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Gain!
By Rev.
Kenneth E. Hagin
"For
to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain" (Phil. 1:21).
When the body dies, the inward man still lives. In today's text, Paul
was talking about physical death - and he said it is gain.
That does away with the theory that when a man is dead, he's dead like a
dog, and that's the end of it.
There certainly wouldn't be any gain to that.
It also does away with the theory that when you die, you just float
around like a cloud in the sky. There wouldn't be any gain to that,
either.
And it also does away with the theory of reincarnation. (That's all it
is - a theory! It's certainly not scriptural.)
Some
people think they will be born again into this life - that the next time
they might be a cow, or a horse, or even a fly.
There wouldn't be any gain to coming back as a cow - you might get
eaten. If you were a mosquito, you might get squashed. How foolish
people can become when they leave the Bible and get off into false
teachings!
The truth is just as the Bible presents it: At physical death, the
born-again believer - an eternal spirit being - departs to be with
Christ, and that is gain!
Confession: For "me" to live in this physical body is Christ. The
life of Christ dwells within the real me - the man on the inside, the
eternal spirit being.
(Taken by permission from
RHEMA Bible Church , aka Kenneth Hagin Ministries , Tulsa, OK , USA.
www.rhema.org )
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