Life After Death?
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What does Jesus mean when He says He’s going to prepare a place for us?
What Jesus is saying here, ladies and gentlemen, is this I know where I'm going. And I'm going there to prepare a place for you. And you can't follow me there right now. You still have some time to live out. You still have a vocation to fulfill. But there is a moment when you will join me. In my father's heart. Therefore, he says. What?
What? You were. Be trouble.
The world treats life after death as a fearful mystery. But for followers of the Lord Jesus, it's not a mystery, and we don't have to be afraid. We know what's waiting for us on the other side of death because we know the one waiting for us. And he has told us not to be troubled. It's great to have you with us today for another episode of Renewing Your Mind. This week we've been learning from messages from R.C. Sproul's series Surprised by Suffering, and today we'll consider what the Bible says about life after death. As we've said previously, suffering has a way of blindsiding people, even Christians, which is why it's so important for us to pursue a biblical framework for understanding our trials.
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In this segment, we want to consider the question of life after death. And I have to confess at the beginning that I'm a rather sentimental person and I find that the older I get, the more sentimental I become, and I suspect that many of you are the same way. And I think that everybody is should have in their family an Aunt Jenny. I have an Aunt Ginny, a real live Aunt Jenny. And Aunt Ginny was born in nineteen hundred. And I had the opportunity to visit with her this past summer. At that time she was eighty seven, waiting her eighty eighth birthday, and I hadn't seen her in years and she was just as sharp as she ever had been. And whenever I had the opportunity to visit with her. Of course, I'm filled with all kinds of questions about my own family background.
And as we met together, I sat down and I asked Aunt Ginny about my father. And I asked Aunt Ginny about my grandfather. And she told all of the stories about how my grandmother had come on a steamboat up the Ohio River from Ohio to Pittsburgh, and how my grandfather had come down from Mount Washington and met her and got married and all of that. And it was so interesting to hear that. And then I began to press.
How does the story of Aunt Ginny illustrate our personal longing for life after death?
a little more deeply in the family background. And I said, Well, Anthony Did you know great grandfather sprawled? She said, indeed I did. She said great grandfather spruell was born in Donegal, Ireland. Some of you are gonna have to just eat your hearts out. In Donegal, Ireland in eighteen twenty-four. He kissed the Blorney stone in eighteen twenty-five and put it in his jeans so that it would go on to future generations. But then He died in nineteen ten at the age of eighty-six, and the last ten years of his life. were spent in the home of my grandfather and grandmother, and so that for the first ten years of my aunt's life, She knew this elderly gentleman. And now, seventy some years later, she's telling me of her childhood memories of the life of Charles Sproull.
That have gone all the way back to eighteen twenty four. And so we began to speak of it, and she said, You know. James Monroe was the president of the United States when your great grandfather was born. Abraham Lincoln, no one had ever heard of Abraham Lincoln. There hadn't been a Civil War, there hadn't been a transcontinental railroad, there hadn't been radio and television or all of the modern conveniences that are so commonplace to life in the twentieth century. And when I think about that period in American history. I think about something that happened so long ago that its only record will be found in the pages of history books, but instead I'm actually talking to a member of my family who is telling me of her firsthand knowledge of somebody who lived that long ago.
And then I began to wonder and project this forward into the future.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Jesus mean when He says He’s going to prepare a place for us?
0:00–2:58
2
How does the story of Aunt Ginny illustrate our personal longing for life after death?
2:58–6:58
3
What do philosophers like Plato, Kant, and the playwright Hamlet say about the after‑life?
6:58–10:39
4
Why does Jesus tell His disciples ‘Don’t let your hearts be troubled’ in John 14?
10:39–13:33
5
How does the biblical promise of many rooms in the Father’s house answer the question of eternity?
13:33–17:15
6
What can modern medicine’s view of ‘separation’ teach us about death and hope?
17:15–19:47
7
How does the resurrection of Jesus give Christians confidence in life after death?
19:47–23:21
8
What practical steps does the episode suggest for living with hope in the face of suffering?
23:21–25:55