Abolished Death
Christs Death is saving because by His Death alone, and His Resurrection is proof, He abolished death for them He died for, which is brought to light by the Gospel.
2 Tim 1:9-10
9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of
our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
Christs death was the death of death. The word abolished is the word
katargeō which means:
to render idle, unemployed, inactivate, inoperative
- to cause a person or thing to have no further efficiency
- to deprive of force, influence, power
- to cause to cease, put an end to, do away with, annul, abolish
- to cease, to pass away, be done away
- to be severed from, separated from, discharged from, loosed from any one
- to terminate all intercourse with one
Its an aorist tense verb denoting its a done accomplishment,
Hence The Saviour Christ by His Death alone has abolished death, causes it to be inoperative, deprives of its influence and efficiency, discharges and looses from death every sinner He died for, ensuring and
causing their subsequent regeneration from spiritual death, and if they have physically died, will raise them from physical death unto Glory.
This is one of the many results of the Saving death of Christ. Its impossible therefore for any sinner Christ died for, not to be regenerated as evidence of His death abolishing death, and resurrection. That's why Peter writes 1 Pet 1:3
.3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy
hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
They were begotten again, or regenerated unto a living hope by Christs resurrection from the dead because for them His death abolished death! 26
