John Piper Sermons – Is Death Past, Present, or Future?

John Piper Sermons Is Death Past, Present, or Future?

This new teaching by Pastor John Piper titled “Is Death Past, Present, or Future?” is what we are bringing to you to listen to and meditate on.

Starting the message, pastor John shows us different ways the New Testament speaks of a Christian dying. There are six ways which the  New Testament speaks of a Christian dying, and take up those two where they turn up in the sequence.

The first is being crucified with Christ. Paradoxically, the Christian life begins at conversion with a death. In Galatians 2:20, looking back on his conversion, Paul said, “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

When we are converted to Christ, our old, rebellious, unbelieving, spiritually dead self dies — dies with Christ — and a new, believing, submissive, spiritually sensitive life comes into being, a new creation.

The Second way is by Reckoning Ourselves Dead.This is an act of faith by which we repeatedly preach to ourselves the reality that what happened to us at our conversion is true: We really died with Christ. We died to sin.

The third way is Killing Indwelling Sin. The fourth is taking up our crosses. To take up the cross is to take up an instrument of execution. It’s like wearing a little electric chair around your neck. The New Testament talks about a Christian dying in the sense that Jesus did and Paul did in different words. Here’s what Jesus said in Luke 9:23: “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”

The fifth way is Suffering in the Body. For some people, like Paul, there are marks of these kinds of dying in their own bodies. e said in 2 Corinthians 4:10 that he was “always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.” hese kinds of scars mingled with love caused Paul to realize that, in a profound sense, he was completing the very death of Jesus by making it tangible or visible to people for whom Christ died in his own body.

The sixth and the final way is Returning to Dust. There is physical suffering and death, and if Jesus does not come back first, every one of us will experience this. It’s very close for some of us. In answer to Brandi’s question regarding when Paul handed over to Satan the immoral person in 1 Corinthians 5:5 who had been sleeping with his stepmother, I think Paul was saying that his prayer for this person was that suffering and impending death would shake the disciplined person out of his spiritual stupor and bring him to faith and life, even if he died.

This message will open your eyes.

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