Jesus died—that’s a straightforward truth we confess in the Apostles’ Creed.
But we should linger on it for a while, because God wanted exactly this: a death. And because of it, God now urges all people: Be united to Christ!
As we read in the letter to the Hebrews: Jesus suffered death, “so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone” (2:9). He endured death, so that everyone who is joined to Christ by faith can live forever.
Jesus’s few hours on the cross—as He suffered eternal death—have brought us great blessing. Now believers are freed from the hell that is the payment for our sins. Now we are freed from the death that never ends.
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