Death is not natural.
From a theological point of view you must understand death is not natural. It is supernatural. It was never intended to be a part of this world. It occurs because of sin and the judgment of God upon sin. All men die because all men sin.
And when there is a funeral, every once in a while people wake up for just a few seconds and think what is really going on here, what is really true, what am I really supposed to be living for.
Do you know? It is sad. Even in moments like this most people never wake up.
Let me give you an example. How many people would come up and say, “Well, your father is no longer suffering. Your father is resting now. Your father has gone to a better place”? And I always want to ask them: How do you know? Where did you hear that? Who told you? Did you read that on the back of a greeting card somewhere?
You see, none of that means anything unless it is really true. Is that true? Has he really gone somewhere? Or has he just gone? Has he gone up or down or sideways? Who is right? Who is wrong? What is this life and this world really all about?
One person in the midst of all of the philosophies, in the midst of all of the things that have ever been said whether in the western or the eastern world, one person stands up and says, “I am the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through me.”
Someone said that night they said, “Well, your father is in a better place now because she was a good man.”
I said, “No. My father is in a better place, but it is not because he was a good man, because Scripture declares there are none good, no not one. There is none righteous, no not one.”
If my father is anywhere, it is because of the finished perfect work of Jesus Christ on that cross, not because of his own righteousness, not because of how he acted as a father or a husband or a brother or a friend. It is because of what Jesus Christ did."
John 14:6 (NIV)
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Romans 3:10-12(NIV)
As it is written:
“There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.
All have turned away, they have together become worthless;
there is no one who does good,
not even one.”
Romans 6:23 (NIV)
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV)
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.
