Many of us have seen action packed movies, where the hero, or heroine, have done some amazing things, like live through things that would have killed the average person long before. They get wounded and tear of a part of their clothing tie up the wound and soldier on. There are quite a number of people indebted to this single individual. However tragedy strikes nearing the end of the show the hero/heroine, is lying in an operating room, on life support, in an operating room, surgeons working feverously to save their life. The best is done, the badly damaged body is sewn up, then the unthinkable happens, as the camera pans to the instrument panel that show the vitals, the heart monitor flatlines. The Defibrillation machine is brought in and charged, the order is given “clear!” zap the body writhes and jumps up off the operating table. Nothing shows up on the electrocardiogram, again someone one yells and the scene is repeated, sometimes several times, with the same resulting flatline, the doctor painfully proclaims the person dead, you then see the doctor look at the clock and the time is so noted on the chart, and that’s it, it’s over.

Their isn’t a thing that a person without breath or a heartbeat, no decisions can be made, the dead person is called dead for a reason, the short definition of dead is to be depraved of life.

The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Ephesians write that we were dead, chapter 2:1 states it this way: As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins. What does dead mean ‘depraved of life.’

This is the condition we are in when the great physician Jesus finds us, ‘depraved of life’ Jesus places us on His operating table, removes our old heart and gives us a new one, He bends over by our face and whispers, ‘breathe.’ We suck in our first breath of air as a new creation, being born again. Lets look at what Paul says in the following verses of Ephesians: 2:1-5

2 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.

Has the risen savior, spoken to you to ‘breathe’? It’s not that hard, the words are simple, if you want the new life in Christ, ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins, to be your Lord and Savior, and that you want your name written in the Lamb's book of life. That’s it in it’s simplicity. Jesus says, “Come, follow me.”