Eternal Hope in a Fallen World

Death has a way of forcing the real questions to the surface: What happens after we breathe our last? Is the world’s disorder just random chaos, or the result of something deeper? I’m sharing what it has meant to lose my mother at nearly 93, and why my grief is intertwined with relief, because I believe she is at rest and fully alive in the presence of God through Jesus Christ.

From that personal loss, I zoom out into purpose and destiny. I challenge the idea that we are accidents or that “luck” explains anything that matters, then ground that claim in Scripture, including John 5:24, John 3:16, and John 14. If you’re searching for Christian encouragement, hope after loss, and clarity about eternal life, this conversation aims to meet you where you are without pretending the pain is small.

I also take an unexpected path through science and philosophy: the mathematical universe, the meaning of chaos, and why predictable structure suggests an ordered Creator. Then I confront the moral arguments of Nietzsche and Machiavelli, tracing how rebellion and the hunger for power show up in history and in the human heart. We end with a practical mirror for daily life: the Fruit of the Spirit, what its opposites reveal, and the resurrection promises in Revelation 21, 1 Corinthians 15, and 1 Thessalonians 4.

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A Mother’s Passing And Peace

Dina LaFargue Augustin 0:00

Greetings and welcome to another episode of The Drip Line: Healing for Your Soul, a place where one can contemplate the relevance of life, the purpose of one's life, discover answers to some of life's most common questions about self, destiny, and God, and hopefully find solace and a sense of peace in a world engulfed with disorder, violence, and confusion. I've been offline for the past two weeks due to the passing of my mom. She almost made it to the ripe old age of 93, her birthday being in August. My emotions have been mixed. Yes, I've been saddened. She is no longer here. I can't call her every night like I used to. But I am relieved that she is at rest. No, I can't hear her voice. I can't travel to Chicago and give her hugs and kisses. But I am overjoyed that I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that she is in the presence of God. Yes, she was and is now a believer. She is still a child of God. We never stop being his children. The only difference is that she has relocated to another place in time, or should I say, out of time. But she most definitely is alive and in his presence. And there lies my comfort, my complete relief that I can imagine my mom is now free from any and all physical, mental, and or emotional pain and anguish. Whatever worried her, whatever her concerns or ailments were, whatever plagued her mind or body, no longer exist. They are no more. She's in perfect peace and in perfect health in the presence of the Most High God. And that comes through her accepting Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior. So this is the focus of this week's podcast: a confirmation of who we are and what our path of life should be. It speaks to the condition of the world and how it doesn't have to be, and why Jesus Christ and knowing him is so important. Yes, there is more for us. First, we are not just born. We are not accidents, we are not the result of just a casual meeting between an egg and a sperm. Even though that interaction may have been casual between a man and a woman. But the eventuality

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of life is not an ex is not an accident. Yes, the interaction again may have been the result of a casual affair, but the fact that the egg and sperm that made you met is no accident, for God is ultimately in control. There is a cause and effect in everything. There is no happenstance in life. There are no accidents, and there is no such thing as luck. All things work together in purpose and intent with cause and effect. Decisions bring results. Decisions create actions and actions bring forth outcomes. Preparedness or the lack thereof still bring about results and all things remain operational under the all-knowing, all-powerful, omnipresent, everywhere God. And most importantly and impactfully, this relationship between God and man undoubtedly and definitely impacts the condition of the world and the prosperity of humanity as a whole. God made us with his love and by his love and for his love, and he blessed us and also made promises to us. And this one promise that I will read is for everyone who dares, who would ever dare to accept truth and love. And it reads in John chapter 5, verse 24, Truly, truly I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but is passed from death to life. And I'll add this, John three, sixteen, for God so loved the world that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. And let me add John fourteen, verses one through thirty-one. Let not your hearts be troubled, believe in God, believe also in me. In my father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, I would have told you that. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also, and you know the way to where I am going. Now that's not all 31 verses, but you can go to John chapter 14 and read from verse 1. So first, there is no such thing as nothing after death. There was no accidental explosion that created the universe that brought forth life of every kind. Accidents and nothingness do not bring forth a creation that is made on mathematics or makes love. Love is an action word beyond any emotion. Philosophers can argue all they want, but their suppositions are incomplete because they have never dared to experience God. They have never gone beyond what they can see with their natural eyes, and then they deny even that. But I say a world or a universe that can be calculated mathematically, that things are created through mathematics, that God is a god of science, that these philosophers and their arguments are futile. So let's look at the physicist Max Tegmark, which agrees that everything is mathematical. He is the champion of the position regarding the mathematical universe hypothesis, which suggests that our universe isn't just described by math, it is math. It states fundamental particles. If you zoom in on atoms, electrons, and quarks, they have no color or texture. They're completely defined by mathematical properties like mass, spin, and charge. He states there are patterns in nature. Mathematical sequences and formulas predict the shape of galaxies,

