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No More Death—Ever!, December 10
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any
more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Revelation 21:4
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As we enter the kingdom of God, there to spend eternity, the trials and
the difficulties and the perplexities that we have had here will sink into
insignificance.
In the home of the redeemed there will be no tears, no funeral trains, no
badges of mourning, “The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people
that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.”
Isaiah 33:24
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tide of happiness will flow and deepen as eternity rolls on....
Let us consider most earnestly the blessed hereafter. Let our faith pierce
through every cloud of darkness and behold Him who died for the sins
of the world. He has opened the gates of paradise to all who receive and
believe on Him. To them He gives power to become the sons and daughters
of God. Let the afflictions which pain us so grievously become instructive
lessons, teaching us to press forward toward the mark of the prize of our
high calling in Christ. Let us be encouraged by the thought that the Lord is
soon to come. Let this hope gladden our hearts....
We are homeward bound. He who loved us so much as to die for us hath
builded for us a city. The New Jerusalem is our place of rest. There will
be no sadness in the city of God. No wail of sorrow, no dirge of crushed
hopes and buried affections, will evermore be heard. Soon the garments of
heaviness will be changed for the wedding garment. Soon we shall witness
the coronation of our King. Those whose lives have been hidden with
Christ, those who on this earth have fought the good fight of faith, will
shine forth with the Redeemer’s glory in the kingdom of God.
It will not be long till we shall see Him in whom our hopes of eternal life
are centered. And in His presence, all the trials and sufferings of this life
will be as nothingness.... Look up, look up, and let your faith continually
increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through
the gates of the city of God into the great beyond, the wide, unbounded
future of glory that is for the redeemed.
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