The journey of no return!

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Job 16:22, "Only a few years will pass, before I go on the journey of no return."
 

1. The CERTAINTY of Death.

"Man's days are determined; You have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed." Job 14:5

"I know You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living." Job 30:23

"What man can live and not see death, or save himself from the power of the grave?" Psalm 89:48

"It is appointed for man to die once, and after that to face judgment." Hebrews 9:27
 

2. The NEARNESS of Death.

"Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure." Job 14:1-2

"You have made my days a mere hand-breadth; the span of my years is as nothing before You. Each man's life is but a breath." Psalm 39:5

"Man is like a breath; his days are like a fleeting shadow." Psalm 144:4

"What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." James 4:14
 

3. The UNCERTAINTY of Death.

"Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth." Proverbs 27:1

"So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him." Matthew 24:44

"But God said to him: You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?" Luke 12:20
 

4. The TERROR of Death for the ungodly.

"Surely You place them on slippery ground; You cast them down to ruin. How suddenly are they destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!" Psalm 73:18-19

"They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." Matthew 13:42

"They will be punished with everlasting destruction, and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of His power." 2 Thessalonians 1:9

"If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:15
 

5. The BLESSEDNESS of Death for the Godly.

"You have made known to me the path of life; You will fill me with joy in Your presence, with eternal pleasures at Your right hand." Psalm 16:11

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived--what God has prepared for those who love Him." 1 Corinthians 2:9

"He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." Revelation 21:4
 

"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." Matthew 25:46

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