Ephesians 2:1

Ephesians 2:1

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

So here is the pivotal point that clearly directs our worldview away from all other major religions on the planet. Simply put, everyone else believes that we are both good and bad within ourselves to begin with the classic yin and yang. We however know from this Scripture and others that in fact our origins our beginnings are rooted and established in evil with no hope of recovery apart from Christ. Oh Pastor Gennarino that is just too harsh, you might say. “How can an infant baby so pure and innocent be evil?” Good question first of all lets define evil. Evil is anything that is not of God.

Matthew 5:37 International Standard Version

Instead, let your message be 'Yes' for 'Yes' and 'No' for 'No.' Anything more than that comes from the evil one."

So even in this simple circumstance where a person’s word is considered to be faithfully held to if he renagues on his word it is considered evil.

Or how about Jesus and Peter when Jesus asked the disciples who do you say that I am and they said this and that but Peter said, “You are the Christ” Jesus replied that those words were indeed spoken through Peter’s mouth but were originated in Heaven from God, but in the very next moment Jesus says that He is going to Jerusalem to be killed, Peter replies, “no way” to which Jesus says the following:

Matthew 16:23

New International Version (NIV)

23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

So even when we are capable of speaking on behalf of God in a most astounding way we are vulnerable to our thoughts being not centered on Heavenly things and therefore miss the mark and get cues from what is human concerns and though it seems harsh it is indeed evil.

Romans 14:23b

...and everything that does not come from faith is sin.

or misses the mark.

You see we are steeped in sin from the beginning, we are condemned even before we begin. Our being is ensnared in the sin of this world for apart from Christ this world and our bodies are all we are concerned about, and when that is the case we miss the mark. baby

Unfortunately it is just natural for us, there is no other way to be, apart from Christ. There is just no earthly reason to think any other way, to be concerned about what concerns God. For in order to truly have God’s concerns be our own we would need to deny ourselves and that just does not come naturally. It is always originated in Heaven. born again

application

Today I will seek to keep my mind on Heavenly things and not on earthly things.

Visit my wife Margaret's blog here to see her insight on this verse.


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