Dead or Alive (Men)
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Introduction
Introduction
1937 - 19yo Angelo Hays rode a motorcycle
Not real good, crashed head first into brick wall
Mangled badly and no pulse, parents couldn’t see him
Declared dead, buried 3 days later
Insurance company exhumed him after 2 days, he was still warm
In coma requiring very little oxygen
He made a FULL RECOVERY
He invented a security coffin with an oven, fridge and tape player
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the dead from the living...
WHICH ARE YOU??
Eph. 2 explains what resurrection means for our lives
1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
To start, you were DEAD
Why? SIN!
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“Prince of power of the air” is SATAN
Satan wants you!!
Hitler once said, “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
If Satan wants to rule everyone, who’s mind will he start with? Kids...
Nazi Germany
School curriculum
Teachers Nazi party
Fitness more than chem and math
Why? Hitler designed everyday life to create good Nazi soldiers
Satan designed everyday life to create what the Bible calls...
SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE
My dad couldn’t understand my pants
I don’t understand my kids video games
My dad’s dad didn’t understand long hair
His dad didn’t understand flappers
Those are things that really don’t matter!
My dad’s dad didn’t understand the sexual revolution and drug use
My dad didn’t understand kids disrespecting parents and sex on TV
I don’t understand homosexuality and gender identity issues
That’s Satan slowly capitalizing on each generation’s youth
And each generation struggles
Not everything new should be pursued, and not everything old should be restored
Acting like we have everything figured out now is stupid...
Acting like if we returned to the good ol’ days we’d be good is also stupid
Let’s go back to when women couldn’t vote
Let’s go back to public lynchings
Let’s go back to witch trials
HOW DID YOUR GENERATION MOVE TOWARDS SIN?
Sometimes we think all differences are bad
Robert Cortez and his cell phone...
WHAT CHALLENGES DOES THE NEXT GENERATION FACE?
But this passage is saying you USED TO BE that
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
We were in a bad spot, God didn’t make us stay there...
He could have abandoned us!
But God calls us back to Him brought Salvation and works of HS
Sometimes we think God owes us
If Christ didn’t die, would God be justified? Or good?
God doesn’t love you because you’re lovable!
He loves you even though you’re unlovable...
If you are saved and don’t deserve it, what’s that called? GRACE
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
I never earned a trophy until high school...
Your salvation is not earned either!
We cannot boast of our salvation either
Luis Alfredo Garavito
AKA La Bestia
He hopes to start a career in activism for abuse victims
1,853 years 9 days in Columbian jail
Murder max is 13 years...
He molested, tortured and raped more that 300
Guilty of murdering 139 boys
CAN THIS MAN GO TO HEAVEN?
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Nail gun
Not perfect, but exactly what I need...
God uses you too
You’re not perfect, but God wants to use you
You’re not meant to be put in a drawer or in a glass case
You are meant to make something beautiful!
HOW/WHY DO WE SHOW GRACE TO THE NEXT GENERATION?