The NXR Podcast - July 15, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - Why Do People Die？

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Jesus Christ
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Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

148.14

Word count

561

Sentence count

36


Summary

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In Genesis 5:5, we see a vivid reminder of the death bell that tolls for all save one. God's judgment of sin is a reminder that each of us have sinned against God and that our God is holy and justly sends his righteous judgments toward those who sin against him.

Transcript

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00:00:19 Jesus said,
00:00:20 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30 we must be very careful not to call what our Lord Jesus himself calls an enemy, our friend.
00:00:40 That should be a warning to us. When Jesus calls something an enemy and you and I call it our
00:00:50 friend, death is not our friend. Death is not beautiful. Death is not natural. Death is a vivid
00:00:59 reminder that each of us have rebelled against God and that our God is holy, holy, holy, and that
00:01:06 he justly sends his righteous judgments toward those who sin against him. In Genesis chapter 5,
00:01:15 our text today is God's memento mori. It is a reminder of the death bell that tolls for all
00:01:22 save one in our text and we'll look at the person of enoch here in a moment but you and i must
00:01:31 understand that death is coming for each of us our culture tries to distract us from death our
00:01:39 culture attempts to to hide death behind a corner and to where it's something that we that we don't
00:01:47 think about. It's something that we don't truly acknowledge. And when certain things happen in our
00:01:54 culture, certain natural disasters, certain current events, war, and all these kinds of things where
00:02:01 death is so prevalent it is inescapable, where we're forced to look at death in the face, what
00:02:08 we do is we, as a culture, paint a smile on death's face. So if we cannot distract people from death,
00:02:15 we try to beautify death.
00:02:17 We try to make it something wonderful.
00:02:19 We don't acknowledge death for what God says it is.
00:02:23 Death is not wonderful.
00:02:24 Death is not beautiful.
00:02:25 Death is not natural.
00:02:26 Death is an enemy of Christ
00:02:28 and it is God's just judgment for sinners.
00:02:31 The grace of God through Jesus Christ,
00:02:34 the gospel is a powerful motivator towards holiness.
00:02:38 And the holiness and judgment of God
00:02:41 and our impending death is also a powerful motivator towards holiness.
00:02:48 Let us not be so naive.
00:02:51 Let us not be so narrow that we accept one motivation while rejecting the other.
00:02:58 Are we gospel centered? Yes.
00:03:01 Is the gospel a strong wind in our sails propelling us towards a life of holiness?
00:03:08 Yes.
00:03:08 but is the holiness of God himself
00:03:13 and the fact that each one of us
00:03:15 one day will stand before him
00:03:17 and that everything in our hearts
00:03:19 will be laid bare
00:03:21 is that also a great motivation
00:03:24 for us to put sin to death
00:03:25 in this life by grace?
00:03:27 Yes, we should remember both.
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