Sunday Message and Sunday School
Pastor's message this morning gave me an answer to a challenge of this world. There have been poeple who were clinically dead but came back alive. When they did, they said that they witness no heaven and no hell.Recorded in the gospel was a man name Lazarus whom died too, but the Lord Jesus rose him from the dead. When he came back, nothing was mentioned about seeing either heaven or hell too.
Well, remember that God is in control of one's life and death. So if He allows someone to be clinically dead and then come back alive, it is already in His will and foreknowledge that the person should not die. So then there will be no heaven or hell shown to the person during the period of his physical death.
Come to think of it, it is doubly true when you consider the nature of going heaven or hell. There is no such thing as a purgurtory. When one enters into heaven to be eternally with God or hell to be eternally damned, it is permanent and for ever. There is no shifting of places. So if the person who died would see these, he will not come back alive at all! Because God would have already decide for him to be there and stay there. If God wants him to come back to live, he would not have entered either of the eternal states in the first place. Hence the lack of visions.
As Christ Himself said, a perversed generation asks for signs. We are in corrupted state and are of a perversed and sinful generation. No signs will be given to us regarding heaven and hell.
I also started teaching the older children's Sunday school today. It's not easy. I think they are bored with me... =( Well just have to pray for wisdom and think of ways to make it interesting.
Anyway today's lesson was on the heaven declaring the glory of God, so though we don't see God, we know He exists.
I find atheist utterly foolish. They choose to believe things coming together by themselves rather than by a intelligent designer (and we arn't even talking about which religion's Designer).
So shall we try burying a pencil and pen near each other, and 1000 years later get the generation to open it up to see if there's drawings on the paper?
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Genesis 1:1