| I SEE DEAD PEOPLE! |
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| JoyUs Musing Edition #09-13 |
There was a Bruce Willis (actor) movie a few years back where a young boy "saw" dead people. The
premise was that the dead people were unable to leave this world because they had unfinished business.
The Bruce Willis character, Malcom, had this conversation with the young boy:
Unfortunately, this is true of most Christians. They walk around like regular people. They only see what
they want to see. They don't know they're dead. They're everywhere.
Many Christians act just like unsaved people. When we use the word "unbeliever" it doesn't just mean
someone who hasn't met Jesus and taken Him as their savior. An unbeliever is anyone who does not
believe God's Word and walk by it.
Colossians 2 and 3 (LVB) ask the question,
when we do not pattern our lives after God's Word - when we accept the world's* standards as the norm -
we are dead. The Bible states that we "were dead in trespasses and sin" but that we were "delivered to
life by Jesus". What most fail to realize is that while this is true - Jesus did deliver us - if we don't make a
choice to walk in that freedom, we actually stay and act the way we were before salvation.
Have you ever known someone who was gloriously saved? They were excited about their new life; it was
all they talked about. Then a few months later, you meet them and they are back in their old habits,
hitting bars, drinking, carousing and acting like they never met Jesus? They walk like a dead person
instead of someone given new life in Christ Jesus?
What happened? Are they no longer saved? Have they lost everything? No. We can actually see this
pattern in many Christians, both newly saved and those who have been sitting on church pews for 50
years. They walk around like regular people. They only see what they want to see. They don't know
they're dead. You ask them and they will proclaim loudly, "Of course I'm saved! Yes, I love Jesus! God is
my source! I am saved!!" Yet their actions say otherwise.
Why don't they act like they are alive in Christ? Because they put the world first and are still walking in the
precepts of death - walking like the world walks, talking like the world talks, acting like the world acts - and
if anyone saw or talked to them, they would never know this person was a Christian. This person does not
know they are dead. They are not walking in Light; they walk in darkness, not even realizing it.
The Bible says it is our choice - we have to consider ourselves dead to the world's way of doing things
and choose to walk the way God says to walk. We have to renew our minds in His Word to change our old
way of thinking. God won't make us walk right, talk right and spit right - it is our decision. We choose - life
or death.
So are you walking around like a regular person? Do you only see what you want to see? Are you dead
to the things of God? Take some time this week and ask God to show you what is really inside you - in
your heart. When He points out an attitude or action that is not His way, repent then get into the Word
and find out how He wants you to think and act.
Don't walk like a dead person. Walk in life!
*
• World - people who are not of the Kingdom of God - unsaved
• Worldly - acting like someone who is not saved
• Worldy actions can be as simple as judging, gossiping, and lying to as dangerous as murder, thievery, and adultery.
Scriptures
Colossians 3:20-23
Colossians 4:1-3
Romans 6:11-13
John 5: 24-25
Romans 7:6
Galatians 2: 19-20
Ephesians 2:1-9
Romans 8:2
Deuteronomy 30:19
Musing Copyright © 2009 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
premise was that the dead people were unable to leave this world because they had unfinished business.
The Bruce Willis character, Malcom, had this conversation with the young boy:
Unfortunately, this is true of most Christians. They walk around like regular people. They only see what
they want to see. They don't know they're dead. They're everywhere.
Many Christians act just like unsaved people. When we use the word "unbeliever" it doesn't just mean
someone who hasn't met Jesus and taken Him as their savior. An unbeliever is anyone who does not
believe God's Word and walk by it.
Colossians 2 and 3 (LVB) ask the question,
when we do not pattern our lives after God's Word - when we accept the world's* standards as the norm -
we are dead. The Bible states that we "were dead in trespasses and sin" but that we were "delivered to
life by Jesus". What most fail to realize is that while this is true - Jesus did deliver us - if we don't make a
choice to walk in that freedom, we actually stay and act the way we were before salvation.
Have you ever known someone who was gloriously saved? They were excited about their new life; it was
all they talked about. Then a few months later, you meet them and they are back in their old habits,
hitting bars, drinking, carousing and acting like they never met Jesus? They walk like a dead person
instead of someone given new life in Christ Jesus?
What happened? Are they no longer saved? Have they lost everything? No. We can actually see this
pattern in many Christians, both newly saved and those who have been sitting on church pews for 50
years. They walk around like regular people. They only see what they want to see. They don't know
they're dead. You ask them and they will proclaim loudly, "Of course I'm saved! Yes, I love Jesus! God is
my source! I am saved!!" Yet their actions say otherwise.
Why don't they act like they are alive in Christ? Because they put the world first and are still walking in the
precepts of death - walking like the world walks, talking like the world talks, acting like the world acts - and
if anyone saw or talked to them, they would never know this person was a Christian. This person does not
know they are dead. They are not walking in Light; they walk in darkness, not even realizing it.
The Bible says it is our choice - we have to consider ourselves dead to the world's way of doing things
and choose to walk the way God says to walk. We have to renew our minds in His Word to change our old
way of thinking. God won't make us walk right, talk right and spit right - it is our decision. We choose - life
or death.
So are you walking around like a regular person? Do you only see what you want to see? Are you dead
to the things of God? Take some time this week and ask God to show you what is really inside you - in
your heart. When He points out an attitude or action that is not His way, repent then get into the Word
and find out how He wants you to think and act.
Don't walk like a dead person. Walk in life!
*
• World - people who are not of the Kingdom of God - unsaved
• Worldly - acting like someone who is not saved
• Worldy actions can be as simple as judging, gossiping, and lying to as dangerous as murder, thievery, and adultery.
Scriptures
Colossians 3:20-23
Colossians 4:1-3
Romans 6:11-13
John 5: 24-25
Romans 7:6
Galatians 2: 19-20
Ephesians 2:1-9
Romans 8:2
Deuteronomy 30:19
Musing Copyright © 2009 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Malcom Crowe: In your dreams?
(Cole shakes his head no)
Malcom Crowe: While you're awake?
(Cole nods)
Malcom Crowe: Dead people like, in graves? In coffins?
Cole Sear: Walking around like regular people. They don't see each other. They only see
what they want to see. They don't know they're dead
Malcom Crowe: How often do you see them?
Cole Sear: All the time. They're everywhere.
"Since you died, as it were, with Christ and this has set you free from following the world's ideas
of how to be saved - by doing good and obeying various rules - why do you keep right on
following them anyway, still bound by such rules... Since you became alive again... when Christ
rose from the dead... set your mind on things above, not on things on this earth."
of how to be saved - by doing good and obeying various rules - why do you keep right on
following them anyway, still bound by such rules... Since you became alive again... when Christ
rose from the dead... set your mind on things above, not on things on this earth."