Short story: A sermon on life, and control of death

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Reverend Ben Bender, was giving his weekly Sunday sermon, and his topic this week, was "Life and death." Let's listen in to what he said: He started with this Bible quote: "'No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command, I received from my Father.'" "This verse is from the New Testament gospel, of Saint John, chapter 10, verse 18." "It is Jesus Christ speaking here." "Before this verse, we have this verse:" "'The reason that the Father loves me is that I lay down my life in order to take it up again.'" "Now, we have some spiritual masters who claim that they know the time of their own deaths, and that they can die, when they want to die too." "This is all just bigheadedness, though, as only God has the power to end anyone's life, and he will call their soul home, when he wants to do so, and when he wants to end that life here, in this side of life." "No soul, connected to a physical body, can end their own life, unless God has given the go-ahead for this to happen." "Love creates the energy of life alive in you, which allows you to stay alive when that love remains active, moving between God, your soul, and your mind, or physical body." "Love, moving like this, creates a field of consciousness that gives you awareness within this life too, which all three of these aspects of you can use, your mind, soul, and body, can all be aware, and increase in awareness consciously so, from connecting to an even greater field of consciousness, by loving more perfectly and strongly, and love is the purpose of life, and understanding and growing in that perfection of that love, which happens congruously, as love and consciousness, grow together upwardly awarely, in your life." "Now, that was a large chunk to take into your mind, and so I will finish my sermon there, for today, but with this last added quote." '"Life has to end, love doesn't."' "That's a quote from the American writer, Mitch Albom." "God is responsible for creating both life, and love, and so we have to live our lives from that love to honour, and to do justice to, his creation of us, as life." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com The Pastor talked of life, death, and love.