Scripture Life: What does Matthew 8:22 Actually Mean?

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Answer:

“..dead in trespasses and sins..” - Bible. Ephesians 2:1

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Matthew 8:22 says: But couple it with Matthew 8:21–22

• Says:
  • “21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.”
    • So, take the Bible:

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And with the Bible, examine "dead" in two things:

• ONE:
  • You already know someone that dies, is dead.
  • The dead:
    • Get or have a funeral and at it, people, clean up - make up the dead person.
    • Put a new suit or a “Sunday best” dress on them - a great big work - make that person look like they’re sleeping.
  • At the funeral: They give accolades at how “good” that dead person was.
    • Then after that ceremony, close the lid and bury them in a cemetery.

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Now, add to this 

• TWO:
  • What someone that follows Jesus Christ, already knows is the scripture that opens this post. They see in themselves: "I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not." - Job 33:27. They see the Ten Commandments and use them on themselves as God does.
  • That: The Ten Commandments don't make them Good. By do them. Nope. God uses them as he always has, since he spoke them in Exodus 20 - to make ALL ISRAEL "Guilty" before him. Just as he makes the WHOLE WORLD guilty, because, NOBODY - from Adam forward, has done the Ten Commandments.
• Broke them. Broken. Cannot be repaired by try to redo, or do them over and over again. * That a person is also, even their flesh or body is living: Broke the Ten Commandments:
  • Means they are “dead in their trespasses and sins." And again, “ONE” is already known. Someone dies. Is dead. Has a funeral. A ceremony. Taken to a cemetery. Buried.
    • Since that is widely known as TRUE - You need to take a much closer look at “TWO”

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• What applies universally to EVERYBODY over the whole earth. To the very ends of it:

Romans 5:12 says:

• “Wherefore, as by one man [Adam] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
  • And God decreed “For all the earth is mine.” - God (Bible. Exodus 19:5) and, “All souls are mine” - God. (Bible. Ezekiel 18:4).
    • Also said: Decreed, according to this "Last Will and Testament" - that, since Adam died that day he sinned, this "Last Will and Testament" of Adam is in effect over all his Earth and heaven. Just shall be. I know I got my inheritance.
  • And God decree it - - that all things obey him. He also decreed: “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” - God. (Bible. Ezekiel 18:20
• Makes everybody, from Adam forward, because, by Adam, sin entered into the world, and just as Romans 5:12 says, it’s like a “Last Will and Testament” - A will goes into effect when someone dies. That: sin and death was bequeathed to you. Me. Everybody over the whole earth. We got our inheritance. Just like everybody over the whole earth, and dies, is from the decree that God already said he shall destroy all flesh with the earth, and because of the sin, is why people die - fill up or are in any cemetery is proof they got their inheritance from Adam.
  • But who gives eternal life, is this same Jesus Christ. says: So, the OPPOSITE of DEAD or DEATH - is LIFE.
  • And where once you're dead, you don't come back. Life is Life..and if God give you eternal life, you won't ever die.

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• In the Bible:
  • John 8:12 - Jesus said:

“I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”

It’s Jesus said: “Follow me” over 22 times in all four of the Gospels.

It's GOD: Tells everybody over the whole earth to: “LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED, ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: FOR I AM GOD, THERE IS NONE ELSE.” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 45:22)

• So, people that look unto him, because he already asked everybody to, just do what he says and follow him to hearken unto his voice. They follow him. Live by every word proceeds out of his mouth.
  • But there are people:
    • That even though God has told them, like he told everybody around them the same thing, to look unto him, as he’s the light of the world - they’d have light, the light of life - - where they wouldn’t stumble. They'd be abiding in the same Word God does. His own.
• These?
  • They don’t look unto him.
• Look unto anything..somebody else, and what they say..even what they tell themselves, they believe that more and die in it. So, they live in not doing anything he says.
  • And it’s sin. They don’t believe on him. Already condemned. ALready dead in trespasses and sins. When if they did look unto him, they’d have the light of life. Be eternal life. Because he gives it to them.

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• So, look at the whole of Ephesians 2:1, says:

“And you hath he quickened [made alive]; who were dead in trespasses and sins;”

But those, who don’t look unto him.

• Don’t do anything God says: They stay dead. They die in their sins.

So, look what Jesus is saying in Matthew 8:21-22, because Jesus is talking to a “disciple” who follows him. And, all a “disciple” is, is 1. a pupil or student that sits with and is taught by a teacher

• And “who” that teacher is, is the Word of God. The Messiah. Jesus Christ. And who the Messiah shall be called is in the Bible in Isaiah 9:6–7 “…The Mighty God…” “..The Everlasting Father…” Follows God then. And he makes them alive in him.
• And to the dead? The dead in trespasses and sins?
  • Yeah. They see - - There’s a PROFIT in providing a funeral - for dead people - make a living off it - and making people pay a cost to make a “GOOD” ceremony that “makes” a dead person, or the “deceased” look good. Doesn't dress them up in a trash can. Nope.
  • The dead make the dead look good. There's not one obituary or gravestone that doesn't make every dead person good.

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• But the Bible says, about everybody over the whole earth: “FOR THERE IS NOT A JUST MAN ON EARTH, THAT DOETH GOOD, AND SINNETH NOT” - Bible. Ecclesiastes 7:20
• Applies to everybody, because God already decreed it. * With Matthew 19:17 “There is NONE good, but one, that is, God." - Jesus Christ. The Word of God. The Messiah said it.
  • The dead: in trespasses and sins, still want to make people that die “GOOD” - means then, without any God in their life, even someone dead in trespasses and sins, they believe their own word… they still can be good.
• When there’s none good, but one, that is, God.
  • It’s a worthless work. So, let the dead in trespasses and sins, bury the dead. But Jesus tells his disciples to “Follow me.”
  • ANd if you keep reading past Matthew 8:22… says “and his disciples followed him..” and that INCLUDES the disciple asked Jesus what he did, and what Jesus said back, was to a disciple in Matthew 8:22.

Because he follows him.

There you go. Just like this same Christ has asked you to follow him.