Death

Last Sunday I spoke about death–its inevitability (You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. It is the sound….of your death.) and the way our culture does everything possible to avoid its reality. I used one of my favorite lines from “Fight Club” as a refrain:

“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate of everyone drops to zero.“
All of this was done in the context of examining Jesus’ words in John 11:25-26:

“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”

One text about death that kept running through my mind last week but didn’t make it into the message is Ecclesiastes 7:2-4:

It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.

Let’s see you put that text on a magnet and stick to your refrigerator.