You see, you have a problem here Johann - if you say "no" that Christ experienced the sting of death... then God has no victory - if you say yes, then he experienced this sting the result of which is the Law of sin and death!
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 1 Corith 15:56
If the wages of sin is death, which is another way of saying, if we sin we die and stay dead! Then Christ, tasting death, which is the power of sin once!, for all, results in God being able to destroy sin's power in the body of his Son, because he was sinless.
Everything God achieved was in that body on that tree. The Victory over that nature happened when Jesus said "it is finished".
Here is Paul expressing the same truth
Now since the children share in blood and flesh, he likewise shared in them, that through death he might destroy the one (sin personified) who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15and free those who through fear of death had been subject to slavery all their life.
Red = power of sin; law of sin and death etc.
Blue = the death of sins power; in the offering of a sinless sacrifice by one who upheld Gods Law perfectly
So why is there NOW no condemnation for those in Christ? Romans 8:1
Because God removed it from His Son when he raised him from the dead.
F2F
Well said & I do see what you are expressing.........
In the garden, Jesus was Not asking God to
not make him face DEATH but rather to
not have every part of the " sin nature" placed upon him to carry to the cross for
the ONLY SACRIFICE that would be a propitiation for OUR SIN that would justify & make us righteous before God !
2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 5
17 Therefore if any man be
IN CHRIST, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become
new.........( Born again )
18 And all things are of God, who hath
reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Again by his submission to the Father's will through what RIGHTLY should have been
our recompense, he suffered in obedience & died for our salvation, rose again in victory for us over sin & it's wages which is .....eternal death...........instead giving us eternal life.
PTL.