How a Dead Person Should Live
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How a dead Person should live
Dwight L. Moody, who was an evangelist very much like Billy Graham who lived in another era, said he heard a man stand up in a testimony meeting, and this man said, I have lived, I’ve been 42 years learning three things—42 years learning three things. Well, Moody said to himself, if this man took 42 years learning those three things, I’d better pay attention.
And here are the three things the man said he’d learned. Number one: I can do nothing to earn salvation. Number two: God doesn’t require me to do anything. Number three: Jesus has done it all. Now, well, that’s wonderful, but it doesn’t take 42 years to learn that.
We are saved by the sheer grace of God. Because salvation is a gift, and it root is not in the merit of man but in the mercy of God, not in the goodness of man but in the grace of God, does that mean, it doesn’t make any difference how we live?
Because salvation is a gift, and it roots not in the merit of man but in the mercy of God, not in the goodness of man but in the grace of God, does that mean, therefore, it doesn’t make any difference how we live?
Well, Paul puts the death to that lie.
“What shall we say, then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?” Paul says, “God forbid!”
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Since we are dead to sin. How should we live as dead men?
That is, any Christian who’s saved by grace who continues to live a life of sin is a disgrace to grace.
Now, we are saved by the grace of God, but after we’re saved by the grace of God, we need to learn to live in victory
How do we do that ?
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
As a christian you are supposed to be dead
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? took back 2000 years ago put you into his death
R.G. Lee
First time to holy land took him Garden tomb adn said how many of you been here before ?
He raised hand when were you here 2000 years agao
we are in Jesus; He has acted on our behalf. He is our representative, and what happened to the Lord Jesus happened to us. He chose to be one with us. It is a tremendous blessing, because, you see, when Jesus came to this earth, suffered, bled and died, we suffered, bled, and died with Him, because Jesus died for us. Now, you’ve got to know that.
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
3:3 2:5
if you are lost here this morning your flesh is alive but your spirit is dead and unless you let the Lord crucify your flesh you will head straight to hell
But if saved you have a dead body and alive spirit
Why that important because if you are dead the law has no more power over you
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IF you dead your old master no more authority over you
Can't tell a dead slave what to do.
Romans seven says death frees a person from marriage vows.
Our death in jesus voided the contract we had with sin.
Augustine, for whom the city of St. Augustine is named, was a profligate, a sinful young man; he lived wild and wicked. He had a mother that was praying for him. Her name was Monica. One day, Augustine got saved, and he was walking down the street after having met the Lord, and a prostitute saw him. He saw the prostitute first, and she was a woman that he’d consorted with. And it was a part of that old life. So Augustine just ducked his head, crossed the street, put his head down, and began to walk—didn’t want to say a word to her. She recognized him, and she said, Augustine, Augustine, it is I. He said, Yes, but it is not I, and kept on walking. What he meant by that was the old Augustine was dead. I’ve been raised to walk in a new life.
Since so many dead men here I want you to know how a dead man ought to live paradox but so much of christian life is to get up you have to get down first last to get have to give to live you have to die
1. There Ought to be a Difference in Your Reasoning
1. There Ought to be a Difference in Your Reasoning
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Now, the word reckon here is a bookkeeping term.
What it means is that you count on it, not because you feel it, not because you guess about it, not because you desire it or because you imagine it; you reckon on it because it is true.
This word reckon means count on it. This word reckon means calculate up on it.
Now, reckoning is not just closing your eyes and pretending it to be true; it is acting by faith, it is acting on what you know to be true,
Now, if you have some money in the bank, and you get your bank statement, and it says you have x number of dollars in the bank, then it doesn’t matter if you feel you have more, or if think you don’t have anything. You just look at the bank statement, and you reckon on that, not a matter of feeling.
You know, so many of us want to say, whether I dont feel dead .
your feelings are the shallowest part of your nature. Salvation is the deepest work of God. He doesn’t do the deepest work in the shallowest part. He doesn’t say, feel it. He says, calculate it; reckon it to be true. Remember now, this is a bookkeeping term. And your feelings don’t matter.
A woman woke up one morning, and the alarm clock went off, and it seemed like she’d just gone to sleep. Have you ever had one of those nights that just passes just like that, and you’re sleeping especially sound, and it seemed like you just closed your eyes, and the alarm clock goes off? She says, It could not be six o’clock in the morning. But she looked at the alarm clock; it said six. She turned on the radio—the six o’clock programs were playing. She opened the window and looked out, and the sun was coming up, and the radio said it was six, the clocks said it was six, the sun in the east said it was six o’clock in the morning.
