Real Faith Stories

205: Escapes From Death


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Psalm 68:20: "God is to us a God of deliverances, and to God the Lord belong escapes from death."

In this episode, Brian traces two Hebrew words hidden in that verse โ€” yeshu'ot, the plural of deliverance, and totsaot, the exits from death that belong to God alone โ€” and tells the story of an ordinary morning that became one of those exits. Then he follows the root word yasha to a discovery that overwhelmed him: the plural pattern of rescue scattered across thousands of years of Scripture eventually arrives in history not as a concept, but as a person.

Deliverance became flesh. The noun became a name. And his name is Yeshua.

Before this episode ends, Brian asks you to do one thing: trace your own deliverances. Not in theory โ€” in your actual life. Because a faith that can point to a specific act of rescue has something to hold onto when the next dark moment comes. And the exits from death still belong to him.

If this episode makes you ask what God saved you for, that's the question the calling assessment at discovermypurpose.com is built to help you answer.

๐ŸŽต Recommended listening after this episode: I Speak Jesus โ€“ Charity Gayle

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