i am doing a Church sermon come this sunday on death...im looking for some good verses to help me along...?

Question

i want to have simple verses i can use that will help me bring up good points and questions. one GREAT one that i found, and that im planning on using, which i can provide as an example, is James 4:13-17

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let's go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit".Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.For that you ought to say, If it is of the Lords will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin

i want to use this, and other peices LIKE this, even if its just a small verse, to bring across great points that a verse can bring across. (such as vapor here today, gone tomorrow, NOT doing what you know you have been called to do, ext.)

any input would be great :

Answer 1

THAT ONE piece would be one hour's worth of talk on death. It covers EVERYthing.

What age are you talking to?

Answer 2

1 cor 15:25 For he must rule as king until [God] has put all enemies under his feet. 26 As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing

Isa 25:7 And in this mountain he will certainly swallow up the face of the envelopment that is enveloping over all the peoples, and the woven work that is interwoven upon all the nations. 8 He will actually swallow up death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will certainly wipe the tears from all faces. And the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for Jehovah himself has spoken [it].

Heb 2:14 Therefore, since the “young children” are sharers of blood and flesh, he also similarly partook of the same things, that through his death he might bring to nothing the one having the means to cause death, that is, the Devil

death will be done away with by Jehovah through his son Jesus

Answer 3

The Thessalonian Christians were apparently very concerned about their Christian loved ones who had died. They expressed their concern to the apostle Paul. So, in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17, Paul deals with the "dead in Christ" and assures the Thessalonian Christians that there will indeed be a reunion.
We are told in 2 Samuel 12:23 that David knew he would be reunited with his deceased son in heaven. He had no doubt about recognizing him.

Answer 4

I would think that any sermon not including a reference to the exact words of Jesus, would my definition be a non-Christian sermon. There are hundreds of verses covering direct quotes of Jesus, could you find a verse of Jesus that applies to the subject matter. I am a retired Baptist Minister, I have found the Holy Spirit always responds to and witnesses to any sermon, when it begins with the words and spirit of Jesus.

Answer 5

Try Genesis 3! When God told Adam not to eat of the tree He said that the day he ate of it "dying you shall die". So when Adam did ate of the tree, on that very day he experienced what it means to die spiritually, and to eventually die physically as his body begins the process of decay. This is a good verse to explain the ORIGIN of death. Then talk about God killing an animal (the first blood sacrifice shed for the forgiveness of sins) to provide a covering for Adam and Eve (a picture of Christ's righteousness covering our sins). Then talk about Christ dying as the perfect sacrifice, the Lamb of God. Talk about how in His death comes forth life for those who believe. Then say that every one of us are destined to die physically, but we need not die spiritually. As Christians we are twice born and twice dead. We were dead in sin but are now dead to sin. We were born in the flesh but are now also born of the Spirit. Death to us is but the entrance to eternal life, and a looking forward to the future resurrection whereby death is no more, and we are whole again in body, spirit and soul.

Answer 6

Just preach the Bible - that after we are born again of the water and the spirit, we shall not die ever from that day onwards.

Answer 7

http://bible.cc/ <=== great site for searching for anything in the bible, type in keywords in the search box, such as "death", etc. Has helped find alot of verses in the bible by just typing what I remember in the search box..

Answer 8

Playing on people's fears has worked very well for religion, hasn't it? But is fear a good reason to believe in the preposterous?

Answer 9

I have known many people who still have that same VAPOR every day...Whew.

Answer 10

I have a great website for you to look around!