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Objective
Every Christian can find new life by God’s Holy Spirit because Jesus has power over death.
Key Verse
John 11:
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Before the message.
We
What does it mean to be dead?
What does it mean when we say:
We are dead tired?
Our hopes are dead?
An idea is dead in the water?
The sea is dead calm?
This is a dead time of the day?
My phone is dead?
I want to introduce you to my beloved football team: Norwich City.
By any account, we’ve had a disastrous season.
Having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of last season, most commentators and betting companies made us dead certs to be promoted back again this season.
The club even believed the hype themselves.
But despite a few highs, we’ve been pretty rubbish.
We’ve been on atrociously bad runs without winning matches.
And now, having almost expected automatic promotion at the start of the season, there is almost no way we are going to manage even the play-offs.
How could things change?
New players, a new manager, a new club structure, a new spirit, a takeover by someone much richer than Delia Smith!
But for the moment are hopes lie dead in the water.
There are lots of situations in life that seem dead.
But they can be brought back to life again.
What could you do, for example, if your phone is dead?
You could plug it in and charge it.
That remind me, I plugged mine in at the beginning of the meeting.
Let’s see how it’s doing.
Phone rings.
Hold up phone to mic and play pre-recorded voicemail message: Your phone has come back to life.
Remember to keep it charged in future!
God
Your phone has come back to life
There are lots of situations in life that seem dead.
But they can be brought back to life again.
What could you do, for example, if your phone is dead?
You could plug it in and charge it.
That remind me, I plugged mine in at the beginning of the meeting.
Let’s see how it’s doing.
Phone rings.
Hold up phone to mic and play pre-recorded voicemail message: Your phone has come back to life.
Remember to keep it charged in future!
Being spiritually dead
What does it mean to be dead in our sins?
Ephesians
Paul says you are not just guilty before God for your wrongdoing.
You are not just condemned by your sins.
You are not just in some spiritual doghouse with God.
You’re in the morgue.
You are spiritually dead because of your sins.
In the doghouse, you might whimper.
You might make out those big, hang-dog eyes and say sorry.
You might resolve to be good and do better.
You might cast yourself on the mercy of God.
But in the morgue?
You can do nothing.
You are spiritually dead because of your sins.
So how can we ever be raised to life if we are dead because of the wrongs in our lives?
In being alive to sin and rebellion and disobedience, we are dead to faith, to submission and to obedience.
We need a Saviour.
Not just one who forgives you of your wrongdoing.
But one who can raise the dead!
One who can give you spiritual life.
One who can make your heart inclined to trust him and to obey him:
Christ gives us new life.
Christ recreates us.
The only answer to death is resurrection.
You
Being alive
This is what Paul says:
In Christ, we change from being dead, like my phone, like Norwich City’s hopes, like our energy, like our ideas, and we’re given new life:
Jesus audaciously abolished death, transforming it from a door that slammed to, into one that opened to whoever knocked...It was the key to life; to die was to live.
(Malcolm Muggeridge, journalist and broadcaster).
Jesus audaciously abolished death, transforming it from a door that slammed to, into one that opened to whoever knocked...It was the key to life; to die was to live.
Jesus raised Lazarus after he had been dead for four days.
This was done to help us understand what would happen to Jesus after he died, and to explain to us what would happen to us if we trust in him:
Jesus promises us that if we believe and trust in him, we will have life after death - life for ever.
But this is not just for the future.
It is also available now through the presence of the Spirit of Christ.
But it is also available now through the presence of the Spirit of Christ.
Here is Jason, a living, walking story of someone who has passed from death to life, not just for the future, but here and now:
Video: Jason’s Recovery | 3:00
Jesus is willing to give you the resurrection power you need to help you face your wrongdoing squarely in the face.
He is willing to give you what you need to cheat death.
He is willing to work directly with you, through the Holy Spirit, to address whatever issue it is that you face today.
And he will equip you to serve as a resurrection agent of his transformative work in the world.
Will you believe and trust in him and his power tonight?
I pray that each of us will allow the Holy Spirit to live and work in us, and that we, like Lazarus, will receive the new life that Jesus offers us here and now.
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