Embracing Life's Purpose Amidst the Reality of Death

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He says it is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting for death is the destiny of everyone and the living should take this to heart. It's an amazing statement. What he's saying is it is actually better to go to a funeral than it is to go to a Super Bowl party because death is inevitable, it is unavoidable, it is inescapable. [00:12:05]

The Bible makes it perfectly clear that death is an alien intrusion. It's an alien intrusion into the beautiful world that God made. It's not part of God's original design for Humanity. In short order, we were not made to die, but the wages of sin is death. You see, we need our Bible to understand who we are and what we are as well as understanding who Jesus is and what he is. [00:16:49]

When the Bible speaks about death, it speaks about it in three ways: obviously physical death when our soul is separated from our body, spiritual death as our souls are by Nature separated from God, and eternal death when the reality of our spiritual death combines with our physical death and we face eternal death. [00:17:50]

Remember the fact that you were created by God, put together in your mother's womb. Remember this and you can never begin too soon, he says, remember your creator in the days of your youth. You never can start too late either. And what he does then, as you would have noticed, I hope, as I read it, and perhaps familiar with it, he then gives us this picture. [00:21:35]

To Fear God is to trust God, is to know God, is to love God. To fear God is actually to be called to a fear that puts every other fear in its place. And in fact, the fear of which he speaks is a fear that is only known by those who are the children of God. [00:27:18]

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger, well there's such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim, well there's such a thing as water. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. [00:29:11]

If none of my Earthly Pleasures satisfy it, that doesn't prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably the Earthly Pleasures were never meant to satisfy it but only to arouse it to suggest the real thing. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my True Country which I shall not find until after death. [00:29:51]

I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside. I must make it the main object of life to press onto that country and help others to do the same. This message was brought to you from Truth For Life where the learning Is For Living. [00:30:11]

The inevitability of aging and death should prompt us to remember our Creator and live with intentional focus. Our end game should not be about earthly pleasures but about fearing God and keeping His commandments. [00:21:35]

Jesus offers us eternal life, and we must make it our life's main objective to press on to our true country, helping others to do the same. Earthly pleasures are not meant to satisfy us but to point us to the real thing, our eternal home with God. [00:29:11]

Understanding our spiritual condition is crucial. We are rebels against God, spiritually dead, and alienated from Him. The Bible speaks of death in three ways: physical, spiritual, and eternal. Yet, in Jesus, we find the answer to this inevitability. He came to give us life, and through Him, we can be reconciled to God. [00:17:23]

Life's distractions and pleasures often lead us down dead-end streets, but facing the reality of death can awaken us to the true purpose of life. Death is not a natural part of life but an alien intrusion due to sin. We must confront this truth and seek the life that Jesus offers. [00:12:02]

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