Alive in Christ
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Handout
Dead in Sin
Dead in Sin
Ephesians 2:1–3 (ESV)
1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 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— 3 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.
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
Great Passage.
Dark Influences
Dark Influences
2 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—
What kind of dark influences affected your life before Christ?
idea 1
idea 2
idea 3
Dark Desires
Dark Desires
3 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
But God
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
Rich in Mercy
Great Love