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Like many of you, when I was a child, I enjoyed going to my grandmother’s house to spend the night.
It was especially fun when my cousins were spending the night with me.
What was really interesting was that my grandmother lived next to a cemetery, a graveyard.
We use to dare each other at midnight to run through the graveyard at midnight and then run back to the house.
We actually did it from time to time.
You never saw kids runs so fast and so deathly afraid.
There is something about graveyards that give us the willys, especially at night.
It’s because it is full of dead people.
I’ve met people that don’t like going to hospitals because people die there, or funerals because dead people are there.
The reason I mention that is because as Paul moves from a section describing what Christians have in Christ to who Christians are in Christ, he mentions mentions who Christians were before Christ.
He describes what we were before Christ as “dead.”
I. Everyone without Christ are spiritually dead.
We tend to think that Christ has come to make bad people good.
But what Paul explains here is that mankind’s main problem is not that he is bad or immoral.
But our main problem is that humans are born spiritually dead.
What does it mean to be spiritually dead?
It means that we are separated from God.
This goes all the way back way back original sin in the garden of Eden, were Adam and Eve first brought sin into the world.
God had given them the entire garden to enjoy and care for.
They would be his image bearers on the earth.
God would dwell in the garden with them.
They could enjoy all the trees in the garden.
But, he gave them one tree that they were not to eat from, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Here’s what God said about that eating from that tree.
They did eat of that tree.
They did not physically die immediatly.
They did eventually physically die because of their sin.
But something did happen immediately.
They were immediately kicked out of the garden.
They were immediately cast out of the presence of God.
Adam and Eve were now walking dead people.
There’s a television show called the “Walking Dead.”
I’m not saying that Adam and Eve were Zombies.
But their new identity was dead and separated from God.
The Bible says that all of their children have the same identity.
We have the same identity as a Father.
My father was a Rushing.
His father was Rushing.
So was his father.
That goes back a long way as I understand it.
My father was also a sinner.
His father was one too.
And his father.
That too goes back even a longer way, all the way back to Adam.
Outside of Christ, all of humanity are walking around spiritually dead and separated from God.
The Apostle Paul said it like this:
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A number of years ago I watched a movie that illustrated this point perfectly.
The movie’s title was “The Sixth Sense.” Bruce Willis’ character in the movie was named Malcolm who was a child psychologist.
Malcolm met a boy named Cole who was having a lot of trouble.
Here is a clip where Cole is finally ready to tell Malcolm what his problem is.
Show “I see dead people clip.
Dead people.
They are walking around, but they don’t know they are dead.
They are everywhere.
Paul is saying that is a pretty good description of the spiritual state of humanity.
Dead people.
They are walking around everywhere, but they don’t know they are dead.
If a person is just born one time naturally.
They are dead.
If they have never been born again in Christ, they are dead.
That’s most of humanity.
Paul tells believers that is who they were.
That is who everyone who isn’t living by faith in Jesus Christ is, spiritually dead and separated from God.
What are the implications of people being spiritually dead.
A. They have no ability to change their condition.
The metaphor of “deadness” communicates complete inability to respond to spiritual things.
Dead people don’t respond to anything.
There is a cemetery across the street.
If we were to go out there and offer them a Coke, are their going to be any takers?
If someone gets up out that grave takes us up on it, someone else is going to have to pastor Mount Gilead, because I’m probably going to have a heart attack and join the rest of them.
But I don’t have to worry about that because no one is getting up.
They can’t get up.
They can’t dance.
They can’t eat.
They can’t do anything because their dead.
Paul is using this metaphor to describe people’s spiritual condition toward things of God.
Our sin nature has caused us to have no desire for the things of God.
But people do have a desire for the things of the world.
That produces disobedience.
Ever since Adam and Eve’s disobedience, people have been living in disobedience.
Paul wants us to understand why people sin and are rebellious to God.
It’s because they are dead.
Badness is a symptom of deadness.
Our sin nature has caused us to
B. They live in active disobedience.
Sin has killed us and it keeps on killing us.
Paul says that we are born in sin and “sinner” is our identity.
Therefore, guess how people live?
Sinning.
Paul gives us some influencers of sin:
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The Devil influences sinning.
(v. 2)
“Following the course of this world.”
The world is an evil system that is trying to get us to conform to its way instead of God’s ways.
“following the prince of the power of the air,” (v.2) That prince is the devil.
He is the “spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.”
The human race is described here as the “sons of disobedience.”
Life Principle: People who are born in sin, live in sin.
They are influence by the devil who is the Father of lies ().
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