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Life for a dead Boy.
In our Story there is a sudden tragic turn.
The faithful widows son dies unexpectedly.
We would think that being faithful she would be spared pain, but as we saw last week, God is not an insurance policy”.
Her sudden pain, causes her to to lash out at Elijah, but she is in pain and the prophet is mature, he does not take her complaint personally, he does not even try to show that her accustation is wrong.
He simply takes the boy upstairs and intercedes for him.
The stretching upon part of his prayer was identification with the boys state.
He lay, and identified with the deceased child.
God heard the prophet and restore the boys soul.
Just Like Jesus
This intercessory act is exactly like what Jesus did for us.
Like Elijah lay with the boy, in the likeness of the boys death.
Jesus came to us , in the likeness of sinful man.
And as the dead was made alive, so too were we made alive in Christ.
Lets examine this simple verse tonight.
1: You were dead.
Let us bring a dead man into this service.
Let’s examine him in that dead state.
The dead man has no sense - He cannot hear.
Call him, shot his name, shout a warning.
ask him a question.
Give him a command.
The dead cannot be taught.
Thy cannot understand.
This is why you can plead with a sinner to change his/her ways and they will not, because the dead cannot hear.
There is only who’s voice can go beyond the close tomb of the grave - Jesus Christ.
The dead man has no sense - He cannot see.
In Scripture there is always a contrast between light and darkness.
Jesus is the light and has no darkness.
also the bible says:
To those who have been made alive and have received sight, the difference between light and darkness is easy to discern.
Evil and righteousness, holy vs unholy, pure vs impure, these are obvious to a believer.
But to the dead, light and darkness are the same, they don’t know the difference.
The dead do not know light, because they do not know Jesus.
This is perhaps the most frustration thing for a Christian to deal with.
We often expect nonbelievers (the dead) to behave like believers (the living) and they are simply not capable of that.
The dead man has no sense - He cannot Smell.
Whether you house this corpse in a valley of roses or in a pit of manure, it will not mind.
The sweet smelling flowers they are put on the grave, the dead has no affection for them.
Whether you place flowers or foul smelling salts, the dead do not react.
Sin is a stench.
The dead can watch a movie with blasphemy, pornography, violence and it will not phase them.
They will listen to music, tell obscene jokes and it will not offend them.
The stink of sin, has no effect on a dead mans nostrils.
But to the living, we cannot stand it.
we cannot be in its presence for very long at all.
The stink of it drive us out of places of sin.
The Dead man has no Power - He has no Strength.
Can the corpse sit up? stand up? roll over?
No.
He simply does not even have the strength to do even the smallest of tasks.
Sin, drains all the strength out of a man.
A sinful man is a weak man.
When David held on to sin, the might warrior lost all his strength.
Look at Sampson. he had the strength of 1000 men, yet at his sin, he lost it all.
The Dead man starts to decay.
When Lazarus was dead in the tomb, and Jesus commanded the stone be rolled away, the people had a very good reason to be hesitant.
Let me tell you about a dead body, have spend lots of time around them.
After one day, the body looks very peaceful.
Devoid of the pain thats constantly suffered, the face softens and looks at rest.
After 2 days, as the remanding moisture leaves the face begins to look hard and sharp.
After 4 days, the effects of the unchecked bacteria which our living substance keeps at bay, not =begins to go unchecked and the body begins to stink.
After 6 days the body goes into whats known as bloat and doubles in size as the full effects of death are in effect and then the body enters into a stage of decay.
Sin starts of small, but gets worse and worse.
2: You have Ben Quickened!
I was dead, but now i am alive.
The dead me, with all its symtoms of death is gone.
Whats is new?
Well now that i am Alive:
I have New Wants
When i was dead i did not care.
But now that im alive i do care and i have a whole new set of wants.
i want to holy, i want to be kin, i want to give god glory, i want to be his servant, i want to honor him with my life.
I have New Joys
The things that used to bring me joy no longer have any hold over me.
things like materialism, or lust or whatever.
Now I find joy in Jesus, in his word, in his spirit.
in his church.
I have New Reasons to Live.
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