Have you ever thought through the two deaths of Christ? Most people, when they look at the Cross only see Him dying on the Cross see His physical death and not His spiritual death. To help us see both deaths we must see what death really is! Physical death is the separation of the soul & spirit from the body and that person enters Eternity - either Heaven because of a personal faith in Christ as Lord and Saviour or Hell because they failed to trust Him as Saviour. Now, back to the Cross and the two deaths of Christ. His first death was spiritual and you see this when He cried: "My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?" He was forsaken, separated from the Father when the Father laid on Him the sins of the world (your's, mine and the whole world). Remember: death is separation and the Lord was separated from the Father for the very time ever! 2 Corinthians 5:21 puts it this way: "For He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" His second death, the physical death, then followed and we see this in His words: "Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit."
If we would take a quick look at Genesis 3:1-24 we would find that Adam first died spiritually when he sinned by disobeying God's word and then some 930 years later Adam died physically. Jesus, the last Adam died first spiritually and then physically. He did all this for you and me so that we would only have to die ONCE and that physically BUT we wouldn't die spiritually in Hell, separated from God forever!
Back to the question: "Have you thought through the two deaths of Christ?" You face both deaths but by faith in Christ as Lord and Saviour you will only face physical death! Jesus stated in John 11:25:"I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die (physical), he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die (spiritual). Do you believe this?"
