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Following is an excerpt of "A Question Every Man Must Answer" by Steve Wagers added on 10/25/2007.
A Question Every Man Must Answer
Funeral Sermon
Pastor Steve N. Wagers
Job 14: 14

During an impassioned sermon on death and facing judgment, the visiting evangelist said forcefully, "every member of this church is going to die and face judgment." Early on in the sermon he noticed a gentleman smiling on the front row.

The minister kept pushing his theme, "Every member of this church is going to die." The guy smiled even more while everyone else in the congregation had a very somber look. In an effort to get through to the guy, the preacher repeated it several more times forcefully, "EACH MEMBER OF THIS CHURCH IS GOING TO DIE."

Each time the phrase was repeated, the man smiled more. This really got the preacher wound up and he preached even harder. The man still smiled. The preacher finally walked down off the platform to stand just in front of the smiling man and shouted, "I SAID EACH MEMBER OF THIS CHURCH IS GOING TO DIE."

At the end of the service the man was smiling from ear to ear. While everyone else was looking pretty grim from the prospect of entering eternity, the man seemed quite happy. After the service the preacher jumped down off the platform and worked through the crowd to find the man. Pulling him aside, the preacher said, "I don't get it. Every time I said, 'Every member of this church is going to die,' you were laughing. I want to know why you did that?"

The man looked the preacher square in the eye and said confidently, "Because, I'm not a member of this church."

One of the Bible's greatest forms of communication is by means of questions.

Cain--"Am I my brother's keeper?"
Abraham--"Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?"
Moses--"Who is on the Lord's side?"
David—"Is there not a cause?"
Malachi—"Will a man rob God?"
James—"What is your life?"
Jesus—"What shall it profit a man?"

One of the greatest questions is asked in Job 14: 14, "If a man die shall he live again?" That is a great question because it is a question everyone must answer. Everyone faces the question, and everyone must find an answer to the question, "If a man dies shall he live again?"

It leads us to consider:
1. The FACT of Death that LIES BEFORE Us!

Throughout his discussions with God Job asked many great questions.
"Why did God bring man into being?"
Can a man really know God?"
Does God really care about man?"
Does a good man have a chance with God any more than an evil man?"

All of those are great questions, but none greater than the question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" It is a great question because it brings into view the fact of death that lies before every one of us.

I'm sure most of you have heard the expression, "The Dead Man's Hand." It originated on August 2, 1876. Wild Bill Hickock sat down at a poker table in Saloon #10, in Deadwood, South Dakota, and began to play his hand.

Jack McCall entered the saloon, pulled out a gun, and shot Wild Bill Hickock in the bac ...

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