Ephesians 2: 1-3

(Ephesians 2: 1-3) 『And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 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: 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. 』 The spirit that holds the power of the world is Satan. Those who follow Satan are the object of God's wrath. In Noah's day all except the eight were subjects of God's wrath. Those who do not repent are following Satan. For they follow the world, and disobey the word of God. Satan is against God. Satan covers the shadow of evil on humans. So Satan causes man to sin. The reason is to make human slaves to Satan. Jesus spoke to the Pharisees who were caught by Satan.『 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 』 (John 8:44) Satan's slaves act as follows『 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them 』 (Romans 1: 29-32) The death of Jesus Christ is an expression of the wrath of God. As much as Jesus Christ suffered on the cross, God wants to judge the objects of wrath. Jesus painfully said on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" God poured out His wrath upon His Son, Jesus Christ. God tells people to repent and come back. At the end of the world, God will judge by fire those who do not repent. God is angry with all who have not repented, but many churches say, "God is love." When Jesus was born, it was assumed that it was a tabernacle. But people celebrate Christmas as the day Jesus was born. Even a festive mood. It was an atmosphere of applause for celebrating the birth of Jesus. When Jesus was born to receive the wrath of God, what is the festival? Who is making it that way? Satan's followers are doing so. Not only in the world, but in many churches. Satan is in control of many churches of God. The church is the only place to repent of God. Many churches today, however, have no repentance and follow Satan but do not realize it. In the Bible (Jude 1: 6) Judas says:『 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. 』,그리고 And Peter too says in the Bible (2 Peter 2: 4):『 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 』 In the Old Testament (Isaiah 14: 12-14), the prophet Isaiah says:『 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 』 The commandments (Greek: Lucifer, Hebrew: Helrel, Archangel's name) wanted to be like God. And he seduced other angels. The same thing happened in the garden of Eden, which symbolizes the kingdom of God. The Bible says in Genesis (3: 4-6):『 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 』 Thus, 『 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 』 (Genesis 3:13) the events of Eden represent the events of the kingdom of God. Adam and Eve fell for Satan's temptations even though they had been without sin in the garden of Eden. People, unlike Adam and Eve, inherited sinfulness from their parents and became bodies of sin. This is human evil. The Bible talks about sin and trespasses. Sin is the original sin. Sludge is a sin of the world. Thus, those who follow the body of flesh cannot be saved. The spirit in the body of the flesh is dead. If the flesh of the body is alive, the spirit dies. If the body of the spirit is alive, the spirit comes to life. Therefore, only when the flesh of the body dies is born again to the body of the spirit, and the spirit can survive. There is death while people are alive. There are two kinds of death. The flesh of the body dies and the spirit dies. Those who are united with the cross of Jesus Christ will die of the flesh, and those who are not united spirit will die. 『Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 』(Ephesians 2:5) It is only those who repent that God raises with Christ. The repentant is the one speaking in Romans (6: 3).『 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 』 The way the spirit comes to life through the wearing of the spirit body is to be crucified and buried with Jesus. Romans (6: 4) says:『 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 』 God gives the gift of faith. This faith cannot occur in the body of the flesh. It is not that "we decided to believe in Jesus." This is the new birth, the new creation.

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