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Explore the powerful transformation from spiritual death to life described in Ephesians 2:1-18. Discover the journey of being dead in sins to being made alive in God through repentance and conversion. Witness the shift from ungodly ways to living in good works as a child of God. Learn about the process of change and conversion involved in becoming alive to God and leaving behind the old ways of wrath and disobedience. Embrace the message of the Gospel and the steps towards a fulfilling life in God.
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Before Eph.2:1-18 and After
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Before Eph.2:1-18 and After
Turn again, reverse "Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord” Acts 3:19
Dead In Before Sin Eph. 2:1 Dead To After
Dead = Separated “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.” Jas 2:26 Spiritual Death is separation from God !
“And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins” Eph.2:1 They were dead spiritually Trespasses – willfully crossing the boundary Sins – missing the mark
“And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins” Eph.2:1 • After conversion they are alive • Dead to Sin - Rom. 6:1-2 • Alive to God • Paul died to sin – Gal. 2:20
“who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness?” 1 Pet. 2:24
WANTED Dead and Alive Romans 6 Reward = Heaven
ungodly Before World Eph. 2:2 Godly After
“in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience” Eph. 2:2
ungodly Before • Vain mind – Eph. 4:17 • Uncleanness – Eph. 4:19 • Eyes filled with adultery- 2 Pet.2:14 • Works of Flesh – Gal.5:19-21 • Unrighteousness – 1 Cor.6:9-10 Disobedience
Good works – Eph. 2:10 Do good unto all men – Gal.6:10 1 Tim. 6:18 – rich in good works Life to glory of God – Matt.5:16 Obedience Godly After
Child of Before Wrath Eph. 2:3 Child of God After
“among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.” Eph. 2:3
Child of Before • Wrath = anger, vengeance, punishment • Eph. 5:6 -Will know the wrath of God • Heb. 10:26-31 – fearful thing • II Cor. 5:10-11
Reconciled to God – Eph.2:16 • Access to the Father – Eph.2:18 • In God’s household – Eph. 2:19 • Heir of God Child of God After
Power In The Gospel Rom. 1:16 Change involved in Conversion
After Before Dead in sin Living in world Child of wrath Alive to God Living in good works Child of God
“Repent therefore and be converted” The Gospel can change lives
SIN GOD
Hear John 12:48 • Believe John 8:24 • Repent Luke 13:3 • Confess Matt. 10:32-33 • Baptized Mark 16:16 • Faithful Matt. 24:13