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.

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.