There are only two deaths spoken of in scripture. A natural or physical death, and a spiritual death. Every time you read about death it will fall within these two types of death.
We all understand what a natural or physical death is but few have any idea of what a spiritual death is/means.
So what do scriptures tell us of this spiritual death?
Well the law is a ministration of death and that law is spiritual.
Thus a spiritual death is a death by way of the law.
This can be seen in that Man was created in a state of grace
The tree of knowledge of good and evil is the law, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
The day A & E broke Gods commandment not to eat was the day they were placed under the law which is a ministration of death and it is this death by law that that they died the day they ate thereof.
Thus by one man death came into the world.
However even in death God gave a way for man to return to that state of grace they were created in because the law is also our schoolmaster that leads to Christ.
Thus death is not the end for man but a schoolmaster that leads us back to grace in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Thus the wrath of God that is poured out upon man is the workings of the law
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Ro.4:15
Now we know the law is a ministration of DEATH, but it is also our schoolmaster that lead us to Christ.
Thus what God’s wrath does is minister DEATH to our old man and leads the inner man to Christ.
Thus Paul goes on to say
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Ro.5:9
So what wrath are we being saved from? answer: the wrath of the law, that ministration of death.
So what does it mean to be saved from wrath? Just as we are not saved from death but out of death so too are we saved out of the wrath (the power of the law) through Christ.
We read in
Romans 3:19
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Galatians 3:23
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Galatians 4:4-5
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Galatians 5:18
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Romans 6:14-16
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Now we can understand what is stated in
Revelation 20:6
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
A thousand years is as one day, today is the day of salvation, we are to rule and reign with Christ TODAY. If we wait to rule and reign with Christ in some future time we will find ourselves being judged by the law according to our works.
Those in the first resurrection are those who are led by the Spirit, the LAW no longer has any POWER over them but they have become ONE with the law of the spirit in Christ.
We all understand what a natural or physical death is but few have any idea of what a spiritual death is/means.
So what do scriptures tell us of this spiritual death?
Well the law is a ministration of death and that law is spiritual.
Thus a spiritual death is a death by way of the law.
This can be seen in that Man was created in a state of grace
The tree of knowledge of good and evil is the law, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
The day A & E broke Gods commandment not to eat was the day they were placed under the law which is a ministration of death and it is this death by law that that they died the day they ate thereof.
Thus by one man death came into the world.
However even in death God gave a way for man to return to that state of grace they were created in because the law is also our schoolmaster that leads to Christ.
Thus death is not the end for man but a schoolmaster that leads us back to grace in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Thus the wrath of God that is poured out upon man is the workings of the law
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Ro.4:15
Now we know the law is a ministration of DEATH, but it is also our schoolmaster that lead us to Christ.
Thus what God’s wrath does is minister DEATH to our old man and leads the inner man to Christ.
Thus Paul goes on to say
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Ro.5:9
So what wrath are we being saved from? answer: the wrath of the law, that ministration of death.
So what does it mean to be saved from wrath? Just as we are not saved from death but out of death so too are we saved out of the wrath (the power of the law) through Christ.
We read in
Romans 3:19
19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Galatians 3:23
23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Galatians 4:4-5
4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
Galatians 5:18
18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Romans 6:14-16
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Now we can understand what is stated in
Revelation 20:6
6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
A thousand years is as one day, today is the day of salvation, we are to rule and reign with Christ TODAY. If we wait to rule and reign with Christ in some future time we will find ourselves being judged by the law according to our works.
Those in the first resurrection are those who are led by the Spirit, the LAW no longer has any POWER over them but they have become ONE with the law of the spirit in Christ.