ASSURANCE & HOPE: 1 THESSALONIANS 4:14-17

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Funerals

a) Imagine what it will be like to be surrounded by the glory of God. You have arrived in your eternal home - heaven. This is the blessed hope of every believer. But before we get there we sometimes see loved ones go before us. 

b) At the funeral of a believer we can celebrate the home going, but as humans we still mourn for the time that we will miss them in our earthly home. Funerals do not have to be sad; we can be comforted with what the Bible promises. 

2. Assurance And Hope

1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 
For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 

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