3/4/26 Wednesday Prayer Service

Review:

Turn to 2 Corinthians 4:4

Study this series with a 2 Timothy 2:2 mindset! Learn this material so you can teach it to someone else.

Our objective is to equip you to teach someone else the foundational concepts of our faith.

Introduction

The goal of this chapter is to show you who you were before salvation.

Block that off in your mind. [This chapter is all about who I was before I was saved.]

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The more you see how hopeless you were before salvation, the more you will appreciate who you are in Christ.

Summarize chapter introduction on page 7: sin began when man rebelled against God in the Garden of Eden.

Question: what do you think about the quote on page 8? What does it mean? We are sinners by nature

Question: why does that difference matter? We must realize that we are fundamentally corrupt to our core. It is not that we are innately good but sometimes do bad things. We are innately bad creatures who sometimes look like we are righteous, but actually are not.

Summarize important terms

Summarize key Bible truths

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Question: what was our condition before Christ saved us?

The Bible describes what we were before salvation in a variety of ways. It’s like the Bible looks at the same thing but from many different angles.

See page 9:

Let’s take a look at this list. All of this was true of us before salvation:

We were spiritually blind

Read 2 Corinthians 4:4

We were lost in sin

We were separated from Christ

We were guilty before a just God

We were spiritually dead in sins

We were servants of sin

We were headed for the lake of fire

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Without Christ, we were hopeless!

Application: There are not many ways to heaven!

John 14:6 KJV 1900

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Application: Christian, the more you meditate on who you were before salvation, the more gratitude will well up in your heart at all that God has done for you!

Application: Now you can see why Paul felt the weight of debt that he needed to repay to the lost souls around him!

Assign chapter two as next reading assignment.