What does Ephesians 2:2 say about our condition while dead in trespasses and sins?
Ephesians 2:2 describes people as having been dead in trespasses and sins while they were living in the flesh. That condition is universal, the lot of every human being, not caused by paganism, religion, or immorality, but because all are sons and daughters of Adam.
Les explains that Ephesians 2:1 says believers were quickened, or made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Ephesians 2:2 continues that thought: "wherein while we were dead in trespasses and sins." Les emphasizes that while they were dead in trespasses and sins, they were still living in the flesh. This was the lot of every human being. It was not because they were pagan, not because of their religion, and not because of their immorality. They were dead in trespasses and sins because they were sons and daughters of Adam.
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: