The possibilities of Dead

Ephesians 2:1

“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins”

The phrase, “You were dead” is one that is unique to the Gospel. I am not saying no one else has ever used it, but under what circumstances or to whom would YOU say it? To the boss? To your friend? If their death is an accomplished fact, how it is that you speak with an expectation of being heard?

Apparently, death is something that is alive with possibility to God. We do not see with Kingdom eyes. We call things and people dead, and never hope to see them respond to us. But with God….”The time is coming, and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live”, John 5:25

We call others alive, but do not recognize death in sin. We do not suppose that ‘missing the mark’ and “crossing a boundary” could put us in a situation where we are moving, “walking according to the power of the world”, but are actually cut off from the sourcing of God.

This verse comes up when you teach the Revelation text, 20:14 ,”…this is the second death”, you have to make a decision in your understanding of the revealed Christ in revelation about whether this death in trespasses is the First, and how the scene in revelation works out to be the Second. I am not weighing in on THAT one today, because those are deep waters indeed.
Love in Jesus,

Pastor Harley Wheeler