Series: Developing a Christian Worldview
Speaker: Steve Hixon
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Date: June 10, 2001
Series: Developing a Christian Worldview Speaker: Steve Hixon |
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“It’s not that I’m afraid to die; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” -- Woody Allen
“The great denial of the 19th century was sex. The great denial of the 20th is death.” -- Billy Graham
“Everybody has to die, but I’ve always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?” -- William Saroyan
“After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.”
Revelation 22:14,17
“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.”
What is death?
What kind of hope does God offer?
How can we respond to the grief and trauma of death?
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True hope changes sorrow, but does not obliterate it. Death is not to be taken as a ‘normal beautiful release’, but as an enemy which separates body from spirit and human beings from each other. It spoils the beautiful creation of God. It is so basically an enemy that God says he will pay a great price, a ransom, to deliver us from death’s power: “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death.”
Edith Schaeffer, Affliction | |||||
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