DEAD MAN LISTENING

REFERENCE
John 5:24-30 [Message] 24 “It’s urgent that you listen carefully to this: Anyone here who believes what I am saying right now and aligns himself with the Father, who has in fact put me in charge, has at this very moment the real, lasting life and is no longer condemned to be an outsider. This person has taken a giant step from the world of the dead to the world of the living. 25 “It’s urgent that you get this right: The time has arrived—I mean right now!—when dead men and women will hear the voice of the Son of God and, hearing, will come alive. 26 Just as the Father has life in himself, he has conferred on the Son life in himself. 27 And he has given him the authority, simply because he is the Son of Man, to decide and carry out matters of Judgment. 28 “Don’t act so surprised at all this. The time is coming when everyone dead and buried will hear his voice. 29 Those who have lived the right way will walk out into a resurrection Life; those who have lived the wrong way, into a resurrection Judgment. 30 “I can’t do a solitary thing on my own: I listen, then I decide. You can trust my decision because I’m not out to get my own way but only to carry out orders.

EXPLORATION
I'm caught up in the urgency, Jesus wants us to "get it" - He's God, He's Saviour, He is our Hope. In Him there is eternal life! And everything in me screams back, "I get it, I get it" - REALLY?
If I really "get it" - shouldn't I be sharing it?

APPLICATION
Dead man walking - straight to hell!
Dead man listening - straight to life - life eternally!

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live - Deuteronomy 30:19

PRAYER
Jesus,
I choose You
I choose Life
I choose to Listen
Use me to help others hear