- Epitaphs are an old custom.
- Hebrews 11:4 - “Able being dead yet speaketh”
- Let us consider some good and bad epitaphs
- Good epitaphs
- Dorcas – Acts 9:36-39 - “Full of good works and alms deeds”
- Enoch – Genesis 5:22-24 - “Walked with God”
- Noah – Genesis 6:9 - “A just man and upright in his generation … walked with God”
- Abraham – James 2:23 - “The friend of God”
- Apostle Paul – II Timothy 4:7 - “Fought the good fight, finished the course, kept the faith”
- Jesus Christ
- Hebrews 4:15 - “Was without sin”
- Acts 10:38 - “Went about doing good”
- Every New Testament Christian – Revelation 14:13 - “Blessed … died in the Lord … at rest from their labors.”
- Bad epitaphs
- Judas Iscariot – John 18:2 - “One that betrayed the Lord Jesus Christ”
- Demas – II Timothy 4:10 - “Forsook Paul … a lower of this present world”
- A certain rich man – Luke 12:20-21 - “Layed up treasure for self, not rich toward God”
- Felix – Acts 24:24-25 - “A procrastinator”
- Any unfaithful individual
- I Timothy 1:19 - “Made shipwreck of the faith”
- Revelation 2:4 - “Left first love”
- I John 2:3; Revelation 22:14 - “Did not keep God’s commandments”
- James 4:4 - “A friend of the world”
- Matthew 10:22 - “Did not endure to the end”
- II Peter 2:20 - “Last state worse than the first”
- Hebrews 6:4-6 - “Impossible to renew them again unto repentance”
- Every unbeliever – Luke 16:25 - “Son … remember”
- Every epitaph might not be true. Acts 24:5-6; 17:6 but … Hebrews 9:27; I Corinthians 4:2-5
- Good epitaphs
RB
March 09, 2014
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