Bible Blueprint - Block Diagram of Ephesians 2_1-7
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A block diagram is the process of observing the text. It's one of the tools that you can use to break down a particular passage of Scripture and understand what the literary, grammatical, and syntactical structure of the text is doing. It allows us to see the text in blocks and comprehend the grammatical structure and extract what's happening in the text that we might not see in paragraph form.
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Welcome to this edition of the Bible Blueprint. My name is Dale Partridge.
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Today we're going to be doing a block diagram of Ephesians 2, 1-7 of the ESV.
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A block diagram is the process of observing the text.
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It's one of the tools that you can use to break down a particular passage of Scripture
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and understand what the literary, grammatical, syntactical structure of the text is doing.
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It allows us to see the text in blocks and comprehend the grammatical structure and extract really what's happening in the text.
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It allows us to see things in the text that we might not see in paragraph form.
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Now, the way that we do that is we always have the main clauses to the left, and we have the developing clauses underneath the words, or underneath the word that that particular prepositional phrase is modifying.
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So, I know that sounds like a lot of grammatical stuff that you might not be familiar with, but just go ahead and watch what I'm doing here, and that'll give you a breakdown.
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So, verse 1, we're going to just first start breaking down the text by verses.
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So I always put the verses, we're going to keep those numbers on the left-hand side.
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And then once we break that down, we can break it down even further just by breaking down any punctuation.
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So anytime we see a comma or a period, we're always going to have a line break.
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And so it just kind of is an easy, quick cheat to get us closer to our breakdown of the text by just doing this and realizing that we have a lot more structures of sentences here.
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And so we're dividing them down so we can start to see individual statements and phrases and prepositions, our prepositional phrases that allow us to better observe the text, right?
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Because we want to make observations before we make interpretations.
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and we want to do interpretations before we do applications.
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And so those two things really create a main clause.
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It's usually something that you can run into a room and yell
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For example, the main clause here in verse one is you were dead.
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Now, you might want to say and you were dead, but no, it's actually not the main clause
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So what I do with that is I just move and in a couple spaces, and I want to keep you
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were dead on the left-hand side because that's our main clause.
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and we know that we're going to highlight our main clauses and we're going to do that
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you know I could probably do that oops I deleted that right there so we'll do that once I
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oh it's going to make me do it this way okay well we'll do that later once we're getting back into
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the annotating with the stylus so you were dead well how were you dead again let me get my thing
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here. You were dead. Where were you dead? Where was the location of your deadness? It was, you were
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dead in the trespasses and sins. And so I'm going to put and over here too, because what were you
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dead in? You were dead in trespasses, in the trespasses and sins. So these are all under dead.
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And we know that in the trespasses, this is a preposition.
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Prepositions are anything a rabbit can do with his house.
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He can go in it, he can go under it, he can go around it, he can go above it, he can go
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below it, he can go through it, he can go to it, right?
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So you see all these things that you need to recognize these prepositions.
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And so you were dead in the trespasses and sins.
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You might even put trespasses and sins on the same one.
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So from, you know, from block diagram to block diagram between two expositors, you might have a little bit of a variation here.
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And I might go through this a couple more times and change it, but this is just my first bluff or my first blush at it.
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So verse two, you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked.
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yes, but you were walking in the trespasses and sins. So you know what I'm going to do just
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because I think it makes it a little bit easier to understand here. I'm going to create trespasses
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and sins, and I'm going to treat that as one thing, even though it might not be. I'll mark
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that later though. But you were, you know, if you took this right here and like say that you
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underlined it. Um, you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked. Um, and you
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were dead. Um, you were dead. And now where were you following the course of the world? Was it in
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your deadness? And you were dead following the course of this world. Uh, I think that's right.
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You were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked.
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You were dead following the course of this world.
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You were dead following the prince of the power of the air.
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And I'm even going to say that the other one's one thing.
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So this is what happens when you interpret live.
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So when you look at this, course of this world, I think, is really one thing.
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And so trespasses and sins is kind of a noun clause.
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Following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air.
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and you were dead doing these things and you were dead following the prince of the power of the air
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so now we know the spirit is modifying prince of power of the air because we know the spirit is
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talking about the prince of the power of the air and so we're following the prince of the power of
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the air the spirit that is now at work where is it at work in the sons of disobedience so the
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sons of disobedience we're not going to put the sons of disobedience we're going to put the sons
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of disobedience really as again another noun clause and so we have what you can see here is
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that you can all these are modifiers and so you can tell that this is just a modifier so you can
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actually create a sentence that says and you were dead following the course of this world
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You can't say, and you were dead, in which you once walked.