Now, folks, I submit to you it didn’t really matter how it felt. All of these facts were just something she just had to reckon on. I, it, it’s a fact, no matter how you feel about it
I think all agree when say dead men don’t think same as alive people
Since bible says you dead oght to think different
Dead men don’t ever put up a fight with the person in charge
I want to be cremated and my ashes hid in a bible with a hollowed out inside and put in casket buried with my wife and that way we can get two for the price of one.
But my kids may change but if Michelle or whoever is taking care of that says no we gonna bury him hey I am not gonna argue with them
Because dead men don’t argue with those in charge
who in charge of you? I hope it is Lord
Do you fight with him an argue or do you obey
Ask you ladies what if God called you husband to be a missionary to Africa in jungle were no walmart
Would you put down foot say I am not going or would you reckon myself dead
A difference in his reasoning
no longer about you and what you want and what you are comfortable with it is about him and what he wants and what he is comfortable with
I don’t want to witness embarrass me who cares dead men don’t get embarrassed
They just lay in the casket with makeup on and their aunt comes up and kisses them do not say nothing.
Man good thing he is dead.
I wake up in morning say good get to read bible flesh says no I want to shut up you are dead
Why fasting is so good flesh all time I am tired I am hungry I am thirsty I am hot me me me self self self when fast wake up want O.J. no getting water I want bacon no not getting it you dead after couple days of that easier to live right put flesh in its place the grave
Did it ever occur to you most people serve their flesh whole life just feeding a monster
Flesh says I better make sure I have enough for me the spiritual man says well I reckon I am dead I better make sure he has enough
They don’t get mad at the preacher
Their families do Sit down shut up he told me to preach this.
dead men do not own anything
Is it all yours because you deserve it or is it Gods because you dead anyway?
dead men don’t get offended
I have said preaching a funeral joe here was a terrible person he died of a drug overdose.
The flesh says how dare he talk to me like that
Psa_119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
2. There Ought to be a Difference in Your Deeds
2. There Ought to be a Difference in Your Deeds
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Romans 6:6-7
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin.
If you saved this morning you have no business messing around with sin
He that is dead is freed from sin is that what the bible says?
Well I have a sinful nature I couldn’t help it not true there hath no temptation taken you
You did not help it.
Fact is none of us are sinless but he gave us the power to overcome sin
There was a man that lived in this town wicked man as far as they told me he was always fighting with his wife and girlfriend mucho problemo
Well in the process of time he died and his son asked me to preach the funeral I did not know what to do it was a ruff crowd that had gathered there so I new first funeral I ever preached.
I was in over my head so I did only thing I knew how to do I called Brother Ryman he said oh you have to tell the truth man this your opportunity you got to preach hell hot heaven beautiful tell them how he died why he died and some of them are going to die the same way don't be a chicken.
We had disruptions in the service they said stop preaching they cussed me out when i was preaching flipped me off when I was preaching.
Gave the invitation seven people got saved.
We went out to the cemetery to put intern him and his wife put a rose on his casket
And his girlfriend came and threw it on the ground and put her rose on the casket than they started cussing at each other and fighting almost knocked casket into the grave
They said if he was here he would not put up with this crazy preacher and crazy funeral
You know what the die in the casket did ? nothing
he did nothing did not try to stop it not try to work nothing out
He was not longer stressed out
Why he dead and there was a difference in his deads.
dead men are not servants of sin
Joh_8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
dead men do not lust after women or men
dead men do not struggle with pornography
dead men do not serve the God of alcohol
Dead men do not smoke
Listen you will give account for the deeds done in the body because the flesh can’t be punished for it because it is dead.
Christians saved people should not be sinning some you so deep in sin it is sick and you excuse it convince yourself it is ok
Not ok the problem is people are not reckoning themselves to be dead
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Who reigning sin or Jesus ?
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Ought to be a difference in your deeds
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Dead men go were they are told they sit were they are placed
they do not call the shots
Dead men do not sin
I don’t believe in sinless perfection bible says if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us
But if you sin it is your fault you are given the power not to so you stop excusing self and take responsibility
3. There Ought to be a Difference in Your Walk
3. There Ought to be a Difference in Your Walk
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Newness of life new something is different
I have a friend named jeff Johnson went to school with born deaf parents did not know found out removed tubes from ears 4 years old said remembered coming out of the doctors office hearing noise looking up jet was going over head he said from that day on his life was never the same a change had oucoured
If you have been born again you ought to be different I can look back over my life I have been saved for a long time but I think different than when I was lost I talk different I am different
Have you changed are you walking in newness of life what has changed since you were born again?
