Death Has Been Defeated

Pastor Zack Strong

Death Has Been Defeated (Easter Sunday)

 

Text: Revelation 1.18, 4.8, John 14.19, 1 John 3.8, Romans 8.11, 6.8-12, Ecclesiastes 8.12-13

 

Death doesn’t have a hold on us; it’s a transition from living on earth to living in Heaven.

 

Death wasn’t designed for us to deal with. Man was created to live forever.

In the garden, Adam and Eve ate from the tree of life but didn’t physically die. First, there was a spiritual death that separated them from the heart, presence, and glory of God. Second, there was a physical separation from the life we were intended to live.

 

Adam and Eve experienced emotions like fear and shame and loss for the first time ever. None of that was intended for us.

 

God never intended for man to die- that’s part of sin and the enemy’s plan. When sin enters the picture, death is automatic. All the medical help in the world can’t change our sin nature. You can’t even buy your way out of sin. Serving in the church won’t move you out of sin.

 

There is no sin nature in God. God is only good. Your answer is in Him alone. You will live forever but maybe not in your preferred state.

 

Jesus, at the cross, paid the price for sin. Jesus and the Father gave it all.

Jesus, out of the tomb, allowed us to be restored back to the glory before Adam ever sinned. He carried us and our sin, bound up in grave clothes, into the tomb with Him.

 

Now because He lives, we are alive with Him. He paid for it at the cross and modeled it at the tomb.

 

We’re so used to letting death have it’s way. Don’t be deceived with the sin around you; no one can get away with it without the wages of death being paid. Sin always has a wage.

 

But the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus.

 

3 Reasons God Doesn’t Immediately Punish Sin

-You are part of His eternal plan. He could have started over or rewritten history. The shadow of God holds death back from us.

-His great love for each of us. His love overshadows us.

-His grace and mercy for us. Grace gives us what we don’t deserve.

 

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