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No More Death—Ever!, March 31
And 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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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
. One rich 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.... 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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