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00:00there's a power within you to help you overcome your most daunting challenges
00:09where could life take you if fear was not a factor are you ready to move from worry
00:16to confidence from anxiety to hope why be safe when you can boldly step into what's next
00:30it's time to move from fear to fear not
00:46hello i'm david jeremiah and it's time to move from fear
00:59to fear not someone once observed life is pleasant death is peaceful it's the transition
01:07that's troublesome well dying is certainly no laughing matter we fear what we don't know
01:14and the biggest unknown in this life is death even christians who know that death is just
01:21the door to eternity are often uneasy about dying does the fear of dying keep you from truly living
01:29i think you'll find comfort in today's message as we open god's word and see death from our creator's
01:37point of view you might just find that a new understanding of death can give you a new lease
01:43on life so join me for a look at death the fear of dying as we continue my series what are you afraid
01:51of coming up on turning point
01:54are you in a place in your life where you need hope dr jeremiah wants to teach you how to move from fear
02:04to fear not in his book hope living fearlessly in a scary world in its pages dr jeremiah explores the
02:12top seven fears holding so many of us back as he shares practical lessons for facing down these
02:18fears learn to walk the path of hope and experience the providential power of god who as dr jeremiah
02:25explains still controls even the smallest details of your life discover strength and encouragement in
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02:46his current teaching series what are you afraid of on your choice of cd or dvd and a correlating study
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03:24contact turning point today now here is dr jeremiah with his message death the fear of dying
03:31what if i promised you that we could change forever the way that you look at death perhaps move it out of
03:43the fear category altogether what if we would take on this subject for a few moments from the bible
03:50and pull death out of the terrifying darkness once and for all if you'll stay focused i think i can do
04:01that because the bible does that before we go any further we need to discuss what we mean when we talk
04:09about death the faces of death in the bible there are three different descriptions of death let me give
04:17you the key word for all three of them it's the word separation say that with me separation in every
04:25three instances where death is mentioned in the bible it always involves separation let's begin first of
04:32all with physical death what is physical death physical death is the separation of the soul and the spirit
04:40from the body and let me tell you something friends i've been studying this very carefully there are no
04:45exceptions the statistics regarding physical death are 100 percent except perhaps for christians who will be
04:54alive at the rapture but that hasn't happened yet so i can say with authority that death is 100
05:01percent someone has wryly made this observation that death is the number one killer in america
05:08physical death so i know this is kind of a serious subject but we don't have to be so serious about it
05:19let's just kind of i'll tell you this little story to lighten it up a little bit i heard about a doctor
05:24who went to see a young man he says i i've just examined i've examined your your reports and i have
05:29bad news and worse news he says well what do you mean he says well i have bad news and i have worse
05:35news what news would you like to have first and he said give me the bad news he said well
05:38he said we've looked at your tests and you have you have 48 hours to live
05:44he says well what could be worse than that what's the what's the worst news he said we've been looking
05:49for you since yesterday so all right i'm glad to hear you laugh
05:57so physical death is the separation of the soul and spirit from the body
06:04now the other kind of death the bible speaks about is spiritual death
06:09death this may surprise you because it almost sounds like a disconnect but look up here for a
06:15moment let me tell you something that's true of every one of us we were all born dead did you know
06:19that we were all born spiritually dead because spiritual death is the separation of the soul from god
06:29and when you are born you do not have a relationship with god except for the protective custody of those
06:36who are under the age of accountability we know about that but spiritual death is simply your soul
06:43being separated from god you don't have any relationship with him you don't have fellowship
06:48with him we are separated from him because of sin and the bible says the wages of sin are death
06:56when sin entered the world through adam it spread to everyone so that every unregenerate man and woman
07:03is dead spiritually separated from god so physical death is the separation of your soul from your
07:10body spiritual death is the separation of your soul from god and then there's a third kind of death
