Aim: To be the community of the living, as Christ's faithful church.
Doctrine: God sovereignly disrupts the community of the dead by quickening individual souls, which now make-up the church, the society of the living.
Exegesis: The horrible commitment we have to death (as we are in the first Adam): our fallen nature clings to it (v. 1); our allegiance is to its author (Satan) (v. 2); our desire is to be just like everyone else (v. 3).
Further application: Why reminders about the community of the dead are important: because otherwise we cheapen the gospel, and we will never love Christ.
Key verse: v. 3 ''...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.''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.