What Is Death? Five Foundational Principles
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Death is a subject that the world avoids. But Christians need not live in fear. God has given answers in His Word to our questions about death. Today, Guy Waters opens the Bible to answer our first question: What is death?
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Guy Waters is the James M. Baird Jr. Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Miss., and a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. He is author of several books, including How Jesus Runs the Church and The Life and Theology of Paul.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | Death is real, God says. It is loss. It is something to grieve over. It is not the way things |
| 0:08.1 | are supposed to be. But we thank God that's not the only thing God says. |
| 0:13.2 | Even though it is all around us and if the Lord tarrys it will touch each of us we live in a society |
| 0:26.0 | that ignores the reality of death. I suspect the world thinks that if they don't think |
| 0:31.0 | about death then they don't need to think about eternal things. |
| 0:35.0 | And that mindset has also had an influence on the church, |
| 0:39.0 | and perhaps many of us are not as prepared for death as we could be. |
| 0:44.0 | You're listening to renewing your mind, |
| 0:46.4 | and for the next few days you'll hear messages |
| 0:48.6 | from Guy Waters' very practical series |
| 0:51.2 | facing the last enemy. |
| 0:53.5 | Until Wednesday when you give a gift of any amount at renewing your mind |
| 0:57.6 | dot org |
| 0:58.5 | will send you both the DVD set and the companion hardcover book as our way of saying thanks. |
| 1:05.0 | Guy Waters is a New Testament professor at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. |
| 1:11.0 | He's also a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. |
| 1:15.0 | So here he is to lay a foundation for us as he considers what the Bible says about death. |
| 1:34.0 | We're beginning to gather a series on some of the most important questions that anyone can ever ask. What is death? Why do we die? |
| 1:36.0 | Why is death so frightful? |
| 1:39.0 | Why did Jesus Christ die? |
| 1:42.0 | Why do Christians die? |
| 1:42.6 | Why do Christians die? |
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