Michael Faraday was one of the great scientists of all time. One day, being a devout Christian, Michael Faraday referred to the resurrection of the dead. And when he did so he overheard one of his students sneeringly refer to such an impossible come. And Faraday thereupon took a silver cup, and he put it in a jar of sulphuric acid; and the acid dissolved it, and you could see the cup no more. It was absolutely gone. It was in solution, in the sulphuric acid. Then Michael Faraday took a handful of common salt, which is a catalytic agent in that, and he put the common salt in the sulphuric acid, and it precipitated the silver, and it fell in a mass to the bottom. Michael Faraday took the mass of silver at the bottom and took it to a silversmith, and said, “Make this into a beautiful cup.” And he made it into a beautiful cup. And the next day Michael Faraday brought it back, and held it in his hand and showed it to the class. And he said, My dear pupils, if I, just a mortal man, can make this cup disappear and dissolve and it’s not seen anymore, then re-gather its elements and refashion it again into a beautiful cup, cannot the Lord God who made heaven and earth gather out of the sea and out of the dust of the ground and out of the heart of this earth our elements, wherever they are indestructible, gather our elements and refashion us into a glorious body, like unto His body, the Son of God? We believe in the immortality of the soul, and we believe in the resurrection of the body. And you cannot be a Christian without committing yourself to that faith and that persuasion. That is the Christian faith. That’s the reason Paul said, “Now death, where is thy sting? And now grave, where is thy victory?” [1 Corinthians 15:55]. For there’s not any death to the Christian, we just transfer from this old house of clay into the glorious resurrected immortalized transfigured new house that God is preparing in heaven for those that trust and love Him. Think of what it’s going to be. We wake up, breathe a new air, and it’s heaven. This old body wakes up, and it feels a new endurance. It’s immortality. This old body wakes up, and it’s not sick anymore or old anymore. It’s resurrection. It’s glory. It’s the fulfillment of the promise of God, who faithfully will perform every word that He said. Oh dear people, what’s in the Book, and what things God has for us! And all of these things are written here so we won’t ever be afraid, never; so we won’t ever be bowed down in a hopeless despair, never; because Christians do not die. We live now with the Lord, and we’ll just live then more fully with the Lord. CHRISTIANS NEVER DIE Dr. W. A. Criswell John 11:11-26 1-15-1956 8:15 a.m.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:45:36 +0000
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