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What's your purpose? Are we encouraging one another? I think it's so important that we hold up heaven for one another. Let us remind one another of what we're pointed towards, of what is in front of us, of the beauty and the joy and the love and the grace that awaits us. That should have a firm grip on all of our hearts, that it helps us get through every hardship, every valley -- we remember what is before us as Christians, because heaven reminds us that nothing ends at death, but rather passes through it into life. As John says, our sin does not have to end in death, because Christ has defeated sin, so that its power is faded.
I was listening to an illustration of a father explaining death to his daughter. As they were driving, they drove next to a truck, and the shadow of the truck fell over their car. The father turned and asked the daughter whether she'd like to get hit by the truck or the shadow. We all choose the shadow, and the reality is that Christ was hit by the truck so that we'd only be hit by the shadow.
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