Tuesday, November 7, 2017
John 5:24-25 Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.
ALIVE!
The dead return to life and seek human victims. That was the premise of a 1968 black and white movie that became a cult classic: "Night of the Living Dead." Who would have thought that 50 years later the film itself would return to life as a popular TV show-- and claim thousands of victims. This type of movie is classified as a horror film. The Bible says that, in a sense, this is actually happening the world over-- and it is truly horrible.
The Bible tells us that there ARE thousands of people who appear to be alive. They walk and talk, eat and drink, wake and sleep, work and do business. And yet, they are dead, dead inside. These are the spiritually dead. They are dead to God in heart and life. Such people may even be looking to please God in the way they live, but since they invariably depend on their own works and actions to to do this, they have no living relationship with the living God.
The dead, by definition, cannot hear or respond to verbal direction. But Jesus said (John 5:24-25) He spoke to spiritually dead people with life-giving results in the first century-- and still does today. This happens whenever and wherever people are told how He lived and died in their place to set them right with God, to give them life for death, now and forever. Confident trust in Christ and what He has done for us, that is faith and that is life. A miracle of God!
