Vredens barn - Ef 2:1-3
Vredens barn. Det er en av de beskrivelsene Paulus gir på seg selv og på alle mennesker. Det er vår tilstand i oss selv. I dagens Bibelglimt stopper mediepastor Ingvald Kårbø opp for en tekst som handler om arvesynden.
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Bibelglimt med mediepastor
i P7, Ingvald Korve.
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:Ephesians 2, verse 1 3.
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:Once upon a time there was death, because
of the misgivings and sins of you.
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:There lived in you such a gift in
this world, and you sought pleasure
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:in Him who rules in heaven, the Spirit
who now works in you in silence.
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:Yes, once upon a time
we all lived like you.
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:We followed our desires in
our own flesh and blood.
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:We did what our flesh and
our own thoughts wanted.
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:And we were, by nature, the children
of the world, like all you others.
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:In the next episodes of Bible Glimpse,
I will take you on a little walk through
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:some verses in Ephesians chapter 2.
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:And this chapter is a chapter that, uh,
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:There is something about the breadth
of the Bible's description of reality.
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:The breadth of the fact that it
describes our exhausted, lost
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:state of being in ourselves.
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:And the opposite, that it also describes
our eternal great hope in Jesus Christ.
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:Chapter 2 in the Ephesians is a chapter
that actually begins with a we and a they.
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:There are two groups he
talks about in this chapter.
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:And there we must aim for the heathens.
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:And we, that is Paul and the other
Jews, and the reason I say this is
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:that later in chapter 2, in verse
11 and beyond, we will hear that in
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:Jesus Christ the enmity between the
Jews and the Gentiles is broken down.
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:But these first verses now.
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:In Ephesians 2, the sin is
totally penetrating, both for
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:the Jews and for the non Jews.
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:That is, both for the people who
were God's chosen people, who
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:had to share God's promise of a
land, of becoming a people, and
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:that they would become a blessing.
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:Yes, they were on par with the heathens.
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:Depending on an intervention to be saved.
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:Notice this description that is given.
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:How are humans from the side of nature?
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:Yes, humans are by nature
the children of peace.
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:And this, Paul says, we were by
nature the children of peace.
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:Like all the others.
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:This applies to all people.
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:If you were born into the richest,
best and most poor family.
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:Or if you were born into a family where
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:Sin where impurity, where demonic
power reigns at an unequal level?
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:No matter what context you were
born into, the reality is that you
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:are born into this world as a child
of peace, just like everyone else.
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:The direction of our life is crazy.
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:Our will is incorrupt in itself.
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:We are not born with a good will.
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:We are not born with trust in God.
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:We are not born with a desire to do good,
to follow Him and to bow down before Him.
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:The sin of inheritance is something
the Bible, among other things in these
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:verses, speaks clearly and honestly about.
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:And the sin of inheritance,
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:This is something that I
think we sometimes forget to
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:think about and talk about.
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:Notice that the sin of inheritance
has nothing to do with your value.
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:The value of man that is created by
God and willed by God, that is fixed.
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:But what the Bible says in these verses
and underlines for us, is that you
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:who are willed by God, you are at the
same time born as a child of peace.
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:We are born.
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:In a world where the direction of
our lives goes away from the Lord.
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:Paul describes this, that people were
dead because of their sins and misdeeds.
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:People lived in these sins, as he gives in
this world, and let himself be led by him
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:who rules in heaven, that is, the devil.
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:And then it says further, Yes, we
lived all as they were, we followed
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:the lusts in our own flesh and blood.
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:We did what our flesh and
our own thoughts wanted.
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:I noticed three things here.
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:The first thing I noticed was the feeling.
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:is death.
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:The seriousness of people living in sin.
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:It is death.
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:It is misery.
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:It is hopelessness that is described
here, if this is all that is said
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:about what it is to be a human being.
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:Notice that we do then, that these
verses here, describe how the devil
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:, he is the one that
works in the unhearable.
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:He is effective.
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:That's all.
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:In this world, in all sin, in all misery.
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:But this phrase does not describe the
responsibility of a single person.
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:It's not like a single person can say that
it was only Satan who got me to do it.
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:It was only demonic powers
that made it happen.
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:No, it's also about our
own flesh, our own blood.
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:That we give when we want.
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:So our enemies,
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:Where the enemy is both
the devil and ourselves.
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:This may be a dark bible glimpse you get
today, but it's a realistic bible glimpse
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:of what it means to be a human being.
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:And to be a human being means to be born.
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:In this world, with a will that
does not want to let go, that
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:does not want to believe in God,
that does not want to follow him.
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:To be dead because of
his sins and misdeeds.
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:We have so easy to add human value,
importance and, um, yes, meaning outside
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:outside of some labels we place on.
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:Whether it's money, whether it's
achievements, whether it's intellect,
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:whether it's one or the other.
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:Ready to go?
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:We are all on the same page,
lost in ourselves, helpless.
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:But it's the end of chapter
2, luckily not here.
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:And then you will hear more
in the next Bible Glimpse.