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You need this modifier because this modifier here is actually modifying this modifier here,
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And so you start to see the grammatical structure,
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and you start to see what Paul is actually saying here.
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So when you were dead in the trespasses and sins of which you once walked,
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you were dead following the prince of the power of the air,
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the spirit that is now at work and the sons of disobedience
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among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh um so did we where are we at so
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and you were dead among whom we all that doesn't make sense and you were dead following the prince
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of the power of the air among whom we all once lived no that doesn't make sense either so uh you
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were dead following the prince of the power of the air the spirit that is now at work among whom we
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all know that doesn't work either and so we're starting to see that what's going on here is
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we're going to move this all the way over we're probably going to run out of space but in the
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sons of disobedience among whom we all once lived among whom we all once lived
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in the sons of disobedience we lived how in the passions of our flesh and so we're going to move
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this over here in the passions okay we might we might get it here of our it won't let me tab
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further than that for some reason i usually do these diagrams in microsoft word and that's
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really helpful okay passion the passions of our flesh carrying out the desires of the body and
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the mind um so i think this goes here so we go in we go you were dead up here um you know all this
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here, following the prince of the power of the air, that his spirit is now at work, and the sons of
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disobedience. Now you go carrying out the desires of the body and the mind. Now is this sentence
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here modifying sons of disobedience? So we have to look at that. Or is it modifying our flesh?
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so that's what we'll have to figure out um so we're going to go in the sons of disobedience
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among whom we all once lived so we go okay the spirit that is now at work in the sons of
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disobedience carrying out the desires of the body and the mind it functionally works but
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really is carrying out the desires of the body and the mind talking about the sons of disobedience
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or is it talking about living in the passions of our flesh i think it's talking about the flesh
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because it says in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body.
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So I think that's really what's happening here.
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Now, the dilemma that really is a bummer is that we're going to run into this room element, right?
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Where you have really long run-on sentences from Paul.
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So you get to go carrying out the desires, carrying out the desires.
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will it let us there we go so we're gonna have to have this kind of restart here and what i'll do
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is this i'll just mark this on my end as a restart over here and put that over there like that
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and so um we go back and we start going okay carrying out the desires
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a pretty interesting thing here, right? You were dead.
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world. You were dead following the prince of the power of the air.
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to follow the principle out of the air well it means that
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among whom we all once lived in the passions of our
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going to be difficult because we're on this kind of
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um and i think we're here so this might also be modifying sons of disobedience let's see
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because it might work if we go in the sons of disobedience yeah so i think that this is
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actually modifying sons of disobedience because if you read the statement here you realize that
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essentially uh this statement over here would have just kept going all the way over there
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uh and then we would have moved back for this because this is modifying sons of disobedience
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there and so um we'll do that right now so we have among whom we all once lived so uh the spirit
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that is now at work in the sons of disobedience, and were by nature children of wrath.
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So, again, are we saying that children of wrath is kind of our title, or are we saying
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let's see or yeah what's going on here is i'm gonna i'm gonna back this up because
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i can so if i'm gonna say here that actually if we have children of wrath as a noun clause
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children of wrath and then we can go like the rest
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of mankind um so the rest of mankind there's lots of like you're starting to see these kind
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of titles so i'm going to say the rest of mankind is a noun clause and children of wrath
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is a noun clause so they're they're like titles for groups of people and so now you have the
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situation where you go and we're by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind so
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the rest of mankind is a child of wrath meaning these people who are walking out the sons the
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sons of disobedience um and so now we get to a finally to another to another statement here
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and so we will move down here and we go okay but god um and let's see if we can maybe make a
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make this template continuous can make this continuous does it allow us to do that i feel
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like it should letter tabloid continuous no doesn't do that okay that's fine all right so um but god
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being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead
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in our trespasses made us alive together with christ okay this is a little bit harder to
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determine the main clause but the main clause here is all of this right here is just modifying
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it could really go but God made us alive together with Christ and so really the main clause is going
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to be a bit of a split here and so it's gonna it's gonna be like this I'm gonna actually grab
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the highlighter here and just so you guys can keep your eyes on it we'll say God
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um made us alive and so um it's kind of like a split main clause here that's our situation there
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and so you know i'm going to do it a different way to make it a little bit easier to
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for visual sake but god so we're going to push this in just a smidge
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um these are all modifiers okay so but god god is being rich in mercy is modifying god
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being rich how in mercy uh being rich god because of the great love okay god
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uh no this isn't right because b because isn't modifying god it's modifying rich and mercy
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He's rich in mercy because, so being rich in mercy because of the great love, because of the great love with which he loved us.
