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Ephesians 2:1-3 New English Translation
New Life Individually
2 And although you were dead in your offenses and sins, 2 in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience, three among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath[n] even as the rest…
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Satan holds man’s mind in complete blindness
He cannot see the light of the Gospel at all
The mind becomes hard in its imaginations
A common-state of mind engrained after the “Fall.”
The mind has its desires, its wants, and wishes
It throws a curve in the level of understanding
It is not a computer that analyzes the near-misses
But I know it has a certain power in its demanding
Jan Wienen