Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
At any given moment, 24/7, if you should ask the Lord, "What is the news?" His reply would be that He has only GOOD news for you.
Even if you had just had a doctor tell you that you have terminal cancer, and you were on a death-bed, the Lord would have only GOOD news for you. Even in such an extremity, He would assure you that "He will be [your] guide, even unto death" (Psalm 48:15).
Looking forward to the "first resurrection" is immense GOOD news, for Revelation 20:6 says, "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power."
There is a special blessing (the word means ultra-happiness) on those who today die "in the Lord." We read it in Revelation 14:13, John says, "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the [Holy] Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them."
There might be someone reading these words today who has nothing to look forward to from this moment on, except that "resurrection." If so, be immensely thankful to the Lord for everything! He has only GOOD news for you—those "who die in the Lord from henceforth" are in a special class.
Jesus describes them in Luke 20:35: "They ... shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, ... neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection."
All the heavenly host of unfallen angels and beings who kneel before the throne of the Lord rejoice together with them in this "blessed hope" (cf. Titus 2:13). From this moment on, there is nothing but GOOD news for you, if you will believe these promises of the Lord Jesus whop died for you on His cross—who died your "second death."
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
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