Title: From Death to Life (8)
Series: Ephesians
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Ephesians 2:1-5
Lord Kenneth Clark was known internationally for his television series called Civilization which aired in 1969.
Some say it was the best TV productions ever made. The series chronicled the human race throughout the centuries.
Clark wrote a brilliant script and used pictures of beautiful artwork and architecture to illuminate his series. By focusing on art and architecture and the painters, artists and visionaries who have helped shape the world he tried to prove that man had risen above the humdrum that marked our earlier existence.
He showed that throughout the centuries man had been very successful in his accomplishments. Man had moved forward because he had developed art and architecture.
In his autobiography, Clark wrote about an overwhelming religious experience he had while visiting a beautiful church.
"My whole being was irradiated by a kind of heavenly joy far more intense than anything I had known before."
Unfortunately, the "flood of grace" as he described it, created a problem for him. If he allowed himself to be influenced by it, he knew he would have to change. His family might think he had lost his mind. Or perhaps the intense joy would prove to be just an illusion. So, he concluded, "I was too deeply embedded in the world to change course."
What a tragedy to hear the truth and be moved by emotions, but not to accept it because you didn't want to change. He didn't respond because he was spiritually dead, controlled by his sins.
Many people live moral lives, they are respected citizens in the community, but they are spiritually dead. Physically they are alive, mentally they are intelligent, emotionally they are well, but spiritually they are completely dead
GENUINE SPIRITUAL DEATH :1-2
Dead - Gk. corpse meaning without any life (1:20 Jesus died).
It is used to describe physical death or separation from God.
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Series: Ephesians
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Ephesians 2:1-5
Lord Kenneth Clark was known internationally for his television series called Civilization which aired in 1969.
Some say it was the best TV productions ever made. The series chronicled the human race throughout the centuries.
Clark wrote a brilliant script and used pictures of beautiful artwork and architecture to illuminate his series. By focusing on art and architecture and the painters, artists and visionaries who have helped shape the world he tried to prove that man had risen above the humdrum that marked our earlier existence.
He showed that throughout the centuries man had been very successful in his accomplishments. Man had moved forward because he had developed art and architecture.
In his autobiography, Clark wrote about an overwhelming religious experience he had while visiting a beautiful church.
"My whole being was irradiated by a kind of heavenly joy far more intense than anything I had known before."
Unfortunately, the "flood of grace" as he described it, created a problem for him. If he allowed himself to be influenced by it, he knew he would have to change. His family might think he had lost his mind. Or perhaps the intense joy would prove to be just an illusion. So, he concluded, "I was too deeply embedded in the world to change course."
What a tragedy to hear the truth and be moved by emotions, but not to accept it because you didn't want to change. He didn't respond because he was spiritually dead, controlled by his sins.
Many people live moral lives, they are respected citizens in the community, but they are spiritually dead. Physically they are alive, mentally they are intelligent, emotionally they are well, but spiritually they are completely dead
GENUINE SPIRITUAL DEATH :1-2
Dead - Gk. corpse meaning without any life (1:20 Jesus died).
It is used to describe physical death or separation from God.
...
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