Why does everybody die?
Part three.
Hi, welcome to today's little lesson.
Thank you so much for joining me.
We're going to talk one last time on this
little lesson about death and why we die.
And in our first two little lessons on this
pillar topic, and if you didn't see those,
please find them and watch them because we
laid a foundation in those two little lessons.
But we talked about how death is really actually
not part of God's original plan, and that's
not obvious from just reading the Bible, but
that's obvious from just observation.
When you look at how amazing the human body
is and how it does so well for so long, generally
speaking, before ultimately it starts, it
hits the peak, and starts going downhill,
and ultimately succumbs to something that
causes its demise.
But if you just think about it, you realize
obviously, that wasn't how God designed it
to be.
God designed the human body to thrive, and
grow, and develop, and get better and better,
and improve, and so forth.
That's what happens for the first 20 years.
And it's astoundingly amazing.
And we surely don't want to conclude that
God just didn't have it in Him to make a better
machine, created in his image.
We know that the Bible tells us, one day we're
all going to get new bodies that will never
die.
So God's able to make indestructible, incorruptible
bodies.
He's going to do it one day.
And actually he did it already.
He does it for every single person just about
who's born into this world for quite some
time, at least until they die, they're indestructible.
So we've talked about how Romans 5:12 says,
just as sin entered the world through one
man and death through sin.
So death spread to all men because all sin.
And so the reason that we all die physically
is because of our sin.
Now, one very interesting facet of all, this
is the fact that Jesus never sinned.
And so he's a perfect example of a person
like everybody else who had an indestructible
body, but that it became destructive because
he took upon him our sin.
Yeah.
Now, think about this.
You can read in the gospel of John, I think
it's like eight times, the phrase, Jesus's
time had not come yet because there were times
when his enemies plotted to kill him and even
tried to kill him.
Remember in his hometown of Nazareth, they
grabbed him and they were going to throw him
off of the cliff.
They were so upset at his sermon.
I've never had anyone that upset at any of
my service.
So I guess, I should feel blessed.
But Jesus escaped.
Now, how did he do that?
Did he say, "Guys, let's just take a restroom
break here and resume this in 10 minutes?"
That's not how he did it.
God rescued him.
Probably, he just zoop disappeared.
And they were holding him at one moment and
the next moment they didn't have him.
How else could it have happened?
You see, so God continued to rescue Jesus.
He was indestructible because of God's protection,
which God can protect anybody and make them
indestructible.
And Jesus didn't die in his sickness or in
his disease.
And he would have lived forever, except for
one thing.
He took upon him, our sin and therefore the
penalty was death and he died on the cross
at Calvary.
So that's an interesting facet of the whole
why do we die question.
So let's talk about how we're going to die.
Now, I'm 61 as I'm recording this.
And I'm just finding that I don't have quite
the strength, and quite the stamina that I
had when I was 20, or when I was 30, or even
when I was 40.
And I'm in my senior years.
Now, my hair is turning gray and things just
aren't working as well.
When my 40s, I had to start wearing glasses
to read and so forth.
And then I had to have them to see from far
away and the body is just wearing out.
Well, Paul said that, although the outer man
decay, he said, or is decaying, the inner
man is being renewed day by day.
So when you look at me and when you look at
yourself in the mirror, you're just seeing
the body.
You're not seeing the real person, the spirit
of which we can say this, uses that body as
a container.
When that container is no longer fit, when
it doesn't operate any longer, when it's dead,
the spirit evacuates.
James said that just as the body without the
spirit is dead.
So he said, "Faith without works is dead."
So he described death as when the spirit evacuates
the body.
So the new creation, David, the one who's
been born again, the one that has the Holy
spirit, though the one that, "God is my father,"
he's being renewed day by day.
He's not getting any older because he's going
to live forever.
The only thing that's going to die about me
and if you believe in Jesus, is your body,
your outward man, the Bible speaks of him
that way.
Your outward person, but inward person is
being renewed day by day, not getting any
older.
Nice to know, isn't it?
Especially if you're getting older.
So I've actually looked at aging and the decline
that occurs in all of our bodies as really
a blessing, and that God is sending us a little
reminder every time we look in the mirror
and every time we get out of a chair and it's
a little bit tougher because you're not, you're
a little bit creaky.
He's reminding you, "Hey, you're not going
to live forever.
You're going to be evacuating that body and
you're going to be standing before me, get
ready."
So every little wrinkle on your face, don't
be upset about that, be thinking, "Hey God
teach me as Moses pray, teach us to number
our days that we might present unto you a
heart of wisdom."
Yeah.
People who live like they're never going to
die are very foolish people.
People who think about death and what lies
beyond death are very wise because they're
more likely to get ready for it and think
about what they're going to be saying to God.
Hopefully, you'll be able to say I believed
in Jesus and I was born again.
And I've been living for you and serving for
you because I believe in Jesus.
Jesus said in John 11:25, "I'm the resurrection
and the life.
He who believes in me, will live even if he
dies."
Now, he didn't say, "He who believes that
I am a historical person, believes that I
walked the earth, believes that I lived, no,
no, no, no, believes in me."
Jesus said, "Well, who is Jesus?"
He's the son of God and many other things.
But that's the primary thing is he's God.
And if you believe he's God and you repent
of your sins and you begin to follow him,
and get to know him, and strive to obey him,
and do his will.
So ultimately, something's going to succumb
in our body and the heart's going to stop
beating, the lungs are going to stop breathing,
and so forth.
But I am a firm believer that God's children
shouldn't have to endure long protracted,
debilitating sicknesses and diseases in light
of the fact that there's so many promises
in the Bible regarding healing.
Now, I realize that something in our bodies
has to not function right for the body to
ultimately die.
So you're not going to stop that.
Okay?
But I have known of lots of people who lived
out to a ripe old age and then living out
their life again, not like a 20 year old,
and then one day poof, their spirit has left
their body.
And yeah, they said it was a heart attack
or they said it was a stroke, whatever, but
it was not long and protracted because God's
good.
And there's so many good promises that we
have for that.
So that's what I'm believing anyways.
Okay.
So if you don't want to believe it, that's
fine.
I still love you.
But God blesses people who have faith and
there's plenty of scripture for that.
Okay.
Well, I'm out of time for this little lesson.
Thanks so much for joining me as we talk about
death.
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Until next time.
And the Lord bless you.