07:17that's mentioned in the bible and let me tell you something this is the one you don't want to mess with
07:22you don't want to experience this of all the other things i've said so far please make sure you don't get
07:26on this list this is called the second death even though it's the third on our list it's called the
07:34second death and we read about it in the book of revelation so follow on the screen as i read from my
07:42from my copy of the scripture and the sea gave up the dead who were in it and death and hades
07:49delivered up the dead who were in them and they were judged each according to his works then death
07:57and hades were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death and anyone not found written in
08:06the book of life was cast into the lake of fire the last form of death second death is the final
08:15banishment from god and the final misery of the wicked in hell following the great white throne
08:22judgment in other words physical death is the separation of your soul from your body
08:30spiritual death is the separation of your soul from god the second death is the separation of
08:37your soul from god forever and ever and ever with no hope of it ever being changed
08:45if you are born again you will never die spiritually you will never ever be separated from god
08:53john 11 25 puts it this way i am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me
09:00though he may die physically he shall live and whoever lives and believes in me shall never never die
09:11so if you want to live forever in the presence of god you have to have two birthdays you have to have your
09:21physical birthday and you have to have a spiritual birthday if you are only born once you will have to die
09:27twice but if you are born twice you will only ever have to think about dying once that's the fact of death and
09:38the faces of death let me talk most of all today about the fear of death i want to share with you
09:46some reasons this morning why if you're a christian you should never really have to be tormented by the
09:52fear of death there are only two ways you can ever face the future no matter what it is you can face the
09:59future by faith or you can face the future in fear and if you know the word of god you will not have to
10:06be afraid and there are several reasons why you won't have to be afraid of death that are presented
10:13clearly in the word of god and let me give them to you kind of one at a time and let's unpack them
10:17together number one you don't have to be afraid of death because the prince of death has been defeated
10:27the prince of death has been defeated listen to the words of hebrews chapter 2 verses 14 and 15 listen
10:35carefully to every word in as much then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood that is
10:42us jesus himself likewise shared in the same in other words he became flesh and blood that through
10:50death he might destroy him who had the power of death that is the devil and release those who through
10:59the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage the author of the book of hebrews declares
11:08that jesus has conquered death by death and has freed us from the fear of death he says in the book of
11:17hebrews that there are some people who live their whole lives in bondage because of their fear of
11:22death have you ever known anybody like that people who are just paranoid and freak out over the thought
11:28of dying i had a friend back in fort wayne when i was a pastor back there he was a very successful man
11:34he ran his business out of the basement of his home he manipulated stocks and bonds and he was very
11:38good at it but this man was living in the bondage of death and i went to visit him one time and he
11:46showed me around and i noticed every room that i walked into there was an oxygen tank in every room
11:52there was an oxygen tank in the bathroom and then he took me to see his boat there were oxygen tanks all
11:59over his yacht he didn't have any place with it and he had one in his car one in the trunk of his car one
12:04in the back seat of his car and so i said what's that for he says well you know i just have this
12:09thing about death and i think maybe if if i have a heart attack or something and have an oxygen tank
12:15i'll escape it and i wanted to tell him how foolish that was but he's an illustration of a lot of folks
12:21now listen the bible says there's something that jesus did when he died on the cross that delivers you
12:27from that the bible says that in his death and resurrection the son of god played the devil's
12:34own trump card just as david took the sword of goliath and cut off his head with it jesus took the
12:41weapon of satan and defeated him with that very weapon the cross must have seemed like the ultimate
12:47victory for satan but it was precisely the opposite when christ by his own death paid the penalty for
12:54our sin he took the sting out of the devil's condemnation and when jesus stepped out from the
13:02open tomb on resurrection sunday satan's defeat was absolutely certain his weapon of death had been
13:10destroyed he is still alive and active but his failure is a foregone conclusion he has to settle for
