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Acts 20:7-10
7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul spoke to the people and, because he intended to leave the next day, kept on talking until midnight.
8 There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting.
9 Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead.
10 Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "He's alive!"
Eutychus decided to take the window seat that day. May be he was exhausted and was looking for some fresh air, I suppose. May be he had a bad day. And it was the day for Paul also, he went on past midnight. Eutychus fell into a deep sleep and from the third floor also. Good that Paul was there, otherwise they would be singing "when the roll is called up yonder" instead of a communion song.
The sting of death is taken away. Death is no scarier. Jesus destroyed it on the cross, he overcame death. Death has become a victory sign for those who are in Christ. He saved us from death and eternal loss.
Previously death was considered as the dying down of a lamp. But now death is like the lamp puts its flame down happily because the day light has come. Let's be comforted like never before.
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