Has life style thoughts anything ?
I used to only do right when somebody was watching me if I could get away with it I would not any more I do right behind the closed door
Some Christians always have to have someone beating them over head to do right ?
Listen I do not have the energy for you.
Preacher liked to go watch trains.
he will make the old drunk throw away his bottle make the old doper throw away his bottle make the old hooker quit hooking come home be a good wife to her husband old cusser quit cussing. talk about the Lord
you can be a christian and be a lot of things but you can’t be a christian and not have anything change new creature.
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Can you say I am a new man in christ jesus my flesh is dead I am walking in newness of life
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
bumper sticker is this you ?
Let me ask you this are you a new man are old things passed away if there is to be a difference in your walk you are gonna have to change.
Gen_32:31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
some people change when they see the light others wait till they feel the heat
Everything continues in a state of rest unless it is compelled to change by forces impressed upon it. Issac Newton, First Law of Motion.
If you are saved you have that force the holy spirit and the opposing force is dead there ought to be a change in you
There ought to be a difference in your walk ought to be noticeable
When my dad got saved out went alcohol drugs cigarettes parties started praying reading his bible
I believe Jesus will make a permanent change maybe slip up here and there but you are different and will never be the same
But a change without Jesus christ is regressive temporary always go back dan cigarettes went back killed him without jesus
I still remember the first dead man I ever saw joe miller lost man I was about six years old never been to funeral I was excited tell you truth all my friends gonna be there I was gonna get to see a dead man could hardly wait for preacher stop preaching don’t remember thing he said stood long line finally time came looked over edge that plywood box painted black had green shirt long grey beard cheeks sunken in color grey still did not move I remember looking into that cold still face I knew that old joe miller was not there anymore I wondered how he fared wherever he went
I said he looks so different than any man I have ever seen before
from that time on I have never had trouble recognizing a dead man
Nursing home always tell as soon as walk in room if were dead or alive the have different look always tell when nobody's home
The longer I live the more it seems us christians we can recognize each other
Because we are different.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
The flesh is dead it is not in control
A country preacher prayed one time, Lord, help me to cooperate with you so you won’t have to operate on me. Now, you need to learn to cooperate with God. You do this by yielding.
Wake up in the say thank you Lord for giving self to me
Thank you for giving self for me I recieve you
Now I yeild to you surrender to ou live your life through me
I was reading a while back about a woman, I believe, in St. Louis. She wasn’t married to a particular man, but they thought that they would be a nice arrangement if the two of them lived in an apartment together. There wasn’t anything particularly sexual about it; they weren’t married, however. They thought, well, we can just share this apartment, and it will be a nice arrangement. And so, she let this man move in with her, and she realized soon after she let this man move in with her that she’d made a serious mistake. And, she didn’t want him in her apartment anymore. I guess she was convicted she was doing wrong, letting a man live there with her, and besides that, she didn’t like him, and he really wasn’t doing all that he was supposed to do. So she said to him, you’re going to have to move out. He said to her, I’m not going to move out. She said, Oh, yes, you will. He said, You invited me here, and I am not moving out.
Well, she didn’t know what to do. She didn’t have the physical strength to throw him out. She got a lawyer. A lawyer went to the court. She got a court order; she got an injunction. She came back to him, and said, You’re going to have to move out. I have legal papers that say that you must go, or else you’ll be thrown in jail. He said, I’m not moving out. And she said, Oh, yes you are. And he moved out—he moved out.
Now, Satan is very much like that man. Satan will come into your life, and you’ll say, Satan, I don’t have to obey you. He says, Oh, yes you do. You know who you are, you know how weak you are, you know my power over you, you know my control over you, you invited me into your life, you and I have been friends for a long time, you know what we’ve done in the past, and I’m not moving. You say, Satan, please be gone. He says, No, I’m not going to go, I’m not going. Listen, folks. You take the power of attorney. You take the Word of God. You say, Here is something that I know to be true. And then, you say, Here is something that I reckon; I count upon what I know, I calculate upon what I know. I know my identification with Christ, I reckon my appropriation with Christ, and so now I dethrone sin in my life. Satan, I don’t have to let you rule my life. I just don’t have to do it, and you are not going to stay and ruin my life.