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What we Were and What we are now!
When Ephesians 2 opens, we are spiritual corpses in death valley.
When it closes, we are not only seated in Christ in the heavenlies; we form a habitation of God through the Spirit.
In between we have the mighty miracle that brought about this remarkable transformation.
When opens, we are spiritual corpses in death valley.
When it closes, we are not only seated in Christ in the heavenlies; we form a habitation of God through the Spirit.
In between we have the mighty miracle that brought about this remarkable transformation.
Paul opens up describing the condition of man prior to salvation.
This is key to understanding the Gospel is understanding your position with God and the inability to help yourself out of it.
Illustration looking at old photo’s - the past is not now ....
We are older
We are heaver
We are wiser?
We are not as healthy
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I The Past
We were not just dead; we were dead in trespasses.
The Greek word translated “trespasses” is paratōma, which means “a falling aside when one should have stood upright.”
This word conveys the idea of falling aside from truth and uprightness and is used to describe Adam’s disobedience (Romans 5:15–18).
The law was introduced so that this form of sin, paratōma, might be thought of as criminal in the mind of the sinner—just as it is in the mind of God.
We were also dead in sins.
The word translated “sins” is derived from hamartono, which means “to miss the mark, to wander from the right path, to go wrong, to do wrong.”
Sin entered the world when Adam fell (Romans 5:12).
The natural consequence of falling aside, of missing the mark, was death.
Thus, in our natural state, God sees us as dead in trespasses and sins.
When a man sets out to make something, he usually starts with the best possible materials—the purest clay, the finest marble, the choicest wood.
But God goes to the refuse heap and selects materials that are worthless.
He begins with people who are dead!
It is amazing what modern medicine can do for a patient.
Doctors can remodel disfigured faces, transplant kidneys, implant lenses, bypass arteries—as long as the patient is alive.
Once the person is dead, doctors can do nothing more than pull a sheet over the body and transfer the corpse to the morgue.
But God begins with people who are dead in the fullest sense of the word—dead in trespasses and sins.
(2) We Were Deluded (2:2a)
vs 1- We were not just dead; we were dead in trespasses.
The Greek word translated “trespasses” is paratōma, which means “a falling aside when one should have stood upright.”
This word conveys the idea of falling aside from truth and uprightness and is used to describe Adam’s disobedience ().
The law was introduced so that this form of sin, paratōma, might be thought of as criminal in the mind of the sinner—just as it is in the mind of God.
The natural consequence of falling aside, of missing the mark, was death.
Thus, in our natural state, God sees us as dead in trespasses and sins.
When a man sets out to make something, he usually starts with the best possible materials—the purest clay, the finest marble, the choicest wood.
But God goes to the refuse heap and selects materials that are worthless.
He begins with people who are dead!
It is amazing what modern medicine can do for a patient.
Doctors can remodel disfigured faces, transplant kidneys, implant lenses, bypass arteries—as long as the patient is alive.
Once the person is dead, doctors can do nothing more than pull a sheet over the body and transfer the corpse to the morgue.
But God begins with people who are dead in the fullest sense of the word—dead in trespasses and sins.
Just as a person physically dead does not respond to physical stimuli, so a person spiritually dead is unable to respond to spiritual things.
A corpse does not hear the conversation going on in the funeral parlor.
He has no appetite for food or drink; he feels no pain; he is dead.
Just so with the inner man of the unsaved person.
His spiritual faculties are not functioning, and they cannot function until God gives him life.
(2) We Were Deluded (2:2a)
Before we accepted Christ as Savior, our utter deadness to spiritual things was evident in our behavior.
We walked according to “the course of this world.”
In other words, the spirit of the age held us in its iron grip.
Before we accepted Christ as Savior, our utter deadness to spiritual things was evident in our behavior.
We walked according to “the course of this world.”
In other words, the spirit of the age held us in its iron grip.
this world is the sworn enemy of God.
The Bible warns of this enmity repeatedly: “If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15).
John summarized the spirit of the world as “the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (2:16).
The spirit of the age is determined by the spirit of the world
This world is the sworn enemy of God.
The Bible warns of this enmity repeatedly: “If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him” ().
John summarized the spirit of the world as “the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (2:16).
The spirit of the age is determined by the spirit of the world.
“The spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.”
The force of these words is far stronger than our translation suggests.
Paul was not simply saying that we were disobedient children, for the Greek word rendered “children” is derived from huios.
Huios, meaning “a son,” has special reference to one’s origin, nature, and relationship to his father.
Therefore Paul was saying that we were sons of the disobedient one—Satan.
We had the nature and character of that evil spirit who prompts people to disobey God.
Through one man’s disobedience sin entered the world, so we are heirs to a disobedient spirit.
One of the first behaviors a child displays, as soon as it is able to express its developing personality, is disobedience.
No one ever has to teach a child to be disobedient.
Rather, a child has to be taught to obey, and the lesson has to be reinforced often.
Disobedience comes naturally.
Satan has an enormous advantage—our fallen natures are allied to his.
God has to overcome this disobedient spirit in man.
That is one reason He took redeemed Israel to Sinai, gave them the law, and instituted an age-long course of discipline.
That is why He found such delight in His Son, who did “always those things that please” the Father (John 8:29), and why in this age He commands all men everywhere to repent (Acts 17:30).
So complete are the results of the fall that we have no natural interest in obeying the gospel; our first inclination is to disobey God.
Even after we accept Christ, we find it difficult to tread the path of obedience, to believe that God’s will for us is “good, and acceptable, and perfect” (Romans 12:2).
All too often Satan still manages to persuade us that our own way is best, and that God’s will is irksome, unpleasant, and even downright dangerous.
“If you let God have His way,” Satan whispers, “He’ll send you to serve in a leper colony,” or “He’ll spoil all your fun.”
Satan slanders God with such suggestions.
Our all-wise and all-loving God would never call us to do something for which He had not adequately prepared us and given the appropriate measure of His grace.
The spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.”
The force of these words is far stronger than our translation suggests.
Therefore Paul was saying that we were sons of the disobedient one—Satan.
We had the nature and character of that evil spirit who prompts people to disobey God.
Through one man’s disobedience sin entered the world, so we are heirs to a disobedient spirit.
One of the first behaviors a child displays, as soon as it is able to express its developing personality, is disobedience.
No one ever has to teach a child to be disobedient.
Rather, a child has to be taught to obey, and the lesson has to be reinforced often.
Disobedience comes naturally.
Satan has an enormous advantage—our fallen natures are allied to his.
So complete are the results of the fall that we have no natural interest in obeying the gospel; our first inclination is to disobey God.
Such then was our past condition.
We were without God, without Christ, without hope.
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