When will it ever end,my dear wife is with a friend from our church,her daughter has cancer,she is in a hospice, she is waiting on a phone call,need I say anymore .Forty years ago I was in that position,my dear wife had cancer,need I say anymore.Every human that is born is going to die one way or the other,it is to say the least not very nice. We were never meant to die ,John Calvin writes the follow as regards our innocent states,'Adam was wholly free from death,his earthly life truly would have been temporal; yet he would have passed into heaven without death,and injury'.It makes one realise what he lost and what we lost,for we read,'Therefore just as sin entered the world through one man,and death through sin,and in this way death came to all people'(Romans 5 v 12) John Calvin further states,'Death,therefore,is now a terror to us;first, because there is a kind of annihilation,as it respects the body; then, because the soul feels the curse of death,namely,alienation from God'. Into all this darkness we have the light of the gospel blazing forth bringing hope,for we read in Romans 5 v 19,'For just as through the disobedience of one man the many were made sinners,so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous'. Yes the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord'.(Romans 6 v23)
'Sin changed everything for the worse,
Calvary changes everything for the better'
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