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Dead to Alive
Ephesians 2:1-10
Main Idea: Even at our lowest God still saved us.
ME: Problems with impossible solutions will leave us the most transformed.
Have you ever tried to solve a problem that just seemed to be unsolvable?
Like sure if you have a math class— literally as soon as letters showed up with numbers, I was out.
You can’t put number with letters— its not math anymore.
But don’t get me started there.
So like all of math is unsolvable.
But what about in your world.
Like have you been placed in a situation where the problem at hand was just maybe a little too challenging?
That you were not going to be able to solve it on your own?
But like when that happens— are you a type of person that just folds or are you someone who laces up the shoes, get your adult pants on, tightens your belt, and attack the problem anyway?
Knowing that you won’t be able to fix it?
I say I have a little stubbornness in me.
I blame it on the fact that I was a first born of my family and also my mom’s side of the family, i was the first grandchild and nephew.
Man I lived like a king until my brother came and ruined it all.
But I say that I have a little stubbornness to me.
And I would even say that I have something about me that when someone tells me I can’t do something, it makes me want to do it all the more.
Like my father-in-law makes some of the best chilly known to man.
It has 5 meats in it— it is sweet but spicy— and it is heavy and filling.
Well I love that Chilly and my father-in-law knows this and he also knows that I don’t like being told I can’t do something, so he challenged me to eat 10 bowls of chilly.
Expect he phrased it like this: Zach you can’t eat ten bowls of chilly.
There is no way you could do that.
And not only am I an in-law, I married his daughter and I know my parent’s didn’t raise no chump.
So I looked him dead in the eyes and I said— say it again.
“You can’t eat ten bowls of chilly.”
I responded with a watch me!
And over the next 3 hours I put down bowl after bowl of chilly.
I could feel my insides burning and screaming no more— but my mind was already made up— I was going to eat that chilly!
At about the 5th bowl time beings to move real slow— and so do you.
I finished the 10th bowl in the 3rd hour while I was on the can dropping bomb and filling the tank back up.
Now— I was miserable and the car ride home was terrible for everyone!
But I did it!
We live as people who try to make our own way.
I feel like this is a common phrase thrown around that you can do anything.
That you are capable of anything you put your mind too.
Like I have popped several blood vessels trying to us the Force and guess what, it still hasn’t happened.
I don’t really want to talk about the time I tried to fly.
But This isn’t true.
I think our world tries to tell us that we are more capable then we are.
Like you ever heard— shoot for the moon because if you miss then you at least end up among the stars.
The stars are further way then the moon— you dead— and you are a terrible navigator— the Moon is huge!
It’s not like you missed an exist when you were driving— you literally missed the moon.
But we hear this so often and guess what we begin to believe it subconsciously.
So when a problem comes up— we try to take it on our selves.
We try to man up and woman up the situation.
And sure there is some stuff that we should do.
Like my oldest and middle children they give up so fast and easy.
Rosey my middle child will try to buckle herself in and before I can even buckle up she is yelling at me to help.
And I’m like you got— try.
Then she is like I did— it’s just too hard.
Help me.
I can’t… click… oh I did it.
I mean there are things that we can do.
But our culture tries to tell us to fix things that are out of your power.
Why is that?
WE: We live in a culture that is opposite of the Gospel.
Our culture is against the Gospel.
We hear often phrases like— you are perfect just the way you are.
You are enough.
And look you have been lied too.
You are not perfect the way you are— you are not enough
And then the real problem begins to sit on your mind.
If we aren’t perfect or enough then who is?
There is someone who is.
And His name is Jesus.
The gospel of Jesus is about God solving the impossible problem.
The problem that we keep trying to solve on our own.
Our current state prior to Jesus was we were dead.
We were dead, worthless, sinners.
And Paul in his letter to the Ephesians-- says that is where we were at.
That was our status in this life.
And that was not going to change no matter what you did.
And why is that?
Because we are not enough and we are not perfect.
But even in our broken, sinful, dirty situation God offers a gift.
GOD: God says I saw you in your death and He instead gives you life.
The Gospel impacts us by moving us from death to life.
We will be in Eph 2 tonight, if you have a Bible, flip there and let’s dive in.
The author of this letter here is a dude named Paul and Paul was a guy who thought he had it all figured out— he was a good jewish boy and was a good Pharisee but then he had encounter with Christ that changed his life.
So Paul is writing to the Ephesians in Ephesus.
And in chapter two we come face to face with this dreadful reality.
That we were dead in our trespasses and sin.
YOU were dead in the trespasses and sin in which you once walked.
Let’s define trespasses or transgressions and sin real quick.
Transgression or trespasses The ESV study Bible defines this as violations against God’s divine commandments.
This can be done intentionally or unintentionally.
Think of Samson broke his vow with the Lord by touching a dead lion and allowing his hair to be cut.
And Sin is defined as offenses against God in thought, word, or deed.
It is choosing to do wrong instead of right.
It is looking at someone and judging them, It is lying to someone or cheating someone out of something.
And Paul is like this is where you live at.
He is saying this is where you were.
What is interesting about that phrase is that this was a common Jewish way of speech.
That phrase “You were dead in your transgressions or trespasses”
Here is what theThe New Bible Commentary says on how the a Jewish person would hear this phrase;
Those bound in sin are doomed to death, and so already belong to its realm; the very thing they think of as ‘life’ is but a foretaste of death, because it is without God
This is where we all begin in life.
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