Deadness, spiritual

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Being morally and spiritually without life, therefore without a relationship with God. This condition, being the result of original sin, brings wrath and judgment and can be changed only by the sovereign, intervening grace of God.

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Spiritual deadness is humanity’s condition by nature

It is linked to physical death

Genesis 2:17 ESV

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

See also Ge 3:3; Ge 3:19; Pr 11:19; Eze 18:20–31; Jn 8:21–24; Ro 1:32; Ro 6:23

It is the universal consequence of sin

Ephesians 2:1 ESV

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

See also Ge 8:21; 1 Ch 10:13; Ps 51:5; Ps 58:3; Pr 21:16; Jn 6:53; Ro 3:23; Ro 5:12–13; Ro 5:17; Col 2:13

It is confirmed in the law

Romans 5:20 ESV

Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

See also Ro 7:4–12; Ro 8:2–4; Ga 2:19

It is evidenced in the human mind

Ro 8:6; 2 Co 4:4; Col 1:21; Tt 1:15

It is evidenced in the human body

Romans 7:24 ESV

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

See also Ro 6:12–14; Ro 6:16; Ro 8:10; 1 Co 15:50; 2 Co 5:10; Ga 6:7–8; Eph 4:22; 1 Ti 5:6; Jas 3:6

Spiritual darkness brings judgment

God’s judgment is final

Luke 16:26 ESV

And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’

See also Is 66:24; Mt 8:12; Mt 25:30–32; Mk 9:43–49; Lk 13:28; Heb 9:27; 1 Pe 1:17

The second death

Revelation 20:14–15 ESV

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

See also Mt 25:41; 1 Jn 5:16–17; Jud 12; Re 2:11; Re 21:8

Rescue from spiritual deadness is initiated by God

He brings salvation

Ephesians 2:4–5 ESV

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

See also Ps 103:12; Is 26:19; Eze 37:1–14

He brings union with the death of Jesus Christ

Romans 6:4 ESV

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

See also Ro 6:5–10; 2 Co 4:10; 2 Co 5:15–17; Ga 2:19–20; Ga 5:24; Ga 6:14; Php 3:10; Col 2:12

He brings union with the resurrection of Jesus Christ

Colossians 3:1 ESV

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

He brings ultimate physical resurrection

Romans 8:10–11 ESV

But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

Concern for those who are spiritually sleepy

Ephesians 5:14 ESV

for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”