Death / La Muerte
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Introduction
Introduction
According to the Church calendar we are in what we call Palm Sunday. This is the last week in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Sunday - marks the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
Thursday - marks the day when he ate the passover meal with his disciples and he instituted the Lord’s Supper.
Friday - he will be arrested, tried, and crucified. Friday he will die upon the cross.
This is the last week in the life of Jesus Christ.
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After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
Dicho esto, Jesús siguió adelante, subiendo hacia Jerusalén.
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Jesus knew it would be his last week upon the earth. Shortly, he would suffer at the hands of the Jews and the Romans. In a few days he would be mocked, whipped, and eventually crucified.
Holy Week is about following Jesus through the events that lead to his crucifixion. It is an amazing thought to realize who Jesus was and what he was about to experience.
You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.
You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.
but put to death the Prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses.
Rechazaron al Santo y Justo, y pidieron que se indultara a un asesino. Mataron al autor de la vida, pero Dios lo levantó de entre los muertos, y de eso nosotros somos testigos.
Rechazaron al Santo y Justo, y pidieron que se indultara a un asesino. Mataron al autor de la vida, pero Dios lo levantó de entre los muertos, y de eso nosotros somos testigos.
It is amazing to think that the Author of life itself would in a matter of days experience death.
But why?
Why did Jesus have to die?
Was it necessary that he die such a violent death?
Why did he have to give up his own life as a ransom for those who would believe?
To answer these questions we turn our attention to .
I. God’s Perfect Creation
I. God’s Perfect Creation
I. La Creación Perfecta de Dios
I. La Creación Perfecta de Dios
In we read of God’s perfect creation.
This is the written account of Adam’s family line.
When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.
Ésta es la lista de los descendientes de Adán.
Cuando Dios creó al ser humano, lo hizo a semejanza de Dios mismo. Los creó hombre y mujer, y los bendijo. El día que fueron creados los llamó «seres humanos».
This is the written account of Adam’s family line.
When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.
Genesis 5:
Ésta es la lista de los descendientes de Adán.
Cuando Dios creó al ser humano, lo hizo a semejanza de Dios mismo. Los creó hombre y mujer, y los bendijo. El día que fueron creados los llamó «seres humanos».
We see how God creates man and woman. They are created in the image and likeness of God.
There is no stain of sin. There is no sickness. There is no pain. They are living in paradise.
Man and woman would live eternally in God’s presence enjoying his good gifts.
Man and woman had an opportunity that no one else in the history of humanity had - they lived in the midst of perfection.
It is difficult for us to understand a world of pristine perfection.
All we know is a world where there is imperfection.
We know a world where there is hate, pain, sickness, and destruction.
Adam and Eve never knew such a world.
What a great privilege! Surely they would do anything to live in this state forever!
II. Man’s Sin
II. Man’s Sin
II. El Pecado del Hombre
II. El Pecado del Hombre
However, in verse 3 we read something astonishing.
When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
Cuando Adán llegó a la edad de ciento treinta años, tuvo un hijo a su imagen y semejanza, y lo llamó Set.
When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.
Cuando Adán había vivido ciento treinta años, engendró un hijo a su semejanza, conforme a su imagen, y le puso por nombre Set.
Notice that we are told their first son was Seth.
However, this is was not their first son. Their first son was Cain. Their second son was Abel.
However, they are not mentioned. Something had happened to them and the author decided to not include them in this genealogy.
Why would the author fail to include them in this list of descendants?
One possibility is this genealogy is dedicated to list the descendants of Seth, the father of the people of Israel.
Something had happened in the first family. Don’t we all recall that one day while they were in the field Cain killed his brother Abel?
No wonder he is not included in the list of the sons of Adam. Abel had been killed by his own blood brother. Cain was the first murderer upon the face of this planet. He was the first man to spill blood of an innocent victim.
It must have been awful for Adam and Eve to learn of the death of their son Abel.
Can we imagine the pain that Adam and Eve felt as they realized that their oldest son had killed the youngest?
It was not an accident. Cain purposely killed his brother!
However, this was not the most painful even in the lives of Adam and Eve. They had experienced something much more painful, something much more awful.
While in paradise God had given to them one commandment:
And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
y le dio este mandato: «Puedes comer de todos los árboles del jardín, pero del árbol del conocimiento del bien y del mal no deberás comer. El día que de él comas, ciertamente morirás.»
All they were required to do was to follow God’s instruction.
They were commanded to be faithful to God’s word or face certain death.
However, Adam and Eve may have not understood what death meant. After all, they were living in paradise where there was no death!
Plants did not die.
Animals did not die.
They did not experience the aging process.
Although, they did not understand what death was or even if they did not understand why God would require such obedience: all they needed to do was walk according to God’s command.
