“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” - Ephesians 2:5
By Carl Olof Rosenius.
Part I:
Mark the apostel’s word which he here uses regarding the natural man’s condition. The short, but very telling word: Dead. “Dead in sins,”.
It is that deeply terrifying word used for everything, that came about as a consequence of the fall of man: “for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” The life given by God has ceased, man is spiritually speaking a corpse. For thus hath The Lord Christ himself spoken: “let the dead bury their dead.”
Many suppose, that this is a hard saying, which is not to be understood by the full meaning of the word, dead, which it normally has; But make no mistake, do not suspect The Lord Christ to have used an over exaggerated expression. And when we see, that he has just collated in expressed words, the fleshly and the spiritually dead man as two kinds of corpses, then we shall consider the matter at hand, and with astonishment become aware of, which meaning, there lies in the word, dead.
The fleshly corpse is known hereby, that he not only senses nothing, sees nothing, hears nothing, feels nothing, but also that he doesn’t even have a single drawing of breath, despite him having organs, eyes, ears, mouth, and lungs, just as a man who is alive would.
With that then being the case, is it not so with the spiritually dead man as well?
He can have all the exterior senses in a fresh and alive condition, he can have a bright mind, a feeling heart, much wisdom, noble foundations, beautiful words and deeds; all things but the life in Christ. It is this alone, which he is missing, fellowship with God, a sense for God, for his will, his Word, his grace. He sees, hears, thinks, and feels in a most certainly vital manner, when it comes to all matters that are worldly, which makes sense to him, but he doesn’t sense anything which is of God’s Spirit.
We shall consider some examples hereon: He reads, hears, understands, and believes in a certain way God’s Word, but he can also read and hear God’s most certain condemnations over his existence, and still feel completely at ease.
He reads and hears of the Kingdom of God, of God’s grace and friendship, of the blessed reunion with God, but it does not even awake within him the smallest longing for it, just like there is not even a single drawing of breath with a corpse. His heart is only filled with idols, with earthly and vain matters, and: “What shall we eat? What shall we drink? Wherewith shall we be clothed?” And: “What shall we now see, hear, and enjoy? But God… God what? What does God want?”
That matter he doesn’t regard whatsoever. Yes, notice indeed, how he already has a certain faith in the truth of God’s Word, upon which he maybe never has even doubted, he has something within himself, that bares witness of it; and now he sees and hears in that exact same Word of God the most firm condemnation of every single one who is not born of the Spirit of God, and who is not born again, and at the same time he does not know of any rebirth within himself; and yet still, he only has affection for the most corrupt fruits! And even still holds this to be the Word of God!
He sees, reads, and hears in the Word of God how there are two ways. The wide, which leads to damnation, that many walk on, and the narrow, which leads to the life, whereupon very few walk; but he doesn’t even worry a single day about which of these ways he himself is walking on. And still he holds the Bible to be God’s Word!
But why doesn’t he fear? Yes, say it! This is what it is to be dead. Behold, what it entails: Dead. Dead in sins and trespasses.
“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)” - Ephesians 2:5
By Carl Olof Rosenius.
Part I:
Mark the apostel’s word which he here uses regarding the natural man’s condition. The short, but very telling word: Dead. “Dead in sins,”.
It is that deeply terrifying word used for everything, that came about as a consequence of the fall of man: “for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” The life given by God has ceased, man is spiritually speaking a corpse. For thus hath The Lord Christ himself spoken: “let the dead bury their dead.”
Many suppose, that this is a hard saying, which is not to be understood by the full meaning of the word, dead, which it normally has; But make no mistake, do not suspect The Lord Christ to have used an over exaggerated expression. And when we see, that he has just collated in expressed words, the fleshly and the spiritually dead man as two kinds of corpses, then we shall consider the matter at hand, and with astonishment become aware of, which meaning, there lies in the word, dead.
The fleshly corpse is known hereby, that he not only senses nothing, sees nothing, hears nothing, feels nothing, but also that he doesn’t even have a single drawing of breath, despite him having organs, eyes, ears, mouth, and lungs, just as a man who is alive would.
With that then being the case, is it not so with the spiritually dead man as well?
He can have all the exterior senses in a fresh and alive condition, he can have a bright mind, a feeling heart, much wisdom, noble foundations, beautiful words and deeds; all things but the life in Christ. It is this alone, which he is missing, fellowship with God, a sense for God, for his will, his Word, his grace. He sees, hears, thinks, and feels in a most certainly vital manner, when it comes to all matters that are worldly, which makes sense to him, but he doesn’t sense anything which is of God’s Spirit.
We shall consider some examples hereon: He reads, hears, understands, and believes in a certain way God’s Word, but he can also read and hear God’s most certain condemnations over his existence, and still feel completely at ease.
He reads and hears of the Kingdom of God, of God’s grace and friendship, of the blessed reunion with God, but it does not even awake within him the smallest longing for it, just like there is not even a single drawing of breath with a corpse. His heart is only filled with idols, with earthly and vain matters, and: “What shall we eat? What shall we drink? Wherewith shall we be clothed?” And: “What shall we now see, hear, and enjoy? But God… God what? What does God want?”
That matter he doesn’t regard whatsoever. Yes, notice indeed, how he already has a certain faith in the truth of God’s Word, upon which he maybe never has even doubted, he has something within himself, that bares witness of it; and now he sees and hears in that exact same Word of God the most firm condemnation of every single one who is not born of the Spirit of God, and who is not born again, and at the same time he does not know of any rebirth within himself; and yet still, he only has affection for the most corrupt fruits! And even still holds this to be the Word of God!
He sees, reads, and hears in the Word of God how there are two ways. The wide, which leads to damnation, that many walk on, and the narrow, which leads to the life, whereupon very few walk; but he doesn’t even worry a single day about which of these ways he himself is walking on. And still he holds the Bible to be God’s Word!
But why doesn’t he fear? Yes, say it! This is what it is to be dead. Behold, what it entails: Dead. Dead in sins and trespasses.
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