LIFE & DEATH

 

LIFE AND DEATH

JOHN 5:16-24

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. THIS IS TOTALLY PERSONAL [3:36, 1 Jn. 5:11-12]

Life is wrapped up in a Person- the Lord Jesus Christ

- He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

- And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

that is, it’s wrapped up in a Person- the Lord Jesus Christ

1. The Inerrant Claim [v. 16-18]

2. The Inarguable Comparisons [v. 19-22]

3. The Inescapable Conclusions [v. 23]

II. DEATH HAS BEEN MISDEFINED

1. Death is NOT Annihilation [v. 24, Rm. 5:8]

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

 

2. Death is NOT in Degrees [Eph. 2:1]

either dead or alive – “he’s dead, but he’s deader, and he’s the deadest”

Spiritually as well-And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins

 

3. Death is NOT the End [Heb. 9:27]

“Death & judgment” NOT “Death and taxes” are the two sure things

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

 

 

III. UNDERSTAND DEATH TO UNDERSTAND LIFE

1. Death is Separation [2 Cor. 5:8, Is. 59:2, 2 Th. 1:9]

Physical death=material/immaterial

spiritual death=immaterial/God

2^nd death=immaterial forever/God

-We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

- But your iniquities have separated between you and your God

-Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power

 

2. Physical Life, Opposite of Physical Death, is Union [Gn. 2:7] And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

3. Spiritual Life, Opposite of Spiritual Death, is Union [Rm. 8:38-39]

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.