I. Christians were dead, too Christians did not merely grow up in the faith, never remembering a time when they didn't believe. According to scripture, "Among them, we too, all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh..." We, too, were once dead in sin, regardless of whether we grew up in church.
II. Paul was dead, too Paul includes himself. Being an apostle didn't change his past. It changed his future. He was once dead in sin and living in the lusts of the flesh, too.
III. Jews were dead, too Paul was a Jew, raised as a devout person and scrupulous for the Law. But that doesn't matter. The Jews were living in the lusts of the flesh, too.
IV. We were once indulging lusts, too There are not some people who have terrible former lives and were saved from a mess, while others were squeaky clean and simply added Jesus to their nice moral lives. No, we all were once living in the lusts of the flesh, no matter how moral or religious you may have been prior to conversion.
V. Antinomianism refuted We FORMERLY lived in the lusts of the flesh. If you are now a Christian, you are no longer living in those lusts. You have been delivered from that.
VI. Christians were children of wrath, too Even as the rest. There was no difference. Infant baptism is refuted. The idea of "covenant children" who are safe in the covenant is refuted. The idea of being in a special category with a different status than the wicked is refuted. We were all children of wrath, not children of God and not children of the covenant.
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