Chatsworth Lake Community Church

Morning

“He will wipe away every tear . . . and death shall be no more, neither . . . mourning . . . , for the former things have passed away.”

He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.—Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.—And no inhabitant will say, “I am sick”; the people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.—“No more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.”—And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from Death? O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting?—The last enemy to be destroyed is death. . . . Then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

The things that are unseen are eternal.

Rev. 21:4; Isa. 25:8; Isa. 60:20; Isa. 33:24; Isa. 65:19; Isa. 35:10; Hos. 13:14; 1 Cor. 15:26, 54; 2 Cor. 4:18 (Read full verses…)

Evening

Raised us up with him . . . in Christ Jesus.

“Fear not, I am . . . the living one.”—“Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am.”

We are members of his body.—And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead.—You have been filled in him, who is the head.

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Eph. 2:6; Rev. 1:17, 18; John 17:24; Eph. 5:30; Col. 1:18; Col. 2:10; Heb. 2:14, 15; 1 Cor. 1:53, 54 (Read full verses…)

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