You
were already dead.
“For
to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law
of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please
God. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of
God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not
His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit
is life because of righteousness….For if you live according to the flesh you
will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will
live.” Rom8:6-10,13
“What
fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end
of those things is death.” Rom6:21
“For
when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law
were at work in our members to bear fruit to death…For sin, taking occasion by
the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.” Rom7:5,11
You
were a child of the devil.
“That
is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of
God…”Rom9:8
“among
whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
just as the others.” Eph2:3
“They
answered and said to Him, "Abraham is our father." Jesus said to
them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.
But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard
from God. Abraham did not do this. You do the deeds of your father." Then
they said to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father ---
God." Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love
Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He
sent Me. Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to
listen to My word. You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your
father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand
in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks
from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. But because I
tell the truth, you do not believe Me. Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if
I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? He who is of God hears God's
words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.” Jn8:39-47
“He
who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this
purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the
devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him;
and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. In this the children of God and the children
of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of
God, nor is he who does not love his brother.” 1Jn3:8-10
You
were natural, corruptible, earthy, carnal and could not inherit the kingdom of
God
You lived only in the physical realm and according to
his senses. He cannot transact by faith but has to depend on what he can touch,
feel, taste, hear, smell and see. He is a soul and soulish, not a spirit and
spiritual like the new man in Christ.
“The first man is of the earth, earthy: the
second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that
are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And
as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the
heavenly. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; neither doth corruption n inherit incorruption.” 1Cor15:47-50
You
were perishing, deteriorating, fading away.
“For
which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man
is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look
not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the
things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are
eternal.” 2Cor4:16-18
“Come
now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a
year there, buy and sell, and make a profit; whereas you do not know what will
happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a
little time and then vanishes away.” Jam4:13-14
“Do
not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the
love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world the lust of
the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father
but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he
who does the will of God abides forever.” 1Jn2:15-17
You
were under the law and bound to the law
“But
when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a
woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might
receive the adoption as sons” Gal4:4-5
“Or
do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law
has dominion over a man as long as he lives? For the woman who has a husband is
bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies,
she is released from the law of her husband. So then if, while her husband
lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her
husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though
she has married another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead
to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. For when
we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at
work in our members to bear fruit to death. But now we have been delivered from
the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the
newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.” Rom7:1-6
You
were under the curse
“For
as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written,
"Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written
in the book of the law, to do them.” Gal3:10
These curses involved sickness, poverty, failure,
weakness etc. Read Deuteronomy 28.
You
could not understand spiritual truth;
“These
things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the
Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural
man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness
to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned.”
1Cor2:13-14
“For
the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us
who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will
destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the
prudent." Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of
this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the
wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God
through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.”
1Cor1:18-21
“This
I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as
the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their
understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the
ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being
past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness
with greediness.” Eph4:17-19
We are to forget and forsake the old man who died with
Jesus on the Cross and begin living after the new nature which is the true
nature of the Christian. The Christian has died to whatever is of Adam and now
lives in Christ. We all need to get a revelation of this like the apostle Paul
did
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