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the parabolic flight of a thrown ball, and the growth patterns of plants and seashells. Now there is another argument about that math, which I tend to disagree with. There is the argument that math is just a tool. Many philosophers and physicists strongly disagree, arguing that math is a tool created by the human mind to measure and model the universe. Hogwash, how can you make up formulas when formulas prove themselves? They say there is a reality gap. Concepts like math and logic require perfectly identical objects. Yet in the physical world, no two things are ever perfectly identical. But I argue there's still math in it. Human invention, these philosophers and physicists argue, there are proponents of this view that say math is just our way of translating the chaos of space and energy into logical rules we can understand. I don't think men made up math. I think math is unto itself and it exists just like the sun exists, the moon exists, and everything else that we've discovered. We've discovered atoms, hence we discovered math, but math always was. And math, I believe, has come from God, because he is the maker and the creator, and he did so mathematically and in order because he is a God of order. So I continue my argument that if there is such a thing as chaos, then chaos cannot be measured, contained, or calculated, as these men would say. Rules would not apply because chaos could never conform to rules. If so, then chaos would not exist. Are you following me? Chaos is chaos. So let's take a deeper look. According to dictionary.com, chaos is a state of utter confusion, disarray, or a total lack of organization. It generally refers to a completely unpredictable situation where events are uncontrolled or difficult to foresee. The term is defined differently depending on the context. So let's take a look. In everyday language, chaos refers to confusion, pandemonium, or mayhem. Remember those life insurance commercials or car insurance commercials? In science and mathematics, chaos refers to highly sensitive deterministic systems where even the smallest changes in initial conditions lead to widely unpredictable long-term outcomes. And that is referred to as the butterfly effect in that world. Now, I say to that argument, those unpredictable outcomes still take shape within a mathematical format. Being unpredictable or having an unpredicted outcome does not mean it's disordered, that it was just unexpected at that time or circumstance. In mythology and religion, chaos is represented as the formless void or abyss that existed before the creation of the ordered universe. Now I interject here. Who says that anything can be made out of chaos that is chaos? Who says anything or anyone can prove that there was a void or an abyss before the creation of the ordered universe? You see, even philosophers consider our universe ordered. Hence, they say before the creation of the ordered universe. And disorder, chaos, or nothingness cannot create order or anything personal. So either intelligence must have created it because it is too ordered, too mathematical, or too structured to not be. I believe the only disorder that exists is actually in our own minds. Our minds and thoughts can become confusing, can become jumbled, infested, and corrupted by wrong thinking, by negative emotions, by trauma and bad experiences, to the point that we disrupt the natural order and beauty of society because we act out what comes out of our hearts and what comes out of our minds. Mankind is a disruptor and the corrupter. We have corrupted what God originally created by our own rebellion. So let's consider the position of some of the most famous philosophers that would argue with me if they were alive now. Philosophers worldwide and throughout history have viewed the disorder of mankind not just as a flaw, but as a core condition of human existence. They generally agree that while humans crave structure, the universe is fundamentally chaotic and unpredictable, forcing us to forge our own meaning and ethical boundaries. The conversation around chaos and disorder is vast amongst them, but it primarily breaks down into a few distinct perspectives. First, there's existentialism and nihilism. Thinkers like Frederick Nietzsche argued that the universe has no inherent purpose and that mankind's disorder stems from the loss of traditional universal values. Nietzsche believed this allows the individual to embrace the chaos and become an ubermensch or an overman who actively creates their own values and meaning. My argument against Nietzsche's argument is this. He says essentially that disorder stems from the loss of traditional universal values. And I ask him, what

