Hebrews 2:14–18 & John 8:48–59
In this special bonus episode of The Simply Christian Podcast, we step aside from our journey through Genesis to face the one question every human being must eventually meet — the fear of death.
Drawing on Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death and the searching honesty of Scripture, we discover why the writer to the Hebrews speaks of a whole race held in “lifelong slavery” to that fear — and then we listen as Jesus, in the heart of John chapter 8, makes His staggering promise: “if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death.”
From the great I AM who stood before Abraham, to the grave of Lazarus…, to Paul’s triumphant “O death, where is your sting?”, we trace the good news that in Christ death itself has been transformed….
No longer a wall, but a door; no longer an ending…, but sleep before the morning. And the episode closes, as ever, with the question that matters most of all: what will you do with Jesus?
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