The Four “D’s” of our Natural Condition Sermon The Four “D’s” of our Natural Condition Introduction

[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. (Ephesians 2:1-3 ESV)

Dead Discombobulated Disobedient Doomed

DEAD IN SIN Dead with respect to a spiritual ability to do good - "To be dead" in the Bible is not non-existence but, rather, a condition of inner disintegration, of thorough brokenness as a human being, an existence

characterized by a failure to attain to the true purpose, character, and fulfillment of human life, made, as it is, in the image of God.” (Rayburn)

A person can be Physically alive yet spiritually dead, or Spiritually alive yet physically dead. IMAGINE JESUS switching places with you for a day

Discombobulated by Satan - “ a gulf has opened in our culture between the visibility of evil and the intellectual resources to cope with it. “ Andrew Delbanco

Disobedient Following the course of this world Indulging the desire of flesh and mind Sin is deceptive, seductive, subtle, destructive, temporarily pleasurable, and always at work in our lives.

-Doomed APPLICATION… Resolved, to act, in all respects, both speaking and doing, as if nobody had been so vile as I, and as if I had committed the same sins, or had the same infirmities or failings as others;

and that I will let the knowledge of their failings promote nothing but shame in myself, and prove only an occasion of my confessing my own sins and misery to God.

“Head spinning” Christian ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am.