Whether young and in an accident, middle aged and from that unexpected heart attack, old age, simply falling asleep, as they say, in your own bed, we all have and will die because of sin.
But none who have been saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who have been born again, will die in their sins.
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” (Romans 10:9)
It is an interesting question to contemplate at times, and in relation to the forthcoming question, the following verse must be considered as to whether or not it was applicable at that moment.
“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” (Heb. 9:27)
Would Adam and Eve have died in the flesh if they had not sinned? It is an interesting question, yet a moot point of course, because they had the ability to sin, but they could have called upon the Almighty and said, “There is someone in the garden trying to beguile us! Help us!”
But they did not do so, and so they first died in the Spiritual sense, in that the fellowship with the Lord was broken because of their rebellion, but at least in Adam’s case, and many who sprung from his loins, the body did not die for centuries.
It does not take near that long for sin to kill us now, does it.
“And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” (Gen. 6:3)
Remember, that was not a stipulation placed upon the lifespan of humans by the Most High, that was how long it took to build the ark by Noah and his family.
Of course I could be mistaken in this, but the great flood did not alter the previous atmospheric conditions of this planet, we all die because of sin, sin is the ultimate disease, and in relation to the flesh and its demise, it cannot be cured. When our bodies are reunited with our spirit, they will be eternal, whether it be in heaven or those who will reside forever in the Lake of Fire. But here is what I am contemplating at the moment.
Adam, in his flesh, had the ability to choose, subjection to the will and commandments of the Almighty, or rebellion. When we are reunited with our bodies, when this corruptible has put on incorruption, what choices will be available to us?
Will our own free will still guide our thoughts, or will certain thoughts be withheld from us? In the flesh, without the temptations of Satan, when Adam listened to the voice of his wife, was it even possible for him to withstand that temptation? I offer you this as well, purely conjecture, along with this truth.
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” (2nd Cor. 5:21)
If indeed we die in the flesh because of sin, would our Savior have lived forever, never dying?
There is a truth here that I cannot fully grasp at the moment, but I believe it to be true, we all die because of sin, but not all of us will die in our sins.
“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.” (Rev. 20:6)
The very young, those who die in the womb are blessed, in a way that we who live life can never comprehend fully, they knew no sin, yet they were never able to comprehend one thing that any of us who have been born again have been blessed to know.
The grace of God towards the forgiveness of our sins.
Our iniquities, our transgressions, yours and mine, are the reason our Savior walked willingly to the cross of shame, and if you truly have been born again, then by His stripes you have been healed. You will not die in your sins; they have all been paid for.
How or why we die is really quite immaterial, how you live for Him whom you are dead in is what matters.
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Gal. 2:20)
