How do spiritually dead people live according to Ephesians 2:2?
Ephesians 2:2 describes them as walking according to the course of this world and according to the prince of the power of the air—Satan—the spirit now working in the children of disobedience. Though physically alive, they are spiritually dead in trespasses and sins, controlled by the old nature and doing what comes naturally.
Les explains that the unsaved world is not physically dead but spiritually dead, wrapped up in the spiderweb of Satan. In Ephesians 2:1-2, they were dead in trespasses and sins, and in that life of spiritual deadness they walked according to the course of this world and according to the prince of the power of the air, who is Satan. That spirit now works in the children of disobedience. Les adds that verse 3 shows all believers also came out of that lifestyle, having their conversation or lifestyle in times past in the lusts or desires of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and mind, by nature doing what comes naturally under the control of Satan and the old nature.
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
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Whom do spiritually dead people follow?
Unbelievers, in their state of spiritual deadness, walk according to the course of this world and according to the prince of the power of the air, who is Satan.