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was the direction of your life. You were related to disobedience,
as a child is related to their parent. Not once, since you’ve been
saved, have you disobeyed as a “child of disobedience”. Look
back. You were dead. Satan influenced your life, as the air
influences your body. Look back. You were related to
disobedience, and that was expressed in many ways. Thoughts,
words, actions, and deeds. A horrible past!

I looked back this afternoon as I was studying. Sin beat me black
and blue. Before I got saved, there was no rest or escape. He
said, “Do you want to see how rich you are in Christ? Then take a
look at what you were before you were saved. On the level of
earth, from the viewpoint of man, if we are ever going to see our
riches, we’ve got to see what we’ve been saved from.
Verse 3, “By nature, the children of wrath” .
This is one of the strongest expressions in the Bible on the truth
of original sin. When you see a newborn baby. Beautiful,
“innocent” baby. It’s born into this world as a child of wrath. You
say it looks just like its father. Yes, Adam. As a “child of wrath”,
and a “son of disobedience”, the future is certain. We all share
our common source of life in the first Adam. We all hope in the
“new life”, bought and paid for by the last Adam. “The second
man from heaven”.

I have a book by Henry Melville who makes this comment, “You
can tell how deep a hole you were in, by measuring the rope it
took to draw you out.” We see the length of rope it took, for God
to pull us out. The price paid by the sacrifice of His only Son. 2
Corinthians 5:21,

“He became sin, who knew no sin. That we might become,
the righteousness of God, in Him.”

Our need for salvation was immeasurable. So is the joy of our
salvation!