The NXR Podcast - July 15, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - Why Do People Die？


Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

148.13837

Word count

561

Sentence count

32


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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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, real quick, before we get started, I have a small request.
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00:00:19.700 Jesus said,
00:00:20.800 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25.440 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30.000 we must be very careful not to call what our Lord Jesus himself calls an enemy, our friend.
00:00:40.680 That should be a warning to us. When Jesus calls something an enemy and you and I call it our
00:00:50.440 friend, death is not our friend. Death is not beautiful. Death is not natural. Death is a vivid
00:00:59.320 reminder that each of us have rebelled against God and that our God is holy, holy, holy, and that
00:01:06.700 he justly sends his righteous judgments toward those who sin against him. In Genesis chapter 5,
00:01:15.000 our text today is God's memento mori. It is a reminder of the death bell that tolls for all
00:01:22.580 save one in our text and we'll look at the person of enoch here in a moment but you and i must
00:01:31.220 understand that death is coming for each of us our culture tries to distract us from death our
00:01:39.960 culture attempts to to hide death behind a corner and to where it's something that we that we don't
00:01:47.880 think about. It's something that we don't truly acknowledge. And when certain things happen in our
00:01:54.660 culture, certain natural disasters, certain current events, war, and all these kinds of things where
00:02:01.680 death is so prevalent it is inescapable, where we're forced to look at death in the face, what
00:02:08.680 we do is we, as a culture, paint a smile on death's face. So if we cannot distract people from death,
00:02:15.540 we try to beautify death.
00:02:17.820 We try to make it something wonderful.
00:02:19.940 We don't acknowledge death for what God says it is.
00:02:23.340 Death is not wonderful.
00:02:24.460 Death is not beautiful.
00:02:25.480 Death is not natural.
00:02:26.840 Death is an enemy of Christ
00:02:28.240 and it is God's just judgment for sinners.
00:02:31.900 The grace of God through Jesus Christ,
00:02:34.100 the gospel is a powerful motivator towards holiness.
00:02:38.480 And the holiness and judgment of God
00:02:41.500 and our impending death is also a powerful motivator towards holiness.
00:02:48.580 Let us not be so naive.
00:02:51.700 Let us not be so narrow that we accept one motivation while rejecting the other.
00:02:58.840 Are we gospel centered? Yes.
00:03:01.740 Is the gospel a strong wind in our sails propelling us towards a life of holiness?
00:03:08.460 Yes.
00:03:08.900 but is the holiness of God himself
00:03:13.120 and the fact that each one of us
00:03:15.700 one day will stand before him
00:03:17.760 and that everything in our hearts
00:03:19.920 will be laid bare
00:03:21.320 is that also a great motivation
00:03:24.060 for us to put sin to death
00:03:25.780 in this life by grace?
00:03:27.920 Yes, we should remember both.
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