Ephesians 2:1 (NIV) // As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins
Ephesians 2:2-3 // in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.
- Flesh - Greek word for flesh (sarx) - carnal, carnally minded, fleshly
- Living according to the flesh leads to DEATH
Romans 7:15-20 // I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
- How
- "Your tolerance for tensions determines your potential for growth." - Steven Furtick
- Stop praying for a tension-free life and start praying for purpose in that tension.
Ephesians 2:12-13 // remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:14a // “For He Himself is our peace…”
Ephesians 2:19 // Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household
- How to live NEW
- Die to the old
- Stop trying to be better
- We're not called to be better, we're called to be NEW
- Born again
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