Christianity is very simple. It is about having Christ. And in not having Christ, you have nothing.

And in having Christ, you have everything.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Today, John's going to mix things up a bit. Instead of walking you verse by verse through a passage of Scripture,

he's going to field questions from his home church about the Bible and the Christian life,

maybe deal with a question you have wrestled with.

Questions like, when people are regenerated, do they keep any part of their old sin nature?

And if you can't see God and live, how did Isaiah survive after he saw God?

And more. So let's get started. You're going to hear a member of Grace Community Church ask a question,

and then John will respond.

In the Bible, when Jesus raised slasers from the dead, I've been reading about that.

And then Hebrews 9, 27, I saw that it says, and in as much as it is appointed for men to die once,

and after this comes judgment, how could we explain that? Because slasers was dead,

but then had been raised from the dead. So that would mean that it had to die a second time.

Yes, good question, Todd. And the question he's asking is, how can it be that the Hebrews 9, 27 passage

is all inclusive? It is appointed unto men once to die. If Lazarus, in fact, died twice.

I'll ask you a question, Todd. What about Enoch? He didn't die at all.

So you've got at least one person who never died at all, and you've got Lazarus who died twice,

and you have not only Lazarus, but a lot of other folks who died twice. In fact, anyone who was

ever raised from the dead died twice. When Jesus died on the cross, it says the graves were open,

and all kinds of Old Testament saints came back to life, so they had to die twice.

Then you have the people that Jesus raised, the daughter of Jairus, and the son of the widow of

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