TRIBE | Rest For Your Soul

Message Recap

[John 3:6]

Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.

[I Thessalonians 5:23]

Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.

[II Timothy 1:7]

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.

[II Corinthians 4:16]

That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.

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 Predetermine to not let anybody other than God carry the keys to your peace.

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[Matthew 11:28-29]

Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

[II Corinthians 5:17]

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

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 There’s a difference between Death and Dying.

It’s OK to be concerned about dying, but you don’t need to be afraid of death.

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[Hebrews 2:14-15] 

“God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.”

[I Thessalonians 4:13-14] 

“And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope.” 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died.

[I Corinthians 15:55-57]

O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” 56 For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power. 57 But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.

[James 4:14]

How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.

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In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented: and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors—anesthetics; but we have that still. It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds. — CS Lewis “On Living in an Atomic Age” (1948) in Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays