Untimely death: Just sharing

A good and concerned friend sent me this through e-mail and i also want to impart to everybody.

DEATH. Many people (or should i say, most people) fear death. But Christians should not! Because if we profess to be Christ-followers then we should believe that He conquered death.

UNTIMELY death is a dreadful thing. It means something is wrong; there's a breach in the life 'contract' that it was shortened and terminated.

The wise King Solomon says in Proverbs 11:28 that, "A life devoted to (worldly) things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree." Moreover, apostle Paul pointed out in his epistles to the Galatians (6:7) and to us that we "be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap."

Through the decades, some people tried and mocked God...and here's what happened:

JOHN LENNON (Singer) - Some years before during his interview with an American magazine, he said: "Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that. I am certain. Jesus was OK, but His subjects were too simple, today we are more famous than Him." 1966
After saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, Lennon was shot six times.

TANCREDO NEVES (President of Brazil) - During the presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from presidency.
Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made president, and then he died.

CAZUZA (Bisexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet) - During a show in Canecio (Rio de Janeiro), while smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said, "God, that's for you."
He died at the age of 32 of lung cancer in a horrible manner.

THE MAN WHO BUILT THE TITANIC - After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe the vessel would be. With a sarcastic tone, he said, "Not even God can sink it."
The result? I think you all know the tragic end of that famous ship.

MARILYN MONROE (Actress) - Billy Graham visited her during a show presentation telling her that the spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the preacher had to say, she muttered, "I don't need your Jesus."
A week later, she was found dead in her apartment.

BON SCOTT (Singer, ex-vocalist of AC/DC) - On one of his 1979 songs, he sang: "Don't stop me; I'm going down all the way, down the highway to hell..."
On February 19, 1980, he was found dead - choked by his own vomit.

CAMPINAS in 2005 - In Campinas, Brazil, a group of drunk friends went to pick up a friend. The mother accompanied the young lady to the car and was so worried on the drunkenness of the group. Holding her daughter's hand (who was already seated in the car), she blessed her: "My daughter, go with God and may He protect you." The youngster replied: "Only if He (God) travels in the trunk, 'cause inside here, it's already full."
Hours later, news came by that they met a fatal accident - everybody died. The car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the trunk was intact. The police said there was no way the trunk could have remained intact. To their surprise,  inside the trunk was a crate of eggs - none was broken.

CHRISTINE HEWITT (Jamaican journalist and entertainer) - Having said that the Bible (Word of God) is the worst book ever written, she was found burned beyond recognition in her motor vehicle in June 2006.

"Many more important people have forgotten that there is no other name that was given so much authority as the mighty name of Jesus. Many have died but only Him died and rose again, and He is still alive!"

indeed, we reap what we sow.