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universal traditional values, Nietzsche, are you referring to? Where do these traditions come from that you are speaking of? What is a universal value? How can a non-feeling, non-emotional place create value or tradition? So is he saying that mankind out of chaos automatically gravitates to morality or the lack thereof? Yeah, he is because he contradicts himself. He was an atheist, but he argued that traditional religion was almost a necessity and helped mankind live with order and some semblance of morality. He also believed that that same position was weak and only existed because mankind was inherently weak and needy of a leader or needy of a God to fall back on and rely on, that the masses used religion to marginalize and oppress creative minds, on the other hand. He says that would be great leaders may have never become because of traditional religion. That religion is a tool to keep man in check. Now I think we can see that some of the most well-known leaders of the world have been tyrannical despots that abuse their subjects. So Nietzsche definitely and intentionally contradicts himself or contradicted himself. And he did so intentionally. Considering his views, I cannot help but consider the most prevalent forms of government before the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformation helped spread democracy as a global construct, sidebar. There were other forms of democracies that existed, specifically in North American indigenous nations and in many African nations that were matriarchal in nature as opposed to being patriarchal. But let me not digress here into government structure and politics, so to speak. But I will say that absolute monarchies were some of the most common forms of monarchies before democracy came with the colonists and spread globally. Absolute monarchies were known to dehumanize peoples globally and were prevalent and dominant. So, what about Nietzsche's position? And what about Machiavelli? Let's look at how these both parallel one another and support these godless governments and rulers that use God as an excuse to rule with impunity. Machiavelli and Nietzsche, the reality of power. While Machiavelli wrote a practical guide for rulers and Nietzsche wrote about psychological potential, both of these men shared a deep disdain for traditional Christian morality, viewing it as unrealistic and dangerous for leadership. Consider that. Christianity, which speaks of love and self-control and self-discipline and forgiveness, is no good for the world, nor can it be employed by a leader? Hmm. Well, Machiavelli's Cruelty - In The Prince, Machiavelli argued that a leader must learn how not to be good. He stated that cruelty is a necessary tool of statecraft. A ruler who tries to be perfectly virtuous will inevitably cause chaos and get overthrown by a scrupulous, by a less scrupulous man. Nietzsche's Will to Power -Nietzsche took this further psychologically, he saw Machiavelli as a kindred spirit who understood that good and evil are just inventions. To Nietzsche a true leader does not use cruelty out of petty malice, but out of a grand necessity to reshape reality and force order onto a chaotic world. Now what did God say? Well, what did God say about kings and monarchs before he established them? For God made man in his image, right? Well, let's look at this history. If you have followed me or know anything at all about the Bible, Adam and Eve, and how they were created, in the Bible it says that Adam and Eve were created in God's image, and therefore every human is created in God's image. It goes on to uh discuss their history and how they failed in their roles as, I would say, world leaders, because they were given authority over everything created in the world and in the air at that time. Were they the first kings? Well, in so many words, yes, but only under the authority

