The Do you fear death? If so, you're not alone. People spend a lot of money and invest a lot of

effort in trying to slow the aging process and defeat this mortal enemy. While science hasn't found the answer,

the Bible teaches that we can live forever.

We'll find out how it's possible today on Truth for Life.

Alastair Begg is teaching from Genesis, Chapter 49.

There should be for us as believers, that about our approach to death in every dimension,

certain things that leave no doubt in the minds of the watching world that we understand that death is not oblivion, that it is not entry to a realm where no voice

can be heard and no smile be seen. Rather, for the believer, it is to be reunited with our loved ones.

It is an opportunity for the Christian to proclaim that the king of heaven has come down to

earth and made a radical difference. You see, in the issues of life and

in the issues of death, in the great crossroads of human experience, Christianity must make a

difference. Otherwise, we find ourselves on the wrong side of the equation, as Paul says,

if Christ be not risen,

then we are of all men most miserable, because we are propping up a dreadful mythology.

But he says Christ is indeed risen from the dead. Therefore, where and how we're buried,

says something. Now, if I may just unpack this a little further,

when Christianity speaks to this issue, it proclaims that God in Christ has come down from heaven in order that a number of things might happen. Why did Jesus Christ come? He came to deliver us from our sins.

He didn't come to have us set up camels and donkeys and stuff in the public square.

Don't get sidetracked by that stuff. He came to deliver us from our sins.

You see, the devil loves it when we start all that stuff,

using all our energy and all our time,

worrying about whether we have a nativity scene and a nativity scene there,

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