The act or an instance of taking one`s own life voluntarily and intentionally
When we hear of a Suicide our hearts are saddened that a person would be responsible for their own death.
We invariably associate Suicide with Physical Death. But Spiritual Suicide is happening at a many times higher rate.
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live: -
When a person rejects the Knowledge of God and refuses Relationship with Him, they commit Suicide - Spiritual Suicide.
We all will Physically die. There is no choice about it. We can however choose when we die.
We all were Physically born Spiritually dead. We were separated from God because of Sin.
We must choose Spiritual Life in order to live Spiritually.
God is Life and the source of all Life.
So, in order to Live Spiritually, we must choose God.
But we cannot Know who God is without Spiritual Revelation.
God made that Revelation clear and simple.
He came to earth and was born of Flesh and we called His name, Jesus.
Receiving the Knowledge of Christ Jesus into your Mind and Heart and confessing that God raised Jesus from the dead enables you to be Born of God`s Spirit and so become Spiritually alive.
In the Physical sense we go from Life to Death.
In the Spiritual sense we go from Death to Life.
There is no choice involved by the person who receives Physical Life. They are just born.
But a choice is absolutely necessary to receive Spiritual Life.
Assuming a person will automatically receive Spiritual Life is a fatal mistake.
Just as God said in as quoted above, we have to choose Life. Not to choose is a choice of Death.
He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has not life. -
So, we can focus in the Physical Suicides if we want but Jesus came to take us from Spiritual Death into Spiritual Life.
The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. -
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. -
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. -
I recently saw a picture of a young woman protester holding a sign above her head that read "going to hell and proud of it".
Seeing this sign, this statement, had the same effect on me as if I had just seen her put a gun to her head and blow her brains out.
What is the difference between this woman and millions of others? She confronted the implications of her choice of Spiritual Death while the others ignore it or pretend it wont happen.
This is why Christ commanded us to preach the Gospel to every creature.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? -
We must stop the Spiritual Suicides for the sake of the Lost and for the sake of Obedience to our Lord.