No, I don’t have a ‘sixth sense,’ neither am I a police officer called to the scene of a homicide, or an EMT responding to an accident with fatalities, or an RN working in ICU or a mortician. Where do I see dead people? I see them everywhere.
They are described in Ephesians 2:1-3 as those who are dead in trespasses and sin, people under the dominion of the devil who have not accepted God’s free gift of salvation. They have turned their backs on God and follow the ‘god of this world.’ They trespass against the laws of God and are separated from Him by their sin.
Unlike dead people in a morgue, these people can be ‘quickened,’ brought back to life. God sent His Son into the world in order to bring dead people to life again. Jesus said in John 10:10, “I am come that they (people) might have life and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Abundant life is being a ‘new creation’ in Christ. It is putting off the old man and putting on the new man. It is coming to the ‘fullness of the stature of Christ.’
When we see ‘dead people,’ we have a God-given responsibility to tell them the ‘good news’ that, “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) What do you do about the dead people you see?
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