Reconciliation and Unity in Christ: Ephesians 2
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"And you he made alive who were dead in trespasses and sins now we have to stop here immediately at verse 1 and take a look at this idea that those words he made alive in most English versions are in italics that means that they were added by the translator they're implied by the text but they're added by the translator because it's appropriate according to the context." [00:03:20]
"Now though Christians are now alive they must never forget where they came from, you were dead in trespasses and sins but now God has made you alive but I want you to think very carefully about that statement that you were dead in trespasses and sins, you know one of the most tragic situations there can be for a family or for a person to go through is the tragedy of what we call of when a woman gives a stillbirth." [00:04:06]
"To be spiritually dead does not mean that we're physically dead, it doesn't mean that we're socially dead, it doesn't mean that we're psychologically dead yet nevertheless it is a real death, it's a dead death nonetheless, you could say that the most vital part of man's personality the spirit is dead to the most important factor in life and that is God." [00:06:56]
"Yes it is true we are dead in trespasses and sins as far as our life to God is concerned spiritually man is dead dead dead and unless God does some prior work in that person they can never come to faith, but I don't believe that it's accurate to say that that prior work must be making that person born again before they can believe." [00:10:39]
"God's love is so great that it extends even to the unlovely to the children of wrath that were mentioned in the previous verse, this shows us that every reason for God's love and mercy is found in him, we give him no reason to love us yet in the greatness of his love he loves us with that great love anyway." [00:21:55]
"Even when we were dead in trespasses, he made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus." [00:23:00]
"Paul cannot speak of this glorious work that God does without reminding us that it's a gift of grace and that it's given to the undeserving let me make this very clear to you we are not saved by our faith sometimes we speak of that don't we I know we just speak sort of quickly and efficiently and we speak of somebody being saved by faith." [00:29:46]
"God saves us not merely to save us or to rescue us from the wrath that we so rightly deserve but also to make something beautiful of us, isn't that beautiful it isn't just to say well I'll rescue your sorry soul from hell but God says I'll rescue your sorry soul from hell and I'll make something beautiful of it I will make you my workmanship." [00:34:32]
"Therefore remember that you once Gentiles in the flesh who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by hands that at that time you were without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise having no hope and without God in the world." [00:38:58]
"For he himself is our peace who has made the both one and has broken down the middle wall of separation having abolished in his flesh the enmity that is the law of the commandments contained in ordinances so as to create in himself one new man from the two thus making peace and that he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross." [00:42:39]
"Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone in whom the whole building being joined together grows into a holy temple to the Lord." [00:54:44]
"The church isn't just a building it's a dwelling place a place where God lives it's never intended to be an empty house that's virtually a museum with no one living inside the church is to be both the living place of God and his people and finally not only is it a building not only is it a dwelling place but it is a temple our text tells us." [01:00:24]
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"Now though Christians are now alive they must never forget where they came from, you were dead in trespasses and sins but now God has made you alive but I want you to think very carefully about that statement that you were dead in trespasses and sins, you know one of the most tragic situations there can be for a family or for a person to go through is the tragedy of what we call of when a woman gives a stillbirth." [00:04:06]
"To be spiritually dead does not mean that we're physically dead, it doesn't mean that we're socially dead, it doesn't mean that we're psychologically dead yet nevertheless it is a real death, it's a dead death nonetheless, you could say that the most vital part of man's personality the spirit is dead to the most important factor in life and that is God." [00:06:56]
"Yes it is true we are dead in trespasses and sins as far as our life to God is concerned spiritually man is dead dead dead and unless God does some prior work in that person they can never come to faith, but I don't believe that it's accurate to say that that prior work must be making that person born again before they can believe." [00:10:39]
"God's love is so great that it extends even to the unlovely to the children of wrath that were mentioned in the previous verse, this shows us that every reason for God's love and mercy is found in him, we give him no reason to love us yet in the greatness of his love he loves us with that great love anyway." [00:21:55]
"Even when we were dead in trespasses, he made us alive together with Christ by grace you have been saved and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus." [00:23:00]
"Paul cannot speak of this glorious work that God does without reminding us that it's a gift of grace and that it's given to the undeserving let me make this very clear to you we are not saved by our faith sometimes we speak of that don't we I know we just speak sort of quickly and efficiently and we speak of somebody being saved by faith." [00:29:46]
"God saves us not merely to save us or to rescue us from the wrath that we so rightly deserve but also to make something beautiful of us, isn't that beautiful it isn't just to say well I'll rescue your sorry soul from hell but God says I'll rescue your sorry soul from hell and I'll make something beautiful of it I will make you my workmanship." [00:34:32]
"Therefore remember that you once Gentiles in the flesh who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by hands that at that time you were without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise having no hope and without God in the world." [00:38:58]
"For he himself is our peace who has made the both one and has broken down the middle wall of separation having abolished in his flesh the enmity that is the law of the commandments contained in ordinances so as to create in himself one new man from the two thus making peace and that he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross." [00:42:39]
"Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone in whom the whole building being joined together grows into a holy temple to the Lord." [00:54:44]
"The church isn't just a building it's a dwelling place a place where God lives it's never intended to be an empty house that's virtually a museum with no one living inside the church is to be both the living place of God and his people and finally not only is it a building not only is it a dwelling place but it is a temple our text tells us." [01:00:24]
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