“But now once in the end of the world has He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.” This is the second fact.īut you have not got the full weight of the comparison yet. “By one man sin entered into the world and death by sin.” That is the first fact. “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,” was the payment. “In the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die,” was the penalty. As the Law required but one death, so Jesus Christ, having offered that one death as the ransom for His people, achieved His task. As men die but once, so Christ has died but once. Now, a part of the Apostle’s parallel lies here. We shall receive the final sentence but once, and then we shall once be received into the joy of our Lord forever, or once be driven from His Presence never to return. There are not two natural births, neither are there two spiritual births. We are once born naturally–are once born spiritually.
These, we cannot doubt, after living for a little while, returned again to the tomb.īut for the most part, speaking of the race, “It is appointed unto men once to die.” The greatest affairs of life can only be performed once. As, for instance, Lazarus, and those others who were raised from the dead by Christ. Now you will note that he says, “It is appointed unto men once to die,” and only once. The one a fact generally allowed, the other a fact he was anxious to inculcate. The words “as” and “so” suggest a comparison between two Truths of God, the correspondence of which he designed to set forth. We must begin by noticing the parallel which the Apostle here draws. “And as is appointed unto men once to die but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”
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