"The doctor can say, 'Tobacco is death to you,' because the dislike of death can be taken for granted, being a highly democratic institution." — G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils
The threat of death is not an empty one. Graveyards are populated by the dearly departed. While the one attempting to murder you may be withstood, your inevitable death cannot be. You can do your best to keep it at bay, but you cannot keep that tide from rolling in.
2 Samuel 14:14
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Our days are like drips of water. Our lives are like buckets ever lightening as liquid steadily drains out of the cracks. The days cannot be recovered anymore than the water can be regathered from the ground. Yet even from the ground, the water may rise if God be willing.
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.
Death is inevitable. Everyone is born with a expiration date. Men were made to meet their Maker. Those who by grace and through faith face their Father will die just the once. The second death cannot threaten them. It's threats are as empty as Christ's tomb and defeated by the same, null and void.
Revelation 2:11, 20:6
He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death; Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
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