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INTRODUCTION DEATH & LIFE
When people think or talk about death, I have discovered that there are a massive amount of other words and feelings that are connected. Let me help separate all of the side issues and put a frame around just the word death to give us an opportunity to truly understand.
This is a list of most of the words and feelings I have experienced attached to the word death perhaps you may have even more:
DEATH – fear, pain, murder, scared, killing, sickness, diseases, accidents, injustices, war, sorrow, life after death, confusion, resurrection, Easter, religion, church, funeral, casket, cremation, burial, graves, cemeteries, disasters, grief, mourning, darkness, unknown, loneliness, mortality, loss of life, pandemics, ambulances, chaos, firetrucks, earthquakes, explosions, police cars, screaming, powerlessness, helplessness, hopelessness and the end of the world, the end of everything.
Now let’s separate the word DEATH out of this list and let it stand alone. Even the dictionary defines death as, loss of life. So, to define death one must first understand Life. What is life? Is life the opposite of death? When did life happen?
FIRST HUMAN LIFE HAPPENED WITH ADAM
The earliest record of the start of human life was verbally handed forward from generation to generation until it was written down. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being (living soul). Genesis 2:7
***John speaking of creation describing Jesus as the Spoken Word that all things were made through Him…and in Him (Jesus) was Life. John 1:1-4
Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die. Do you believe this, Martha?” (John 11:25-26)
Jesus was recorded saying, I am the way, the truth and the life… John 14:1-6
…the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
So, when did death start?
FIRST HUMAN DEATH HAPPENED WITH THE SAME ADAM
But now Christ is risen from the dead and has become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so I Christ all shall be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:20-22
Why did Adam die? And how exactly did that happen?
- Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” Genesis 2:15-17
- God made Eve to be Adam’s helper and wife. Genesis 2:21-25
- Satan tempted and deceived Eve to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Listen in to the conversation: The serpent said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?… You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:1-5
- As the serpent; known today as the devil or Satan causes mankind to have doubt and unbelief in God’s Word a war has been declared. Satan trying to recruit or deceive mankind away from Father God. Even though this war has been going on for thousands of years, Jesus; “Life Himself” is just about ready to end it once and for all!
- So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
- Then the eyes of both of them were opened.
- Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God.
- Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” Genesis 3:6-9
Lord God, creator of everything including Adam and Eve, gave one command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Even though they were deceived by Satan, they chose to disobey. This is called sin. When God gives a command and we “miss the mark.”
For the wages of sin is death… Romans 6:23
But wait a minute, Adam did not die until after he had many children and turned 930 years old. So what actually happened here?
SPIRITUAL DEATH LEADS TO PHYSICAL DEATH
When God breathed into Adam, he became a living being or soul. Where is your soul? What is your soul? We know that Adam’s body was made of the dust of the earth. We understand this now as the elements found in dirt are also the base of elements in our flesh bodies. When God breathed life into Adam it was God’s Life Spirit that gave physical life to Adam’s physical body. Even though this is a great mystery, God is revealing it to us through the written book of Genesis Chapter one and two! Let us take deeper look at those events……….
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