DAILY TRUTH - I’m Not Afraid Of Death, But I’m Afraid Of Dying
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Summary
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.
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the
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the late great rc sprawl once said as a christian i am not afraid of death
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the scripture is clear oh death where is your sting death has been swallowed up in life
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swallowed up in victory and yet sprawl said although i do not fear death i do fear dying
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dying will not be a pleasure the loss of faculties the loss of your own independence
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reverting regressing back to utter dependence on others like going back almost to infancy
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for some sure there are those who die peacefully in their sleep but many of us will die in a process
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we will die slowly we will lose our ability to to take care of ourselves and be dependent
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on the same children that used to depend on us we may even experience certain degrees of dementia
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the loss of memory that we wouldn't even be able to speak and and think and contemplate and
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communicate in the ways that we once were able. But to know that Christ's covenant is steadfast.
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To know that we don't need a Roman Catholic priest to read us our last rites before the
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moment of breathing our last breath. To know that we are secure in the covenant. These Levitical
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priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they walked into the water. And when Christ,
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the ark representing Christ, when the feet of the Levitical priesthood touched the brink of the
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water and they were carrying the ark, which represents Christ, the water had no choice
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but to stand up in a heap. And they walked into the river and notice they don't cross all the way.
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and then Israel follows. Rather, they walk into the middle of the river and stop. And so too,
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it shall be for us. For those who trust in Jesus, it is not up to you and your ability to keep your
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mind. You may lose your mind in the process of dying. It is not up to you and your ability to
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exercise perfect behaviors. My wife, she worked as an RN for several years. She now works as a mother
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in our home. But when she worked as an RN dealing with oncology, those with cancer, many people
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would die. And many people were unpleasant as they were dying. They became impatient. They became
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cruel they became annoying they became mean and this may happen even for some of us some of it
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related to our fallenness that is our sin like a sponge we've been sanctified but the sponge now
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being squeezed for the final time and a little bit more of that deep residue of sin squeezing out
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but there's also a sense in which we are creatures not only fallen but finite and in our finitude
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there is the loss of faculties the loss of memory the loss of speech the loss of being able to use
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the bathroom on your own these are very frustrating things but to know that christ has not just gone
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before us but to know that Christ he stops and stands firm in the middle of death and that he
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is with us and that he is with us not conditionally on the condition that we are on our best behavior
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on the condition that we can still think that we can still reason that we're patient that we're
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kind but that Christ is with us in the covenant of grace stopping the waters of judgment because
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he has drank all of God's wrath for our sin already. Not just our sin that we've committed
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in the past, but even the sin that we may commit in the dying process. We are secure in Christ
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and he will pass through death with us. Fight by flight. Why leaving godless places
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is loving godless places. I've had a lot of people tell me recently, Pastor Joel,
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you're post-millennial you claim to believe that jesus is king of every square inch but apparently
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you don't think he's king of california because i've heard your personal story that you used to
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be a pastor there and that you left for the state of texas notice the title not fight or flight but
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fight by flight think of the prodigal son he comes to the end of his rope he's longing to be fed with
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the pods given to the pigs, and the parable says no one gave him anything. No member of the father's
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house tracked him down to give him a handout. He was hurting. He had to lie in the bed that he had
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made for himself by his foolish choices. You know what the next words in that parable are?
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No one gave him anything, and he came to his senses. He began to repent. There are 10 million
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professing christians currently living in the state of california what if they're fighting
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but at the same time while well-intentioned they're also funding what if california could
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be brought to its knees simply by the faithful not fighting there but leaving there and forcing
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gavin newsom and other tyrants like him to actually have to take a spoonful of their own
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medicine the book has been forwarded by douglas wilson it's been endorsed by michael foster it's
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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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on amazon as well as a cheaper copy that can be purchased right from our website which is
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right response ministries.com check it out today can i be frank with you for just a second right
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here at the end. Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this ministry, and from
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the bottom of my heart, I say thank you. I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just,
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you can't afford it. In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean,
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we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites
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lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply
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cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people change the definition of a recession. We are living in
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