"And you hath he quickened or made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins;" Ephesians 2:1 , salvation is from SIN, which characterizes life before Christ. In the verses, there is perhaps no clearer statement in Scripture on the sinfulness of man apart from Christ. Quickened means “made alive.” Paul prays for his readers to recognize what God’s power has done in them. Jesus Christ has given us an abundant life through salvation and faith in Him. The word of God tells us that we are more than conquerors; "No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.“
The bible also tells that "The wages of sin is death” (Romans 3:23). Because man is born into sin he is born to die. Man does not become spiritually dead because he sins, he is spiritually dead because by nature he is sinful. (had to highlight this) The sinful nature is interwoven into man's DNA. It's a part of who we are. The bible tells us that we are born into sin " Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me." Ps 51:5. Before accepting Jesus as Saviour; we walked in our sin unforgiven, we marked time to death. Each day became a little more hopeless, because it is one day closer to death. Trespasses and sin bring both physical and spiritual death.
Man’s principal problem is that he has no right relationship to God, from whom he is alienated by sin that he was born with. It has nothing to do with the way he lives; it has to do with the fact that he is dead even while he is alive. He is spiritually dead while being physically alive. Because he is dead to God, he is dead to spiritual life, truth, righteousness, inner peace and happiness, and ultimately to every other good thing. Jesus Chris took the punishment of death on His body on the cross and marked our bill paid in full, for all who would turn from their sin and accept Him as their Saviour. In Romans 8:2 it tells us "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." and John 5:21 "For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth [them]; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will."
Men apart from God are spiritual zombies, the walking dead who do not know they are dead. They go through the motions of life, but they do not possess it, life that is. They're “Dead in trespasses and sins”: A sobering reminder of the total sinfulness and lostness from which believers have been redeemed. “In” indicates the realm or sphere in which unregenerate sinners exist. They are not dead because of sinful acts that have been committed but because of their sinful nature again apart for Jesus Christ Sin has a hold on us. Paul writes in Romans, 7:22-24 "For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?" Committing sinful acts does not make us sinners; we commit sinful acts because we are sinners. Jesus confirmed this when He said, “The evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth what is evil” Matt. 12:35. A sinner’s doing good is good, but it cannot change his nature or his basic sphere of existence, and it cannot reconcile him to God. Jesus is the Spirit of Life. Though I was dead, yet shall I live in Him. Friends, before we were saved we were like every other person who is apart from God, dead in … trespasses and sins. We were not dead because we had committed sin but because we were in sin. In this context, trespasses and sins do not refer simply to acts but first of all, to the sphere of existence of the person apart from God. "O Wrected man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death, Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
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