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Derek Thomas

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1601 total appearances

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Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

Are you ready to meet Jesus?

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

Are you in a right relationship with Christ?

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

Have you tasted of the good things of the world to come?

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

But that was the kind of question that Puritan pastors often asked.

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

Bunyan, in another one of his writings, puts it like this, "'Consider thou must die but once, I mean as to this world.

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

For if thou, when thou goest hence, dost not die well, thou canst not come back and die better.'"

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

Isn't that an interesting thing?

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

Bunyan is saying we only have one attempt at death and we need to die well because we can't come back and do it all over again.

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

We can't press the re-record button and have another go at it.

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

which for Bunyan meant age expectancy in the 17th century.

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

Very few people made it past 25 or 30 years of age.

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

Most of the Puritan preachers died in their 50s or early 60s.

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

Very few of them made it into what we now regard as pensionable age.

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

So they're exhorting one another as Christians to die well.

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

I remember reading in the biography of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, for example, how as a doctor facing cancer, how that was one of his great concerns.

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

He talks about it with great sincerity and earnestness, that he wanted to die well.

Renewing Your Mind
The Celestial City

But then something quite unexpected happens right at the end of Book One of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.