Why do we all eventually die?
Hi, welcome to today's Little Lesson.
This is a special farm field edition of Little Lessons as we enjoy a beautiful evening here.
And the sun is setting in the west as we enjoy a bit of God's lovely creation.
Want to talk about why we die.
And death is such a normal and expected facet of life that it seems that few people question
the reason for it.
Again, it's just expected, everybody once they reach a certain age, realizes, "Hey,
everybody dies eventually.
I'm going to die eventually."
But they never stop and think about actually how weird death is in light of our observations
of life and of growth and of creation.
What am I talking about?
Well, let's just say, for example, that you didn't know that people all eventually die.
All right.
So I know that sounds hard to imagine, but just imagine you didn't know people die.
And you observed the following.
You saw a young woman who began to in her midsection grow larger and larger as every
week and month went by.
And you asked her, "What's going on there with your body?"
And she said, "Oh, there's a baby, a little human being that at one time was just the
union of a sperm and an egg, just microscopically small.
But the cells kept dividing and dividing and the cells began to specialize and some things
became a heart and some cells became lungs, some things became brains and muscle and bone
and liver and intestines and eyeballs.
And this things developing in my body right now."
Well, that's incredible, right?
That's nothing short of absolutely stunningly astonishing that that would happen.
But again, we take that for granted.
"So after about nine months, this baby is going to be developed enough that it can actually
exist outside of me.
And I'm going to give birth to this little boy or little girl.
And as soon as this thing comes out, it's going to know how to nurse from my breasts.
I don't have to teach it.
I don't have to give it lessons, pre-programmed.
And this thing poops and pees and cries, but it doesn't really do anything much other than
that, sleeps.
And that's how it is for months and months.
But really you can see progress because, after so many weeks or months, they start smiling
at you when you look at them and they start trying to make some sounds and so forth.
And pretty soon they're lifting up their head when they're on their belly.
And pretty soon they're pushing up with their arms."
Let's say you watched all this happen.
You saw, oh my goodness, this thing came out and now it's crawling.
Oh my goodness.
Today it started taking little steps and it started walking on two feet and you say, "This
is incredible improvement.
This thing is developing and growing magnificently."
And let's say, you see the thing, maybe get sick.
It gets a cold.
And maybe something about the complexity of the human immune system and you realize, "Oh
my goodness, some kind of bad virus or bacteria attacked that little toddlers body fought
it off.
And won.
It got into this microscopic battle."
And God has made this amazing immune system that is able to keep this thing going when
something else wants to kill it.
This thing is like, almost seems indestructible.
And again, if we just thought about this as I'm trying to provoke you to think about it
right now, you would never think that this thing as you watch that baby turn into a toddler,
turn into a child, grow into a pre-adolescent, goes through the changes of adolescence.
Learns, develops the personality, develops the intellect, develops the physical abilities.
It fights off sickness, after sickness, after sickness.
And again, I grant you that some children don't recover.
Some children die and succumb to diseases, but the majority of them survive.
And if you watched that, you would conclude this thing is built to last forever.
Death is...
This thing ceasing and being still and having no life, are you kidding me?
This marvelous, marvelous creation of God that has the stamp of divinity all over it.
Undeniably, nobody can explain the millions of things that go on in the human body.
And again, just thinking how it matures.
You would just think, "Well, this thing's built to last forever.
It adapts, it overcomes, it keeps growing.
It keeps developing, it keeps getting better and better."
And you might watch it up to about age 30 and still be convinced about that.
Maybe 35, at some point in there, the human body hits a peak and it just isn't quite as
good as it was at one time.
And the older we get, the more susceptible we are to succumbing to disease and so forth.
And then if you kept watching eventually you're going to see the thing die.
But here's my point.
I got to make this point.
Right.
You have to get this.
You have to see this because we ask the question, why do we die?
People say, "Why do you even ask that question?
Come on.
Face reality.
We all die."
No, no, no.
I want you to look at things as if you didn't know that we all die.
And imagine the conclusion that you would come to as you watch for five, 10, 15, 20,
20, five, 30 years of this human being getting better and better and better and better and
fighting off all kinds of foreign invaders that try to bring it down and so on.
I mean, you just think, "This thing's invincible.
This thing is absolutely invincible."
But it's not.
Something doesn't work quite as well and eventually we all succumb to death.
But you can see without ever having to read your Bible, know anything about God at all,
it's obvious to thinking people that the human body wasn't meant to die.
It was meant to live forever.
That was clearly the intention.
Of course, we know that biblically.
But if you just look at how things naturally are, that's the conclusion that you would
come to.
And some philosophers have come to that conclusion who think about these things and think about
how amazing the human body is and how well it does for so long.
And they question, "Why do we die?"
Well, was God just not talented enough or gifted enough to create a body that would
last forever?
Well, we know that's not true from the Bible because God's one day going to give us all
new bodies that are what we refer to as glorified bodies that will never die.
We're going to get brand new uncorruptible bodies, if you believe in Jesus Christ.
See, so God's able to do it.
So why do we die?
Now the Bible gives the answer, but I'm out of time.
So I'm going to have to do a part two on this question, which is fine.
Okay.
So, I hope you join me next time as we try to understand what the Bible says, explain
to us why we all eventually die.
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Till next time, Lord bless you.