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Ephesians 1:1-3
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation 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.
At one time the born again were separated from God by their nature.
" who were dead in trespasses and sins"
You know it was not sins that separated you from God, it wasn't trespasses that separated you from God.
It was that one sin of Adam that caused man to be separated from God.
It was the death you recieved from Adam that separated you from God.
It was not the life God had intended for humanity, but it was a spirit-life regardless, death life had began.
And this new spirit-death- life is what mankind has been plagued with from the beginning.
Man through the centuries has tried to quiet the ills of this death.
Laws of the lands have been written, with rules instituted for living a kind of productive life.
Nations founded to try to live at peace, all to no avail.
God Himself having given commandments and laws to keep fallen man from destroying itself.
All the while knowing it would take a new life all together to bring a certain people together, Romans 16:25
25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
God Himself held the secret to putting mankind back on course to his original plan, Ephesians 1:4
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
You see Our Gospel doesn't start with a fall in a garden, or even with an angel being thrown out of heaven, or even with the cross, Our Gospel starts before the foundation of the world.
Before anything was created God had hid in Himself that He would be a Father to those that He would create, and everything that has happened since creation, is God working his purpose into all of creation to bring about this glorious Plan before the foundations of the world.
No-Man knew that God was going to birth His own children, other than Jesus when He walked this Earth, it was not revealed in the Old Testament.
It was not prophesied, prophets did not speak about it, no one knew according to our scripture that God was going to bring about a people with His life and nature, to be called His children.
We find where there is a coming Messiah, you can find where there will be a virgin birth, and government's shall be upon his shoulders, and there will be a cross, but no where will you find where God spoke this mystery of Christ in you anywhere in the Old Testament.
And this mystery according to the scriptures has been given to you and I to give to a lost world that lives a life of death and separation from God who created them in his very own image and likeness, Ephesians 3:2-5
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation 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.
At one time the born again were separated from God by their nature.
" who were dead in trespasses and sins"
You know it was not sins that separated you from God, it wasn't trespasses that separated you from God.
It was that one sin of Adam that caused man to be separated from God.
It was the death you recieved from Adam that separated you from God.
It was not the life God had intended for humanity, but it was a spirit-life regardless, death life had began.
And this new spirit-death- life is what mankind has been plagued with from the beginning.
Man through the centuries has tried to quiet the ills of this death.
Laws of the lands have been written, with rules instituted for living a kind of productive life.
Nations founded to try to live at peace, all to no avail.
God Himself having given commandments and laws to keep fallen man from destroying itself.
All the while knowing it would take a new life all together to bring a certain people together, Romans 16:25
25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
God Himself held the secret to putting mankind back on course to his original plan, Ephesians 1:4
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
You see Our Gospel doesn't start with a fall in a garden, or even with an angel being thrown out of heaven, or even with the cross, Our Gospel starts before the foundation of the world.
Before anything was created God had hid in Himself that He would be a Father to those that He would create, and everything that has happened since creation, is God working his purpose into all of creation to bring about this glorious Plan before the foundations of the world.
No-Man knew that God was going to birth His own children, other than Jesus when He walked this Earth, it was not revealed in the Old Testament.
It was not prophesied, prophets did not speak about it, no one knew according to our scripture that God was going to bring about a people with His life and nature, to be called His children.
We find where there is a coming Messiah, you can find where there will be a virgin birth, and government's shall be upon his shoulders, and there will be a cross, but no where will you find where God spoke this mystery of Christ in you anywhere in the Old Testament.
And this mystery according to the scriptures has been given to you and I to give to a lost world that lives a life of death and separation from God who created them in his very own image and likeness, Ephesians 3:2-5
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
