DENNIS
Good morning everyone. I am Dennis Gossett with Central United Methodist Church. The one thing we will never be able to do is to attend our own funeral. We will be there all right. It’s just that we won’t be there – be there. The Apostle Paul tells us we must host our own funeral, behold ourselves being laid in the ground and buried and then keep coming back to the cemetery and visiting the tombstone in order to remind ourselves. He writes, “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.” Paul knows the secret to life is to die before you die. He wants us to attend our own funeral. There is actually a technical term for this phenomenon called Baptism. There are many metaphors and meanings for Christian baptism, but there is really only one: death and resurrection. “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.” If ever there were a verse that needed to jump off the page and into our days, this is it. In an out of control world, we must remember there is hope through Christ. We don’t have to live in such a way that causes pain and heartbreak. In fact, we can choose a different life. What’s your choice?
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