WHO IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE PREACHER?
There is a preacher of the old school, but he speaks as boldly as ever. He is not popular, though the world is his parish and he travels every part of the globe and speaks in every language. He visits the poor, calls upon the rich, preaches to people of every religion and no religion and the subject of his sermon is always the same. He is an eloquent preacher, often stirring feelings which no other preacher could in bringing tears to eyes that never weep. His arguments none are able to refute nor is there any heart that has remained unmoved by the force of his appeals. He shatters life with his message. Most people hate him, everyone fears him, his name?
Death.
Every tombstone is his pulpit. Every newspaper prints his text and some day everyone of you will be his sermon.
Thomas Gray looking at death, said the boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, and all that beauty and all that wealth err gave a way to like the inevitable hour, the paths of glory lead, but to the grave.
Men fear death. Thomas Gray says, it all ends in the grave. Maybe that is the unhope of the world, but it is not the hope of the Christian, and that’s what we’ve been seeing in 1 Corinthians 15. For the Christian, all of the fear of death is cancelled in the hope of bodily resurrection. We’ve learned, haven’t we, that we’re going to go into that grave and come out the other side glorified in new bodies for heaven
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