And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of the 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.
This is serious. We were not following God - but following anyone and anything else. God was not God but we were our own god - disobediently living out OUR passions and OUR desires. We were spiritually dead and deserving of God's wrath. There is no one who has not been, or is not in, this situation. It's everyone - the world, the rest of mankind, we ALL once lived like this. This is a desperate situation, and I can't wait for the next verse to tell us what the solution is!
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