We Will Die (Good Friday) - Luke 23:44-54 Pain / Promise: We die / Jesus dies with us

Death is a part of life and a part of this world; though this is not how it should be. God never wanted us or anyone to die. He wanted us to live and be with him for all time. But our sin ruined that reality God made for us. We rejected and rebelled against God in our sin. Jesus himself was rejected, and we as humanity killed him. God uses Jesus' death, in order to save us. Jesus joins us in death. This is a tragedy, and the ultimate rebellion against God, to reject him in flesh and blood, to reject Jesus the Son, and to kill him, as if he was the criminal and the rebel. Yet, God uses Jesus' death, to kill death forever. Jesus dies and because he died, we do not fear death either.