Comments on: By what Kind of Death will You Glorify God?

By: Pavlo Hary

Pavlo Hary — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:59:03 +0000

1 Corinthians 15:25-26 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Death, it appears, has not yet been destroyed.
Our weakness in Rom 8:26 is remedied by speaking mysteries to God – speaking in tongues- because our human minds cannot fathom the unlimited abilities of God.
Precious is equal to a great price. We do not go to a better place when we die. We await the return of Jesus Christ while laying in a grave where we cannot glorify God at all.

By: Barbara (Xerraire)

Barbara (Xerraire) — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:01:16 +0000

I saw you on MyBlogLog and came to look! I enjoyed reading your blog and hope to visit again!

In Baltimore are you?
I am in Maryland!

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:41:57 +0000

Great thanatopsis. Thanks Travis.

A good related question is “What you like your tomestone to say on it?” Here’s one I’ve kicked around, “A Life Well Lived”. Although I’ve already seriously blown my chances at that claim.

Another I’ve heard is “He understood God’s Purpose for His Generation”.

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:28:31 +0000

Pavlo, Thank you for your thoughts, but you're only telling part of the story: death is a defeated enemy! Not only has Jesus defeated death, but through him we are more than conquerors over death (Romans 8:35-39)—it has been made into our servant! Suffering and death are now made to bring about our entrance into the glorious inheritance prepared for us (vv.10-11,16-17) and are powerless to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord (v.39)!

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
"O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. — 1 Corinthians 15:53-58

You say "God canâ€™t do anything with a dead body," but the Apostle said in Romans 8:10-11: "But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness... he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you." You also say I've taken Romans 8:28 out of context, but v.28 is not speaking of praying in the Spirit—it's speaking of the weakness in which the Spirit helps us. As to Psalm 116:15, it says "Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints." Precious here means costly in the sense of "valuable," not "injurious." It is speaking to the worth of his saints' deaths... and since God's "currency" is worship and honor, this verse is simply another way of saying that God receives great glory from the death of his saints! Hallelujah! :D

By: Pavlo Hary

Pavlo Hary — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:23:15 +0000

Death is an enemy. When our enemy defeats us God is not glorified. Death did not defeat Jesus Christ because it had no hold on him and thus God was glorified by this one death. God is light and in him is no darkness at all . . . unless you believe that death is light, putting good for evil. Jesus said “I am come that they may have life . . .” God said that the death of his saints was costly in his eyes. God can’t do anything with a dead body which is why the apostle Paul told the believers to present their bodies as a living sacrifice. You have taken Romans 8:28 out of context; which is prayer and intercession, especially praying in the spirit (1Cor 14:15) which Paul says is speaking in tongues. God Bless . . .