From a sermon by S. Lewis Johnson "His Power and Our Salvation".
"Many years ago...I read a story by a Scottish expositor.
And he said that there was a graveyard in Ayrshire, one the counties of
Scotland, where once a stranger was buried. It greatly distressed the people of
that particular parish, so much so that they put a notice on the outside of the
graveyard to this effect, this is what it read: "This graveyard is reserved
exclusively for the dead who are living in this parish."
Now, that is what we have in this parish of the whole
wide world. We have dead people. They're alive, just like Adam was alive, physically,
after he had sinned, but nevertheless, he was spiritually dead. We are living
in the parish, but we are dead, as we are born into this human race. The Apostle
says, "We are dead in trespasses and sins" that’s the relationship we
have to the Creator."
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