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Because of the great love with which he loved us.
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But God, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive.
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And how did he make us alive? Together with Christ.
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So we have this situation here where we have to now go, okay, we're going to highlight the main clause there.
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We're going to highlight this part of our main clause here.
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And again, we can go up here and go, okay, you were dead.
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So now we're starting to see the whole thing, two, one through seven.
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We're starting to realize the main clauses are this.
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That's really the main grammatical and literary structure of Paul's argument here.
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So now let's go back to here, made us alive together with Christ.
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this you know you have this m dash that's right here uh that essentially could be the start of
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a new sentence and so you might have another clause here every sentence in english has a
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main clause and when you have an m dash it really could be another sentence so um we might say by
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grace you have been saved could be you have been saved could be a new main clause but let's look
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at this real quick is by grace you have been saved modifying something else God made you alive
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I think we can go by grace you have been saved so you made us alive together with Christ made
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us alive by grace. You have been saved and made us alive and raised us up. Where do we get raised
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up? Raised us up with him and seated us and seated us with him. Okay. Raise us up. Let's
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let's do this let's do this let's go raised him up with him and seated us with him
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raised us up with him in the heavenly places so we need to figure out does in the heavenly places
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modify this sentence and raised us up with him in the heavenly places in christ jesus
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or and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places.
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I think that it's this seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
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I think we're here and raised us up with him so that.
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In the coming ages, he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness.
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of his grace in kindness toward us. How was it toward us? It was toward us in Christ Jesus.
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Okay, so now we have a block diagram. So we have a diagram here that needs a little bit of love
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and needs a little bit more of explanation. So we're going to go through and I'm going to
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annotate it now and kind of circle what's going on. And hopefully this will help us kind of have
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a better grasp here. So we have our main clauses. We know that's there. And that's good. Now let's
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find our, our developing clauses. And I usually do the developing clauses in green. And so,
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and you were dead and the trespasses and sins in which you once. So this is kind of a hard color
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to see, isn't it? I'm trying to find a different color that's a little bit brighter, maybe.
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It's a little bit different than the, all right, I'll use pink. How about that?
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In which you once walked. Once is a time element, right? So it's, you once did this,
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this is a temporal clause. And so, you know, we can, we can mark that right there. Not with a
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highlighter, but with this, and just say that it's a, it's a temporal, because it deals with time.
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Temporal clause. It's also, it's also past tense. You might want to mark that as past tense.
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okay we are going to find our other verbs here our other clauses here following the course of
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this world following the prince of the power of the air the spirit that is now at work and the
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sons of disobedience among whom we all again once so we're going to want to highlight that
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lived and the passions of our flesh carrying out the desires of our body our desires of the body
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and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind.
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But God, being rich in mercy, because, so because is a causal clause.
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The grounds of his great love is, or I should say, he's being rich in mercy.
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the grounds for his mercy is what the great love with which he loved us the reason he's merciful
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toward us is because he loved us now we need to know who the us is if you've read ephesians
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you've been following along you know the us is the elect the chosen the ones that he predestined
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before the foundation of the world so we have now um a causal clause there of the great love
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which he loved us even when we were dead in our trespasses so even when is another another clause
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and this is called i should label this for you guys because this is a really important one
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um let's see where can i label this maybe i'll go down here so this is called a
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concessive, I don't see how I can spell this, maybe it's C-E, concessive clause.
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Okay, a concessive clause introduces something shocking.
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So, Christ Jesus died for us even while we were sinners, or even while we were sinners, Christ died for us.
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You know, he died for that man even though he was a murderer.
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So it's saying being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us,
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even when we were dead in our trespasses, God did this.
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If you miss that, it's an important part of the structure and what Paul is trying to communicate.
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By grace, you have been saved and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
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So this is so that this is your classic, classic purpose clause.
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Whenever it says so that in your Bible, you need to figure out what's it talking about.
