in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
You are dead to sin. You are alive to God, but you have to treat yourself as dead to sin and alive to God. You have to remind yourself of who you are.
Timothy Keller
Dark Influences
Ephesians 2:2 (NASB95)disobedience.
Comparisons were great.
What kind of dark influences affected your life before Christ?
Idea 1
Idea 2
Idea 3
Dark Desires
Ephesians 2:3 NASB95
Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
But God
Ephesians 2:4 NKJV
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
