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Are We Good or Bad?
Neither, We Are Dead!
We were dead in our transgressions and sin.
That word dead has the idea of a dead corpse.
Paul is using it here to make a contrast to a bigger point.
What’s that bigger point?
It’s revealed in the next verse:
Notice that he ties being dead to being dominated.
We were dead in such a way that we were dominated by the world, Satan and even ourselves.
Take a look at verse 3:
If we tie all these pieces together, we get us being dead in such a way that we are dominated by our flesh, the world, and Satan.
Paul then therefore is making a point from the end of Ephesians 1: 22-23
Then he begins chapter 2 with And.
He’s moving on to another point, but not by disregarding the point he just made.
He still to keep in mind that God has subjected all things under Christ’s feet.
It’s almost as if Paul is drawing a correlation between that which is subjected under Christ’s feet and us at one point being subjected to these other things.
However, God made us alive:
Even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you are saved!
I just image that there was a hearty “amen” when these words were read.
We were dead, but now we are alive due to God’s mercy.
This echoes Titus 3:5
Praise the Lord we have been saved.
We were dominated by our sins, but we have been made alive in Christ and are therefore obligated to follow Him.
Look at the rest of this passage:
Christ is our head as we saw in chapter 1.
We were dead in our sins and dominated by our flesh, the world and Satan, but have been made alive by God’s mercy and grace.
We are therefore obligated to live for Him and this is a good thing.
Let’s therefore “Do More Gooder” for God and live for Him as His workmanship.
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