✝️ The Death and Life of the Lord 🌅 The expressions of apostolic teaching must remain a beacon for us, where the Apostle declares: "For the death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God" (cf. Romans 6:10). Thus He lives in us, conquering sin, leading us towards repentance, sanctifying us by the Holy Spirit and by the blood of the New Covenant, which is better and greater than all the blood of the sacrifices of the Old Covenant. The precious Cross has become a fountain of salvation and life for us all. It is not a death substituted for a death, i.e., the death of the Lord as Adam died; for the Lord is the second Adam, "the Lord from heaven" (1 Corinthians 15:47). Rather, it is a death in which the Lord gathered three things: First: The true human nature capable of death, which He took from the Mother of God; for He is truly perfect man. Second: The death that reigned over all mankind. Third: The sentence of judgment: "You shall surely die." The Lord permitted death to approach Him by His embodied divine will, and therefore He said concerning His death: "I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again." And when death passed through His being, the sentence of judgment was executed, and He truly died. He accepted death in His humanity and tasted it in the flesh. But we must not forget that He who tasted death in the flesh is the very One who pronounced the sentence: "You shall surely die" (Genesis 2:17). He was exercising His divine authority as a just Judge, and therefore the Apostle said: "He condemned sin in the flesh" (Romans 8:3). #Cross #Salvation #DeathOfChrist #NewCovenant #Atonement #Judgment #Redemption