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Greg Laurie Podcast

Keanu Reeves’ Thoughts on Mortality, and My Message to Him

Greg Laurie Podcast

Greg Laurie

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Pastor Greg Laurie gives his take on Keanu Reeves’ recent commentary about death.

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0:00.0

Hey there, thanks for listening to the Greg Lorry Podcast, a ministry supported by Harvest Partners.

0:06.0

I'm Greg Lorry encouraging you.

0:08.0

If you want to find out more about Harvest Ministries and learn more about how to become a harvest partner, just go to

0:14.2

harvest.org. Keanu Reeves is one of the most successful actors in

0:18.7

Hollywood. Some estimate his fortune to be beyond $300 million with films like The Matrix series or

0:26.7

the John Wick series.

0:28.6

But recently he was being interviewed and he had some interesting reflections on the topic that a lot of people don't want to talk about.

0:36.3

Ken Reeves said this about his own mortality and death.

0:40.4

I'm 59 so I'm thinking about death all the time still very young I'm like I'm I'm young old I mean I think thinking about death is good

0:49.2

Hopefully it sensitizes to an appreciation of the breath we have and the relationships that we have the

0:56.8

potential to have.

0:58.6

Those are some great statements and I think he's very smart to be thinking about this at this stage of his life.

1:04.4

You know, in days gone by, they would write a certain phrase over financial documents.

1:10.6

In other words, over your bank account, how much money you had, they would write these words,

1:15.0

Memento Morai, which translated means think of death.

1:20.0

It wasn't meant to do in a morbid way, but in a reflective way. In other words, hey all this money you have,

1:26.0

think of death. Life is going to win. You know the statistics on death are quite impressive.

1:31.7

One out of every one person's will die.

1:34.1

So the real question is not if we're going to die,

1:37.6

or rather when are we going to die?

1:39.6

And I think even the more important question is,

1:42.3

what happens beyond the grave.

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