Question Received-
WHY SHOULD WE CONTINUE TO DIE WHEN
CHRIST HAS ALREADY DIED FOR US?
My Answer-
#1- Believer’s bodies die their soul
does not.
Christ died a physical death. He also was resurrected. Believers will be resurrected and live
because Christ lives.
John 11:25-26 (New International Version)
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the
resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though
they die; 26 and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you
believe this?”
#2 Sin marred creation and though it
is a gift our bodies and world will one day be renewed.
Romans 5:12-21 (New International
Version)
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the
world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all
people, because all sinned—
#3
When believers have repented od sin
and confessed Jesus as lord they receive eternal life with the father,
forgiveness of sin and peace with God. Have you?
1 Corinthians 15:35-58 (New International
Version)
35 But someone will ask, “How are the
dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” 36 How foolish! What you
sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 When you sow, you do not plant the
body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. 38
But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives
its own body. 39 Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh,
animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40 There are also
heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly
bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. 41 The
sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star
differs from star in splendor.
42 So will it be with the resurrection of
the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; 43 it
is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is
raised in power; 44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also
a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living
being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come
first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of
the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man,
so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are
those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the image of the earthly
man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man.
50 I declare to you, brothers and
sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the
perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will
not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of
an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be
raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe
itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the
perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with
immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been
swallowed up in victory.”
55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the
power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my dear brothers and
sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the
work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
