His one plan was for his people to extend the Kingdom.
Previously they had been dead in sin (Eph. 2:1); now they were dead to sin. The aorist in the verb died points to an action rather than a state: “we who died” rather than “we are dead”
Leon Morris
Dark influences
Ephesians 2:2 ESV
in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
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Dark Desires
Ephesians 2:3 ESV
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
But God
eph2.4 “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,”
