Facing Death WIthout Fear

The sermon centres on the Christian's confident hope in both life and death, anchored in the transformative truth that 'to live is Christ and to die is gain.' Drawing from Paul's imprisonment and his profound inner struggle between desire to depart and be with Christ and the necessity of remaining for the sake of others, the message emphasises that a life rooted in faith in Jesus Christ transcends fear, suffering, and the finality of death. It presents Christ as the only source of true meaning, peace, and redemption, countering the despair of a world cursed by sin with the gospel of salvation through Christ's substitutionary death and resurrection. The contrast between a despairing view of death—illustrated by a poem of dread—and the Christian's joyful anticipation of eternal fellowship with Christ, as expressed in a mirrored poem of hope, underscores the radical difference faith makes. Ultimately, the sermon calls listeners to repentance, faith in Christ alone, and a life fully surrendered to Him, so that both living and dying are lived in the certainty of eternal life with God.