remember the bad stuff (eph2:11-12)

Ephesians 2:11-12

Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called the "uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands, remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Paul tells the gentiles to remember what a terrible position they were in without Jesus.

• social outcasts
• separated from Jesus
• alienated from God's people
• strangers to God's promises
• no hope
• without God

Why remember that? Surely that's something to forget! As soon as we forget what we were like or what we would be like without Jesus, we start taking the gospel for granted. Why are we sometimes just going through the motions, singing words without feeling them, listening to sermons but not hearing them, being informed by the bible but not transformed, praying from the head but not the heart? It probably starts by forgetting our state without Jesus.