Dead man walking
A movie released 1995 was about a condemned man sentenced to death. When he walked down the hall to the death chamber they called him a “dead man walking”. That is not unlike us the minute we are born. We are dead men walking. We all have the sentence of death upon us the minute we come into this world. Because of the sin of Adam, death has come to all men, without appeal! The question has never been “if” we die, but for all men it has been “when” we die. That is a very bleak situation and to quote Paul, “if in this life only we had hope we would be most miserable!”
The Good News (Gospel) is that we don’t have to perish forever, or live without hope. We can have a hope despite the fact we are “dead men walking”. If we have Jesus, the Life and Resurrection, then the Law of Life in the Spirit is stronger than the sentence of death in our flesh. In other words, we can pass from death unto life. If we have the Son we have life, because life is in the Son. He rose from the dead as proof that He is the life and resurrection, and appeared to over 500 witnesses. Many of those witnesses gave their lives also as proof that He ever lives. All they had to testify was that Jesus did not raise from the dead and they could save their own lives. But they could not deny the fact that even faced with death they would not recant, Jesus lives. Be blessed.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
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