We Sin, We Suffer, We Die... Where's the Good News?

Theocast

Theocast INC

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Spirituality

4.9 • 860 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The Christian life is often depicted by American culture as one of prosperity and health, but more frequently, our pilgrimage through this fallen world is characterized by sin, suffering, and ultimately death. Jon and Justin have discussed suffering, sickness, death, and our only hope to escape this harrowing reality in many episodes of Theocast. This compilation features the most informative and helpful portions of those episodes, with the aim of being extremely clear about where we stand, who and what we look to for comfort, and how we should view and endure suffering in this world. Here’s a list of the episodes featured in this compilation: Hope in the Midst of Hell | Theocast "Where Are You, God?" | Theocast Anxiety and the Gospel | Theocast He Gets Us | Theocast Train Wrecks Welcomed | Theocast Feeling Cold and Discouraged? | Theocast Does God Really Love Me? | Theocast

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0:00.0	The times when I am most encouraged and gripped and moved by the hope of heaven and the return of Jesus
0:07.2	is when I am faced with either the reality something has happened or I am gripped by fearful,
0:15.3	harrowing, haunting thoughts of the people I love the most dying.
0:22.7	When I think about whether it's my parents or my wife or my kids and something happening
0:27.1	to them or, I mean, even, you know, honestly, I mean, McKenzie or you or it's just like
0:33.1	when those thoughts haunt you, there's something about it. It's terrible on the one hand,
0:39.3	and on the other hand, it's like, all right, I'm faced with a decision here. What do I believe?
0:44.6	That's right. About life after the grave. That's right. That's right. Right. I mean, eternity's
0:48.7	been written into man's heart. Now, it's been done in such a way where man cannot know what God has done from the beginning to the end, but it has been written into our hearts. That's undeniable, I think, for all people,
0:57.4	but as Christians, what do we believe? That's right. And in those moments, I'm thankful that the Lord is so
1:04.6	gracious because in spite of any instinct that I would ever have like other humans might to just distract and
1:11.1	flee from it. In those moments, I think I am most inclined to lean into the words of Christ.
1:16.1	That's right. My, you know, you cited Peter and I can't remember what else, Colossians.
1:22.0	Colossians chapter 3. So for me, the two of the verses that, I mean, well, three passages, they're all in John's gospel
1:29.9	for me. When I, when I'm faced with these things, I mean, one, maybe obvious is in John
1:34.7	11 where I mean, Jesus is around the entire, the death of Lazarus and Martha and Mary,
1:39.0	they're mourning and they're weeping. And his word is just that I'm the resurrection and the life you know it's like and it's
1:45.8	like I don't know everything and my faith is often weak but I believe that that's right and then
1:51.1	john 14 you know that I am I've gone to prepare a place for you it's where I'm going to go and
1:57.1	I wouldn't tell you that that was the case if it wasn't true. And it's like, Jesus, I believe you.
2:01.6	And you say that you're going to come and you're going to bring me to be with you where you are.
2:07.0	It's like, I trust that.
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