FOUR DEATHS: DEATH IN SIN
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Four Deaths
a) How many times have you died? That is not a silly question. There are four kinds of death (including physical death) mentioned in the Bible.
b) Some people may die all four of these deaths. Many will never experience any of them. You have probably undergone at least one, hopefully two. Puzzled?
c) Here is one of them.
2. Death In Sin
a) Paul says, "I was once alive... then sin sprang to life, and I died" (Romans 7:9).
b) When Paul says, "I died" he was in neither grave nor hell — he had died neither physical nor eternal death. But he had died a death of some kind because he said, "I died."
c) Paul had earlier written of this death: "Through Adam sin entered the world, and through sin death passed to all men because all sinned" (Romans 5:12).It is a timeless principle that "the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23).
d) God says to all, just as he said to Adam, "In the day you sin, you shall die" (Genesis 2:17). Thus you may be "dead in your trespasses and sins" (Ephesians 2:1).
e) Adam was not told, "If you sin, you will die someday," but rather, "In the day that you sin you will surely die." The day one sins, one dies, being "alienated from the life of God" (Ephesians 4:18).
The End ...
1. Four Deaths a) How many times have you died? That is not a silly question. There are four kinds of death (including physical death) mentioned in the Bible.
b) Some people may die all four of these deaths. Many will never experience any of them. You have probably undergone at least one, hopefully two. Puzzled?
c) Here is one of them.
2. Death In Sin
a) Paul says, "I was once alive... then sin sprang to life, and I died" (Romans 7:9).
b) When Paul says, "I died" he was in neither grave nor hell — he had died neither physical nor eternal death. But he had died a death of some kind because he said, "I died."
c) Paul had earlier written of this death: "Through Adam sin entered the world, and through sin death passed to all men because all sinned" (Romans 5:12).It is a timeless principle that "the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23).
d) God says to all, just as he said to Adam, "In the day you sin, you shall die" (Genesis 2:17). Thus you may be "dead in your trespasses and sins" (Ephesians 2:1).
e) Adam was not told, "If you sin, you will die someday," but rather, "In the day that you sin you will surely die." The day one sins, one dies, being "alienated from the life of God" (Ephesians 4:18).
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