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  DEATH BRINGS THE SOUL TO A STATE OF ETERNAL REST
  by Thomas Brooks
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Summary: Death brings a believer to a state of eternal rest, making
their last day their best day.

Topics: "Eternal Rest", "The Hope of Death"
Scripture References: Psalm 116:15, Isaiah 57:2, Matthew 11:28, John 14:2-3, Romans 8:18, 2 Corinthians 5:8, Philippians 1:21, 1 Thessalonians 4:14, Hebrews 4:9-10, Revelation 14:13

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Thomas Brooks emphasizes that a believer's last day is their best day,
as death brings the soul into a state of eternal rest. He explains that
death provides relief from the troubles of labor, afflictions,
persecutions, temptations, sin, and sorrow. While in this world, even
the godliest believers experience a lack of both temporal and spiritual
mercies, but death leads to unchangeable rest and everlasting enjoyment
of God. Brooks describes death as a coronation and marriage day for
believers, marking their entrance into paradise and the joy of the Lord.
Ultimately, he asserts that the day of a believer's death is far better
than the day of their birth.

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("A Believer's Last Day, His Best Day")

Revelation 14:13, "Blessed are the dead who die in

the Lord." Why? "They will rest from their labor."

A believer's last day is his best day! Death brings

the soul to a state of eternal rest. Death is . . .

a rest from the trouble of our labors,

a rest from afflictions,

a rest from persecutions,

a rest from temptation,

a rest from sin, and

a rest from sorrow.

Now while we are here in this present world, the soul

is in a perpetual agitation. The godliest man in the world,

who is highest and clearest in his enjoyments of God--

either lacks some temporal mercy or spiritual mercy--and

will do so until his soul is swallowed up in the everlasting

enjoyments of God!

Death brings a man to an unchangeable rest!

Death is a believer's coronation-day, it is his

marriage-day. Death is an eternal rest . . .

from sin,

from sorrow,

from afflictions,

from temptations.

Death to a believer is an entrance into

paradise--into the joy of his Lord.

A believer's dying-day is his best day. The day

of his death, is better than the day of his birth.

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