When the serpent comes to tempt Eve we understand why their disobedience was such an offense before God:
“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
Pero la serpiente le dijo a la mujer:
—¡No es cierto, no van a morir! Dios sabe muy bien que, cuando coman de ese árbol, se les abrirán los ojos y llegarán a ser como Dios, conocedores del bien y del mal.
Genesis 3:4-5
Genesis 3:4
The serpent caused them to doubt God’s word. Not only did the serpent have them doubt God but also accused God of lying.
The serpent almost implies that by disobeying God they would actually be just like God. Why worship God when you can become god yourself!
We know what happens after they ate of the forbidden fruit.
Their eyes are open.
They have disobeyed God.
They have desired to become gods themselves.
They have decided that the serpents word is much more trustworthy than what God, their creator, had commanded.
They have decided to believe that which is not God.
are perhaps one of the most tragic verses in the entire Bible.
So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
Entonces Dios el Señor expulsó al ser humano del jardín del Edén, para que trabajara la tierra de la cual había sido hecho. Luego de expulsarlo, puso al oriente del jardín del Edén a los querubines, y una espada ardiente que se movía por todos lados, para custodiar el camino que lleva al árbol de la vida.
Our first parents are banished from the Garden.
They can no longer enjoy the beauty and security of God’s presence.
They are banished from the place of eternal joy to a cursed world. Their experience would now be tragically different from what they have known to date.
Pretty soon Eve would bare a son and experience pain.
Pretty soon Adam would have to work the fields and face the difficulties of sprouting thorns, drought, and ruined crops.
Pretty soon Eve would have another child who she would name Seth - but in a few years he would be murdered by his own brother.
I can just imagine our first parents longing for the days in Eden. In their 900 plus years they had experienced pain, the loss of a child to a murderer, the feeling of being cursed by God and living in a cursed world - all a consequence of their sin.
III. Death Enters The World
III. Death Enters The World
III. La Muerte Entra En El Mundo
III. La Muerte Entra En El Mundo
So now, look at the pattern that we see in .
Each section tells us about the various descendants of Adam.
We are told how many years they lived.
We are told of their children.
…and one after another, we are told they died (vv. 3, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 27, 31).
There is only once exception: Enoch. We are told he walked faithfully with God and one day God took him home! (5:23-24).
What is the common them in this chapter?
The common theme is all of Adam’s descendants are not only experiencing death, but they are also living less years.
Verse 3 tells us about Adam dying at 930 years whereas Lamech dies at 777 years.
All these families are experiencing the pain of death. They are all experiencing their loved ones take their last breath.
The Bible tells us that because of sin entering the world, so too has death entered into this world.
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—
Por medio de un solo hombre el pecado entró en el mundo, y por medio del pecado entró la muerte; fue así como la muerte pasó a toda la humanidad, porque todos pecaron.
Because of man’s rebellion we will all surely die.
Many will die at an early age and others will die in their older years.
The truth is, we will all die.
At some point or another we will all experience the pain of death in our lives.
Nevertheless, death is unnatural. We should never think of death as something good and acceptable. Death should remind us of the consequences of sin. Death should remind us that ever since our first parents sinned we have all continued to sin and rebel before the presence of God.
The pain we feel at the time of someone’s death is understandable for it did not have to be like this! Had sin never entered the world there would be no death or pain!
Why did Jesus have to die?
Jesus had to die because he had to take upon himself the penalty of our sin.
If the consequences of sin is death, then he was obligated to die so that we would be rescued from the penalty of sin.
Jesus, the perfect God-man, the blameless lamb of God, gave himself as a ransom for our sin.
Jesus lived a sinless life!
Because Jesus had no sin, he did not have to die!
Jesus was utterly blameless and therefore, did not have to face death.
However, he took upon himself all our filth, our rebellion, or adulteries, our hatred, our lying, cheating, all our sin.
Isaiah portrays the Lord Jesus’ death in this way:
Isaiah 53:7-
He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.
He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
Maltratado y humillado,
ni siquiera abrió su boca;
como cordero, fue llevado al matadero;
como oveja, enmudeció ante su trasquilador;
y ni siquiera abrió su boca.
Después de aprehenderlo y juzgarlo, le dieron muerte;
nadie se preocupó de su descendencia.
Fue arrancado de la tierra de los vivientes,
y golpeado por la transgresión de mi pueblo.
Se le asignó un sepulcro con los malvados,
y murió entre los malhechores,
aunque nunca cometió violencia alguna,
ni hubo engaño en su boca.
Pero el Señor quiso quebrantarlo y hacerlo sufrir,
y como él ofreció su vida en expiación,
verá su descendencia y prolongará sus días,
y llevará a cabo la voluntad del Señor.
Isaías 53:7-10
Because Jesus died, my sins are forgiven. Hallelujah, what a Savior!