Is immortality possible
- 2. 1Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.
- 4. •The love of God desires it
- 5. 1John 3:1a Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!
- 6. Matthew 7:9-11 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?
- 7. Matthew 7:9-11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
- 8. Romans 8:38,39 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
- 9. Romans 8:38,39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- 10. •The love of God desires it
- 11. •The love of God desires it •The power of God can give it
- 12. Matthew 22:29-32 Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.
- 13. Matthew 22:29-32 But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”
- 14. 2Timothy 1:9,10 …who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time
- 15. 2Timothy 1:9,10 began but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel…
- 16. •The love of God desires it •The power of God can give it
- 17. •The love of God desires it •The power of God can give it •The justice of God demands it
- 18. Genesis 18:25 Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked; far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
- 19. John 5:28,29 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have
- 20. John 5:28,29 done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
- 21. 2Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
- 22. •The love of God desires it •The power of God can give it •The justice of God demands it
- 23. •The love of God desires it •The power of God can give it •The justice of God demands it •The faithfulness of God will make it happen
- 24. John 11:25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
- 25. 2Corinthians 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
- 26. •The love of God desires it •The power of God can give it •The justice of God demands it •The faithfulness of God will make it happen
- 27. John 14:1-3 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to
- 28. John 14:1-3 prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.”