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Even though it's something we must all face.

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Many people are uncomfortable when talking about

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death. This is today in the word

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from Moody Bible Institute. I'm Donna

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Leyland. Anticipating death

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is not easy, even for those

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who believe in the hope of the resurrection.

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The certainty of death makes most people anxious.

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But as believers, we know that this is not

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the end, but through Christ

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it is a beginning to exchange

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this earthly tent for a heavenly dwelling,

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which is a building from God

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and an eternal house in heaven, not

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built by human hands, is

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the final move in our redemptive experience.

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It doesn't happen immediately upon death,

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but is something that Paul associates with the

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events that attend Christ's Second Coming

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and the Final Judgment. The remedy

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for anxiety we feel about the prospect

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of temporary separation from bodily

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life comes from the confidence of

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our faith. Its foundation

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Rest in the knowledge that for the Christian

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to be absent from the body is to

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be at home with the Lord. This

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hope energizes our service in the present.

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We are not complacent toward God, but

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make it our goal to please him,

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whether we are at home, in the body, or away

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from it. Today, in the word we read

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in Second Corinthians 514, For

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Christ's love compels us. The

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certainty of judgment to come produces a combination

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of love for God and others, mixed

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