💀 Why Did the Lord Jesus Allow His Body to Die? When the incarnate Word came into human life, He found it empty and ruined, without eternal life, but captive to death. Nevertheless, He took on a life susceptible to death in order to expel death from it, and He transferred it through the (virginal) conception from the Virgin Mary from the first Adam to His divine hypostasis. Thus, from the first moment, human life entered the realm of divine life. And when He was born as a complete human (having a human soul and body), He began to fashion the soul and body together firstly in an undivided unity; because He confronted death in His body through the union of the soul with the body in order to abolish the separation between the soul and the body that was brought by death. And when He accepted death, He allowed death to separate His humanity into a soul that descended into Hades and a body that was placed in the tomb. And because death occurred by the will of the Lord Jesus and was executed in His being, death lost its power, for it no longer has power over anyone; because the power of death was attached to judgment and the sentence of death "you shall surely die" (Gen 2:17). The Lord broke the power of death by abolishing the judgment; and therefore we pray and say: "May there be no death for Your servants, but a departure"; because He who died for us lifted the sentence from all humans. And when death was abolished in the body of the Lord, this body was no longer subject to corruption and division, but lived a divine life that does not take from the elements of the universe, such as water, air, food, and drink, what gives it life. Rather, the divinity of the Word became the source of life for the humanity after the resurrection. And the "breath of life" (Gen 2:7) became what moves and gives life to the humanity. And the rational power became the food and drink of the humanity, and glory became the garment of the humanity. And with this (transformation), He remained a human who does not perish because of the union; for He became the icon of the new life to which we will (be transformed) when we rise on the last day. #DeathAndResurrection #JesusDeath #Salvation #VictoryOverDeath #ChristianHope #EternalLife

✝️ Did the Lord Jesus Christ die a spiritual and physical death together on the cross, like Adam? The answer is yes, and no. He took the "judgment" that was meant for us, but He tore up the "certificate of debt" and lifted it away, meaning He removed it from the relationship of communion between God and man. He tore it up on the cross when He nailed it there. This would not happen if the Lord had died a spiritual death like Adam, which is why the Apostle Peter said on the day of Pentecost that death could not "hold him" (Acts 2:24). Because the judgment was issued by the one Trinity, there was no one else with the authority of judgment besides the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The righteous Judge does not give an account to another; rather, according to His goodness, He gives what He wills. For the clay does not dare to ask the potter, "Why have you made me like this?" (Romans 9:20-21) When we say yes, it is because He truly died, and His soul was separated from His body, which is the same death as Adam's. When we say no, it is because we must not forget that the Lord has authority over life, and therefore He descended into Hell, not as one dead under the authority of death (i.e., Satan), but He descended and scattered the forces of darkness, destroyed the powers of Hell, broke the sting of death, and tore up the certificate of debt; because He has authority over life. 🔥 #ChristianTheology #JesusDeath #Atonement #SpiritualDeath #Resurrection #AuthorityOverLife #Hell #DefeatedDeath #CertificateOfDebt #ChristianDoctrine

Maundy Thursday #maundythursday After The Last Supper, Jesus goes with Peter, John & James to The Garden of Gethsemane to pray and prepare for his betrayal and arrest. teacherjohnnyesl@gmail.com #Jesusbetrayed #judas #Jesusprays #holyweek#esl #biblestudy #theactionbible #easter #gethsemane #jesusdeath