Death

beginnings of death - Gen. 2:17, 3:19

Genesis 2:17 LSB

17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat from it; for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

Genesis 3:19 LSB

19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”

therefore the cause of death is sin

decay, mortality are not natural parts of creation

Rom. 5:12 - brought in through one man, physically and spiritually,

Romans 5:12 LSB

12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned—

representative head of mankind - people are in Adam by physical birth and spiritual nature

people are in Christ by new birth and new spiritual nature, awaiting the joining of the physical

therefore, death is unnatural, undesirable, and grievous to the Lord

Ezekiel 18:31–32 LSB

31 “Cast away from yourselves all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Now why will you die, O house of Israel? 32 “For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,” declares Lord Yahweh. “Therefore, turn back and live.”

Ezekiel 33:11 LSB

11 “Say to them, ‘As I live!’ declares Lord Yahweh, ‘I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?’

John 11:35

John 11:35 LSB

35 Jesus wept.

1 Tim. 2:4

1 Timothy 2:4 LSB

4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

2 Peter 3:9

2 Peter 3:9 LSB

9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.

death is accompanied by great sorrow and mourning

Gen 23 Abraham mourned and wept for Sarah

Gen 37 Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his loins, wanted to die himself, and wept for Joseph as he believed him to be dead

Gen 50 Jacob died and Joseph lead an intense lament and mourning for 7 days

The end of Deuteronomy shows us Israel mourning and weeping 30 days for Moses in the plains of Moab

King Solomon says of mourning - Eccles. 7:2

Ecclesiastes 7:2 LSB

2 Better to go to a house of mourning Than to go to a house of feasting Because that is the end of all mankind, And the living puts this in his heart.

so death is the end of all mankind here on earth

Hebrews 9:27 appointed means to be governed by inevitable external circumstances

Hebrews 9:27 LSB

27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,

Psalm 139:16

Psalm 139:16 LSB

16 Your eyes have seen my unshaped substance; And in Your book all of them were written The days that were formed for me, When as yet there was not one of them.

the death rate is still 100%, so whats next?

if you hate death, would you not want something or someone to destroy it?

Romans 5:15 LSB

15 But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

Romans 6:8 LSB

8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him,

The Christian who contemplates death with joy is a living sermon. Fear Of Death, Volume 55, Sermon #3125 - Hebrews 2:15

Charles Spurgeon