Alive or Dead?: Old Paths - J. C. Ryle

▶️My Twitter page   / richmoo50267219   1. We are spiritually dead!
2. Every man must be quickened and made spiritually alive.
3. The soul can be made spiritually alive.

“You hath he quickened who were dead” - Ephesians 2:1

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First then, let me tell you what we all are by nature. We are spiritually dead!
“Dead” is a strong word, but it is not my own coining and invention. I did not choose it. The Holy
Ghost taught St. Paul to write it down about the Ephesians: “You hath he quickened who were dead”
(Ephesians 2:1). The Lord Jesus Christ made use of it in the parable of the prodigal son: “This my son was dead and is alive again” (Luke 15:24-32). You will read it also in the first Epistle to Timothy: “She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth” (1 Timothy 5:6,). Shall a mortal man be wise above that which is written? Must I not take heed to speak that which I find in the Bible, and neither less nor more?

“Dead” is an awful idea, and one that man is most unwilling to receive. He does not like to allow the
whole extent of his soul’s disease: he shuts his eyes to the real amount of his danger. Many an one
will allow us to say, that naturally most people “are not quite what they ought to be: they are
thoughtless, they are unsteady, they are gay, they are wild, they are not serious enough”. But dead?
Oh, no! We must not mention it. It is going too far to say that. The idea is a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence.

Alive or Dead?: Old Paths - J. C. Ryle

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J.C. Ryle - (1816-1900), first Anglican bishop of Liverpool
John Charles Ryle was born at Macclesfield and was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford. He was a fine athlete who rowed and played Cricket for Oxford, where he took a first class degree in Greats and was offered a college fellowship (teaching position) which he declined. The son of a wealthy banker, he was destined for a career in politics before answering a call to ordained ministry.

He was spiritually awakened in 1838 while hearing Ephesians 2 read in church. He was ordained by Bishop Sumner at Winchester in 1842. After holding a curacy at Exbury in Hampshire, he became rector of St Thomas's, Winchester (1843), rector of Helmingham, Suffolk (1844), vicar of Stradbroke (1861), honorary canon of Norwich (1872), and dean of Salisbury (1880). In 1880, at age 64, he became the first bishop of Liverpool, at the recommendation of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. He retired in 1900 at age 83 and died later the same year.

Ryle was a strong supporter of the evangelical school and a critic of Ritualism. Among his longer works are Christian Leaders of the Eighteenth Century (1869), Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (7 vols, 1856-69) and Principles for Churchmen (1884).

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