According to the Scriptures, death is the enemy. Death is not the natural end of all living beings as deluded romantic notions would have it, but a great evil, unnatural force which finally, inevitably, unstoppably defeats all men and women. In the face of this enemy the Bible says all mankind groans in the dread of slavish fear. Our own experience, indeed history itself, graphically confirms the plain affirmations of God's Word. Death, therefore, is the last great enemy for each of us.
Death is inevitable because it is the sad, bitter fruit of sin.
Contrary to the prejudices of modernist, atheist, and agnostic alike, at the dawn of history man recklessly revolted against his creator. Adam and Eve defied their Maker's command and ate the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The result, as God had warned, was death. Thus, sin came into the world and, through sin, death spread to all men because all sinned. The apostle Paul would sum it up by saying that now, because of this historical tragedy, the wages of sin is death.