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Ephesians 2:1–5 ESV

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 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— 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, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

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Ephesians 2:1–4 ESV

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 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— 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, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,

The hadest people to work with is people with memory loss!!!

Unchurched Mentality -

You were dead - That was then

I was dead because of Adam -

On the day Adam disobeyed, he died to God and to the things of God, although he didn’t die physically until nine hundred years after he had eaten the fruit. But he had lost his capacity and longing for God“In the trespasses and sins in which you once walked” - The words he uses are interesting.

“In the trespasses and sins in which you once walked” - The words he uses are interesting.

Sins

The word for sin is hamartia; and hamartia is a shooting word. It literally means a miss. Someone shoots an arrow at the target; the arrow misses; that is hamartia. Sin is the failure to hit the target of life. That is precisely why sin is so universal.

Trespasses

The other word Paul uses, translated as trespasses, is paraptōma. This literally means a slip or a fall. It is used for someone losing the way and straying from the right road; it is used for failing to grasp and slipping away from the truth. Trespass is taking the wrong road when we could take the right one; it is missing the truth that we should have known. Therefore, it is the failure to reach the goal we ought to have reached.

Trespasses speaks of man as a rebel, sins speaks of man as a failure. "Before God we are both rebels and failures."

Every unsaved man is walking around in this world like a spiritual zombie.

Following The Course This World -

Following The Prince of the power of the air -

I was a sinner and a good sinner

I have to remember!!! (Write Down)

Churched Mentality -

“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.”

We all once lived in the passions of our flesh

carrying out the desires of the body

The desires of the mind

“By nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind” - Don’t get it twisted

That was then - This is Now

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved

He doesn’t choose me based on my past - But he chooses me based on his plan!!!

But God

Mercy

Love + Plan =

Plan

Grace

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