The Death of the Righteous
Activity : Lord's Banquet (Thursday Bible Exploration) Anchor Scripture: Numbers 23: 8 - 12 Introduction Many times, I have been inundated with questions that bothers on the 'untimely' death of perceived righteous men and women, so-called children of God. One of such questions was the one that one sister asked in a Sunday school class one day that: "Is it possible for a child of God to die prematurely?" Brethren, it is a fact, even as the Bible did establish it, that we are all going to die. However, God, in the Scriptures did make the promise to "make a distinction between them that serve me and those that don't serve me." That is where the challenge of our claims of being children of God comes in. Are we, children of God, supposed to have same bad experiences as those in the world? Even when we do, what ought to be our dispositions and reactions to such occurrences? Even though, every mortal shall die, according to the Scriptures, are...