The NXR Podcast - May 23, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - I’m Not Afraid Of Death, But I’m Afraid Of Dying

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Michael Foster Pastor Joel Megan Basham Joe Biden Levitical
DAILY TRUTH - Jesus Faithfulness In The Death Of The Saints DAILY TRUTH - A Word About Heaven

Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

150.71

Word count

1,327

Sentence count

64

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

2

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In the midst of death, God is with us, standing firm in the middle of death. To know that we don't need a Roman Catholic priest to read us our last rites before the moment of breathing our last breath.

Transcript

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00:00:49 the late great rc sprawl once said as a christian i am not afraid of death
00:00:57 the scripture is clear oh death where is your sting death has been swallowed up in life
00:01:03 swallowed up in victory and yet sprawl said although i do not fear death i do fear dying
00:01:11 dying will not be a pleasure the loss of faculties the loss of your own independence
00:01:20 reverting regressing back to utter dependence on others like going back almost to infancy
00:01:28 for some sure there are those who die peacefully in their sleep but many of us will die in a process
00:01:37 we will die slowly we will lose our ability to to take care of ourselves and be dependent
00:01:45 on the same children that used to depend on us we may even experience certain degrees of dementia
00:01:53 the loss of memory that we wouldn't even be able to speak and and think and contemplate and
00:02:01 communicate in the ways that we once were able. But to know that Christ's covenant is steadfast.
00:02:10 To know that we don't need a Roman Catholic priest to read us our last rites before the
00:02:18 moment of breathing our last breath. To know that we are secure in the covenant. These Levitical
00:02:25 priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they walked into the water. And when Christ,
00:02:31 the ark representing Christ, when the feet of the Levitical priesthood touched the brink of the 0.93
00:02:36 water and they were carrying the ark, which represents Christ, the water had no choice
00:02:42 but to stand up in a heap. And they walked into the river and notice they don't cross all the way.
00:02:50 and then Israel follows. Rather, they walk into the middle of the river and stop. And so too,
00:02:58 it shall be for us. For those who trust in Jesus, it is not up to you and your ability to keep your
00:03:06 mind. You may lose your mind in the process of dying. It is not up to you and your ability to
00:03:13 exercise perfect behaviors. My wife, she worked as an RN for several years. She now works as a mother
00:03:23 in our home. But when she worked as an RN dealing with oncology, those with cancer, many people 0.88
00:03:30 would die. And many people were unpleasant as they were dying. They became impatient. They became
00:03:39 cruel they became annoying they became mean and this may happen even for some of us some of it
00:03:50 related to our fallenness that is our sin like a sponge we've been sanctified but the sponge now
00:03:57 being squeezed for the final time and a little bit more of that deep residue of sin squeezing out
00:04:06 but there's also a sense in which we are creatures not only fallen but finite and in our finitude
00:04:14 there is the loss of faculties the loss of memory the loss of speech the loss of being able to use
00:04:21 the bathroom on your own these are very frustrating things but to know that christ has not just gone
00:04:28 before us but to know that Christ he stops and stands firm in the middle of death and that he
00:04:36 is with us and that he is with us not conditionally on the condition that we are on our best behavior
00:04:45 on the condition that we can still think that we can still reason that we're patient that we're
00:04:50 kind but that Christ is with us in the covenant of grace stopping the waters of judgment because
00:04:56 he has drank all of God's wrath for our sin already. Not just our sin that we've committed
00:05:02 in the past, but even the sin that we may commit in the dying process. We are secure in Christ
00:05:11 and he will pass through death with us. Fight by flight. Why leaving godless places
00:05:19 is loving godless places. I've had a lot of people tell me recently, Pastor Joel,
00:05:24 you're post-millennial you claim to believe that jesus is king of every square inch but apparently
00:05:31 you don't think he's king of california because i've heard your personal story that you used to
00:05:36 be a pastor there and that you left for the state of texas notice the title not fight or flight but
00:05:44 fight by flight think of the prodigal son he comes to the end of his rope he's longing to be fed with
00:05:51 the pods given to the pigs, and the parable says no one gave him anything. No member of the father's
00:05:59 house tracked him down to give him a handout. He was hurting. He had to lie in the bed that he had
00:06:06 made for himself by his foolish choices. You know what the next words in that parable are? 0.98
00:06:11 No one gave him anything, and he came to his senses. He began to repent. There are 10 million
00:06:20 professing christians currently living in the state of california what if they're fighting
00:06:25 but at the same time while well-intentioned they're also funding what if california could
00:06:32 be brought to its knees simply by the faithful not fighting there but leaving there and forcing
00:06:39 gavin newsom and other tyrants like him to actually have to take a spoonful of their own
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