The devil's design for death is not only to destroy your body, but to destroy your soul.

To destroy your holiness, to destroy your goodness, to destroy your Christ's likeness.

You know what the devil wants death to do to you.

It wants it to make you despairing and bitter and self-pitying and angry.

Angry to everybody.

Angry at the nurses.

Angry at the doctors.

Angry at medicine.

Angry at the family.

Angry at your parents.

Angry at God.

Oh, what success the devil has when we are like that.

God's design for death is very different.

There have been times in my life when death hit really close to home and left me with this deep, unsettled angst.

Have you ever felt the devil trying to leverage the fear of death against you?

I'm Dan Kroover.

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper helps us reframe how we think about death

by looking closely at the death of

Stephen from Acts 7. This message was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on April 21, 1991.

There was a man named Andrew Rivay, a Frenchman who spent most of his life in Holland,

a theologian, a holy man filled with the Holy Spirit and with faith, the same way Stephen was.

He taught at the University of Leiden.

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