IMMORTALITY FOUND IN CHRIST

         "...seek for glory and honor and immortality" Romans 2:7
                                Edward Proffitt Th.D.

The Old Testament introduces us to the Pharaohs. They reigned at
the height of Egypt's' glory and they sought immortality.  It's a
common urge to want immortality.  Youth in our cities scrawl their
graffiti on walls, the Pharaohs chose temples and tombs. Pharaohs,
and in the end, they were introduced to death and a grave. Today,
we see remains of Pharaohs; only historical ruins.

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Succeeding Pharaohs defaced previous built tombs, building over them,
or used them as filler for their building programs. In the sepulchral
tomb of Ramses II lies broken fragments of a giant statue of the king
which once stood 55 feet high and weighed over a 1,000 tons. Inscribed
on the shattered image are the words: "My name is Ozymandias, king of
kings; look on my works, yet mighty and despair!" The sands have long
since swallowed up his kingship and might.

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"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is
vanity" (Ecclesiastes 1:2).  The dictionary defines vanity as
"Emptiness, something that is valueless, inflated pride, conceit".
History deals with the conceit aspect of vanity and has proven that
a vain life is a wasted life.  "Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit?
There is more hope of a fool than of him" (Proverbs 26:12).

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The pyramid tombs were an attempt to give kings the immortality they
sought by protecting the body and wealth under tons of stone -- it
didn't work.  Only one has come down intact in recent times, that of
King Tut.  One mummy, that of Ramses VI, was found hacked to pieces,
probably with the thought of keeping him from reigning in the after
life.  This tells us that you do not take a framed certificate, title,
membership, honor, or power, with you.  

 

We face our Maker for what
we are, not for what we may think we are.  Every best dressed person
checks out as checked in -- stripped! Job summed it up "Naked came I
out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return" (Job 1:21).

The only historical tomb that is different was a borrowed tomb.  He
that borrowed it said "The Son of man must suffer many things, and
be rejected...be killed, and after three days rise again" (Mark 8:31).
Pharaohs found no rest, but we can; it is found in Jesus Christ.