March 22, 2026
Greetings and blessings to all of you. It is a sad fact that every Sunday churches across America are filled with believers who do not fully trust Christ and His words in the Scriptures. Their knowledge is deficient. They accept some of the statements about Jesus- but do not completely believe that there is Hope in Death. Apostle Paul was very clear about hope in death. Paul experienced near death experiences constantly after he was Born Again on the Damascus Road. He fought continually for the Church of Christ therefore he had plenty of enemies who wanted him dead. The world (as now) would call him foolish for his belief that men could become partakers of eternal life through faith. But he would say, “I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.” (2 Tim. 1:12) Paul believed in Christ and committed his all to Christ. The result was that he knew Christ was able to keep him…knowing death is not the end for believers. When Paul was tired, his body beaten by the soldiers, he declared, “we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” (2 Cor. 5:1) Have our faith been eroded by the materialistic scientific community which believes that death is other than to experience a new eternal life in the New Jerusalem with the Lord? Death to the practicing Christian is a friend rather than an enemy it is a beginning rather than an end. It is another step on the pathway to heaven rather than a leap into a dark unknown. Since Paul lived on the brink of death, he expressed certainty about life beyond this realm of time and space. He never was afraid of death because he knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that his life was being transformed into the image of Christ, therefore he fought the good fight of faith with full compassion and without depression, gloom and doom. Dear Christians are you aware of these verses? In Rev. 14:13 “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; Yes, says the Spirit they will rest from their labor for their deeds will follow them.” And in First Cor, 15:54-56, “Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where O death is your victory? Where O death is your sting? Death to the Christian is his/her Coronation Day! Hallelujah!!!
With the Love of Christ
First Lady Vivian C. Currie