In Ephesians 2:1-3, Paul talks about three things we were without Christ.
1) We were spiritually dead.
2) We were spiritually enslaved.
3) We were children of wrath.

Why were we dead? Why were we enslaved? Why were we children of wrath? Look at the little phrase, “sons of disobedience.” How the word disobedience comes from the verb peithō and the verb that means “to be convinced, convicted, so as to trust in.” And in other words, you are persuaded and therefore you “trust in.”

In the Greek language, if you take a verb and you put an alpha, which is our letter A in front of it, it negates it. Rather than being persuaded, convinced and trusting, they are unbelieving. Remember the verse John 3:36, “He who believes has eternal life, but he who does not believe...”? Do you know what the verb there is? The exact same verb that we have here translated “disobedience.”

What is the greatest disobedience to God? Rejection of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We were dead. We were enslaved. And we were children of wrath because we were living in unbelief. You know, Jesus makes a very strong point about how unbelief is "the unforgivable sin."

Salvation comes only by Grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and only in Him alone. Especially if you've been left behind, learn about "The Simplicity of Salvation" here: https://basictraining.org/simplicity-of-salvation/
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Listen carefully to this. If you have never trusted Christ as your personal Savior, you are on a path to anguish, agony, and torment like you cannot imagine. Because God doesn't send people to hell. God allows people to go where they want to be. You know, Jesus said, “I AM the way, the truth, the life...” And people heard it every day. They prayed to the "I AM." And he was standing right there in their midst and they never got it.

Do you realize that in the life of the most miserable, the most wicked, the most horrible person who ever lived, every good thing in their life was a gift from the hand of God. Every good thing, every scene of beauty. You see the mountains, the rivers and the trees that came from the hand of God. You have a loved one, someone you care for, someone that loves you, that came from the hand of God. You have health and strength that came from the hand of God. Every heartbeat, every breath you take is the evidence of the love of God to you. And when you say no, no, no for your whole life, God says, “you want to go where I'm not. I'll allow it.” The lake of fire forever and ever.

Thanks to the The Chosen for the Jesus teaching at the Temple scene in this video. The original lesson is here: https://basictraining.org/all-audio-messages/?enmse=1&enmse_am=1&enmse_mid=2644

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John 6:29 reads, “Jesus answered and said to them, this is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” Sometimes the simplest statements in Scripture are most easily misconstrued, and this is one of them.

There are people that will tell you that, “Faith is a work, and because faith is a work and we can't work our way to heaven, therefore, faith is something God does in you.” Have you ever heard that one? They misinterpret Ephesians 2:8-9 which says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is a gift of God, not of works, lest any should boast.” And they say, “God only gives faith to the people He wants to have faith. He's picked certain ones to give the gift of faith, and the rest He's going to hold it back.” Doesn't that sound like a great God to you? If God worked on a standard like that, then he is showing respect to some and not respect to others (see Romans 12:11).

So what I want you to understand in this passage is what Jesus is actually saying, as opposed to what it appears.
“This is the work of God, believe in Him whom He sent ...”It's not your faith that is the work.
It's not a work to believe in Him.
It's Him who did the work that you're supposed to believe.

Thanks to the Jesus Film Project for the scenes in this video.
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