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Ephesians Lesson 5 - Saved but Unsure
And you - Continuation from chapter 1
When Paul speaks of you, he is speaking of the Gentiles; when he speaks of us, he is speaking of the Jews, his own people.
In this passage, he shows how terrible the Christless life was for both Gentiles and Jews.
“You were dead “
Ephesians 2
“You were dead “
The kind of death Paul talks about in is a strange one—one in which, although dead, the sinner nevertheless walks about quite actively in sin.
He is dead toward God.
But he is alive to all wickedness.
We err if we think that dead in trespasses and sins says everything about man's lost condition.
It is an err because the Bible uses many different pictures to describe the state of the unsaved man, saying he is:
We err if we think that dead in trespasses and sins says everything about man's lost condition.
It is an err because the Bible uses many different pictures to describe the state of the unsaved man, saying he is:
Blind ()
- Blind ()- A slave to sin ()- A lover of darkness ()- Sick ()- Lost ()- An alien, a stranger, a foreigner (, )- A child of wrath ()- Under the power of darkness ()
“In the trespasses and sins in which you once walked” - The words he uses are interesting.
“In the trespasses and sins in which you once walked” - The words he uses are interesting.
A slave to sin ()
A lover of darkness ()
Sick ()
Lost ()-
An alien, a stranger, a foreigner (, )
A child of wrath ()
Under the power of darkness ()
In some ways the unregenerate man is dead; in other ways he is not.
Therefore, it is valid to appeal to all men to believe.
Sins
Sins
(Dr.
Vernon McGee)
- Adam died spiritually the day he disbelieved and disobeyed God.
He ran away from God and tried to hide.
He wasn’t looking for God.
- That is the position of natural man today.
This idea that men have a little spark of the divine and are looking for God is as false as can be.
- On the day Adam disobeyed, he died to God and to the things of God, although he didn’t die physically until nine hundred years after he had eaten the fruit.
But he had lost his capacity and longing for God.
- He was separated from God.
After all, death is separation.
All death is a separation.
Physical death is separation of the spirit and the soul from the body.
When someone dies, we don’t see the separation of the spirit and the soul; we see only the dead body.
- Spiritual death is a separation from God.
After man sinned, he could go on living physically and mentally, but he was spiritually dead, separated from God.
- He passed that same dead nature on to all his offspring.
It is only the convicting work of the Holy Spirit that can prick the conscience of any man in this world today.
- You can’t do it and I can’t do it.
Only the Spirit of God can do it.
Adam died spiritually the day he disbelieved and disobeyed God.
He ran away from God and tried to hide.
He wasn’t looking for God.
That is the position of natural man today.
This idea that men have a little spark of the divine and are looking for God is as false as can be.
On the day Adam disobeyed, he died to God and to the things of God, although he didn’t die physically until nine hundred years after he had eaten the fruit.
But he had lost his capacity and longing for God.
He was separated from God.
After all, death is separation.
All death is a separation.
Physical death is separation of the spirit and the soul from the body.
When someone dies, we don’t see the separation of the spirit and the soul; we see only the dead body.
Spiritual death is a separation from God.
After man sinned, he could go on living physically and mentally, but he was spiritually dead, separated from God.
He passed that same dead nature on to all his offspring.
It is only the convicting work of the Holy Spirit that can prick the conscience of any man in this world today.
You can’t do it and I can’t do it.
Only the Spirit of God can do it.
Hosea 11:
McGee, J. V. (1991).
Thru the Bible commentary: The Epistles (Ephesians) (electronic ed., Vol.
47, pp.
68–69).
Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
“In the trespasses and sins in which you once walked” - The words he uses are interesting.
Sins
Sins
The word for sin is hamartia; and hamartia is a shooting word.
It literally means a miss.
Someone shoots an arrow at the target; the arrow misses; that is hamartia.
Sin is the failure to hit the target of life.
That is precisely why sin is so universal.
We commonly have a wrong idea of sin.
We would readily agree that those who rob or commit murder are sinners; but, since most of us are respectable citizens, in our heart of hearts we think that sin does not have very much to do with us.
We would probably rather resent being called hell-deserving sinners.
But hamartia brings us face to face with what sin is, the failure to be what we ought to be and could be.
The word for sin is hamartia; and hamartia is a shooting word.
It literally means a miss.
Someone shoots an arrow at the target; the arrow misses; that is hamartia.
Sin is the failure to hit the target of life.
That is precisely why sin is so universal.
When we realize what sin is, we come to see that it is not something which theologians have invented.
It is something which is found in every aspect of life.
It is the failure in any sphere of life to be what we ought to be and could be.
?The kind of death Paul talks about in is a strange one—one in which, although dead, the sinner nevertheless walks about quite actively in sin.
He is dead toward God.
But he is alive to all wickedness.
Paul uses strong, active words here.
Although spiritually dead, the sinner follows the ways of the world and of the devil and spends his time gratifying the cravings of his sinful nature.
Trespasses
The other word Paul uses, translated as trespasses, is paraptōma.
This literally means a slip or a fall.
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