WHEN DOES A MAN REST IN PEACE AFTER DEATH
TOPIC: WHEN DOES A MAN REST IN PEACE AFTER DEATH? Introduction: The slogan "Rest in Peace" shortened for "RIP" is commonly seen on burial posters, brochures, bill boards and heard when people pray for the dead or at funerals. Unfortunately most of the people may already be "wasting in pieces" while we think they are resting in peace. This teaching will help us/you understand the worthlessness of such slogan and understand how someone is rest in peace after death. To rest in peace means to be comforted, to be in Abraham's bosom at death otherwise called paradise- Lk. 16:22. It is a transition from the challenges of this troublesome world into peace in the abode of the departed one. Jesus Christ painted the picture of what it really means to rest in peace. He illustrated this with the event of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16. Both men died and ended their journey in different parts of the same environment. Both were seeing each other, could comm