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So that in the coming ages, so we can either figure it out.
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So again, we need to determine is so that modifying made us alive or is so that modifying made us alive together with Christ.
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By grace, you have been saved and raised us up with him and seated us with him so that he might show.
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So all those things he's done for us, he hasn't just made us alive, but he's actually done it together with Christ.
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And he's seated us up with him in the heavenly places in Christ.
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well so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches uh of his grace
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in kindness toward us in christ jesus so when i see something like this i go immeasurable
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this is the whole purpose um of why he oh it's giving me straight lines
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He might show the immeasurable riches of his grace.
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This is like, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, right?
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You need to like circle that and you go, wow, okay, this is purpose.
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Is that he made us alive so that in the coming ages, he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace.
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okay now we again now my these are just observations these are some of my interpretations
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but you know i usually will spend several days playing with one of these before i really start
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to make really hard interpretations but now we want to go through and we go okay let's uh
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let's find um let me get another color that would stand out in some way is there other colors here
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Let's mark the pronouns because we want to know the antecedents to the pronouns.
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Were, you know, I think we're all dead because he talks about here, among whom we all, oops.
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So, he's talking to you first, and then he's mentioning all after that.
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I really wanted to stay consistent, so I'm going to grab that green and just do it in green.
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So, there's a transition from you to then we all.
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There's a little something we want to notice there.
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So, let's go back through and find out, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, I want to know more about this guy.
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So, we want to figure out who is the spirit that is now at work in the sense of disobedience?
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Well, we know that it's Satan, but if you didn't know that because you hadn't studied theology, you'd want to figure out who these people are and who is the spirit.
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So the sons of disobedience, right? Sons of disobedience is not saying that we are paternally or maternally sons of disobedience. You know, in the Bible, it talks about sons of thunder or sons of famine.
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so it's talking about its relationship with or its connection to that thing so it could be
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disobedience or thunder you know it's it's in relationship to and so um we want to just mark
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that among whom whom another one we all all once lived and the passions of our flesh carrying out
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the desires of the body and the mind and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind
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and so we'll make some more observations here soon but God being rich in mercy because of the
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great love which with with which he so we know that it's God loved us even when we were dead
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in our trespasses made us alive he didn't make everybody alive but he made us alive
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together with Christ by grace you have been saved and raised us up with him with who with Christ
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So, you know, we can go raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
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So that in the coming ages, he. Right. So who's the he? Well, it's it's God, the father.
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So we want to make sure that we make that connection going, whoop, God the Father, so that he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace, God the Father, in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
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So it's really important to find your pronouns because you're trying to identify the antecedent to the pronoun.
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The antecedent is the object or subject, I should say, the subject of the antecedent.
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So, you know, Bill hit the ball, and then he ran and got it.
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So we want to just make sure that we're marking them so we can identify.
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Sometimes you misattribute something that God the Father did to Jesus,
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or sometimes you misattribute something that the Spirit did that actually the Father did,
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Or sometimes you misattribute something that God's done for the elect, the chosen, to everybody or all humanity, when in reality it's not something that's given to all humanity, but it's actually given just to the church.
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And so you want to always at least identify them so that you can talk about them before you make an interpretation.
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the next thing i want to do is i'm going to probably mark the verbs and i want to know
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let's just say we take this purple here i want to mark the verbs okay so in the trespasses in
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which it's walked okay we walked in these verb in this this uh sinful nature we were following
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and you think about you know following christ and then following the course of this world
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I think of the contrast of follow me and what's going on there.
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So I'm just going to mark that with just kind of the idea of follow me.
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The prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work.
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In the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived, we lived that way.
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I want to make sure that I want to recognize that.
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Guys, I'm going to erase that just so I can not be so ashamed.
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In the passions of our flesh, passions of our flesh.
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So again, this is, yeah, passions of our flesh is carrying or carrying out the desires of the body and the mind.
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And we're by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind.
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But God, being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us,
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even when we were dead in our trespasses, together, he made us alive together with Christ.
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And by grace you have been saved and raised up.
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I mean, again, I'm not hitting every single verb.
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I'm just trying to, like, make sure we mark these ones.
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Okay, seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
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He might show the immeasurable riches of his grace and kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
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Now I'm going to start making some more interpretive observations that I think might be helpful.
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And we get to go, okay, so, and you were, I'm going to take my yellow here, my yellow here.
