but God says you walk “ according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.” You may seem decent and respectable and claim to be a character of integrity, but if you are without Christ, God says your manner of life is in the lusts of the flesh and of the mind. You may talk of the fatherhood of God and deny the fact of hell and judgment, but God says you are a child of wrath even as others. But, thank God, the Scripture does not end there. Wretched may be your state and hopeless your con dition, but God has done something about it. Black indeed was the night of sin, but God sent His Son to be the Light of the world. Grievous in deed was our bondage to sin, but God sent His Son to be our deliverer. Awful indeed Was the guilt of sin, but God sent His Son to be our sub stitute. Sin has abounded, but God has seen to it that grace did much more abound. And if in simple faith we turn from sin to this Saviour and receive Him, then the rest of this precious passage becomes our own: “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love herewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:4-7). No human merit could earn this blessing; no works of the flesh could purchase this treasure, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (v. 8). How blessed to be able to say, “Once I was blind, but God touched me. Once I was lost, but God found me. Once I was under wrath, but God loved me. Once I was under guilt, but God forgave me. Once I was dead, but God gave me life. Once I walked according to the course of this world, but God turned me and now I walk as He walked. Once I walked according to the prince of the power of the air, but God stopped me, and now I follow the Prince of peace. Once I had my manner of life in the lusts of the flesh and mind, but God gave me a new life, and Christ liveth in me. Once I was by nature the child of wrath, but God has begotten me into the family of love.” And all of this is the free gift of grace if one will by faith in God’s Son come to that second birthday, the beginning of a new life that opens with those two precious words: But God . . . END.
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