Sunday Celebration Sermon

The message was about death. Not a topic one might expect to hear especially with Chinese New Year so near. I have no issue with the topic as it is imminent. In fact I think about it a lot, okay maybe once a month. Most recent was when I was hospitalised during Christmas. It was not because my condition was critical but places like hospitals do make me ponder about the fragility of life. I think of Nicole and what the future holds if both of us were no longer around? I also think about her education expenses, etc even if we're both around. You get the idea?

Anyway back to the sermon. Elder Ong was on hand to remind us that death is only temporary as we will be raised from the grave incorruptible to be with Jesus and all the saints who have gone before us.

1 Corinthians 15:52-57
In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.