Alive To Access (Eph 2:1-10)
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Alive To Access
Alive To Access
Access: permission, liberty, or ability to enter, approach, or pass to and from a place or to approach or communicate with a person or thing!
Recap Of Chapter One:
Ephesians
Spiritual Blessings
Paul’s Prayer
Hope of His calling
We are His inheritance
Immeasurable power
Key Scripture & Observance
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
And & You (Very key words)
Trespasses and sins
it is a factual statement of everybody’s spiritual condition outside Christ
A ‘trespass’ (paraptōma) is a false step, involving either the crossing of a known boundary or a deviation from the right path.
The Message of Ephesians a. We Were Dead
A ‘trespass’ (paraptōma) is a false step, involving either the crossing of a known boundary or a deviation from the right path. A ‘sin’ (hamartia), however, means rather a missing of the mark, a falling short of a standard. Together the two words cover the positive and negative, or active and passive, aspects of human wrongdoing, that is to say, our sins of commission and of omission. Before God we are both rebels and failures.
The Message of Ephesians a. We Were Dead
it is a factual statement of everybody’s spiritual condition outside Christ
A ‘sin’ (hamartia), however, means rather a missing of the mark, a falling short of a standard.
Before God we are both rebels and failures.
in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
Walked: to live or behave in a specified manner.
Following course of this world
to walk (behavior) v. — to live or behave in a specified manner.
Social value system which is alien to God.
The Message of Ephesians b. We Were Enslaved
So both words ‘age’ and ‘world’ express a whole social value-system which is alien to God.
Following the prince of the power of the air
THE PRINCE is also the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.
Spirit’ then becomes an impersonal force or mood which is actively at work in non-Christian people.
“Spirit” then becomes an impersonal force or mood which is actively at work in non-Christian people.
The Message of Ephesians b. We Were Enslaved
Spirit’ then becomes an impersonal force or mood which is actively at work in non-Christian people.
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
We
Lived: Behave, conduct oneself, live (in a certain way).
Lived
behave, conduct oneself, live (in a certain way)
Passions of our flesh
Passions: evil craving n. — an inordinate, self-indulgent craving (that displaces proper affections for God).
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
Eph
even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
The millennial and eternal kingdom
to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
The Church will forever be a trophy of God’s marvelous grace.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
- It’s God’s grace that allows you to be able to believe!
And this is not your own doing!
It is the gift of God!
Thats why we should always say thank you.
not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Works = Boasting
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
The Grace New Testament Commentary D. God’s Salvation Plan: Past, Present, and Future (2:1–7)
The Church will forever be a trophy of God’s marvelous grace.
We are God Workmanship - His masterpiece
We Are Alive to Access and walk in good works!
In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.