There is a preacher of the old school, but he speaks as boldly as ever.  He is not popular, though the world is his parish and he travels to every part of the globe and speaks in every language.  He visits the poor, calls upon the rich, preaches to people of every religion and no religion, and the subject of his sermon is always the same. 

He is an eloquent preacher, often stirring feelings which no other preacher could—bringing tears to the eyes of those who never weep.  His arguments none are able to refute nor is there any heart that has remained unmoved by the force of his appeals.  He shatters life with his message.  Most people hate him yet everyone fears him, his name?  DEATH.  Every tombstone is his pulpit.  Every newspaper prints his text and someday every one of us will be his sermon. 

It is poems like these that “drive people to drinkin.”  The reason being many do not like being reminded of the certainty of death.  They do not like considering the sobering truth that says, “We are all going to die someday; maybe today.”  The problem, however, is that this is an inescapable reality.   

Nowhere is this point more clearly made than in Scripture.  God goes to great lengths in His Word to drive this point home.  He wants us to experience this truth—He wants us to know that it does not matter who we are, how good or how bad, how wicked or how devout, how loved or how despised, death comes to us all.  Why?  So that we will know that life without Him is hopeless, but life with Him is glorious.

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