Death an Advantage to the Christian
1 Corinthians 3:22
Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;


Death is ours —

I. AS THE MEANS OF DELIVERANCE FROM ALL THE INCONSISTENCIES AND SINFULNESS OF TIME. Select any of the people of God whose lives are recorded in the Word of God, and how often have we reason to deplore their inconsistencies! But for death this would be the eternity of their history.

II. AS THE MEANS OF DELIVERING US FROM ALL WEAKNESS AND IMPERFECTION, WHETHER OF BODY OR OF MIND.

III. AS THE MEANS OF RELIEVING US FROM THE ISOLATED POSITION WHICH WE OCCUPY IN THIS WORLD. About the angels we know nothing; we are separated from them. What do we know about the immediate presence of God; the joys of a glorious immortality; the power of the fellowship that is formed around the everlasting throne? By death we enter into the universal region of the good. Conclusion: Sinner, death is not yours — he brings you no benefit. You are his victim. He comes as the messenger of justice to lead you to the judgment seat, to hear the doom which you are to undergo, world without end. Painful as your pilgrimage on earth may be, it is your highest happiness. Your happiness must terminate with its close. You are death's, and when death seizes you, instead of delivering you from your sins and imperfections, all your sins and imperfections are confirmed for ever.

(J. Burnett.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

WEB: whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,




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