Though it is not fully comprehensible to our little mind, an infinite God is infinitely

inexhaustible in his love and wisdom and power, which we can spend a whole eternity discovering

and probing into and growing and enjoying and applying to daily life on the new earth in the

age to come.

What is this remarkable eternal life that Jesus gives us?

The answer to that question is what John Piper explores from John 10, 22 to 30, in this

episode of Light and Truth.

This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on February 28, 1982.

Since coming to Bethlehem in July 1980, I have averaged about one funeral per month.

That's a lot of dying in a church.

One of the things that I regret is that all of you can't share that experience with me.

I know that some of you would not live the way you do if once a month you had to spend

three or four hours writing about the meaning of death for someone else.

And if you had to think and pray what you would say to the family, and if you had once a

month to stand beside that empty hole and that big pile of dirt so nicely covered with

green rugs to try to make those last minutes of the decisive, severing, significant for

the bereaved makes a big difference in a person's life.

And I count it as a remarkable gift, this ministry of funerals, and I wish people could

share it not because it's hard, and I want to unload it, but because it's a gift and

I would that everybody could benefit from it.

Dying is a termination that causes lots of grief, it ends things we enjoy very much.

It's severed from people we love very much, and for many people it is a grand unknown,

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