Kill Unbelief

I know that I am addressing some who say that they are afraid to die, and they think that they cannot be God’s people because of that fear. Do not distress yourself in that way, my dear friend;

perhaps you are not called to die just yet, and you have therefore not yet had dying grace given to you; but you will have it when the time comes.

And you timid, nervous people, have you not found out for yourselves that, if ever you get into an accident, you are often the bravest people there?

You feeble trembling ones seem strengthened up at the moment, and so shall it be when you come to die, if you are believers in Jesus Christ. He that loved you will not leave you in your last minutes.

Would you leave your wife, would you leave your child, would you leave your husband, if you saw any of these dear ones in the agonies of death?

No, if you were a thousand miles away, you would come home to them to wipe the death-sweat from their brows, and moisten their parched lips, and do you think that our blessed God will be out of the way when we come to die?

No. “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” He will be there; and Jesus will be there; and the Holy Spirit will be there; and so we who believe in Jesus shall die in peace.

Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)

Philippians 2:10-11 says that there will be a day when every knee will bow and profess the name of Jesus Christ as Lord. As long as you are still living, you have time to repent and follow Him!

“Hell itself is truth known too late.” - John C. Ryle (1816-1900)

“May we not ask with anxious solicitude, How can such fallen, wretched creatures be kept in peace, “in perfect peace” (Isa 26:3)?

What warrant have we to trust in God or stay our minds upon Him as our righteousness and strength? This important question has been answered by God Himself.

He graciously promised a Savior, even at the time when justice pronounced death on the transgressors.

Thus, mercy rejoiced against judgment and shed a ray of heavenly light over the benighted souls of our fallen parents [Adam and Eve].”

“In Perfect Peace” - Thomas Reade (1776-1841)