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The Lies We Believe: “About Death”. Hebrews 9:27-28 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment, 28 so also Christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people.
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Hebrews 9:27-28 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment, 28 so also Christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people.
He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him.
Why do people die? Is death a natural part of living or did something happen to bring this circumstance into reality as we know it? Scripture acknowledges death in many places as a matter of fact but also as a matter of consequence and not fate.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death… James 1:15 …And when sin is allowed to grow, it gives birth to death.
God does not necessarily choose how or when people die. God has instituted an order to His universe that follows design, that design was subverted by our choices and we continue to experience the effects even now.
God does not takepeopleaway. Sometimes our efforts to comfort are misguided; just because a grieving person suggests “I don’t understand” is not an invitation to explain as much as it is to be with them.
Hebrews 2:11-15 11 So now Jesus and the ones he makes holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters. 12 For he said to God,
“I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters. I will praise you among your assembled people.” 13He also said, “I will put my trust in him,” that is, “I and the children God has given me.”
14Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death.
15 Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear of dying.
Jesus’s ministry gives us the good news that God loves all lives and that He was even willing to experience the effects of that which is entirely foreign to His nature, death, so that everyone who trusts Him can live without fear of it.
Romans 8:18-25 • Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. 19 For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. 20 Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope,
21 the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 22 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
23 And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children,
including the new bodies he has promised us. 24 We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. 25 But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)
God is the Author and Lover of life, not the “GrimReaper.” Death has been defeated, but the effects of sin remain until the fallen world is fully remade.
