Alive In Christ

Dead In Sin

Ephesians 2:1–3 (NIV)

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

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

Paul does not say that sin is dead but that the believer is to count himself as dead to it.

Leon Morris

Dark Influences

What kind of dark influences affected your life before coming to Christ

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 NIV

All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

Ephesians 2:4 NIV

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

But God

Rich in Mercy

Great Love