The Light Is On But Nobody Is Home! Series

This declaration found in Romans is our Spiritual Condition. Through one man Adam death came into this world but through one man Jesus Christ life has come.

For the Biblical Truth is this:

1. You are or were Spiritually Dead because of your sinful nature.

So what does this Spiritual Death mean?

Listen to this story I read this week about a Pastor and experience he had:

"One day a young boy come up and pounded on my office door. When I opened the door, I saw he was breathless and crying. He said, "Are you the Pastor?" When I answered yes, he said, "Come on. Please hurry." I ran after him for a block or two, and we went into a house. A young woman was standing inside, weeping uncontrollably. She said, "My baby is dead! My baby is dead!" Lying on a bed was the limp body of her three-month-old infant. She had tried to revive him, and nothing I could do proved to be of help, He showed no sign of life. The mother caressed the baby, kissed it, spoke to it, and cried tears over its little head. But the child made no response. When the ambulance crew arrived they tried desperately to get the child breathing, but to no avail. He was dead and nothing anyone could do had an effect or could bring any response. There was no life there to respond, not even to the powerful love of a mother."

And that is the way it is with Spiritual Death as well. A person who is Spiritually Dead has no life by which he or she can respond to spiritual things, much less live a spiritual life.

When we are born we are born with a sinful nature and that nature alienates us from God. We are totally separated from a relationship with God.

As many have depicted in many movies the image of a zombies. Zombies are people who do not know that they are dead walking around as mindless decaying corpses.

Dave this morning saying I need the video clip from Michael Jackson’s music video clip Thriller.

And the truth is that was every single one of us at one point or another with out Christ. Or as I like to put it the Light is on but Nobody’s Home!

Halloween trick or treaters. Illustration.

1 Timothy 5:6 "But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives." (NIV)

If you have never come to Christ you are Spiritually Dead right Now! You are in a sense Neo a slave in the Matrix. Because truly you are a slave to sin and your sinful nature.

So what is affecting you in this current state of Spiritual Death in which you resided? There are three components of evil that Paul gives us here in Ephesians let me give them to you briefly.

1. Environment: vs.2 "you followed the ways of this world."

There are three elements that most characterize our present world and they are:

-Humanism: this humanistic ideal places man above all. Man is the measure and the end of all things. Each man is his own boss for in short man is his own god!

-Materialism: places high value on physical things, money, possessions. You know, you have seen the bumper sticker: "He who dies with the most toys wins! There are many more to materialism as well.