What the scripture means about somebody dying in their sins is that it describes that person

who up until the very last moment of their lives, until they pass over the line, they refuse,

they absolutely refuse to submit to their creator.

When a public figure or a celebrity dies, one of the first questions we ask is,

how did they die? But that's not the question we should be asking.

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham. And thanks for joining us today for renewing your mind.

When the Bible speaks of death, it's less concerned with the manner of death

and more concerned with whether or not the individual died in sin or died in faith.

When you die, which will be true for you?

This series, surprised by suffering, was recorded to help you answer that question

and prepare to die well and to die in faith. You can request it at renewingyourmind.org

or if you live outside of the U.S. or Canada at renewingyourmind.org slash global.

Well, here's R.C. Sprawl with a message titled, Dying in Faith.

It's a cliche in our culture and in our language that there are two things that we cannot avoid,

and they are death and taxes.

But I think all of us know certain people who have been clever enough or astute enough

or crooked enough to avoid or evade taxes.

But none of us has been able to find a method yet to evade death.

That's one thing that we understand as adults that we are going to die if the Lord tarries.

And so the question is not if we shall die.

And at this point I'm not even going to address the question why we will die.

We've already looked at that a little bit.

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