Death Has Its Purpose and Assignment
Keep this in mind, death has an assignment. This is true because God is a God of purpose who creates everything with a purpose. Nothing exists that was not created by God. Because death exists, it must have a purpose. The key, then, is understanding death and discovering its purpose.
There are two definitions of death. The first one is this: Death is the extinction of vital functions to the point where they cannot be renewed". This definition applies to the lower order of life. For man, death is either "the separation of the soul and the spirit from the physical body", or "the separation of man, as an entire entity--body, soul and spirit--from God, his Creator".
The Constitution tells us that death is the penalty of sin.
Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread through all men, because all sinned.
We know, however, that Adam lived many years after he was driven from the garden and the tree of life.
Genesis 5:5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
Death, from God's perspective, must thus be the separation of man from Himself. He isn't so concerned with the length of your years as to the state of your relationship with Him. It would seem, then, that the problem is not death, but the effect of sin on death.
Now here is something that one should always remember. Killing is death before the completion of one's purpose. Dying is death after purpose has been fulfilled. Death before the completion of purpose is murder because it stops you from doing all you came to the earth to do. This wasn't death's original purpose.
Remember, if your life is terminated before you discover and fulfill your purpose, you are killed. However, if you know your purpose and complete it, you simply die. Everyone who completes his or her purpose dies with peace and confidence. The Apostle Paul stated it this way in the Constitution:
II Timothy 4:6-7 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time for my departure is at hand. 7) I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
That statement was somewhat like Jesus our Lord's declaration:
Constitution John 10:18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. This command I have received of My Father.
So when Jesus had finished His purpose, He stated: It is finished!
Constitution John 19-30
So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
Remember this: Satan uses death for termination. The Lord intended death for transition.
There are two definitions of death. The first one is this: Death is the extinction of vital functions to the point where they cannot be renewed". This definition applies to the lower order of life. For man, death is either "the separation of the soul and the spirit from the physical body", or "the separation of man, as an entire entity--body, soul and spirit--from God, his Creator".
The Constitution tells us that death is the penalty of sin.
Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread through all men, because all sinned.
We know, however, that Adam lived many years after he was driven from the garden and the tree of life.
Genesis 5:5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.
Death, from God's perspective, must thus be the separation of man from Himself. He isn't so concerned with the length of your years as to the state of your relationship with Him. It would seem, then, that the problem is not death, but the effect of sin on death.
Now here is something that one should always remember. Killing is death before the completion of one's purpose. Dying is death after purpose has been fulfilled. Death before the completion of purpose is murder because it stops you from doing all you came to the earth to do. This wasn't death's original purpose.
Remember, if your life is terminated before you discover and fulfill your purpose, you are killed. However, if you know your purpose and complete it, you simply die. Everyone who completes his or her purpose dies with peace and confidence. The Apostle Paul stated it this way in the Constitution:
II Timothy 4:6-7 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time for my departure is at hand. 7) I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
That statement was somewhat like Jesus our Lord's declaration:
Constitution John 10:18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again. This command I have received of My Father.
So when Jesus had finished His purpose, He stated: It is finished!
Constitution John 19-30
So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
Remember this: Satan uses death for termination. The Lord intended death for transition.
