The other day I was watching a clip from the movie Forest Gump and it’s the scene when Forest’s mother is dying. In the scene he asks her a simple question, “Why are you dying momma?” To which she says, “It’s just my time…Death is just a part of life.”

Have you ever heard or said that before? “Death is a part of life?” When you think about it that statement is not all together true is it? Death is not a part of life; it’s death. It’s an end to life.

When God created life, death was not in the picture. Man was created to live forever with an eternal and living God. In Ecclesiastes 9, Solomon is outraged at death, which is why he refers to it as being evil.

We need to avoid language that says, “Death is a beautiful thing and is a part of life.” We need to abandon this Lion King Circle of Life nonsense. In Scripture, death is not viewed as a natural phenomenon, but as a moral evil. Death is our great enemy. Christ came to do what? (To conquer death—to defeat death—to remove the sting of death) (Isa. 25:8; 1 Cor. 15:51-57; Heb. 2:14-15; Rev. 20:14, 21:4).