STATUS B.C.

THANK YOU FATHER.

Help me to put life and not death before the people so that they can choose life.

Do you guys know what Holy Scripture records as the status for all men before receiving Christ and His atoning death on the cross?

Our status was that we were dead in transgressions and sins.
Dead men walking.

How can you call a moving breathing body dead?
What is a man if he is physically dead without and apart from Christ?
Without hope.

What is a man if he is spiritually dead?
A man who may still have a chance.
Spiritual death is man apart from God and it comes long before natural death.

In our headline news you see examples of the spiritually dead daily.
Before a man goes on a shooting rampage that kills other men and ends in his own life being taken, that man was already dead spiritually.

A man who has the hope of God in him does not operate in that fashion.

Spiritual death began at Adam.
God made man and breathed the breath of life which is His Spirit into man and man became a living breathing spirit being.

When I speak of spiritually dead I don't mean that you do not have a life philosophy.
Spirituality is not spiritual life as given by God.

Spiritual death means that you have disconnected your self from The true living God of heaven and earth through sin and transgressions.
The initial separation was not by any fault, effort or lack of obedience on our part because we were born into sin.


We were not in the garden, yet that sin remains a seed in the heart of all men born after Adam.
By one man, Adam, sin entered into the world.
What Adam did fell to all men's account because Adam set an example that men would follow.

I know that many believe that this means if by Adam all men automatically died then by Christ all men automatically live.
This has been twisted to mean that men do not have to confess Christ as Lord.

No.
Romans 5:12-19
Sin entered the world and then all men began to sin.
None of us was righteous, let's get that clear our sin wasn't the same as Adam's in the beginning because Adam had foreknowledge.

That is why God gave the law, so that when a man knows to do right and he does not it is sin.

The moment that we sinned our first sin was when we sealed our own part in what Adam had introduced.
The act of sin was the confession of who we served.

It's just like as Christ entered the world and presented Himself as our living sacrifice for sin the fulfilling of the law, no man is saved unless we partake of what He has introduced and freely given.
As we confess Christ as LORD and Saviour His Spirit comes to live in us and seals our place in Him.

Listen carefully, so that you can know what God has freely given us and made available to all men.
Because God is Holy and Righteous He will not tolerate pride because pride is the foundation of sin.

Humble your hearts and hear this.

Rather than allow us all to be destroyed by sin because the harvest for sowing the seeds of sin is death eternal, God made a way for all men to be reconciled back to Him.
So in order to save His creation from them selves, God sent the gift of salvation In His Son Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 2:1

Unless Christ is received as such, man remains in sin and he will have to pay the wage on his own.
Romans 6:23

Understand that Jesus didn't come just to change our attitude or set up a hierarchy and philosophy.
Christ came to pardon and forgive us of all sin, saving us from the penalty of death eternal in hell.

Christ was sent to destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:8

Jesus didn't come merely to deliver us from temptation, trial or trouble.
Jesus came that we might have life, to raise us from death by forgiving us who would believe in His authority to redeem us.

Blessed is the man who his sins are forgiven because he has been given the right through Christ Jesus to be called a son of God.
Apart from confessing Christ as LORD no man sin's are forgiven.
The man without Christ remains dead in his sins and transgressions against God.

This is the core of The Gospel.

You can't move forward in anything until you understand who you are as a child of the living God and what Christ has already done for you.

Men can preach who will not be saved but I am going to share with you who can be saved.

It's the man who hears, receives and confesses that Christ is the payment for my sin and I am forgiven of all transgressions and sins in Him.

Babies,
If you understand this to be true and believe it in your heart, confess with your mouth today that Jesus is your Lord.

His Spirit will come and live in you not to deliver you from temptation but to lead and guide you into all truth. To comfort you by bringing to your mind everything that Christ has said.

If you walk after God's Spirit you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh which is pride that is the foundation to sin.

Your status has now changed from bound to pay for your own sin, to free and forgiven.

LOVE Y'ALL :)