God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. (Acts 2:24 ESV)
Death Loses
The Resurrection of Jesus was God’s victory over death. Death for humans happens because of sin. The wages of sin is death. Death was part of the curse that God put on us because of Adam’s sin, our ancestors’ sin, and our own sin.
But God did more than simply remove death when the curse was removed by Christ’s work. Instead God turned death from merely a curse into the entrance to heaven for His people.
If death were a person, he would have thought he had won after Eden. And then when God Himself died willingly on the cross, death would have danced with joy.
But then three days later death was defeated, defanged, depowered, and destroyed.
Because of the resurrection, our bodies will still die.
But death has no power. Death is toothless. Death is a sign of Christ’s victory.
The Resurrection makes death lose.