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John chapter 11, verses 25 and 26.

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life.

Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.

Everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.

Do you believe this?

Oh, I read these verses and my heart just jumps like, yes, I believe this.

I praise God for this. I was preaching a funeral just a couple of days ago.

Just unexpected tragedy that struck a family and yet both of the people who died in that family

had put their faith in Christ.

They trusted in Christ as Savior and Lord of their lives.

And so I'm sitting in that funeral and John 11, 26 is true.

Everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.

Verse 25, though they die, yet shall they live.

I praise God for that promise and that funeral.

I praise God for that reality.

And my dad, who unexpectedly died years ago and now lives with the Lord.

And praise God for that reality in my wife's mom, my mother-in-law, who just months before she unexpectedly died, she believed in Jesus. And when she died,

she kept living. She's living now. I praise you, oh God, for this reality.

I praise you for this reality in scores of men and women who have believed in you, who have trusted in you, and though they died in this world, today they live.

I imagine, as I'm praying, there's all kinds of people praying with me who can think of people who they know are with you right now alive in abundance because of belief in Jesus. We praise you

for life beyond death, for eternal everlasting life. And as we praise you,

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