“Lord Jesus, we thank You that You took our death on Yourself. You went through the pain of death, through alienation and Your body was buried. Jesus, we rejoice that You rose from the dead to give us Your resurrected life. In Your name, we pray. Amen.”
Acts 3:14-16 But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, (15) and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. (16) And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
Acts 2:24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible that He should be held by it.
Jesus died on the cross. This is a historical truth. We must know that the death that He died was both physical as well as death in its real understanding. Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, “Father, ‘INTO YOUR HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT.’ ” Having said this, He breathed His last. This was His physical death.
Matthew 27:45-46 Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. (46) And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?”
These three hours of darkness were when Jesus went through the throes of death, in its true sense. He was alienated from the Father, our brokenness came on Him, He was cut off from others and He was also cut off from creation. Daniel 9:26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.
It was our death that He died so that He could present us holy to Himself. Colossians 1:21-22 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled (22) in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight—
Jesus died and His body was buried. In a sense, the death and burial of Jesus signified that all that related to Jesus, in the flesh, was now over.
That chapter was closed. A new phase had to begin and this was with the resurrection of Jesus. This was now the era of His Holy Spirit.
II Corinthians 5:15-17 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. (16) Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. (17) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Jesus could not be restrained by death and burial since there was no sin in His flesh. I John 3:5 And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him there is no sin.
Our bodies will start decomposing as soon as we die and our bodies are buried. This is because we have sin in our flesh. Jesus died and His body was buried but His body did not see corruption.
Acts 13:35-39 Therefore He also says in another Psalm: ‘YOU WILL NOT ALLOW YOUR HOLY ONE TO SEE CORRUPTION. (Psalms 16:10) (36) “For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption; (37) but He whom God raised up saw no corruption. (38) Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins; (39) and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Through Jesus, we have forgiveness of sins, when we place our trust in Him. Jesus became the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
Death can cause no fear in us for we are now one with Jesus. He has dealt with our sin and so we too rise with Him, in His victory over sin, death and the grave. I Corinthians 15:55-57 “O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING? O HADES, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY?” (56) The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. (57) But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Prince of life was put to death but God raise Him from the dead and thus provided man with a complete solution for man’s predicament of sin and death.