Who Were You? “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” If you are a believer, have you ever given much thought to who you were before you were in Christ? Even if you became a believer as a child, the Scripture makes it quite clear that you were as bad off as you could be. Personally, I know I wasn’t as bad as I could have been. I did exercise some restraint. However, “in Adam,” I was as bad off as I could have been. Who we were before we were in Christ is described in Ephesians 2 and it is scary. We walked according to the course of this world following the enemy. We were by nature children of wrath. We were far off, without hope, aliens and strangers to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world! Yikes. In our text for Sunday, we’ll read Paul’s description of himself before he surrendered to God who is rich in mercy. He was religious! He was educated! He was from a good family. BUT, as he looked back, he realized he was a blasphemer, a persecutor and a rebellious and arrogant enemy of God. No wonder Paul wrote that in Christ all things have become new! Think of who you were…think of who you are…and rejoice in the abundant mercy of Christ the King. Join us Sunday “in remembrance of Him.”