In Acts 7:59-60, Luke records that when Stephen was stoned, he “fell asleep.” Our English word “cemetery” comes from this same Greek word (koimao – Strongs 2837), which means “to put to sleep.”<\/p>\n
When we consider “death” as “falling asleep,” we are thinking positive thoughts about death rather than the usual harshness men associate with it (Ecclesiastes 3:18-22; Ecclesiastes 9:1-3).<\/p>\n
The Psalmist tells us in Psalm 116:15, that “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n Revelation 14:13 says, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ‘Yes,’ says the Spirit, ‘that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.<\/strong>‘”<\/p>\n There have been many unjust murders since the beginning of time, however, Stephens murder was different in that he died in the Lord.<\/p>\n Brethren, let us proclaim along with the prophet Balaam, “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his!<\/strong> (Numbers 23:10).<\/p>\n Let us “die in the Lord.<\/strong>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Acts 7:59-60, Luke records that when Stephen was stoned, he “fell asleep.” Our English word “cemetery” comes from this same Greek word (koimao – Strongs 2837), which means “to put to sleep.” When we consider “death” as “falling asleep,” we are thinking positive thoughts about death rather than the usual harshness men associate with … Continue reading “Let Us “Die In The Lord” – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}