Death Is a Change of Company

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

A believer's last day is his best day! Death is a change

of company. In this world, the godliest man must live

with the wicked, and converse with the wicked, etc.;

and this is a part of their misery; it is their hell on this

side heaven. This stuck upon the heart of David: "Woe

to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the

tents of Kedar!" Psalm 120:5

I have read of a godly woman, who, being near death,

cried out, "O Lord, let me not go to hell where the wicked

are, for You know that I never loved their company while

in this life!"

"Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers,

so that I might leave my people and go away from them;

for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people!"

Jeremiah 9:2

And this was that which did vex and tear Lot's righteous

soul--"Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the

filthy lives of lawless men (for that righteous man, living

among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous

soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard." 2 Peter 2:7-8

Oh, but death is a change of company. A godly man does

but change the company of profane people, of vile people,

etc.--for the company of angels; and the company of weak

Christians--for the company of just men made perfect.

"Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does

what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names

are written in the Lamb's book of life." Revelation 21:27

"Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the

sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone

who loves and practices falsehood." Revelation 22:15