Reigning In Life By The Abundance Of Grace The Present Working Of Death
REIGNING IN LIFE BY THE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE
THE PRESENT WORKING OF DEATH
The Bible reveals that death comes from sin. As Romans 6:23 says, "The wages of sin is death." This means that death is the result of sin. It is pos sible that our understanding of death may merely be doctrinal. When I was young, I was taught that there were two deaths: man's physical death and the lake of fire, which is the second death. I did not regard death as something in which I was subjectively involved daily. Gradually, however, I discovered that in the Bible a number of verses indicate that death is presently working in us. Death is like a worm that is constantly eating us. Sin ruins us, but it does not eat us. Death is the "worm" that is devouring us day by day.
Death has a number of aspects, the present aspect and the future aspect, the subjective aspect and the objective aspect. After the millennium, all the unbelieving dead will be raised and will stand before the white throne to be judged (Rev. 20:12). Those whose names are not found in the