Jesus said to him,
"I am the way, the truth, and the
life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
John 14:6
Discrimination is alive and well in regards to dead people.
They’re not allowed in any movie theater and they won’t be served if they go
into a restaurant. Dead people make living people feel uncomfortable and
besides, they don’t smell very nice. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the
spiritually dead don’t go to heaven.
The apostle Paul told the believers in Ephesus: “And you He
has made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesus 2:11). This
world is full of people who are physically alive but dead to God. They don’t
respond to anything He tries to communicate to them.
People can be very smart and have advanced degrees but if
they are spiritually dead, they’ll never understand things that are spiritually
discerned. There is far more evidence for intelligent design than there ever
was for evolution but many scientists never see it, because they are
spiritually dead. They have eyes but can’t see the advanced engineering. They
have ears but can’t hear the still small voice of God trying to get through.
Their spirit is dead and they don’t even know it.
Something that is dead can never decide to become alive
because dead things can’t do anything. However, if Christ, the giver of life, chooses, He can give life to someone that has none. Just ask
Lazarus about it.
I have an old pair of leather gloves. It is nothing more than
pieces of a dead cow that someone has sown together. For the most part, those
gloves just sit in a box and do nothing, but if I want to I can give them life. By slipping my hands in them,
they begin to move, work, and respond. There is now life in them, where there hadn’t been any before.
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