00:00the chibi news daily reflection welcome to st michael's church in new haven my name is marcus
00:10do you fear death it's not the kind of question asked over the dinner table and it's a topic we
00:17are not very good at discussing too often it gets swept under the carpet according to ernest becker
00:23author of the denial of death the reality of death lies hidden in our subconscious
00:29he writes of all things that move man one of the principal ones is his terror of death
00:35in other words beneath the pursuit of the pleasure-filled life the drive for endless
00:40productivity and instant gratification and so on is the ever-present sense that our time here will
00:48soon come to an end hebrews chapter 2 verses 14 to 15 tells us jesus shared in their humanity so that
00:57by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death that is the devil and
01:04free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death as jesus laid dead in the tomb
01:12whatever death is and wherever jesus went he plunged into the depths of it to rescue us and set us free
01:20so we can truly live
01:31so we can truly live
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