I Was Series

I WAS...

Romans

...still powerless

...God’s enemy

...a slave to sin

...in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness

...free from the control of righteousness

...controlled by the flesh

...bearing fruit for death

...serving the old way of the law

...bound by the law

...at one time, disobedient to God

1 Corinthians

...perhaps, not wise by human standards, nor influential, nor of noble birth, but foolish, weak, lowly, despised, a nobody

...a part of those who were sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexual offenders, thieves, greedy, drunkards, slanderers, swindlers

...influenced and led astray

Galatians

...a prisoner of sin

...formerly, not knowing God

...a slave to those who by nature are not gods

...in slavery under the basic principles of the world

...dead in my transgressions and sins in which I used to live when I followed the ways of the world and the ruler of the kingdom of the air

...living among the disobedient at one time gratifying the cravings of my flesh and following its desires and thoughts

...like the rest, by nature, an object of wrath

...as a Gentile separated from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel, a foreigner, a foreigner to the covenants of the promise of Abraham, without hope, without God, in the world, far off

...living like the Gentiles do in the futility of my thinking, darkened in understanding, separated from the life of God, ignorant, hardened in my heart, lost all sensitivity, given to sensuality, indulging in every kind of impurity, continually lusting for more.

Colossians

...once alienated from God

...an enemy in my mind because of my evil behavior.

...dead in my sins and in the uncircumcision of my flesh

...walking, in the life I once lived, in the ways of my earthly nature sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, greed = idolatry, anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy language.

Titus

...foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures

...living in malice and envy, being hated and hating others

Hebrews

...all my life, held slavery to my fear of death

1 Peter

...conforming to the evil desires I had when in ignorance

...not a ‘person’ nor a people

...not receiving mercy

...like a sheep going astray

...doing what the pagans choose to do living in debauchery, lust, drunken-ness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.

1 John

...a liar, and did not live by the truth

...walking in darkness

...in sin

...without the word in my life

...unrighteous

...alone, without an advocate

...disobedient

...hating my brothers and hating God

...stumbling around in darkness

...loving the world

...denying God and His Son

...of the lie

...without confidence and ashamed

...without hope

...lead astray

...a child of the devil

...a murderer

...without pity

...lifeless

...listening to the world

...without His Spirit

...in fear and without love

...under the control of the evil one