Sunday, 5th September 2010

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Last Post and Reveille

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'"Because I live, you will live also."' John 14:19

It's said that Winston Churchill planned his own funeral in St. Paul's Cathedral. He included great hymns of the church. After the benediction a bugler positioned high in the dome played the Last Post, the bugle call that is played at military funerals. Next, another bugler, placed on the other side of the great dome, played Reveille. 'It's time to get up. It's time to get up. It's time to get up in the morning.'

On Easter morning Jesus rose from the dead, heaven sounded Reveille, and the promise was fulfilled: "Because I live, you will live also." What a message! And it means two things for every follower of Christ:

1) When it's 'goodnight' here, it's 'good morning' over there 2) When you lose a loved one at death, the parting is only for a moment but reunion will last for all eternity.

Paul writes: 'If we have hope in Christ only for this life, we are the most miserable people in the world. But the fact is that Christ has been raised from the dead. He has become the first of a great harvest of those who will be raised to life again. So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, Adam; now resurrection from the dead has begun through another man, Christ. Everyone dies because all of us are related to Adam, the first man. But all who are related to Christ, the other man, will be given new life. But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised first; then when Christ comes back, all his people will be raised' (1 Corinthians 15:19-23 NLT). Hallelujah!

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