Family of God: Re: [Awake4HisReturn] Fw: AWWY - "Dirty Dead, Clean Dead, Dead Dead" (#6293)

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On Wed Feb 23rd, 2011 9:06 AM CST drena brown wrote:

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>with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of
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>Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things
>are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever
>things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue,
>and if there be any praise, think on these things.KJV
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>Dirty Dead, Clean Dead, Dead Dead - #6293
>Wednesday, February 23, 2011
>Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction and this...honestly, this is a true
>story. Friends of friends of ours have a big dog. And their neighbor threatened
>them about that dog. She had this white fluffy rabbit, you see, and a rabbit
>hutch in her backyard. And she said, "I'll tell you, if that dog ever hurts that
>rabbit of mine, I'll sue you for everything you're worth." Uh...she loves the
>rabbit?
>Well, the friends of the friends had to leave a young man in charge of their
>house for one week, and the first couple of nights he came home from work and
>everything was fine. The third night he came home from work, he saw the dog in
>the back yard playing with a dead animal. Um huh. He said "Uh-oh." He went over
>and he found the bloody, dirty, muddy remains of that rabbit.
>Well, he didn't know what to do. He panicked. He ran into the house, he put it
>in the kitchen sink; started to scrub it up, hoping somehow he could cover up
>what he felt the dog had done. So, he literally washed off all the mud, all the
>blood, he blew it dry so it would be all fluffy again. Can you imagine a blow
>dryer on a dead rabbit? You say, "This really didn't happen." I'm sorry, it
>really did.
>Well, he sneaked out in the middle of the night, put it back in the rabbit hutch
>and went back to the house. The next morning he heard a scream next door; he
>heard the woman screaming. He ran over there. He said, "What happened?" She's
>jumping up and down; she said, "Look! He's back! He's back! My rabbit died two
>days ago, and I buried him and he's back! It's a miracle!" No ma'am, this is not
>a miracle. Actually, there are lots of people trying to make that kind of
>miracle in their own lives, and it won't work.
>I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "Dirty Dead,
>Clean Dead, Dead Dead."
>Our word for today from the Word of God - Ephesians chapter 2. I'll be reading
>in verse 1. "As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins. Because
>of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ
>even when we were dead in transgressions - it is by grace you have been saved.
>For it is by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves,
>it is the gift of God. Not by works so that no one can boast."
>Now, it's interesting that this passage says that the condition that we're in
>before we open our lives to Christ is we're dead. That means we don't need a
>bath; we need a resurrection like that rabbit. What does dead mean? Well, dead
>here spiritually means that you're separated from God by your sin. The "me
>first" way that I've lived my whole life; it's called sin instead of God being
>first. The result is that the God you were made by and the God you were made
>for, well, you shut Him out and you're dead inside.
>That house sitter had something dead to deal with. He did all he could. He
>washed it, fluffed it, put it in a nice setting, but it was still dead. See,
>dirty dead, clean dead, it's all dead dead. Oh, we laugh at his efforts, but
>it's possible that you've been depending on the same approach to get to God to
>deal with your sin, to get to heaven when you die. Oh, you were a religious
>person; you've really cleaned up the outside: baptized, christened, confirmed,
>you joined a church, you read the Bible, you pray, you help people. It's all
>good, but it only cleans the outside.
>Ephesians 2:8-9 says it's not about anything you can do to get to God. It's
>trusting in what Christ has done when He died on the cross for you. If there was
>some way, something you could do to get to God, He would never have allowed His
>Son to go through the agony and brutality of that cross. It took that to forgive
>you and bring you back to life.
>Oh, you could make a dirty person clean, but only God can make a dead person
>live. We try every way to make it on our own spiritually, but we can't. That's
>why Christ gave His life. Now, if you die without Christ, you'll be separated
>from God forever. But He's in your reach right now. You feel knocking on the
>inside? Let Him in.
>Let us help you begin a relationship with Him. Come to our website; check it out
>and find there the information you need from God's Word that will simply lead
>you into beginning a relationship with Him. Go to YoursForLife.net.
>Jesus won't just make a dead person clean; He'll make a dead person alive who
>can live forever.
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