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What is the explanation for 
why death eventually comes?

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Here it is.

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This fits the facts, folks.

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People are as they are

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and they die like they do

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for reasons that can be traced back

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to historical events -

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real historical events recorded for us

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in Genesis 3

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where a certain thing happened.

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What was that thing that happened?

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Our first parents rebelled against God.

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They spurned the divine voice

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and this is history.

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And we see what happened.

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And I find that the answer

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to two fundamental questions

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is found in this book.

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Two questions.

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Two questions that we all 
ought to be asking.

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The first question is:

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Why are things the way they are?

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And then the second question is:

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What's the remedy?

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How do we fix it?

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Brethren, for 15 years,

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I struggled to be an engineer.

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I recognize this,

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you didn't have a problem with a machine

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and run out and just start fixing it.

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You first determined what's wrong with it.

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Why is it like it is?

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And then, only then -

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you diagnose the problem first,

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then you fix it.

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Diagnosis, then remedy.

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But have you ever noticed?

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The world doesn't want to 
consider the first question.

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What's wrong? Why is it all broken?

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They just want the remedy!

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Make the pain stop!

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Take the fear away!

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Just give me something to 
make me forget my problems.

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That's what the world wants.

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Sedate me.

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Amuse me. Intoxicate me.

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Make the symptoms go away.

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I don't want to die. 
The world doesn't want to die.

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They don't want to face death.
They want to forget death.

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They want to just put 
it out of their minds.

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It's coming up behind them, 
and you know what they do?

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They just don't look behind them.

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They just want to ignore it.

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I don't want to think about it. 
I don't want to go there.

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Make me forget I'm going to die.

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Try to convince me there's no death.

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Or try to convince me that 
if you freeze my brain,

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somehow I'm going to come back later

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when scientists have it all figured out

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and I can live forever.

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But you and I know that any good doctor

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is not going to simply 
address the symptoms.

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He wants to know what is the disease

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at the root of the matter.

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That's always the case.

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He wants to heal the patient 
at the deepest level.

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Listen, is it uncomfortable 
to go to the doctor

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and find out you've got cancer?

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Yes. People don't want to hear that.

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But would it be wise to 
stay away from the doctor

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because you don't want to hear that

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because you're afraid to hear that

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because you don't like the diagnosis?

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The Bible makes us uncomfortable.

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Because it does what a 
good doctor's going to do.

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It's going to be truthful with us

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and it's going to tell 
us what the problem is.

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And it says that we 
cannot have the treatment

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until we've submitted 
ourselves to the diagnosis.

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And that's what Jesus says.

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He comes along and He says,

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"Those who are well have 
no need of a physician,

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but those who are sick."

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No remedy until we recognize the sickness.

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But the world hates the 
diagnosis of Genesis 3.

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Man hates the first part of the Gospel.

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And this is the first part.

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Why do you think the law came in?

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You see, that is the first 
part of the Gospel, is it not?

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I mean, who was it - Wesley?

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He said if you had an 
hour to preach to a man,

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he'd spend an how much?

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45 minutes on the law?

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15 on the Gospel?

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You see? The first part 
and the second part.

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Why 15?

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You know what the difficult thing is?

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The difficult thing isn't to say:

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Here's paradise over here. Do you want it?

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Everybody says line up!

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No, the difficulty is when you say:

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Listen, God isn't going 
to give you the remedy

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until you deal with the sickness.

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What's the sickness?

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You preach the law to them

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because you're showing 
them is that they're lawless.

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They're rebels against God.

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Men are wicked

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and they don't like that.

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He wants the cure immediately.

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You know what they want?

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Just tell me that when I die,

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I'm going to go to a better place.

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I don't need some fairy tale

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about a naked man and woman

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in some mythical garden.

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That's not what I need.

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I need something real.

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Seriously?

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Way back there in that chapter

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you're going to tell me it applies...?

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Come on. I live in the real world.

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I need something practical.

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I need something real.

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I need something that applies to me,

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something that meets me and my problems

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right where I am.

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And you know as well as I do,

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that as much as they talk like that

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in all the places they look for a remedy,

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they never find it.

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And I've looked at people 
on their death bed -

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people that scoffed.

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I have a picture in my mind

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so indelibly written there

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of my aunt dying in her last days.

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She was pleading.

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She was calling out like a little girl,

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"Mama, Mama!"

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She was like 50 years old.

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She was terrified.

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Absolutely terrified.

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They don't find.

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They just go on looking and looking

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and never finding.

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Scripture says, "always learning

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and never able to arrive 
at a knowledge of the truth."

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This excerpt was taken 
from the full sermon:

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Dying You Shall Die