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April 13 – Ephesians 2:1-3
Ephesians 2:1-3
How many times have you looked around this world and you’ve said, “Things are certainly in a mess. Can they get any better?” Well, if you want to know why everything is in a mess, read Ephesians 2:1-3. You see you and I are fighting three tremendous enemies. Here’s the Word of God. “And you hath He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience. Among whom also we all had our manner of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.” Did you notice there the three enemies of the Christian?
The world, the flesh and the devil. You see before I was saved I walked according to the course of this world; this world system. Jesus said, “I have overcome the world.” And this world system wants to overcome us and yet in times past that’s the way we lived. We lived to please the world. We lived to get the satisfaction of the world. Ah, but now we don’t belong to that world. We’ve been chosen out of that world. Jesus said, “They’re not of the world even as I am not of the world.” The flesh, we used to walk in times past and the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh. Ah, but now we have the Holy Spirit living within and we want to please the Holy Spirit and walk in the Spirit. The devil: the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who wants to make us disobedient.
But now we belong to Jesus Christ. He is our Lord. Why is the world in such a mess? Because the children of wrath and the children of disobedience are living for the world, the flesh and the devil; and sometimes Christians do this. Oh God has to deal with us when we do. But sometimes things are the way they are because God’s people start walking to please the world. They start living to satisfy the flesh and they become disobedient to the Lord and obedient to the devil. Today we are victors in the Lord Jesus Christ. Watch out for these three enemies because the victor may become a victim.
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How many times have you looked around this world and you’ve said, “Things are certainly in a mess. Can they get any better?” Well, if you want to know why everything is in a mess, read Ephesians 2:1-3. You see you and I are fighting three tremendous enemies. Here’s the Word of God. “And you hath He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience. Among whom also we all had our manner of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.” Did you notice there the three enemies of the Christian?
The world, the flesh and the devil. You see before I was saved I walked according to the course of this world; this world system. Jesus said, “I have overcome the world.” And this world system wants to overcome us and yet in times past that’s the way we lived. We lived to please the world. We lived to get the satisfaction of the world. Ah, but now we don’t belong to that world. We’ve been chosen out of that world. Jesus said, “They’re not of the world even as I am not of the world.” The flesh, we used to walk in times past and the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh. Ah, but now we have the Holy Spirit living within and we want to please the Holy Spirit and walk in the Spirit. The devil: the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who wants to make us disobedient.
But now we belong to Jesus Christ. He is our Lord. Why is the world in such a mess? Because the children of wrath and the children of disobedience are living for the world, the flesh and the devil; and sometimes Christians do this. Oh God has to deal with us when we do. But sometimes things are the way they are because God’s people start walking to please the world. They start living to satisfy the flesh and they become disobedient to the Lord and obedient to the devil. Today we are victors in the Lord Jesus Christ. Watch out for these three enemies because the victor may become a victim.