13:16winning the little battles because the war he started has already been lost to him forever when
13:23jesus came out of the grave victorious over death he took death out of satan's weaponry and he can't hurt
13:31us with it anymore number two the power of death has been destroyed first corinthians 15 says it this way
13:43oh death where is your sting oh hades where is your victory the sting of death is sin and the strength of
13:52sin is the law but thanks be to god who gives us the victory through our lord jesus christ in the book of
14:01revelation we are told that death has no part of any future that belongs to any believer in fact the bible
14:07says when we get to heaven god will wipe away every tear from their eyes and there shall be no more death
14:15not even physical death the prince of death has been defeated the power of death has been destroyed
14:22here's the third one the process of death has been described jesus told this story in the 16th
14:28chapter of the book of luke and it offers a penetrating view of what happens after death in fact it may tell
14:37us more about life after death than any passage in the scripture here's the story it's a parable jesus
14:45told concerning two men one rich and one poor now the poor man's name we know it was lazarus and we don't
14:54know the rich man's name but we do know something about his lifestyle because jesus tells us that this
14:59rich man wears the finest clothing he eats the finest food he has had the best and he has let everyone know
15:05about it even the beggars who lie at his gates trying to get some of the crumbs that he might drop to
15:12them the poor man lazarus who hopes to be thrown a few crumbs from the bountiful table is not only hungry
15:20but the scripture tells us and this is pretty gross that he's very ill covered with sores and the town
15:27dogs lick the sores on his body he is one miserable creature living a miserable existence now watch
15:38lazarus does possess one thing that no one can take away from him and that is his love for god
15:47the rich man possesses one thing he can't keep his life
15:51now in the story jesus tells both men die and on the other side of the gate that separates this life
16:01from eternity the beggar lazarus is carried by heavenly angels to the bosom of abraham
16:09now he is kissed by the angels instead of licked by the dogs
16:16the bible just says that the rich man died
16:22did you know that when a believer dies the angels come and carry that believer to god
16:30when any of us who are believers pass from this life to the next almighty god dispatches angels
16:37to convey us into his presence on that journey christians will experience none of the travel
16:44worries we face you won't get lost i'm very thankful for that one
16:48you won't miss the bus there's no waiting for the next plane god has a special angel assigned to bring
16:57you home and in the face of such assurance why should you be afraid
17:04the prince of death has been defeated the power of death has been destroyed the process of death has been
17:11described and finally the picture of death has been developed and there's no verse of scripture that
17:19gives us more comforting information about it than psalm 23 4 and that's why we love this whole psalm
17:28the sheer beauty of this passage never fails to move us i am certain that this verse has been read at
17:36more funerals than any other verse in the bible its poetic phrases teach us several things here's what the
17:43verse teaches us three things number one that death is a journey not a destination
17:51the bible says yea though i walk through the valley in the shepherd psalm david sees death not as a
18:02destination but as a journey through a place
18:08with god's hand in ours we go through death to a place but death itself is not the destination
18:17death is just the process through which we go my friend rob morgan has written a wonderful book on
18:24psalm 23 and in the fourth verse he describes this in this way he says death does not speak of a cave
18:33or a dead end trail it's a valley which means it has an opening on both ends and the emphasis on through
18:42which indicates a temporary state a transition a brighter path ahead a hopeful future for christians
18:49problems are always temporary and blessings are always eternal as opposed to non-christians whose
18:56blessings are always temporal and whose problems are always eternal valleys don't go on forever
19:04and the road ahead is always bright for the child of god as bright as his promises death isn't a place
19:12that you go to it's a place you go through to the other side that's why paul said absent from the body
19:22and present with the lord indicating that the two conditions are one in the same
19:29most of the time if we were accurate we would say we're not afraid of death we're just afraid of dying
19:35because we're afraid of what it's like what the process is
19:38but dying for a believer is not anything for us to fear first of all the angels come and get us
19:47and it's only a temporary moment that we walk through to the other side number two here's my
19:53favorite thing in this whole message death is a shadow not a reality the bible says it this way yay though i
