How Do I Face the Death of Others?
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Christians, no less than anyone else, must bear the grief of losing loved ones. Yet we do not grieve as the rest of the world does. Today, Guy Waters gives us five encouragements from Scripture that help us grieve in faith.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
Guy Waters is the James M. Baird Jr. Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS, and a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | What's forbidden is not grieving. What's forbidden is grieving as though we had no hope. |
| 0:06.9 | As with everything in our lives, the gospel transforms our every experience of our humanity. |
| 0:15.0 | And that's true when it comes to grief. |
| 0:28.4 | Although we don't think about it often, death is a reality. And as long as the Lord tarries, throughout our lifetimes, we will have likely experienced the loss of many friends and loved |
| 0:34.7 | ones. So how should we grieve? Because as you just heard Guy Waters say, |
| 0:39.6 | it's not grieving that is forbidden in the Bible. It's grieving without hope. I'm glad you're |
| 0:45.6 | with us for renewing your mind on this Monday. I'm Nathan W. Bingham. Until Thursday, you'll hear |
| 0:51.9 | messages from Guy Water's series Facing the Last Enemy. |
| 0:56.0 | This series has a hardcover companion book, and we'll send you that book, as well as unlocking |
| 1:00.9 | digital access to all 12 messages and the study guide in the free Ligonier app when you give a donation |
| 1:07.3 | at renewingyourmind.org or when you call us at 800-435-4343. |
| 1:14.1 | Dr. Waters is a New Testament professor at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. |
| 1:20.8 | And over the first five messages in this series, he helps define death biblically. |
| 1:26.4 | Where we jump in today, he begins to explore how you and I encounter death. |
| 1:30.9 | So how should we grieve? |
| 1:32.3 | And how should we respond when an unbeliever dies? |
| 1:35.8 | Here's Guy Waters to help us think about these questions biblically |
| 1:39.3 | and to offer five encouragements from the Apostle Paul. |
| 1:45.5 | I want to begin in this session by thinking about how we face the death of others. |
| 1:53.8 | We'll start with some general guidance from the scripture, but I want to turn to one |
| 2:00.6 | passage in particular, and that is First |
| 2:04.1 | Thessalonians chapter four. We'll turn there momentarily. One of the very earliest pastoral |
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