The Living dead....

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How does the bible define the "twice Dead" or the living dead? October 15, 2009 The Living Dead: Not just the stuff of Hollywood The Living Dead: Not just the stuff of Hollywood

By Jesse Sellers
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They're all around us. Perhaps it's the person you met in line at the supermarket. Maybe it's the mechanic who worked on your SUV. It might be your kids' science teacher. It could be a family member—a son or daughter, father, mother, aunt, uncle, or cousin. It might even be you! They walk among us, and from all outward appearances, they are just like us. They are the Living Dead, and they are among us. “And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.” It is said that J. Edgar Hoover blackmailed a lot of people by recording telephone calls.  He was a sex-addicted cross-dresser but he had no power to black mail as a dead person. He actually died in 1963 but was replaced by a look-a-like for trying to blackmail Robert Kennedy. Some police chiefs have done the same only to find their children dismembered or killed by snakes above a pet store.  They are twice-dead and took their children with them.  Ephesians 2:1-2 The Apostle Paul is talking here about those who do not know the Lord Jesus Christ. He says that such a person is dead—we were all dead before we were made “alive together with Christ” (v. 5). Notice that he doesn't say that such a person is “confused,” or “mixed up,” or “not thinking right.” He says dead. The message of the Gospel is not that Jesus came so that confused people would be better thinkers, or those who are morally loose will become better morally. It isn't that He came to correct faulty thinking, or simply rearrange people's priorities. The message of the Gospel is that Jesus Christ came to bring dead people to life. How, then, is a person who is without Christ “dead”? He obviously is not dead physically, since he can walk, talk, eat, drink, and do all the activities associated with physical life. Nor is his soul dead—he has a mind, will, and emotions with which he can relate to himself and to other people. But the part that is dead is his spirit, the part of him that has communion with his Creator. Without Christ, there is no way for a person to have a relationship with God and have communion and fellowship with Him. That is why Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3 that one must be “born again.” The term in the Greek literally means, “born from above.” To clarify Nicodemus's confusion, He stressed the fact that “that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” The new birth occurs when the Spirit of God comes into a person's life, bringing to life his dead spirit, so that person might then be able to have a relationship with God. Paul is very specific. He not only says that a person without Christ is dead, but that he is dead in his “trespasses and sins.” It is the sin nature that makes us dead to the things of God. It is the sin nature that makes all human beings dead, depraved, and disobedient, and, as Paul says in Verse 3, “children of wrath.” This is not a very pleasant subject among many professing Christians today. Too many professing Christians consider their friends and family members who do not know Christ as simply “confused," "mixed up,"or “mistaken;” they “don't fully understand,” or some other watered-down and candy-coated version of the Biblical truth. It is a harsh reality to face the fact that if someone we love does not know the Lord Jesus Christ, that person is dead. Perhaps when we come to grasp the truth that we are living with dead people, we will be more diligent in our efforts to bring them to life. There is no hope for those who are without Christ. They are spiritually dead in this world, and they will be dead in the next--eternally separated from their Creator and His love. The Christian life—it really is a matter of life and death.