WEDS. 25TH JUNE, 2014 ODEHYIEBA DAILY DEVOTION TOPIC: THE BENEFITS OF DEATH TO THE BELIEVER Pt 2 TEXT: Romans 14:8 N1V If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. EXPOSITION We thank God for His divine selection this day. We continue with our series on death. Today, I want us to look at what the Bible says about death. The Bible presents death as separation. Death can be seen in two ways. They are physical death:- the separation of the soul from the body, and Spiritual death, the separation of the soul from God. We shall go into details as we move on. Death is the result of sin. “For the wages of sin is death,” Romans 6:23 . The whole world is subject to death, because all have sinned. “By one man sin entered the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned” (Romans 5:12 ). In Genesis 2:17 , the Lord warned Adam that, the penalty for disobedience would be death “you will surely die.” When Adam disobeyed, he experienced immediate spiritual death, which caused him to hide “from Lord God among the trees of the garden” (Genesis 3:8 ). Later, Adam experienced physical death (Gen 5:5). On the cross, Jesus also experienced physical death ( Matt 27:50 ). The difference is that Adam died because he was a sinner, and Jesus, who had never sinned, chose to die as a substitute for sinners (Heb 2:9 ). Jesus then showed His power over death and sin by rising from the dead on the third day. Because of Christ, death is a defeated foe. “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” (1 Corinth 15:55). For the unsaved, death brings to an end the chance to accept God’s gracious offer of salvation. “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” (Hebrews 9:27 ). For the saved, death ushers us into the presence of Christ: “To be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord” (2 Corin 5:8). So real is the promise of the believer’s resurrection that the physical death of a Christian is called “sleep. We look forward to that time when “there shall be no more death” (Revelation 21:4 ). We shall continue tommorow God willing. Until then Stay Blessed and enjoy a blissful day. PEACE-SHALOM! FURTHER STUDY 1 Corinthians 15 DO NOT FEAR DEATH!!! REMAIN RAPTURABLE
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