BBD 10.25.17 The Living Dead (Classic)

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Classic from 2006

Burning Bush Devotional

25 October 2017

The
Living Dead

And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit
is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus
from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give
life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. - Romans
8:10-11 NKJV.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He
loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us
sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. - Ephesians 2:4-6 NKJV.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as
children of light (for the fruit of the Spiritis in all goodness,
righteousness, and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have
no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in
secret. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for
whatever makes manifest is light. Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep,
arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” - Ephesians 5:8-14 NKJV.

In the Philippines, Manila is the capitol and the home of
twelve million people. There are huge areas of people who are barely surviving
the pressure of the poverty which has stricken the nation. To those living
there it is no surprise that some of those living there, live among the dead.
Many people become squatters in cemeteries such as the Manila North Cemetery.
Because of the expansion of the cemetery, some people were forced off of the
land they were on and have moved onto the cemetery property. Others end up
living in the cemetery after moving to Manila to try to find a better job and
more opportunities.

One family (Actually, three families - parents plus
their sons and their families) has moved into a family member’s mausoleum.
Living conditions are primitive with the only electricity being stolen from
nearby power lines. Some try to make a living by cleaning and painting the
gravestones. Virginia Bernardino, one of those living in the cemetery said, “So far we have not seen any ghosts here. I think that
only happens in the movies.” Dr. Eduardo Serrano, head of the Manila Health Department's preventable
diseases division said about the situation, “They already know that they should not make homes out of
cemeteries. It's dangerous to their health. The problem is they are being asked
to leave but they keep on coming back.”

Spiritually, we who are Christians, who know Christ Jesus
as our Savior, are the living. The dead are those who do not know Jesus as
their Savior. We are living among the dead, the spiritually dead.

For those who are physically dead and buried in a
cemetery there is nothing that the living can do for them. We cannot bring them
back to life. However, there is much that we can do for the living dead - those
who are alive physically, but do not know Jesus as their personal Savior.

We can walk in the light of our Lord, and shine the
spiritual light of the Lord on the moral morass of darkness around us. exposing
the evil. The living dead, through the light of our lives, may come to
understand their condition. They are asleep in their death and they need to be
awakened. “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and
Christ will give you light.” Let us
shine the light of the Gospel into their lives before it is eternally too late.

So, whenever you walk among the living dead, be sure to
take your Gospel light with you to shine on them. It may be, that it is not too
late, and some will be brought to life, eternal life.

Copyright © 2010 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June
8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed
Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
19 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 12,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brandy, Brad,
Damon D. & wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Brent Baker, Gary Kirk, and
Jeanie (who recently had two strokes).

Please also pray for Aleesha
McMillan, Amy Carroll, and Vivian and Henry.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: www.paypal.me/EdWrather

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Classic from 2006

Burning Bush Devotional

25 October 2017

The
Living Dead

And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit
is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus
from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give
life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. - Romans
8:10-11 NKJV.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He
loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us
sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. - Ephesians 2:4-6 NKJV.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as
children of light (for the fruit of the Spiritis in all goodness,
righteousness, and truth), finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have
no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.
For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in
secret. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for
whatever makes manifest is light. Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep,
arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” - Ephesians 5:8-14 NKJV.

In the Philippines, Manila is the capitol and the home of
twelve million people. There are huge areas of people who are barely surviving
the pressure of the poverty which has stricken the nation. To those living
there it is no surprise that some of those living there, live among the dead.
Many people become squatters in cemeteries such as the Manila North Cemetery.
Because of the expansion of the cemetery, some people were forced off of the
land they were on and have moved onto the cemetery property. Others end up
living in the cemetery after moving to Manila to try to find a better job and
more opportunities.

One family (Actually, three families - parents plus
their sons and their families) has moved into a family member’s mausoleum.
Living conditions are primitive with the only electricity being stolen from
nearby power lines. Some try to make a living by cleaning and painting the
gravestones. Virginia Bernardino, one of those living in the cemetery said, “So far we have not seen any ghosts here. I think that
only happens in the movies.” Dr. Eduardo Serrano, head of the Manila Health Department's preventable
diseases division said about the situation, “They already know that they should not make homes out of
cemeteries. It's dangerous to their health. The problem is they are being asked
to leave but they keep on coming back.”

Spiritually, we who are Christians, who know Christ Jesus
as our Savior, are the living. The dead are those who do not know Jesus as
their Savior. We are living among the dead, the spiritually dead.

For those who are physically dead and buried in a
cemetery there is nothing that the living can do for them. We cannot bring them
back to life. However, there is much that we can do for the living dead - those
who are alive physically, but do not know Jesus as their personal Savior.

We can walk in the light of our Lord, and shine the
spiritual light of the Lord on the moral morass of darkness around us. exposing
the evil. The living dead, through the light of our lives, may come to
understand their condition. They are asleep in their death and they need to be
awakened. “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and
Christ will give you light.” Let us
shine the light of the Gospel into their lives before it is eternally too late.

So, whenever you walk among the living dead, be sure to
take your Gospel light with you to shine on them. It may be, that it is not too
late, and some will be brought to life, eternal life.

Copyright © 2010 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On June
8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent. Ed
Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
19 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 12,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brandy, Brad,
Damon D. & wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Brent Baker, Gary Kirk, and
Jeanie (who recently had two strokes).

Please also pray for Aleesha
McMillan, Amy Carroll, and Vivian and Henry.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: http://www.paypal.me/EdWrather

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

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constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
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