Theocast
We Sin, We Suffer, We Die... Where's the Good News?
August 21, 2024
Summary
The Christian life is often depicted by American culture as one of prosperity and health, but more frequently, our pilgrimage through this fallen world is characterized by sin, suffering, and ultimately death. Jon and Justin have discussed suffering, sickness, death, and our only hope to escape this harrowing reality in many episodes of Theocast. This compilation features the most informative and helpful portions of those episodes, with the aim of being extremely clear about where we stand, who and what we look to for comfort, and how we should view and endure suffering in this world.
Topics
- Episode focus: We Sin, We Suffer, We Die... Where's the Good News?
- The Christian life is often depicted by American culture as one of prosperity and health, but more frequently, our pilgrimage through this fallen world is characterized by sin,…
- Jon and Justin have discussed suffering, sickness, death, and our only hope to escape this harrowing reality in many episodes of Theocast
- This compilation features the most informative and helpful portions of those episodes, with the aim of being extremely clear about where we stand, who and what we look to for…
Transcript
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The times when I am most encouraged and gripped and moved by the hope of heaven and the return of Jesus is when I am faced with either the reality something has happened or I am gripped by fearful, harrowing,
haunting thoughts of the people I love the most dying.
When I think about whether it's my parents or my wife or my kids, and something happening to them, or
I mean, even, you know, honestly, I mean, McKenzie or you, or it's just like when those thoughts haunt you, there's something about them, it's terrible on the one hand, and on the other hand, it's like, all right, I'm
faced with a decision here.
What do I believe about life after the grave?
That's right.
That's right.
Right?
I mean, eternity has been written into man's heart.
Now, it's been done in such a way where man cannot know what God has done from the beginning to the end, but it has been written into our hearts.
That's undeniable, I think, for all people.
But as Christians, what do we believe?
That's right.
And in those moments, I'm thankful that the Lord is so gracious because, in spite of any instinct that I would ever have, like other humans might, to just distract and flee from it, in those moments, I think I
am most inclined to lean into the words of Christ.
That's right.
My, you know, you cited Peter, and I can't remember what else, Colossians.
Colossians chapter three.
So for me, the two, two of the verses that, I mean, well, three passages, they're all in John's gospel for me.