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and kingship of God. So let's say God was the emperor and they were king and queen on this territory or in this territory. He was the great I am, or known as the great I am, Yahweh or Jehovah. We can say Adam and Eve were God's conduits on earth with full ability, power, and authority with God's guidance and wisdom and knowledge at their disposal. The question, did they maximize that relationship with God? Or did they abuse their power and authority? Or did they misuse it or underestimate it? I would say they indeed did not maximize it and definitely underestimated it and neglected it by becoming distracted and thus the victims of deception. Yep, distraction and deception disrupted the order. Hence my premise that all is mathematically designed except our emotions, our mentality, our intentions and thoughts, which can grow awry, which can go anywhere and everywhere, and can bring utter corruption and violence. Man's own rebellion against God gave birth to historically corrupt and evil men who lacked the love and respect of their creator, craving everything contrary to his will and his way. It is said, most infamous autocrats crave endless power and influence. Hmm. Is that what they were searching for before God was willing to give them more from that tree of knowledge? So when I contemplate this history, and when I contemplate and consider these philosophers, I actually pity them because they all had the answers of life, love, and peace right before their very eyes and hearts, but failed or refused to hear and receive truth into their hearts. Yes, all of them. Consider Epictetus. He was a philosopher who determined that man is constantly seeking control over chaos, and his failure to do so creates the breaking of the human mind. That by one's own ability to develop one's own philosophy and virtues, it is only then that one can overcome the tumult of a chaotic world. This is stoicism. And philosophers like him argued that human anxiety and disorder come from trying to control the uncontrollable. This stoic approach to mankind's chaos is radical acceptance. By practicing the dichotomy of control and focusing only on one's own judgments and virtues, an individual can remain unshakable amidst societal or natural tumult. My counterargument: without a God, virtue does not exist. Virtue essentially comes from God and is imputed in mankind. Virtue, as defined by dictionary.com, is a trait of moral and ethical excellence. Nothing cannot create that. Man cannot create that on his own. It is a firm, habitual disposition to do what is right, such as courage, honesty, or patience, and is considered a fundamental building block of good character and human flourishing. Now there's proof that morality and ethical behavior has to be taught because we have been . As parents, They're always teaching their children to do what is right, to teach what is right. Especially when a child reaches the age of two, they're always being corrected and spanked or taught what not to touch, what not to do, and the child is in a rebellious stage at that point. Now there's another definition of virtue, which falls under theological virtues. In religious and philosophical traditions, these are often categorized into the four cardinal virtues such as prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance, and the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and love. Ultimately, and ironically, all of these are written in the Bible as being the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Without virtue, we have vice. And biblical vice is indeed described in part in the Bible in the book of Colossians, chapter 3. We are warned, put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature, your worldly nature, not your Godly nature, which is sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways in the life you once lived, but now, knowing Christ, you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with his practices and put on the new self which is being renewed in the knowledge and in the image of its creator. Galatians chapter five states what these virtues of God are. It says, But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law. These are all rooted in the character of God. Man being created in his image was also infused or grounded with these traits, but pride and rebellion seemingly has taken over. Now, when we continue in these philosophers and psychologists, we can look at Carl Jung. His is considered a depth psychology. He suggests that mankind's disorder is actually a manifestation of primitive inborn psychological drives, what he called the collective unconscious. However, Jung famously noted that in all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder, a secret order, meaning that what looks like chaotic human behavior often follows deeper pattern archetypes. Jung had a point. Yes, I would say the character of God was that secret order of the chaos buried in the human spirit. But sadly, it has been overruled by the disorder of a rebellious soul. Those psychological drives, because the will comes from the mind. Philosophy of science would say that human disorder is a natural property of complex adaptive living systems and the need to adjust to any change, whether it be good or bad. And I say hogwash. Now, there's a biblical history here that cannot be denied. And I say hogwash to these philosophers that say human disorder is a natural property of complexities of things changing in the world. Because my God, the God that I know, is all existing outside of time, that He created time, and that we are the ones that created change because we made a decision to rebel. And when I say change, I mean negative change. We can adapt to systems, but we can adapt within the construct of godliness. So check out this biblical history of ungodly rebellious kings. Research and reference other histories of emperors and kings of the world outside of the Bible, and see how all of them or the majority of them systematically marginalized and oppressed people globally and created class systems that oppressed people. Now, biblically, there is the era called the direct theocracy, and it speaks of the creation up to the flood. In Genesis chapter 3, we have the fall of man, which I mentioned earlier, Adam and Eve's rebellion against God's ultimate authority. And through

