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OCTOBER 9, 2022
STUDY NOTES
EPHESIANS 2:1-3
BIBLE TEACHER: CLIFTON JONES
THE NEED OF NEW LIFE
INTRODUCTION
In Ephesians 1:15-23, Paul prays for believers to understand our salvation
He prays that we will comprehend what God has given us “in Christ”
For us to know the power that God wrought in Jesus when He raised Him from the dead
And know that the same power of God is at work in those who are saved
The same power that raised Jesus from the dead will raise those who are spiritually dead
Ephesians 2:1-3, reveals that the lost need to be made alive, to be resurrected from the dead
In salvation, those who are spiritually dead are resurrected from death to a new spiritual life
To be “Born Again” is to receive a new spiritual life, resurrected unto a new way of life
When you are born-again you receive a new spiritual life filled with the power of God
In Ephesians 2:1-3, Paul reveals to us the truth of the old life of spiritual death, what it was like
The way our life was before we received a “New Life in Christ” (Galatians 2:20)
In salvation every Christian has received a new and different life (Ephesians 2:10)
When Paul describes the life before salvation, he describes the life of every lost person
He describes the way life is without Jesus as our Savior and the present state of every unbeliever
In Ephesians 2:1-3, Paul reveals The Need of New Life:
The lost are spiritually dead (Verse 1)
The lost are dominated by Satan and sin (Verse 2)
The lost face the wrath of God (Verse 3)
WE WERE ALL DEAD--Eph 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and
sins;
“And you,” who? “You,” all who are lost need to be saved, you need to be made alive in Christ
“All” are sinners, Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and
so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
“All” have sinned, and “all” need to be saved, “all” need to be made alive spiritually
“And you hath He quickened,” is in italics and means that it was inserted by the translators
It was inserted for the purpose of clarity or better understanding (which it does)
In verse 5, Paul does say that we have been “quickened,” made alive with Christ, Eph 2:5 Even
when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
“We were dead in sins” (verse 5) refers to “you who were dead” (verse 1)
Those who were dead in verse 1, are those who have been made alive in verse 5
So, the translators were correct in inserting “hath he quickened” in verse 1
The understanding of verse 5 is much more meaningful when we know the truth of verse 1
Christians are no longer the “you” of verse one, we are now the “we” of verse 5
“You” who needed salvation, now by grace “you” are saved, you “who were dead”
In this verse the word “dead” does not refer to physical death
It refers to spiritual death, they were “dead” because they had no spiritual life
Those who are lost and without Christ in their life, are “dead” living beings
The word “separated” gives us a better understanding of what death means according to scripture
In the Bible, death does not mean “ceasing to exist,” it never indicates nonexistence
There are three deaths identified in Scripture and each death involves a separation
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Death is a separation, to be dead is to be “separated” from life
“Physical death” is life separated from the body that we now live in (Hebrews 9:27)
Physical death is when the soul departs from the physical body
A dead body is inactive and lifeless, there is no longer any physical response
“Spiritual death” is life separated from God, physically alive but spiritually dead (1 John 5:12)
Spiritual death is being dead to the life of Christ, it is the opposite of life “in Christ”
Ephesians 2:1 speaks of those who are dead being spiritually separated from God
Those who are lost live in a realm of life known as “death”
They have physical life, mental life, and emotional life, but there is no spiritual life
You can be physically fit, mentally alert, emotionally excited, while spiritually dead
Because the lost are dead spiritually their works are dead also
Salvation includes a “repentance from dead works,” Heb 6:1 Therefore leaving the principles
of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of
repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
Through the blood of Christ, we are made alive spiritually and cleansed from dead works,
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Being spiritually alive and cleansed we can now “serve the living God”
The third death identified in the Bible is known as the “Second Death” or Eternal Death
Eternal death is life eternally separated from God, Rev 20:14 And death and hell were cast into
the lake of fire.
This is the second death.
The “lake of fire” is the eternal state of those who die physically without being born spiritually,
Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Eternal death is the everlasting separation from the “presence of the Lord,” 2Th 1:9 Who shall
be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his
power;
The order of death presented in scripture is, spiritual death, physical death, second death
When people die physically, one of the first questions is, “What caused the death?”
Paul gives us a spiritual autopsy report, his diagnosis of death is, “in trespasses and sins”
Man is spiritually dead or spiritually separated from God because of “trespasses”
“Trespasses” refers to the fall of man from his original position before God (Genesis 3)
To “trespass” is to step outside the bounds of law that God has set, the wrong path of life
Righteousness is the standard that God has set for His people, the right path of life
To “trespass” is the opposite of “righteousness,” it is living the wrong way in the wrong place
Spiritual death is also living in “sins,” sin is the transgression of the law of God
The word was used to describe an arrow that fell short of the target, meaning “to miss a mark”
The target for every person is the life that God has prepared for you
To live in sin is to miss the target of life, to miss the mark of God is to hit some wrong target
The lost are a walking tombstone which reads, “dead in trespasses and sins”
THE LOST ARE WALKING DEAD--Eph 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the
course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in
the children of disobedience:
“In time past” is the time-period before one is saved, before you were “Born Again”
Paul presents the truth of the path of life for those who are lost or spiritually dead
Revealing the characteristics of a life without Christ, any and every kind of sin is possible
The kind of life that Christians are not supposed to live because they are now saved
This should not be a description of the walk of a Christian (1 Cor 3:1-3, the carnal life)
Your “walk” is your daily lifestyle, the way you live your life, your conduct and behavior
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“Walk” is your whole manner of life, one step after another, following the same pattern of life
“According to the course of this world,” refers to the characteristics of today’s society
Satan’s organized system that he does not want God to be a part of (2 Corinthians 4:4)
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