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<div class="SSN_title">"PRECIOUS IN THE EYES OF THE LORD, IS THE DEATH OF HIS SAINTS"</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. GOD'S ESTIMATE OF THE CHRISTIANS DEATH, PRECIOUS.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. By many a strange epithet for death.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Death some fearful monster that snatches our loved ones from our midst.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. This signifies that a Christian's death is -</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Ordained & planned by God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. It is considered by Him, as precious.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. GOD'S REASON FOR THIS ESTIMATE.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. God loves the love and trust of His saints.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. It may not always be constant in life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Led astray into material realms.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Divided love.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. How we do trust in death?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Present bodies hold our spirit captive.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. For a while this is good.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Bodies are strong and healthy.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Mind is keen and alert.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Enjoy world about us.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Building up love and appreciation unto God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. After the passing of many years...</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Bodies begin to afford more pain than pleasure.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Becomes harder to get around to enjoy life.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Minds sometimes lose keeness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. No longer storing up new knowledge.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Beginning just to live in past, no challenge of new horizons.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Death gives release from this body of sin.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Not only release, but to saint the promise of a new body direct from God eternal in the heavens.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. Death of saints precious in God's eyes for it is the usher for the saints to bring them into His presence. "for to be absent in the body..."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Fullfillment of the hope of Saints.</div>
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