MacArthur commented on Romans 8:6, “For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” In his commentary on Romans, MacArthur wrote, ”The unsaved person is already dead spiritually. The apostle is stating a spiritual equation, not a spiritual consequence.”
MacArthur gave this illustration on Romans 8:6: “Some years ago I conducted the funeral for a baby girl killed in an automobile accident. Before the service the mother kept reaching into the casket, taking the lifeless little body in her arms and caressing her and crying softly to her. The baby, of course, could no longer respond to anything in the physical realm, because there was no life there to respond. The unsaved person is a spiritual corpse and consequently is completely unable, in himself, to respond to the things of God. Unless the Holy Spirit intervenes by convicting him of sin and enabling him to respond to God by faith and thus being made alive, the unsaved is as insensitive to the things of God as that baby was to the caresses and cries of its mother.”
Sermon Illustration by MacArthur on Spiritual Death
MacArthur commented on Romans 8:6, “For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” In his commentary on Romans, MacArthur wrote, ”The unsaved person is already dead spiritually. The apostle is stating a spiritual equation, not a spiritual consequence.”
MacArthur gave this illustration on Romans 8:6: “Some years ago I conducted the funeral for a baby girl killed in an automobile accident. Before the service the mother kept reaching into the casket, taking the lifeless little body in her arms and caressing her and crying softly to her. The baby, of course, could no longer respond to anything in the physical realm, because there was no life there to respond. The unsaved person is a spiritual corpse and consequently is completely unable, in himself, to respond to the things of God. Unless the Holy Spirit intervenes by convicting him of sin and enabling him to respond to God by faith and thus being made alive, the unsaved is as insensitive to the things of God as that baby was to the caresses and cries of its mother.”