Ephesians 2:1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 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— 3 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.
Having reminded us of all the spiritual blessings God has given us in Christ, and the attitude of gratitude we should therefore have and live by, Paul goes on to remind us of what we had before these spiritual blessings. We had death, darkness, disorientation, disobedience, debauchery, distorted desires, and were doomed under the dominion of the Devil. It was a sad, hopeless existence lived in slavery to sin. There is also a reminder here that there are still many living that way as reminders of who we once wore. We don't want to go back there. Sometimes to appreciate all we have in Christ and where He has brought us from requires that we look back to those dark days and see their ugly reality.
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