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  1. Feb 2, 2015 · Before Christ, sin is not an alien power. Sin is our preference for anything over God. Sin is our disapproval of God. Sin is our exchange of his glory for substitutes. Sin is our suppression of the truth of God. Sin is our heart’s hostility to God. It is who we are to the bottom of our hearts. Until Christ.

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    Underneath all the misuses of money, sex, and power is this sinful heart-condition—this depravity. My definition of sin is this: any feeling or thought or action that comes from a heart that does not treasure God over all other things. The bottom of sin, the root of all sins, is such a heart—a heart that prefers anything above God; a heart that doe...

    This deep, strong, pervasive reality of sin in us defines us until we are born again. That miracle must happen, or the deep antagonism toward God will go on controlling and directing us forever. Jesus put it this way: “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You mu...

    Against this bleak description of the root of our problem when handling of money, sex, and power, what also becomes clear is that this distortion of our souls isn’t what we were made to be. We were meant to know God and to glorify and thank him (Rom. 1:19–21). We were meant to see him and, by seeing him, reflect his beauty. We were meant to do that...

  2. There are three reasons mentioned in Ephesians 2:1–3. We need a Savior according to verse 1 because we are dead in sin. We need a Savior according to verse 2 because we are captive to an alien power. And we need a Savior according to verse 3 because we are children of wrath.

  3. Aug 22, 2024 · If we define aliens as created beings from other planets who have spirits or souls as we do, the answer is no. The Bible starts with Adam and Eve, who are made “in God’s image” (in Latin, imago dei).

  4. Apr 27, 2012 · The sin capacity as an alien power then seizes the believer and betrays the nature of his new life in Christ. This is the reason Christians cannot keep the law in themselves. The sin capacity takes up residence in the believer and produces sinful acts contrary to the true and new capacity of the Christian.

  5. Mar 9, 2012 · Sin is an alien power to the epoch of grace. for. This “for” shows the reason sin’s domination over the believer is broken. Christians are no longer under the era dominated by Adam or the Mosaic law but under the epoch of grace. This flies in the face of those who say grace is the basis for licentiousness (Ro 6:1).

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    There is a downward spiral: Verse 1, we need a Savior because of our corruption in sin. Verse 2, we need a Savior because of our captivity to Satan. Verse 3, we need a Savior because of our condemnation to hell. Dead in sin, captive to an alien power, children of wrath.

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