A person may be decaying on the outside.

If they're a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ,

their inner self is very much alive.

Paul tells the Colossians in chapter three,

your life is hidden with Christ in God.

The ravages of disease and injury,

touching body and mind cannot touch that life.

When disease and illness touch someone we care about,

the grief is very real and very deep.

Growing up as an unbeliever, as death took people close to me,

I had no answers.

But as Christians, we understand death.

We're united to the one who has overcome the grave

and we have the Word of God to help us respond to suffering well.

I'm Nathan W. Bingham and you're joining us for the Tuesday edition

of Renewing Your Mind.

Guy Waters helped us yesterday to see how we as Christians may grieve.

But how do we help those who are in the midst of their own grief

or are dying themselves?

Here's Dr. Waters with some practical advice.

We're thinking now about how to encounter death biblically

and we saw from 1 Thessalonians chapter four in our last lecture

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