{"id":47131,"date":"2022-10-01T02:43:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/dead-but-still-alive-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:43:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:43:48","slug":"dead-but-still-alive-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/dead-but-still-alive-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead But Still Alive &#8211; Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible teaches us that it&#8217;s possible to be dead and yet be alive. In 1 Timothy 5:6, the inspired writer Paul tells us regarding the lifestyle of certain widows:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This passage illustrates the fact that we can be dead spiritually speaking and yet be alive physically speaking.<\/p>\n<p>The Apostle Paul sends us this message of warning and exhortation regarding our spiritual status:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light<\/strong>&#8221; (Ephesians 5:14).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brethren, if we&#8217;re spiritually asleep, let&#8217;s arise from that sleep, repent, confess our sins before the Lord, and then go to work in His kingdom producing spiritual fruit! (cf. Acts 8:22; 1 John 1:9; Psalm 32:5; John 15:1-5).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spiritual Warfare Is Real, Difficult, and Dangerous<\/li>\n<li>Are We Friend or Foe?<\/li>\n<li>The Second Death  Separation or Annihilation?<\/li>\n<li>Who Will Be Saved?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible teaches us that it&#8217;s possible to be dead and yet be alive. In 1 Timothy 5:6, the inspired writer Paul tells us regarding the lifestyle of certain widows: &#8220;But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.&#8221; This passage illustrates the fact that we can be dead spiritually speaking and yet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/dead-but-still-alive-bible-study\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dead But Still Alive &#8211; Bible study&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}