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So meaning that this is past, but now we're alive, right?
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So there's some element here of you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked,
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following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air.
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So again, I'm seeing kind of like one, two, three, spirit of the now at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and of the mind, and were by nature.
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Again, so we got another one of these were, were, so we were dead.
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You were dead, and you were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
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So we're going to go back to our green real quick.
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okay but but god those are two two great great words so we're going to go back to our
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our yellow here and start making some observations but god great words so you were dead
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you were by nature children of wrath but god what a beautiful element there but god
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being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us.
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And this is, we know that he loved us because it talks about this in Ephesians 1.
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Even when we were dead in our trespasses made us alive.
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What does it mean that we were spiritually dead?
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if we were alive, we were spiritually dead, I'm going to say this, if I can write tiny here, is
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born again. So he made us alive. He gave us new life. So I'm thinking spiritual
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okay so born again we had spiritual resurrection because we weren't
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physically dead we were spiritually dead but we
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have been now made alive spiritual resurrection
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together with christ made us alive and he made us together so we're i'm going
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I circle this because I want to talk about union, right?
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If we think about the block diagram that I did for chapter one,
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So I want to just kind of mark doctrine of union.
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okay this is this is past tense now it's you're saved now you've you've been saved uh the the saving
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okay and have been raised up and raised us up again this is this has been
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done and seated us with him that's been done in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
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so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace
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in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus and there's that doctrine of union
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constantly we're in Christ so we have a little bit of a structure here we're starting to see
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that if we do a circle and summarize at this point, we can go to our red, and we can go,
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okay, well, this is clearly one thought here, right? And that's one element. And then if we
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go down here, we know that we have, oops, we don't need to do mankind. Mankind should have
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it up with the other one. Let's go. Oh, you can be in there. And then we have this one over here.
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Just like that. So we have that as a second one. So we have really, you were dead, but God.
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And so if we came down here and we wanted to create a exegetical outline, and we might not even have three points, you know, who you were.
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and then you might want to do do we want to go any deeper into that we could you know you could
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put sub points under here right a b c right who you were um who you are now
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you can do that and if you wanted to even make this so that its own thing you could
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purpose you can make this prettier if you wanted to preach it as three things that kind of went
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along together but you really start to have a little bit of a structure here because under your
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who you were you really have if you wanted to do it you have those three points uh you know you go
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well your a would be dead uh your b sorry your b would be following you know the world
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And you're starting to get a bit of a structure for your exegetical outline.
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And if you go, you know, who you are now, come down here, and you can go, well, who are you now?
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um and you are let's see um with christ um you know seated
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with christ and so you're starting to get this whole thing and again if you wanted to go for
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what purpose. You could start adding, you know, immeasurable, immeasurable,
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and then, you know, kindness. You could start getting a little bit of a structure for
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Bible study or sermon or whatever it might be. But now you've observed the text and you want
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to sit on this for a little while, and you want to do some word studies again. I want to see
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a word study on sons of disobedience. I want to see a word study on prince of the power of the
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air, you know, the spirit that is now at work. I want to see these things. I want to know what
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it means to follow. What does that really look like? Live in the passions of our flesh, care
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to the desires of the body and the mind, and we're by nature children of wrath. This is, you know,
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the bad news, right? Bad news. And what makes the good news so good? The bad news was so bad.
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And so you kind of want to do like a contrast to the good news, which is the gospel. And that's
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kind of what's going on here. You were this way, but now you're this way. It's bad news and good
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news. So Paul is really telling us who we were before Christ and how bad it was. So I think
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about this and you just go, wow, this is, this is, you know, if you just circle here and you just go
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bad. And when you think about how bad it was, the worse it was, the more you appreciate
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the good news, right? So, you know, if someone rescues you from falling
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off of a step stool, you're going to appreciate them for rescuing you from a fall off the step
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stool. But if someone rescues you from falling off the edge of the Grand Canyon,
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then you're going to be have a greater degree of gratitude for your rescuer in the latter example
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and so again the bad news is real bad which makes the good news um you know this whole thing over
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here good right that's very good and so you want to make sure you're contrasting who we were
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and who we are now and showing the gospel in all of that.
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Walking you guys through that passage of scripture,
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we're going to start doing these hopefully every week
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whenever I'm teaching about Bible verses on the Real Christianity podcast.
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You can always listen to the teaching of this passage of scripture
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