Friday, October 24, 2025

We believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him

 1 Timothy 4:1-18

It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.

Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.

According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 

Why?

We believe Jesus will come again and bring those who have fallen asleep in him. So even though our lives end in this world, one day we will meet together in heaven on God's coming day.

On the earth, we need to be aware of living out a different life from others, and keep control of our own bodies in a way that is holy and honorable.

Mind our own business and work with our hands.

How?

Believer, God will come again with Jesus, and those who have fallen asleep in him will come back to meet us again.


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