SERMON NOTES

Fearless 

Fear of Death

Text: Psalm 23:6 (p. 458)

With all the safety improvements - with the statistical data showing we are likely to live ten years longer than people fifty years ago - why do  of us feel the world is "less safe"? 

The issue of death is  than ever. 

Until we're ready to die, we can't . 

Your beauty and love  after me every day of my life. (Psalm 23:6 in The Message)

We need  to supply every need. We need  to forgive and restore. 

Jesus shared in (our) humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death - that is, the devil - and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their . Hebrews 2:14-15 

Jesus  because He knows our fears, our dreads, our hopelessness. (Jn. 11:33-35) 

Jesus died the first death and the second death but overcame death so that when we die we don't have to die but we . (Rev. 1:17-18; Jn. 11:25) 

Death is  when we trust Jesus as the Shepherd - the Good Shepherd who laid down His life for His sheep - and we follow Him. (Phil. 1:21-24) 

If we're a Jesus follower and not looking forward to the return of Christ, if we're not looking forward to heaven, may I suggest something is  in our relationship with Jesus. 

In making this promise, Jesus is saying that a , though it still has grief, contains the same hope as a . (Jn. 14:1-2)