Isaiah 25:8 (NIV) He will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.
Daniel 12:2 (NIV) Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
Matthew 25:46 (NIV) "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
Temporal concerns make fine bridges for the gospel, but ultimately the gospel is about your eternal destiny.—Larry Moyer, Leadership, Vol. 11, no. 1.
Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "GOSPEL".
