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To: newsletter@rgc-chat.net<BR>Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:19:32 -0500<BR>From: newsletter@rgc-chat.net<BR>Subject: [Newsletter] Daily Devotional<BR><BR>
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<H1><B><FONT face=Arial size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Death Cannot Divide Us</SPAN></FONT></B></H1>
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<H2><B><I><FONT face=Arial size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Read: John 11:14-27</SPAN></FONT></I></B></H2>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live." - John 11:25</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Although writers and philosophers have done their best to marshal weighty arguments in favor of life after death, they have not succeeded in bringing comfort to aching, anxious, questioning hearts.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Jesus, however, does not fail to satisfy us. He brings forth no philosophical arguments. He does not try to prove the reasonableness of immortality; he simply declares it! He speaks of what he knows, and answers with the authority of having: "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live" (John 11:25). This resurrection has two aspects. The bodies of the believers will be raised, and their spirits will also live in heaven.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">What does this mean for grieving Christians whose believing loved ones have died? Death does not sever our love for them, for love belongs to the spirit and does not to the body. And when those we love go on a journey, their thoughts can span the distance as though it were a step, and their love enfolds us as though they stood beside us. So it is today with our dear departed ones.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Are you sorrowing over one who has been called to have been? Jesus promised that we will be reunited one day, when God gives us back our precious loved ones. -M. R. De Haan M. D.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">When from the dead God raises his son</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">And called him to the sky,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">He gave our souls a living Hope</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=EC_MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">That they should never die! - Watts</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thought for today: Christ has replaced the dark door of death with the shining date of life.</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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