Spiritual death consists in being separated from God. The Scriptures teach about two causes of spiritual death: the first is the Fall, and the second is our own disobedience. Spiritual death can be overcome through the Atonement of Jesus Christ and obedience to His gospel.
Death is a separation. Physical death is when the soul is separated from the body. Spiritual death, which is of greater importance, is the separation of the soul from God.
In Genesis 2:17, God tells Adam that on the day he eats of the forbidden fruit, he would “surely die.” Adam sins, but his physical death does not occur immediately; God must have had another kind of death in mind: spiritual death. This separation from God is exactly what we see in Genesis 3:8.
When Adam and Eve heard the Lord’s voice, they “hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God.” Communion had been broken. They were spiritually dead. A man without Christ is spiritually dead. Paul describes him as “alien to the life of God” in Ephesians 4:18. (Being separated from life is the same as being dead.) The natural man, just as Adam was, hidden in the garden, is separated from God. When we are born again, spiritual death is reversed. Before salvation, we are dead (spiritually), but Jesus gives us life. “And He gave life to you, when you were dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1). “And you, being dead in sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, forgiving you all your sins” (Colossians 2:13).
To illustrate this, think of Jesus’ resurrection of Lazarus in John 11. The physical death of Lazarus could do nothing for him. He could not respond to every stimulus, oblivious to everything around him, and nothing could be done for him except by the help of Christ, who is “the resurrection and the life” (John 11:25).
At Christ’s call, Lazarus was filled with life, and he responded accordingly. In the same way, we were spiritually dead, unable to save ourselves, powerless to perceive God’s life, until Jesus called us to Himself. He “woke us up”; “not because of works of righteousness which we have done, but because of His mercy” (Titus 3:5). The book of Revelation speaks of a “second death,” which is a final (and eternal) separation from God. Only those who have never experienced newness of life in Christ will partake of the second death (Revelation 2:11; 20:6, 14; 21:8).
What does the Bible say about death?
Jesus often said that to believe in Him is to have eternal life (John 3:16,36; 17:3). Sin leads to death. The only way to escape that death is to come to Jesus by faith, drawn by the Holy Spirit. Faith in Christ leads to spiritual life and ultimately to eternal life.
What does the Bible say about the spiritually dead?
Scripture describes the spiritually dead as enemies of God (Romans 5:10). The penalty for sin is death (Romans 3:23), and therefore the spiritually dead are cursed and condemned for failing to fulfill God’s law (Galatians 3:10), and God’s wrath awaits them (Romans 2:5).
In conclusion: Spiritual death leads us to enmity with God, separates us from the soul of the source of God, and does not let us feel the presence of God, that is why we must be connected to the source of our spirit which is Jesus Christ. So that our soul can always be filled with the presence of the Holy Spirit, and we can then have excellent communication with our heavenly father in heaven.
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