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their rebellion, sin was introduced, and the human desire for autonomous rule over earth was also created. Hear me. The desire for humans to be separate from God was created at that point. Then we have the rise of Nimrod, which one can read in the book of Genesis, chapter 10. The Bible introduces Nimrod as the world's first aggressive imperial ruler. And his name literally translates to, we shall rebel. And he is the one who established the kingdom of Babel, now known as Babylon. Now, let's also consider Genesis chapter 6, where we have the fallen angels out of their own free will rebelling against God and entering into the earthly realm and corrupting mankind by sleeping with the daughters of God. It is written that ancient Jewish scholars translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek and they thus translated the word Nephilim that is written in Genesis chapter 6 as meaning giants. This choice of words naturally associates with the unnatural offspring of the Titans and the giants of the Greek myth, beings that are known for rebelling against divine order. Hence the mythologies of the Greeks, the Romans, the Nords, and the multitude of Hindu and Egyptian gods can all relate back to the fallen angels and their offspring. Art imitates history. All of this was born from rebellion in heaven and on earth, and given a place in our society and in this world. Ungodliness became prominent in societies worldwide through men with evil and rebellious hearts. The Nephilim, these demigods, are described as the mighty men of old, men of renown. So if you read the Odyssey and broader Greek mythology, demigods like Achilles and Perseus, offspring of immortal gods and mortal women, are also celebrated as larger than life warriors. Again, rebellion in the heavens and the earth. Now let's go to the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. Humanity rallies under centralized human leadership to build a tower to the heavens. Hence, we have an autocratic monarchy that is engaging humans to rebel against God. This early attempt at global governance explicitly rejects God's command to scatter and fill the earth. Now we have the Egyptian oppression under Pharaoh in Exodus chapter 1. A new Egyptian pharaoh ascends to the throne and enslaves the growing Israelite population out of fear and orders the execution of male Hebrew infants out of fear. He proudly defies God, asking, Who is this Lord that I should obey his voice? That can be found in Exodus chapter 5. Next, we have the history and the defeat of the Amorite and Bashan kings in Numbers chapter 21. While marching toward the promised land, Israel is attacked by Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan. Both of these kings are brutal, ungodly pagan rulers whom God delivers into Israel's hands. Now, mind you, God was just not into killing people for killing sake. No, these kings were kings that idolized satanic rule and participated in child sacrifice. Next, we have Joshua chapter 12, which gives us a history of the Canaanite city-state kings. Hence, we have the battles between Israel and Palestine now. And it is during the conquest of Canaan that Joshua and the Israelites defeat 31 pagan kings. These rulers practice extreme corruption, again, child sacrifice, idolatry, leading to God's judgment upon their kingdoms. Hence we have wars today in the Middle East. Hence we have brother against brother, cousin against cousin. But next we move to the era of the judges and rebellious Israelite kings. The kings of Midian and Canaan in Judges chapter 4. We can see decades of spiritual compromise. Israel falls under the oppression of ungodly foreign rulers like Jabin and the kingdom of Canaan and the Midianite kings Zabah and Zamunah. Then there's the king Abimelech. He is the first false king of Israel in Judges chapter 9, long before King Saul was anointed by God. We have Gideon's rogue son Abimelech, who murders 70 of his own brothers to declare himself king. His brief three-year reign is marked by extreme brutality, civil war, and corruption before he is killed. Then we have the kings of Edom in Genesis chapter 36. And scripture notes that these are a series of ungodly kings ruled by the neighboring nation of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel. The history goes on and on. But it is a history of rebellion and a history of evil, corruption, greed, oppression, and abuses. Now we have the transition to Israel's monarchy. After all that, Israel also decided to rebel and asked for their own king, wanting to be like these unruly, rebellious nations. It says in 1 Samuel chapter 8, there is a corruption amongst the judges, and the people cried out that they wanted to be like all the other nations. They thus rejected God as their king and sought for an earthly king. Hence, we move to the coronation of King Saul. Saul was anointed as the first official human king over the united Israel. His reign quickly fractures due to pride, disobedience, and spiritual compromise, mirroring all the other ungodly rulers who came before him. And God had warned them, Why would you want a king that will enslave my people? So why is the world in an uproar? It is not God's fault, but it is ours. God warned us. "When the people asked for an earthly king, he said to Samuel, Tell the people this, these will be the ways of the king who will reign over you. He will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots. And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plough his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants. He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants. He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves. But the Lord will not answer you in that day. But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel, and they said, No, but there shall be a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles. And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel, Obey their voice and make them a king." That is in the first book of Samuel, chapter eight. Hence, with all the destruction in the world, with all the evidence of ungodly rulers and all the wars and rumors of wars, my mom was indeed ready for her transition, as she could no longer tolerate the evil she was witnessing. To her, evil seemed to be triumphing over good, and she was tired. The corruption she witnessed had become too much for her to bear, even though she loved her life and the beauty she saw in God's creation. But God has the answer for us. He knows the why, and so do I. Where men say there must not be a God, I agree with God when He says it like this. Psalm 2, verses 1 through 2 and verse 4. "Why do the nations rage and the people's plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed. And he who sits in the heavens laughs, the Lord holds them in derision." So who are we? We are a people that rebelled against God. We are the nations that were divided in the kingdom of Babel. We are that people that was separated when they tried to rise up and build a tower under Nimrod. We are those nations. We are a fallen people who are lost without God. We live in a fallen world who has turned its back on its creator, the creator who made everything good and infused us with free will. It is that free will that has given us the ability to choose life or death, and the Lord says choose life, and that life is in him. To choose

