How would you describe Spiritually Dead? AI describes it as “An idea that humans are inherently separated from God due to sin. This separation is also known as the death of the soul.“
That sounds pretty serious and to some degree, I agree with the AI explanation.
The Apostle Paul told the Ephesians that “God’s mercy is great, and he loved us very much. Though we were spiritually dead because of the things we did against God, he gave us new life with Christ.” (Ephesians2:4,5 NCV)
He went on to say; “You have been saved by God’s grace. I mean that you have been saved by grace through believing. You did not save yourselves; it was a gift from God.” (Ephesians 2:8 NCV)
Being saved by grace means that you can’t earn it, work for it, buy it, negotiate it - it’s a free gift because God simply loves you and me. Grace is giving something to the undeserved. God gave us Jesus Christ.
He added; “It was not the result of your own efforts, so you cannot brag about it. God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.” (Ephesians 2:9,10 NCV)
Did you catch your life’s purpose? It’s to do good works, which “God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.”
Spiritually Dead is not sick or kind of messed up - it’s dead. The soul is dead and destined to a very bad place (hell) - unless, we discover a way to make it alive.
The solution to a dead soul is a new life that comes from Jesus Christ. Once we become a Christ follower, we fall in love with God, Christ, the Holy Spirit and people.
In short; “If anyone belongs to Christ, there is a new creation. The old things have gone; everything is made new! All this is from God. Through Christ, God made peace between us and himself, and God gave us the work of telling everyone about the peace we can have with him.” (2 Corinthians 5:17-18 NCV)
Are you a new creation? Are you in Christ? Is your soul renewed and alive? To accept Christ, we simply confess our sinful state, ask God to forgive us and believe that Christ lived perfectly in our place and paid the price for our sin by dying in our place. Then - our soul is saved from death.
If Christ is not our Lord & Savior - if we do not desire to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind and strength - if we do not desire to love others as we love ourself - there may be a possibility that you are spiritually dead.
It sounds judgemental, however it’s according to God’s words. Spiritual life can create good feelings, however it’s more than that. It’s a love for God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, for God’s ways and for people. And - there’s nothing like it.
LORD, please help me and others to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are rescued, saved and posses the love that you put in us. We don’t do it for ourselves, you do it for us. Just thank you. IJNIP amen ♥️
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