The Night of the living “Dead”.

James 2:26 NKJV For as the body without the spirit is dead.

Strong’s g3498. Dead:- Lexical: νεκρός- Transliteration: nekros- Part of Speech: Adjective- Phonetic Spelling: nek-ros’- Definition: (a) adj: dead, lifeless, subject to death, mortal, (b) noun: a dead body, a corpse.- Origin: From an apparently primary nekus (a corpse); dead (literally or figuratively; also as noun).

Without faith in Jesus as the Savior, we are all “dead” or in “the grave”. Why?

The Spirit of God brings new life, a born again while we are still in the flesh.

We are all “in the grave” without the Spirit from God.

Ezekiel 37:13 NKJV Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.

Ezekiel 37:14 NKJV I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it and performed it,” says the LORD.’”

John 5:28 NKJV Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice.

John 5:29 NKJV and come forth-those who have done good, to the resurrection of life.

Just as Jesus called Lazarus out of his grave, we also will come out of our graves by hearing His voice.

A resurrection of a new life through the Spirit of God. Those who do not believe in Jesus are in a state of condemnation because of sin.

John 3:18 NKJV “He who does not believe is condemned (already!), because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

This death is a spiritual death without a possibility of eternal life. We must get behind Jesus (in faith) and follow Him.

Matthew 8:22 NKJV But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.

“The word “dead” is used first in a figurative, secondly, in a literal sense. In a figurative sense by the “dead” are intended those who are outside the kingdom, who are dead to the true life.

Grave condition means someone is in really bad shape and likely to die from whatever happened to them.

The Pharisees and Scribes who did not believe Jesus was the Savior were likened to graves.

Luke 11:44 NKJV Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like graves which are not seen, and the men who walk over them are not aware of them.

“That a sinner is counted as dead, even while they are alive”, are “called dead”. Without Christ as our Savior, we are also considered in “grave condition” and the only way to be saved from this condition is through faith in God’s Son Jesus.

Psalm 104:30 NKJV You send forth Your Spirit, they are created.

Faith in Jesus is the only way to have sins forgiven and forgotten by God.

Habakkuk 2:4 NKJV – The just shall live by his faith.The just are those who are justified by their faith in Jesus.

They shall live through a born again experience and through the receiving of the Spirit of Christ.

Faith is the only way to find eternal life with by believing in His Son Jesus.

It’s Jesus plus nothing.

Now that’s a mathematical equation that I can understand.

Thank you Lord!