GOD'S Sabbath Rest

            To fortify our faith in Christ and our ability to rest in the tangible evidence of His Love we need to review the legal dominion of death and clearly see how Christ conquered its jurisdiction over us. GOD said in Ezekiel, "The soul that sinneth it shall die;" and Paul said, “The wages of sin is death.” The dominion of death exists to confine every life-threatening sin: to hold under the jurisdiction of non-existence all that threatens the safety of life. This is the sole function of death. It has no other purpose. So, when Jesus Christ was forced into the grave at the hands of lawless men, having never united His will with sin either by thought or deed, the grave had no legal right to hold Him: it had to set Him free; for death can only hold sin, of which Christ had none!

            On the day of Pentecost Peter said that, “it was not possible that He should be holden of it” (Acts 2:24). And as Christ is the Father of Adam, the Creator of the human race, and the “first fruits” of this victory over sin and the grave, all His children are now to follow His path of resurrection from the dead (I Cor. 15:20, 22, 23). This is why Isaiah calls Him, “The Everlasting Father."  Every man from Adam to the last is to be raised from the grave.

            This simple teaching, restoring man’s freedom to choose GOD’S deliverance: from sin’s condemnation of death, its power over our nature, and the very presence of devils in our lives lies at the heart of the message of GOD’S deliverance and is the most glorious doctrine ever given to men. The Bible calls this, “the power of His resurrection.” Said Paul, “As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”