And there will be no more death~ Revelation 21:4
Quite an incredible thought.
Life was always God's intention.
In the Garden, before Adam fell, there was no death. But through Adam's sin, death entered the world.
And we, ever since that time, have all been children of Adam, born into this fallen world, under the curse of sin and death.
Romans states clearly; the wages of sin is death.
But God is life. And in him there is no sin.
Those two characteristics of God are no coincidence. They are intrinsically linked.
Death is a result of sin. It brings a separation from the God of life.
Scientifically that is a hard fact quantify. But it is, none-the-less a spiritual reality.
We have been harvesting the bitter fruit from the seed of Adams sin for millennia.
Not fair, is it?
But we must take responsibility too. As my first teacher at YWAM used to say, we take to sin like a duck takes to water.
No, We are not blameless.
But, if we believe in Jesus Christ it is a different story. We have a new nature, that loves to please God.
Our old nature still co-exists with us.....and at some level , always will. But now we have a choice to serve God and to sow to the spirit, to choose life rather than death.
And yes, it shall be life!
You see Jesus was the first born from among the dead.
Yes, Okay. There was Lazarus and Jairus' daughter before him...and the widow's son that Elisha raised, but none of them was a fruit of THE resurrection. They were raised in special miraculous dispensation....and the died again.
But Jesus rose from the grave, incorruptible, eternal and glorified.
And of this resurrection, all we believers will partake, because we are one with Christ.
Death is swallowed up in victory.
Death where is your sting?
And if Jesus was the firstborn then it follows that there will be others.....many others.
He's alive,
He's alive,
He's alive for evermore,
Jesus is risen from the Dead.
And because he lives forevermore, guess what?
Because we are in him, we shall live for ever.
But don't worry.
Of course I don't fully understand it, anymore than anyone else, I should imagine, but it wont be a dull life stretching into infinity. It will be FULLNESS of life. Deathless life, with new creations and new discovery and enjoyment of God's never ending goodness, day after day, after glorious day,
And in that Kingdom we shall say it lasts for ever,
This day,
And all days.
Amen.
But, if we believe in Jesus Christ it is a different story. We have a new nature, that loves to please God.
Our old nature still co-exists with us.....and at some level , always will. But now we have a choice to serve God and to sow to the spirit, to choose life rather than death.
And yes, it shall be life!
You see Jesus was the first born from among the dead.
Yes, Okay. There was Lazarus and Jairus' daughter before him...and the widow's son that Elisha raised, but none of them was a fruit of THE resurrection. They were raised in special miraculous dispensation....and the died again.
But Jesus rose from the grave, incorruptible, eternal and glorified.
And of this resurrection, all we believers will partake, because we are one with Christ.
Death is swallowed up in victory.
Death where is your sting?
And if Jesus was the firstborn then it follows that there will be others.....many others.
He's alive,
He's alive,
He's alive for evermore,
Jesus is risen from the Dead.
And because he lives forevermore, guess what?
Because we are in him, we shall live for ever.
But don't worry.
Of course I don't fully understand it, anymore than anyone else, I should imagine, but it wont be a dull life stretching into infinity. It will be FULLNESS of life. Deathless life, with new creations and new discovery and enjoyment of God's never ending goodness, day after day, after glorious day,
And in that Kingdom we shall say it lasts for ever,
This day,
And all days.
Amen.
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