WHAT IS DEATH?

Scripture Reading: Job 14:12-15
Memory Verse: Psalm 13:3
Introduction: What is death? Is it a life in a subterranean cavern? Is it torment by devils with whips and instruments of torture? What is it?
1. How does the Bible represent death? 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14.
2. Where do the dead sleep? Daniel 12:2.
3. How long will the dead sleep in the dust of the ground? Job 14:12.
4. As a dead man, what does Job say he will wait for? v 14.
5. While dead, where is the person? Job 17:13.
6. While dead, what does he know of his relatives? Job 14:21.
7. When a man dies, what else also dies? Psalm 146:4.
8. Do the dead know anything at all? Ecclesiastes 9:5-6.
9. Can a dead man praise God? Psalm 115:17, Psalm 6:5.

Conclusion: The Bible speaks of death as sleep. The Saints will sleep until the second coming of Jesus Christ. As Job said, “so man lieth
down, and riseth not; till the heavens be no more.” So, while the dead are in the grave, they have no life, no thoughts, no love, nothing. The
bodies of the Saints will decay, until we are resurrected.