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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. —Ephesians 2:1-3 (ESV)
1. We Were
“That is why humanity struggles endlessly trying to correct itself but never succeeds!” —Ray Stedman
2. We Were
a. The World
b. The Devil
…When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. —John 8:44 (ESV)
c. The Flesh
3. We Were
“God’s wrath in the Bible is never the capricious, self-indulgent, irritable, morally ignoble thing that human anger so often is. It is, instead, a right and necessary reaction to objective moral evil.” —Theologian J.I. Packer