Death scoffs at our medicines.

Death scoffs at our surgeries and our diets and our vitamins and our health regimens and our exercise programs.

It takes babies.

It takes teenagers. It takes young adults. It takes midlifers. It takes babies. It takes teenagers.

It takes young adults.

It takes midlifers.

It takes old people.

It leaves carcasses everywhere.

Doctors die.

Politicians die.

Professors die.

Nobel Prize winners die.

Rich die. The poor die. the good die, the bad die,

farmers die, computer programmers die, preachers die, everybody dies, and because everybody dies,

everything we thought we had triumphed over goes with us.

So here's our pressing question. Is there an end to death's grip on our world?

In this episode of light and truth, John Piper explores Hebrews 2 1 to 9,

showing how Jesus reshapes our destiny and guarantees our reign in the world to come.

This sermon was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on May 19, 1996.

Now let's focus on verses 5 to 9.

Verse 5 begins with the word 4 or because to show that what is now coming is a reason or a basis or a foundation for what was just said. Now, what was

just said? Versus one to four in a nutshell, say, our salvation in Jesus Christ, God's final

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