{"id":3152,"date":"2026-07-29T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:18:08","slug":"dead-or-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"Dead or Alive?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>DEAD OR ALIVE?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>JOHN 5:25-28&nbsp;&nbsp; 25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; 27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. 28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 THESSALONIANS 4:16-18&nbsp;&nbsp; 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 CORINTHIANS 15:51-52&nbsp;&nbsp; 51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 CORINTHIANS 15:22,26&nbsp;&nbsp; 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HEBREWS 2:14&nbsp;&nbsp; Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ROMANS 6:1-11&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: 9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. 10 For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. 11 Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>JOHN 5:24&nbsp;&nbsp; Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>JOHN 14:6&nbsp;&nbsp; Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEAD OR ALIVE? JOHN 5:25-28&nbsp;&nbsp; 25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. 26 For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=3152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dead or Alive?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todaysbibleverse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}