by Robert Searles

Created on: September 17, 2008

CHRIST, THE CONQUEROR OF DEATH

The ultimate and most feared enemy of all times for mankind is death, the cessation of physical life, the cessation, absence or opposite of spiritual life, spiritual and eternal ruin.
God's original plan for mankind in the creation was eternal everlasting existence in paradise. Death entered when sin entered into the realm of human existence. Since man was originally created to live forever, the thought of non existence or cessation of life creates terror and horror in the human mind. God proclaimed death to be the penalty for sin when man disobeyed God. God put mankind to a simple test, and mankind failed that test and the result was and is the death penalty.

The bible gives us two descriptions of death, one being the separation of the soul from the body. The body returns to the dust of the earth from which it came, and the soul rises to go back to God to enjoy eternal bliss, or goes to a place separated from God to be judged by the word of God. The second and most fearful death is the death of the soul .which is the eternal everlasting separation of the spirit and soul from God the Father and creator to be forever tormented and suffer in hell. "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.: Romans 5:12. "And the lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Gen 2:16.
God the Father is a loving God, full of grace and compassion. God saw the plight of mankind, that he was helpless to redeem himself from the penalty of death, and in the counsels of heaven he devised a plan by which death for mankind could be conquered . He became flesh and dwelt among us, and took the blame for our sin on himself and paid the ultimate penalty. Christ Jesus who is God in human flesh, came into the world to conquer death for all men. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16.
Christ's coming as the conqueror of death was foretold by the prophets. "He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces, and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off the earth; for the Lord hath spoken it.: Isaiah 25:8. Christ, the conqueror of death,

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