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

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00:00:49.940 the late great rc sprawl once said as a christian i am not afraid of death

00:00:57.380 the scripture is clear oh death where is your sting death has been swallowed up in life

00:01:03.740 swallowed up in victory and yet sprawl said although i do not fear death i do fear dying

00:01:11.320 dying will not be a pleasure the loss of faculties the loss of your own independence

00:01:20.560 reverting regressing back to utter dependence on others like going back almost to infancy

00:01:28.480 for some sure there are those who die peacefully in their sleep but many of us will die in a process

00:01:37.500 we will die slowly we will lose our ability to to take care of ourselves and be dependent

00:01:45.920 on the same children that used to depend on us we may even experience certain degrees of dementia

00:01:53.260 the loss of memory that we wouldn't even be able to speak and and think and contemplate and

00:02:01.100 communicate in the ways that we once were able. But to know that Christ's covenant is steadfast.

00:02:10.080 To know that we don't need a Roman Catholic priest to read us our last rites before the

00:02:18.700 moment of breathing our last breath. To know that we are secure in the covenant. These Levitical

00:02:25.740 priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they walked into the water. And when Christ,

00:02:31.580 the ark representing Christ, when the feet of the Levitical priesthood touched the brink of the 0.93

00:02:36.280 water and they were carrying the ark, which represents Christ, the water had no choice

00:02:42.740 but to stand up in a heap. And they walked into the river and notice they don't cross all the way.

00:02:50.540 and then Israel follows. Rather, they walk into the middle of the river and stop. And so too,

00:02:58.000 it shall be for us. For those who trust in Jesus, it is not up to you and your ability to keep your

00:03:06.080 mind. You may lose your mind in the process of dying. It is not up to you and your ability to

00:03:13.880 exercise perfect behaviors. My wife, she worked as an RN for several years. She now works as a mother

00:03:23.540 in our home. But when she worked as an RN dealing with oncology, those with cancer, many people 0.88

00:03:30.400 would die. And many people were unpleasant as they were dying. They became impatient. They became

00:03:39.100 cruel they became annoying they became mean and this may happen even for some of us some of it

00:03:50.220 related to our fallenness that is our sin like a sponge we've been sanctified but the sponge now

00:03:57.480 being squeezed for the final time and a little bit more of that deep residue of sin squeezing out

00:04:06.560 but there's also a sense in which we are creatures not only fallen but finite and in our finitude

00:04:14.220 there is the loss of faculties the loss of memory the loss of speech the loss of being able to use

00:04:21.280 the bathroom on your own these are very frustrating things but to know that christ has not just gone

00:04:28.680 before us but to know that Christ he stops and stands firm in the middle of death and that he

00:04:36.680 is with us and that he is with us not conditionally on the condition that we are on our best behavior

00:04:45.600 on the condition that we can still think that we can still reason that we're patient that we're

00:04:50.200 kind but that Christ is with us in the covenant of grace stopping the waters of judgment because

00:04:56.940 he has drank all of God's wrath for our sin already. Not just our sin that we've committed

00:05:02.900 in the past, but even the sin that we may commit in the dying process. We are secure in Christ

00:05:11.400 and he will pass through death with us. Fight by flight. Why leaving godless places

00:05:19.400 is loving godless places. I've had a lot of people tell me recently, Pastor Joel,

00:05:24.800 you're post-millennial you claim to believe that jesus is king of every square inch but apparently

00:05:31.320 you don't think he's king of california because i've heard your personal story that you used to

00:05:36.580 be a pastor there and that you left for the state of texas notice the title not fight or flight but

00:05:44.160 fight by flight think of the prodigal son he comes to the end of his rope he's longing to be fed with

00:05:51.520 the pods given to the pigs, and the parable says no one gave him anything. No member of the father's

00:05:59.620 house tracked him down to give him a handout. He was hurting. He had to lie in the bed that he had

00:06:06.760 made for himself by his foolish choices. You know what the next words in that parable are? 0.98

00:06:11.840 No one gave him anything, and he came to his senses. He began to repent. There are 10 million

00:06:20.140 professing christians currently living in the state of california what if they're fighting

00:06:25.880 but at the same time while well-intentioned they're also funding what if california could

00:06:32.480 be brought to its knees simply by the faithful not fighting there but leaving there and forcing

00:06:39.640 gavin newsom and other tyrants like him to actually have to take a spoonful of their own

00:06:46.520 medicine the book has been forwarded by douglas wilson it's been endorsed by michael foster it's

00:06:53.160 good to be a man also meg basham the daily wire and steve days from the blaze network it's available

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00:07:07.200 right response ministries.com check it out today can i be frank with you for just a second right

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The NXR Podcast - May 23, 2023

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

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