Hawaii 7 – The Greatest Hope

Extracted Verses and Quotes from the Sermon

Biblical Verses

1 Thessalonians 4:13

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

Revelation 1:17-18

Do not be afraid. I am the first and the last and the living one. I was dead, and see, I’m alive forever and ever, and I have the keys of death and of hell.

Jeremiah 1:5

Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. And before you were born, I consecrated you. I appointed you a prophet to the nation.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.

Genesis 2:7

The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living being.

Genesis 2:15-17

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. And the Lord commanded the man, you may freely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day you eat of it, you shall die.

Genesis 3:1-4

The serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say you shall not eat from any tree in the garden?” The woman said, “We may eat of the fruits of the trees in the garden, but God said, you shall not eat of the tree in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it or you shall die.” The serpent said to the woman, “You will not die.”

Ezekiel 18:20

The soul that sinneth, it shall die.

1 Timothy 1:17

To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

Psalm 90:12

So, teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then the dust returns to the earth as it was and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6

The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no more reward. Even the memory of them is lost. Their love and their hates and their envy have already perished. Never again will they have any share in all that happens under the sun.

Psalm 146:4

When their breath departs, they return to God, their body returns to the earth, and on that very day their plans perish.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any that go down into silence.

John 11:11-14

Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I’m going there to awaken him. Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought he was referring merely to sleep.

John 11:23-27

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live. And everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.”

John 11:43-44

Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” And the dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him and let him go.”

Romans 1:4

He was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.

Luke 23:42-43

Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Jesus replied, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

John 20:17

Jesus said to Mary Magdalene, “Do not hold on to me because I have not yet ascended to the Father.”

1 Corinthians 15:51-53

Behold, I will tell you a mystery. We will not all die, but we will 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 will be changed. For this imperishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

Revelation 20:12-15

I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, the book of life. The dead were judged according to their work as recorded in the books. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. Anyone whose name was not found in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 20:6

Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. Over these the second death has no power. But they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

Revelation 21:1-4

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for a husband. I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them, and they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more. Mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the former things have passed away.”

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so 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 died. We declare to you by the word of the Lord that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died. For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel’s call, with the sound of God’s trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. And we