Ephesians 2:4-10

It is nothing about our goodness. It is all about God’s. It is nothing to do with our good works. It is everything to do with His will to do good through us. By faith in His ability we are enabled to be doers of His Word made flesh and not just hearers of it. We love others because He does!

Out of His mercy, God gave His Son for us while we were yet His enemies. He loved us long before we loved Him. God desires to demonstrate His kindness throughout eternity through Christ Jesus His Son. This has nothing to do with our own merit. It is only because He is merciful and kind that He reaches out to save us.The past tense of the verb saved in this passage indicates that the believer’s salvation has already occurred in the past, at the Cross. 

Even our belief in God does not originate in ourselves. This too is a gift.

Ephesians 2:4-10

⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), ⁶ and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, ⁹ not of works, lest anyone should boast. ¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

¹² For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 

Romans 10:12

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 

John 3:16

⁹ In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 

1 John 4:9

¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 

1 John 4:10

⁸ But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 

Romans 5:8

⁴ But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 

Titus 3:4

⁵ But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 

Romans 4:5