Who Among Us Has A Terminal Illness?

On the website, https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/who/terminal-illness-definition it states, “A terminal illness is a disease or condition which cannot be cured and is likely to lead to someone’s death. It is sometimes called a life-limiting illness. Some people may use different definitions, so it’s important to ask if you’re not sure what someone is saying or what it means.”

A terminal illness is a disease or condition that cannot be cured. There is no coming back from it.

Appointed Once to Die:

There is a natural order of events for every human being upon this earth, and that is death. Death is appointed unto all humanity, which is a fact. Nothing of this earth can keep any human from facing death. Judgment follows death for everyone, and for those that are the unsaved, those that are the non-believers of Jesus Christ, those who have not accepted Jesus as their personal Savior; there is nothing that can keep a sinner from condemnation at the judgment seat except he or she accepts Christ’s death on the cross and His resurrection. Nor can someone escape everlasting punishment from rejecting the salvation that Christ gives. If Christ’s death does not spare you, then there is nothing in front of you except the judgment and eternal damnation.

A Time for Birth, a Time for Death:

• Ecclesiastes 3:2, A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.

Solomon’s point here is that God has an arrangement for His people as a whole. Consequently, God gives patterns of life, each with its work for us to do. Despite the fact that there might be numerous issues that we face that appear to go against God’s plans, these ought not be hindrances for us to trust in Him, yet rather this ought to be occasions to find that, without God, life’s concerns have no enduring answers.

All Are of the Dust:

• Ecclesiastes 3:20, All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Our bodies cannot always live in their current state. In that sense, humankind and creatures are indistinguishable. However, Solomon recognized that God has provided individuals with the desire of a world without end (Ecclesiastes 3:11) and that we will stand judgment in the following life (Ecclesiastes 12:7, 14), making us unique in relation to the animals. Since man has forever set in his heart, he has an exceptional purpose in God’s general design. However, we cannot find God’s intention for our lives on our own. It is only through building a relationship with Him and looking for His direction. Is it true or not that we are currently involving our life as God would have us to do? Do we consider it to be a gift from Him?

Earthly House Dissolved:

• 2 Corinthians 5:1-10, For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Paul differentiated our natural bodies (“earthly house of this tabernacle”) and our future revived bodies (“building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens”). Paul plainly expressed that our current bodies make us moan. However, when our time comes for us to die a physical death, we will not be just a spirit without a body (“be found naked”). We will have new bodies that will be ideally suited for our never-ending life.

Paul composed as he did on the grounds that the congregation at Corinth was in the core of Greek culture, and numerous believers experienced issues with the idea of a resurrected body because they did not believe in a resurrected body. Most considered life following death to be something that happened distinctly to the spirit (soul); the genuine individual, detained in an actual body. At death, the spirit was delivered. There was no everlasting status for the body, yet the spirit entered a timeless state. However, the Bible instructs us that the body and soul are inseparable.