Dead in sin...Dead to Christ

Our life comes from Yeshua the Messiah. When the devil came to temp Yeshua, He said, "man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes from the Father."

Yeshua is the Word. John testified Yeshua was the Life and the Light of men. The light is revealed to everyone that comes into the world. There is no excuse...Paul claims creation testifies of God, John claims Yeshua reveals the His light to every man, Paul again says God has given every man a measure of faith, that is the faith to trust in Him

We are dead, without life, until we are born again. We may walk around, talk, eat, drink, but we are dead in our sins and if we die in that state, we will still be dead, lost without Messiah for eternity.

Once we become born again, we again die to our carnal nature. We are to crucify (put to death) the deeds of the flesh, that our spirit may live eternally with Messiah.

Yeshua had to die to give us life, but that life only comes from us dying. If we want to live in this world the end result is eternal death. If we want to have eternal life, we must die to the world. One might say "What about having life and that life more abundant?" That life more abundant is the life of Messiah living in us. That will not happen without us putting our own nature to death.

I am reminded of a church that chose to give up dying to self to win the lost for endulging in the flesh to win the lost. They started to allow the world to creep in with drinking and smoking. When we find just as much or more pleasure in the things of the world than we do in the things of God, we are in danger of becoming like Demas. Paul said he left because the things of the world got ahold of him.

Unless a grain of wheat die, it cannot produce fruit, the tree that did not produce fruit Yeshua killed, the steward that did not produce fruit the master threw into outer darkness, the branches that do not produce fruit are thrown into the fire.

Yeshua is the bread of life, eat of Him and you will have eternal life