end. Period.
I believe that we will be reincarnated as another human or nonhuman lifeform.
Other:

May the peace and love of Jesus Christ our Lord be with you,

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