In part 1 we spoke about the fear of death and our doubts about what will happen to us in the afterlife. As much as we fear about physical death, did you know there's such thing as a spiritual death? We can be alive, living our best life but be spiritually dead. This means not having life in Christ and being dead in our sins.
This may not make any sense to you unless you understand why Christ came on this earth. We are all spiritually dead because we are ancestors of Adam. He was the first man and sin entered humanity when he disobeyed God by eating of the tree of Knowledge. As his ancestors we have all inherited his sinful nature and have been separated from God. This is the “Spiritual” death God warned Adam about if he ate from the fruit. Jesus’ purpose was to redeem us and make us spiritually alive.
This is through a second birth. When someone puts their whole trust in Jesus Christ for their salvation, an event occurs in their lives that Jesus called being "born again". Sin separates but the union that was broken with God is now restored through Jesus.
To end, we can be spiritually alive by dying to our flesh and becoming renewed/born again by the grace of Jesus Christ. To be born again means believing in Jesus Christ as the Son of God who died for our sins, saving us from eternal death. Through this our life is renewed. We live according to Gods words thus making us a new creation. We turn from our sinful nature and folllow the steps of our saviour. We become more loving, paitent, forgiving, selfless, generous, gracious the list goes on. This can only be done through our King.
John 3:4-8
4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit[b] gives birth to spirit.7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You[c] must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Isaiah 43:18-19
“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
2 Corinthians 5:17-21
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Colossians 3:9-10
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ezekiel 11:19-20
And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
Romans 6:1-23
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. ...
Ephesians 4:22-24
To put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Titus 3:5
He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
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