1. What is man's condition in death? “His sons come to honor, and HE KNOWETH IT NOT; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.” Job 14:21. “For the living know that they shall die; but THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANYTHING. . . . Also their LOVE, and their HATRED, and their ENVY, IS NOW PERISHED.” Eccl. 9:5, 6. “Let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that HE IS BOTH DEAD AND BURIED, and his sepulcher is with us unto this day.” Acts 2:29. 2. Inasmuch as the descendants of Adam were not responsible for his sin and the death which came in consequence, how does God save them from it? “For as in Adam ALL die, even so in Christ shall ALL be made alive.” 1 Cor. 15:22. 3. But as Adam's nature was not originally sinful, and ours is, because inherited from sinful parents, how does God meet our need, that we may not die for our own sins? “Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.” Rom. 5:20. 4. In what way is grace manifested that we may live again? “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, but have EVERLASTING LIFE.” John 3:16. 5. Do men have eternal life, connection with God, by nature? Is there hope apart from Christ? “That at that time ye were WITHOUT CHRIST, being ALIENS from the commonwealth of ISRAEL, and STRANGERS from the covenants of PROMISE, HAVING NO HOPE, and WITHOUT GOD in the world.” Eph. 2:12. “Having the understanding darkened, being ALIENATED FROM THE LIFE OF GOD.” Eph. 4:18. 6. But what do those who are in Christ possess? “And this is the record, that God HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son HATH LIFE; and he that hath NOT the Son of God hath NOT life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that YE MAY KNOW THAT YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.” 1 John 5:11-13. 7. How, then, will the dead live, and how many classes will there be? “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE, and shall come forth; THEY that have done GOOD, unto the RESURRECTION OF LIFE; and THEY that have done EVIL, unto the RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION.” John 5:28, 29. “There shall be a resurrection of the dead, BOTH OF THE JUST AND UNJUST.” Acts 24:15. 8. Wherein, then, does the hope concerning the dead rest? “Now if Christ be preached that He rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if THERE BE NO RESURRECTION of the dead, THEN IS CHRIST NOT RISEN: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and YOUR FAITH IS ALSO VAIN. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ: whom He raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. For IF THE DEAD RISE NOT, then is NOT CHRIST RAISED: and IF CHRIST be NOT raised, your FAITH IS VAIN; ye are yet in your sins. Then THEY ALSO WHICH are fallen asleep in Christ ARE PERISHED.” 1 Cor. 15:12-18. 9. When will the resurrection of the righteous occur? “Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, AT THE LAST TRUMP: for the trumpet shall sound, and the DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, and we shall be changed. For this CORRUPTIBLE must put on INCORRUPTION, and this MORTAL must put on IMMORTALITY. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this MORTAL shall have put on IMMORTALITY, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.” 1 Cor. 15:51-54. 10. In connection with what great event will the trumpet sound? “For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the COMING OF THE LORD shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND from heaven with a SHOUT, with the VOICE of the ARCHANGEL, and with the TRUMP OF GOD: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thess. 4:15-17. 11. Who only possesses immortality by nature? “The blessed and only Potentate, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords; WHO ONLY HATH IMMORTALITY.” 1 Tim. 6:15, 16. “Now unto the King ETERNAL, IMMORTAL, invisible, the only wise God.” 1 Tim. 1:17. NOTE.—Everywhere in the Scriptures man is spoken of as mortal, subject to sin and death. He is vain man with a vain life, which is as a vapor, a cloud, his days swifter than a weaver's shuttle, likened to things the most transitory and fleeting, everywhere demonstrating the truth of the Word of God, “THE SOUL THAT SINNETH, IT SHALL DIE.” Eze. 18:4, 20. His only hope of living is the resurrection through Christ.