Job 13:1-5 (NIV) “My eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it. 2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. 3 But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God. 4 You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you! 5 If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom. Job 14:1-2, 5 (NIV) “Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble. 2 They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure. 5 A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed. Job 14:7, 10 (NIV) 7 “At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail. 10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more. Job 14:14 (NIV) 14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come. 2 Timothy 1:9-10 (NLT) 9 For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to show us his grace through Christ Jesus. 10 And now he has made all of this plain to us by the appearing of Christ Jesus, our Savior. He broke the power of death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the Good News. 1. Our life has purpose 1 Corinthians 15:16-19 (NIV) 16 For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. 18 Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. 19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied. 2. There is hope in our suffering 1 Thessalonians 4:13 (NIV) 13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 3. We have victory over death John 11:25 (NIV) 25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” Baptism Interest Form