Different Ways to be Dead
“The Walking Dead”
Ephesians 1:19-20, “…and His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 He exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated Him at his right hand in the heavenly realms….”
Romans 6:4, “ We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.”
Ecclesiastes 1:1-4, “The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: ‘Meaningless! Meaningless!’ says the Teacher. ‘Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.’ What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.”
- You’ve been given the breath of life from God, but you walk through life with a ____________, like you are _____________.
Ecclesiastes 2:10-11, “I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil. 11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. “
- There is also the death that comes from living a ______________ ____________… a life devoted to the _______________________.
Ephesians 2:1-6, “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.”
- The most all –encompassing death we can experience is being __________________________________.