20:01walk through the valley of the shadow of death listen to this donald gray barnhouse one of the great
20:11teachers of another generation was driving home from the funeral of his first wife and he had his
20:18children with him and they were overwhelmed with grief as he sought some way to comfort his children
20:25as they were standing at the corner a huge moving van passed them and its shadow swept over where they
20:32were standing dr barnhouse said children would you rather be run over by a truck or by its shadow
20:42and of course they said the shadow it's harmless he said let me tell you something kids
20:48two thousand years ago the truck ran over jesus christ in order that only the shadow would have to run
20:58over us isn't that a great thought the truck ran over jesus christ he suffered the death so that only the
21:08shadow has to run over us the bible says death is a shadow not a reality no longer is it true
21:18that we have to be afraid for jesus said and i quoted again i am the resurrection and the life
21:25he who believes in me though he may die he shall live and whoever lives and believes in me shall never
21:32die third from psalm 23 4 death is a journey not a destination it's a shadow not a reality death is lonely
21:44but you are never never alone and let me tell you something that's real can i say this is really cool
21:51in this in this psalm this is a little grammatical thing i want to share with you listen to me this is
21:57how this psalm is laid out in the first part of the psalm the shepherd psalmist is talking about
22:05the shepherd he's describing him here's how he talks he says he leads me he restores me he makes me
22:13to lie down in green pastures and then all of a sudden you get to the fourth verse and very abruptly
22:22the third person the third person becomes the second person and david says you are with me
22:30he moves from he to you he quits talking about the shepherd and begins talking to him
22:40him you are with me we never walk that road alone the provision that god has made for death
22:52is only applicable to those who put their trust in christ if you want to go to heaven when you die
23:01you have to do something about it in the here and now you don't get to heaven and make a choice
23:07your choice has to be made here and now the bible says that you must place your trust in jesus christ
23:13if you will believe in him he will give you eternal life as your gift the wages of sin is death but the
23:20gift of god is eternal life through jesus christ our lord i want to urge you today don't play chicken
23:28with death don't sit back there and say well i don't need to do this now there's some other time i can
23:34do it listen you're not you're not going to ever hear another sermon like this the rest of your life
23:39because the next time a sermon like this is going to be preached you won't hear it
23:46so will you take the opportunity of this moment to really ask yourself the question
23:53am i ready to die i don't mean physically i mean spiritually are you ready to meet god
24:00because you can get ready and you can do it today and it's simply a matter of putting your trust in
24:06him it's a matter of saying i am going to decide to believe in jesus christ and his word and what
24:11he has done for me on the cross will you do that today will you say look i'm not going to play any
24:18more games with death i am going to get ready today so that no matter how long i live or how short my
24:24life may be i'm ready to meet god because what god has in store for those who put their trust in him
24:31is far beyond anything i have said to you today but it's only for those who trust him you say well
24:39that's pretty narrow it's just as narrow as the word of god makes it i didn't make up the script god did
24:46he's offering us today this wonderful opportunity to put our trust in him will you do it
24:53dr jeremiah will return to close today's program right after this
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25:04hope living fearlessly in a scary world to help you learn to move from fear to fear not dr jeremiah's
25:11book will be sent to you as a thank you for a gift of any amount in support of this program
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25:23set which contains his book his current teaching series what are you afraid of on your choice of cd or
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25:41point today and now with one last word for today's program here is dr jeremiah knowing that god awaits
25:52us at the end of our earthly lives gives us incredible peace and comfort not only at the time of death
26:00but for our lifetime you've heard the expression of fate worse than death that's not just a figure of
26:08speech there really is a fate worse than death and that's dying without knowing the savior jesus christ
26:16that relationship makes all the difference in this life and in the next and it's my deepest hope
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27:21next time on turning point it is the terror of god and our protection in the midst of it that brings such joy
27:31and wonder and wonder to our hearts we have a fearful god but he's the same god who has wrapped his arms
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