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2 SamuelAugust 31, 2026

They don't experience death

What about the guy who died before the story was over? Did God come down for him?

Joab looked at David's life and saw disaster after disaster after disaster. David looked at the same events and said every one of them was a chance to cry to God and Him to show off. Same life. Two stories. That's the short clip: They told two different stories about the same life

2 Samuel 22 is David saying God came down and pulled him out. Fine. What about the guy who died before the story was over? Did God come down for him?

Jesus told Martha, Lazarus four days in the grave: whoever believes in me, though he die, he shall live. And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. He meant it. No take-backs.

That's the longer clip: What about the guy who died before the story was over?

The landing is this: every person in the Lord who dies doesn't experience death. What they experience is the deliverance that song sings about. We experience them dying because we experience the loss of them. That's not what they experience.

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