THERE’S MORE TO COME (8)
Scripture: Job 14:14, John 11:23-26
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Title: There's More to Come (8)
Series: I Doubt It
Author: James Merritt
Text: Job 14:14, John 11:23-26
Introduction
1. Gertrude Stein was one of the most popular American novelist in the 20th century. While she was riding in a car in 1946, she got sick - very sick. She was rushed to an American hospital in Neuilly, France, where she was diagnosed with what proved to be an inoperable stomach cancer, but the surgeon operated anyway. She died before coming out of anesthesia.
2. But as she lay in bed that afternoon awaiting the surgery she gave what would be her last words in the form of two questions which was very baffling to her two friends in the room. Her first question was, "What is the answer?" When everyone remained silent she laughed and said, "In that case, what is the question?" No one knows, but I would like to venture forward for an educated guess.
3. I think she may very well have been searching for an answer to a question that is as old as civilization itself. There probably has never been a human being on this planet that has lived a decent length of time that has not asked this question. The question is even found in what Bible scholars believe is the oldest book of the Bible - the Book of Job. Did you know even thousands of years ago people were asking this question?
"If someone dies, will they live again?"
(Job 14:14, NIV)
It is indeed one of the greatest philosophical questions of all time. Very simply put "Is death a period in the sentence of life or is it just a comma?"
4. Now is it not only natural, but it is inevitable that we would ask that question. We know why it is so important because there is something that every life has in common with a street, a book, and a movie and that is they all have endings. Just as surely as you have a beginning in your birthday you are going to have an ending in your death day. Your heart has only so many beats and then it will be no more. Your lungs only have so many breaths ...
Series: I Doubt It
Author: James Merritt
Text: Job 14:14, John 11:23-26
Introduction
1. Gertrude Stein was one of the most popular American novelist in the 20th century. While she was riding in a car in 1946, she got sick - very sick. She was rushed to an American hospital in Neuilly, France, where she was diagnosed with what proved to be an inoperable stomach cancer, but the surgeon operated anyway. She died before coming out of anesthesia.
2. But as she lay in bed that afternoon awaiting the surgery she gave what would be her last words in the form of two questions which was very baffling to her two friends in the room. Her first question was, "What is the answer?" When everyone remained silent she laughed and said, "In that case, what is the question?" No one knows, but I would like to venture forward for an educated guess.
3. I think she may very well have been searching for an answer to a question that is as old as civilization itself. There probably has never been a human being on this planet that has lived a decent length of time that has not asked this question. The question is even found in what Bible scholars believe is the oldest book of the Bible - the Book of Job. Did you know even thousands of years ago people were asking this question?
"If someone dies, will they live again?"
(Job 14:14, NIV)
It is indeed one of the greatest philosophical questions of all time. Very simply put "Is death a period in the sentence of life or is it just a comma?"
4. Now is it not only natural, but it is inevitable that we would ask that question. We know why it is so important because there is something that every life has in common with a street, a book, and a movie and that is they all have endings. Just as surely as you have a beginning in your birthday you are going to have an ending in your death day. Your heart has only so many beats and then it will be no more. Your lungs only have so many breaths ...
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