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morality and love over self-service and vices, over false power, greed, and selfishness, selfishness is the way to go. Consider the fruit of the spirit again. If one looks closely, any failure to exemplify any one of those is evidence of a corrupt soul, a soul filled with iniquity. What is the opposite of each fruit of the spirit? Let me briefly analyze the list. No love means rejection and abandonment. No joy, unfulfillment and sadness. No peace, fear, anxiety, frustration, and anger. No forbearance, a lack of self-control, selfish desire, pride, judgmentalness and impatience, no kindness, apathy towards one another, no goodness, iniquity in one's heart, a lack of morality and ethics, no faithfulness, disloyalty and untrustworthiness. No gentleness means brutishness, harshness, perhaps due to anger and frustration, or fear. There is a need to be hard to demonstrate control and strength. No self-control, a reckless, an irrational, overreactive person that jumps to conclusions or who may make emotional decisions and act out. So the fruit of the spirit is essential to living a godly life and enhancing the quality of life in this earthly realm. Again, the fruit of the spirit: love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. The Bible tells us we are to bear with one another and forgive one another. And if any of us have a grievance against someone, we are to forgive them as the Lord Jesus has forgiven us. And over all these virtues, we are to put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts. Since as members of one body, we are called to peace. We are to be thankful. The word of God says, let the message of Christ dwell among us richly. And as we teach and admonish one another, we should do so with wisdom. Reading the Psalms, we should celebrate the Lord and sing in joyfulness and in worship of the living God with gratitude in our hearts for He has given us life after this world comes to an end. He has given us life when our bodies die, as long as we have accepted the work on the cross through Christ Jesus. And the word continues to say, and whatever we do, whether it is in word or in deed, we are to do it in the name of the Lord Jesus, not in anybody else's name, for no one can be more perfect than Jesus. And we are to give thanks to God, the Father, through Him. For no one can come to the Father without acknowledging Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior. So in closing, my mom is now on the other side of this chaotic world that has been created by men's rebelliousness. And the Word of God makes this promise for all of us who believe in the redemption given by Christ Jesus, who gave his life on the cross; that sacrificial love that no one else can accomplish. We must accept him and thus we have a turning away from sin, but a turning towards this God of love, our creator and maker. His promises are true and faithful. In the book of Revelation, chapter 21, verse 4, it reads,

Resurrection Hope And Final Blessing

Dina LaFargue Augustin 41:55

The Lord God will wipe away every tear from our eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. Yes, God gives us a plan. God gave us promises and he fulfills them. He has given us blessings from the beginning to the end, and ultimately we have this to look forward to upon his return. And it that is written in 1 Corinthians chapter 15. Behold, I tell you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall all be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting? First Thessalonians chapter four reads, but we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive who are left until the coming of the Lord will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive who are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. In summary, if someone dies now before the second coming of Christ, it is only the body that is corrupted, but their soul and spirit is in the presence of the Lord. And when he comes again, all those bodies will rise as new, incorruptible, imperishable, new bodies, new heavenly bodies touched by God. That is what we have to look forward to. But once dead, we are immediately present with the Lord. John chapter 11, verse 25, verse 26 reads, Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? He asked her that. Now I ask you, do you believe this and the scripture has written and asked? My mom did, and she now lives in peace, and I am at peace with her passing because I know she is in the Lord's presence right now, and I shall indeed be with her again, and we shall indeed all be together in the presence of God. There will be no more tears, no more pain, no more worries, no more fears or doubts, but we will be serving the Lord in new ways in his presence in all perfection. She has met her Lord face to face. She has met her risen Savior and now lives in the kingdom on the other side of this natural realm. Yes, we shall all meet again in him and through him. To God be the glory. Truth does drip! And the Lord Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me. And that's John chapter 14, verse 6. So in closing, be blessed, be a believer, be at peace, and be saved through his everlasting love. Truth drips. Amen.