Greetings Flag Branch members and friends and thanks for taking the time to join me, Pastor Jordan, for some Fine Points from Sunday’s service and message “Behind Death’s Door”.
Death is like a door we all must open and go through but none of know what we shall find on the other side of the door. And because of this, there are basically three ways of preparing for what awaits us behind death’s door.
One way of preparation is not to prepare or even think about death. Following this approach, people decide that death is something they don’t want to contemplate. They recognize death as an event that will happen nothing more or nothing less.
They make no meaningful preparation for what awaits beyond the door. They acknowledge something could be there or nothing could be there. But either way, they have decided to do nothing.
Another approach is to decided there is nothing behind death’s door. This approach looks at death as the end of all things. There is no transformation, no consciousness, no light, no sound, no anything. All one is and was cease to exist.
As far as the one who died is concerned, death leads to and is the beginning of nothing. There is nothing to do because nothing can be done. One will simply cease to be.
The third and last approach is to prepare for something beyond death’s door. Just what that is depends on who you ask. Most answers will be rooted and grounded in a religion that has grappled with this question and reached some conclusions about it.
Christianity is one such religion. Christianity believes that God has made provision for man to overcome death through the work of Jesus Christ. For those who believe and make preparation, death’s door leads to an unparalleled paradise and new beginning of life unlike anything we can think or imagine.
These are the choices available to humanity concerning what’s behind death’s door. To do nothing, to believe there is nothing or to believe in a religion like Christianity and prepare for what’s behind the door.
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Pastor Jordan
