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Ephesians 2:2-3
Excerpted from: The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part 23)

Here is the same kind of context we find in Galatians 4. "You" in this case very, very likely means Gentiles.

I read that because we need to understand that all of us—Israelite, Gentile, it does not matter who—have been in bondage to Satan and his demons to some degree, some more than others.

In the case of the Gentiles, they were completely in bondage because there were things from their spiritual lives that were absolutely absent from them. God had made a covenant only with one people. He tells us:

The "you" were Israelites. So those people knew God. The Gentiles did not. The Israelites did know God, and some of their religion (Judaism) came from the Old Testament. Not all of it, but some of it. They were not lacking in knowledge of God. It was not right knowledge. It was very poorly interpreted. And I want to add one more thing.

Ephesians 2:1-3
Excerpted from: It's Enough! Now, Lord, Take My Life!

Please turn over to Ephesians 2, verse 1. No wonder so many psychiatrists and their patients do not understand many of their negative moods and attitudes. Here in Ephesians 2, we are going to read verses 1 through 3.

And then in Ephesians 6, verse 12, Paul emphasizes the importance of putting on the whole armor of God in order to fight against this prince of the power of the air, the spirit.

So these evil spirits place damaging moods and feelings in vulnerable or unsuspecting human minds. And to some people, they implant impulses to want to give in to sin or give up on life.

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Are Humans Good or Evil?
Born Again or Begotten? (Part One)
Character and Reputation
Communication and Leaving Babylon (Part One)
Ecclesiastes and Christian Living (Part Eight): Death
Ecclesiastes and Christian Living (Part Four): Other Gifts
Living By Faith and Human Pride
Sin Is Spiritual!
Strange Women (Part Three)
The Elements of Motivation (Part Seven): Fear of Judgment
The Fruit of the Spirit
The Pentecost Witness
The Second Commandment (1997)
The Second Exodus (Part Three)
The Sovereignty of God: Part Six
What Evolution Really Means
What Is the Holy Spirit?
What Sin Does
What Sin Is & What Sin Does
Why Must Satan be Released?

Bible Studies
Basic Doctrines: Satan's Origin and Destiny
Parables of Luke 15 (Part Three)
The Parables of Matthew 13 (Part Six): The Parable of the Hidden Treasure
The Seven Churches (Part Five): Pergamos  (2)

Essays
'Potential Persons' and 'After-birth Abortion'
Are These Your Feasts? (Part One)
Are You Happy? (Part One)
Be Vigilant!
Beating the Rat Race (Part Two)
Christ as Righteous Judge
Different Signs of the Times
How Human Nature Came to Be
The World's Need for Atonement
Welfare and Christianity
Why Passover and Not Easter?

Sermons
Faith and the Christian Fight (Part 3)
The March Toward Globalism (Part 1)
Darts
Are You Alive to God?
Are You Alive to God?
Impure Language Destroyed
Anger (Part 1)
Grace, Faith, and Love
The Greatness of God's Power
The March Toward Globalism (Part 4)
Are You Being Brainwashed? (Part 4)
Purpose-Driven Churches (Part 6)
Purpose-Driven Churches (Part 5)
Be You Thankful
Communication and Coming Out of Babylon (Part 1)
If You Do These Things, You Shall Never Fall
A Day Without Work
Thou Shall Not Covet
Psychological Manipulation
Letters to Seven Churches (Part Six): Sardis
Boundaries, Incursions, Migrations, and God (Part Two)
Back to Life (Part Five)
Preventing the Warfare State
Is America a Christian Nation? (Part Four)
Sincerity and Truth (Part One)
Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part Twenty-Six)
Elements of Judgment (Part Two)
The Adversary
Genesis 3:20-24: Consequences for God and Man
The New World Order Rises
Secession (Part Two): Spiritual Separation
A Primer On Spirit
The Hallel: Psalms of Praise
Wilderness Wandering (Part 2)
The Original Sin Question
The March Toward Globalism (Part 6)
Submitting (Part 1)
Warfare!
Sin (Part 3)
The Sovereignty of God (Part 6)
Elements of Motivation (Part 6)
The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part 22)
Image and Likeness of God (Part Five)
Image and Likeness of God (Part 4)
The World (Part 1)
Parables of Matthew 13 (Part 3): Hidden Treasure
Revelation 2-3 and Works
Life in the Church
Made Alive by Exceeding Greatness!
God Meant it for Good!
Everlasting Consolation and Good Hope
Stewards of the Mysteries of God
Frequencies
The Magnificent Work of God
Conviction to Godly Righteousness
God's Epistle
Childrearing (Part Three)
Childrearing (Part One)
Imagination
Overcoming Discouragement and Depression
New Covenant Priesthood (Part 7)
Potential for Good
Moral Sympathy and Spiritual Confusion
Works of the Flesh
Spirituality and True Conversion
What Does God Really Want? (Part 6)
The Providence of God (Part 7)
The Spiritual Mark of the Beast
Examine and Come Out
The Christian and the World (Part Six)
The Christian and the World (Part Two)

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