Saturday, April 18, 2009

The Living Dead - April 19, 2009

Ephesians 2:1-5

Definition of Dead:

Webster: “Deprived of life, no longer alive... Lacking power to feel, move or respond... No longer producing or functioning.”

(source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dead)

The spiritually dead:

Matthew 8:22

Luke 15:24, 32

John 5:24-25

Romans 8:6

Colossians 2:13

Jude 1:12

Also (not on the handout):

John 12:40 - God has blinded their eyes and deadened their hearts, because they would not believe

1 Timothy 5 – the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives 

This world (meaning the sinful world systems, not the good things in the world that God created):

Does not know God (John 17:25)

Hates Jesus (John 7:7)

Is full of corruption (2 Peter 1:4 & 2:20)

Listens to false teachers (1 John 4:5)

Is under Satan’s control (1 John 5:19)

 

Don’t Be Conformed to or Love The Ways of This World

John 15:18-20

Romans 12:1-2

1 John 2:15-17

James 4:4

Also see Genesis 11:1-9 - a world system united together against God.

 

The Ways of Satan:

Accuser – Zechariah 3:1; Revelation 12:10

Murderer and Liar – John 8:44

Arrogance & Greed - Isaiah 14:12-22

Pride/Self-Worship – Ezekiel 28:17 



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