I think I can say without fear of contradiction that no matter who you are, there’s a lot of death in your future.

If you look around, you look at your loved ones, you look at your family, you look at your friends. Either you will face death yourself because you will be dying younger than is our want, or you will live a long time and face the death of the other people around you. Christian hope gives you something to deal with that, gives you something remarkable.

Let’s look at 1) what Christianity gives us so we can handle death, and 2) how we get it.

This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on April 4, 2004. Series: Living in Hope. Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11.

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