Where the soul never dies
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COLUMN: REALITY CHECK
Where the soul never dies
by Stan Mitchell
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"'Truly, truly I say to you,' the Teacher declared, 'a
time is coming…when the dead will hear the voice of the
son of God and those who hear will live'” (John 5:25,
ESV).
I have just one question for you: Since when do
the dead hear anything? Go out to the cemetery sometime
and make an unearthly racket. I can assure you, you
won't wake the dead. But there will come a day when
deaf ears will hear the Lord!
Remember Douglas MacArthur's remark that "Old soldiers
never die, they just fade away?" Well, five-star
generals aren't the only ones who never die!
* Old plumbers never die — they just go down the drain.
* Old mediums never die — they just give up the ghost.
* Old postal workers never die — they just lose their
zip.
* Old lawyers never die — they just lose their appeal.
* Old cartoonists never die — they just draw their last
breath.
* Old ranchers never die — they just breed their last.
* Old Australians never die — they just end up down
under.
* Old teachers never die — they just lose their class.
* Oh, and by the way, do you know who else doesn't die?
We don't.
"Just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after
that comes judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). While we may die
physically, the soul never dies!
Children of God never die–they live in paradise
forever. While that's not much of a pun, it is a dead-
certain, count-on-it truth!
The opposite form of existence — for the soul that is
lost, too, never dies — is such a forbidding, fearful
place that the Bible refers to it as "death."
You know the old song:
"To Canaan's land I'm on my way
Where the soul of man never dies"?
In one sense, you will never die. The real question is,
when you die, where will you live?
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