Man's Desperate Situation

Man’s Desperate Situation (Ephesians 2:1–3) 

Introduction: 

Ephesians 2:20–22 

Three Descriptions of Your Spiritual State before You Trusted Christ: 

1. Your Prior Position (vs. 1) 

John 3:16 

Ephesians 4:18; Romans 5:17 

John 3:3, 7, 8 

Luke 15:24 

Romans 3:23 

1 John 1:8, 10

2. Your Prior Pattern (vss. 2–3a) 

Ephesians 4:1 

1. “According to the course of this world…” 

John 8:23 

Romans 12:2; James 4:4; 1 John 2:15–16 

1. “According to the ruler of the power of the air…” 

1 John 5:19 

2 Corinthians 4:4, 6 

Ephesians 5:6 

Ephesians 1:19, 20 

1. “conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh…” 

John 3:6 

Galatians 5:16–17, 19–21 

Romans 7:18 

Genesis 6:5, 12 

Romans 8:5–8; Colossians 1:21

3. Your Prior Prospect (vs. 3b) 

Romans 1:18–19 

1 Thessalonians 1:9–10 

Romans 10:9–11, 13 

Colossians 1:13–14 

Ephesians 2:19–22…2:4–7