ORIGIN OF DEATH (1)
Scripture: Genesis 2:7, Genesis 2:15-17
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Title: Origin of Death (1)
Series: Original Sin
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Genesis 2:7, 15-17
Benjamin Franklin did not invent the statement, but made it famous in a letter he wrote in 1789 talking about the Constitution of the US. The statement came from a play in 1716: "in this
world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
About 150,000 people die every day or about 60 million a year.
We face death every time we lose a loved one or when we attend a Memorial Service. They are reminders that eventually we all die. My grandfather Jesse died of a heart attack when he was 62 years old while bowling and my father Gordon died when he was just 65 years old after two years with a brain tumor.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die.
All the world is a hospital and every person in it a terminal patient.
Hebrews 9:27 It is appointed to man to die once.
Benjamin Franklin - "Death takes no bribes."
John Blanchard (d. 2021) - "Death is the greatest fact of life."
MAN CREATED :7
Formed - Heb. craft, create, make or put together.
The picture is of a master craftsman at work shaping a work of art.
Jeremiah 18:3-4 of a potter making a vessel with his hands.
Psalm 139:13-14 gives a description of our body. "You formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
God made man in two stages which reflect man's two parts.
First, God created Adam's body formed from the dust of the earth.
Second, God created his soul when he "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life." Our soul is our person which includes our mind, desires, emotions, passions and thoughts - it is who we are.
It was when Adam's body and soul are joined together that he become a living creature who now has life. If a person's body and soul are separated, ...
Series: Original Sin
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Genesis 2:7, 15-17
Benjamin Franklin did not invent the statement, but made it famous in a letter he wrote in 1789 talking about the Constitution of the US. The statement came from a play in 1716: "in this
world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
About 150,000 people die every day or about 60 million a year.
We face death every time we lose a loved one or when we attend a Memorial Service. They are reminders that eventually we all die. My grandfather Jesse died of a heart attack when he was 62 years old while bowling and my father Gordon died when he was just 65 years old after two years with a brain tumor.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die.
All the world is a hospital and every person in it a terminal patient.
Hebrews 9:27 It is appointed to man to die once.
Benjamin Franklin - "Death takes no bribes."
John Blanchard (d. 2021) - "Death is the greatest fact of life."
MAN CREATED :7
Formed - Heb. craft, create, make or put together.
The picture is of a master craftsman at work shaping a work of art.
Jeremiah 18:3-4 of a potter making a vessel with his hands.
Psalm 139:13-14 gives a description of our body. "You formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
God made man in two stages which reflect man's two parts.
First, God created Adam's body formed from the dust of the earth.
Second, God created his soul when he "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life." Our soul is our person which includes our mind, desires, emotions, passions and thoughts - it is who we are.
It was when Adam's body and soul are joined together that he become a living creature who now has life. If a person's body and soul are separated, ...
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