Death is commonly defined by as a lifeless body. Something that is unable to move on its own having no responses and no senses, cold and limp. In a state of decay.

  But God defines death in different terms saying to Adam at the tree “in the day that you eat of it you show surely die”. We know that physically his body lived on for some 900 years but in the day that he ate of the tree he surely died because he lost the Spirit of God. For it was God having created Adam from dust then breathing in him stated that he became a living being but of Adam when he fell he lost the Spirit of God and became dead. Like Jesus said of the prodigal son “this one who is dead has returned to me and now is alive therefore cloth him with the finest garments and apparel”.

  This is what God does to us through Christ as he clothes us in Christ in the finest clothing and apparel being Christ himself, we put this on. This is our gift from God in Christ.

  The first man was breathed into by God and became a living being.  When that man sinned he lost the Spirit of God and became spiritually dead. And so all humanity is dead to the things of the immortal eternal invisible God and Gods boundless timeless eternal always ready Kingdom at hand. This is the purpose for the gospel.

  This then is the reason why man must be born again to be like Adam before the fall. He needs to receive the breath of God and become a human being, a living being. This is why Paul said we conclude that if one man died for all that all are dead. It is that man being born again, being born from above, is born of a new spirit. That’s what makes us new. We are then a new creation. That’s why Paul goes on to say “therefore we regard no one according to the flesh” that in Christ we are a new creation. “The old things have passed away all things have become new”. And this “becoming new” is us being restored to what Adam lost receiving the breath of God and becoming alive. Becoming alive as it is “in Christ” saying “he who has the Son has life he who has not the Son has not life”.

  So then the definition of what Death is, is not by human standards of being a lifeless body but according to God’s standards it is by not having his spirit and not having interaction with him through his spirit to His things in spirit for “God is spirit and truth and seeks such”. To become dead is to become separate from God in spirit. To loose the eternal spirit and return to the dust is mans destiny.

  Mankind was kicked out of the garden saying “He drove man out of the garden and placed a flaming sword which turned every way to guard the tree of life, Lest he eat and live forever.  Lest he become eternal. He lost the spirit and access to the fruit of life he became a walking dead. And so goes all humanity.

  All the animals are dead to God. And this is what man became in the fall. Intuitively he fell from the ability to interact with God because he could not see or hear Him. This is why scripture speaks to those who “have eyes to see and ears to hear”. It is the fallen man who reads scripture that turns the message into religious observances for the human to do. But it is us who “come to the light to clearly see that what is required of me is done in God. (John 3.21)

 It is through the religious observances that we can learn about God and redemption “but when that which is perfect comes, then that which is in part is done away with”. That which is perfect is a new understanding, and that is what expires the observance. As Paul described in Galatians that “we are under guardians and teachers until faith comes” not until a 2nd coming Jesus. There will never be a carnal conclusion like the 2nd coming gospel supposes. It was to the spirit that man fell and that is the redemption. Spirit. Scripture says that “flesh and blood will not inherit the Kingdom “. But our born again spirited man does rule over what used to be a lifeless body.

  This is the main conclusion in the book of Romans and chapter 8.6 to be carnally minded is death and  It is the spirit of Him who raised Christ from the dead, who now lives in you who gives life to your dead body. It was a walking dead but now raised in newness of spirit. That if we live by the mandates of the flesh we remain dead, but if by the spirit we put off the dead body and put on the new man, we live. And as many as are led by the spirit? These are Gods offspring. Why? Because “to be carnally minded is death, but to spiritually minded is life. (Rom 8.6) This is the resurrection.

  So humanity is divided into two groups. Those “in Adam”, and those “in Christ”. This is resurrection of spirit which is life and not the body like a carnal rapture.

  So some wait for the redemption of the body as though it is apart from the body. They want the body to be dead to become new but we are not renewed after death but now through the gospel. We put off the old and put on the new. ( Colossians 3.14)

  The gospel is the words of God being the anatomy of God broken down for human consumption for the carnal mind to be renewed in spirit and needs not a physical death to be true. (Romans 12.2) And if you can understand what we are saying then you will learn to understand that we are restored to that which is from the beginning when Adam had a right relationship with God, and his lower nature of dust had a right relationship with creation as God said “it is good, very good.

This is the true redemption, restoration, and salvation being the same thing described in different terms for our understanding, for our renewal of mind in the spirit.

  If we recieve Gods word, we are recieved by God that “where He is we may be also”. And God being in full control,  we being “seated with Him in the heavenlies” is a mindset of a new spirit who has power over the elements. It is as God said to Isaiah that “My word shall not return to me void but shall accomplish all that I desire. For you shall go out with joy and be led forth with piece. The mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing. All the trees of the field shall clap their hands”. And it does for the new man which is why Christ said “ask anything in My name and the Father will do it”. Ask for your joy to be full. And “the Father is glorified when you bear much fruit.

  Did not Paul say in Romans that the creation itself will be delivered from corruption to the glorious liberty of the sons of God? And it is if we learn to use the gift of God to us now in our new nature. If we learn to put it on. If we are “a kind of first-fruits of His creation and then we too are a product of “every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” and do the works of our heavenly Father which is word. We speak a thing and it obeys.

  Enjoy the redemption from God to himself, to our original purpose of displaying His Glory and His likeness in the here and now. This is true godliness. (God-like-ness) and this is true salvation.

  “Today! If you can hear His voice. Today is the day of salvation!”