The Gospel

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Stories you wish you could hear for the first time

Dune part 2

Harry Potter

Avengers: Endgame

Our Sin Had Eternal Ramifications

Eph 2:1-3

We were present in a spiritual death. We were not alive to the work of the Lord, but were dead to his love and care for us

Prince of the power of the air

Satan and his dominion

Prince is not king and does not usurp the king, but still has power

Spirit that is now at work in the sons.. passions of our flesh

We were given to just succumb to every desire we have

We had no knowledge of their evil nature as we did not know what was good

Carrying out the desires of the body and the mind

More of the same

We were by nature children of wrath

We were born into a broken world

Yet if left up to our own devices, with no intervention, we would succumb to the evil that the world has put out

Nature

WIth no prompting or guidance, this is the natural disposition of our hearts

We would not have been any different from the rest of the world

Christ Brought Us Back To Life

Eph 2:4-8

But God

anytime that phrase is in scripture pay attention

Even though XYZ occurred, God’s response to this was Q

Being rich in mercy even when we were dead in our trespasses

It wasn’t that we finally figured it out or finally got it together

Rom 5:8

God stepped into our brokenness and saved us in our spiritual death

We were made alive together with christ

The word here means to give life

Paul is using imagery to show we were dead, and now we have been breathed back to life

By grace we have been saved and seated with him in the heavenly places

Don’t miss this here. We were made alive but we were not righteous yet. God not only forgives sins, but christs righteousness is given onto us

The greatest transaction in the history of mankind

Our Obedience is the fruit of our faith, not the root of it

Eph 2:9-10

We have no place in earning our faith

If we understand sin, we understand the gravity of our depravity

The most holy person you can think of, is a broken and sinful being. That is our very nature.

This story cannot be one we passively sit on. It has to radically infiltrate every aspect