Ephesians 2:1-10

By Grace Through Faith!

By grace we have been saved….now we need to go out and do the good works which God prepared for us to do from the beginning of time. In His mercy He allows the world to go on because He wants everyone to have the chance to accept His salvation in Jesus Christ. 

There will come a time that this grace period will end. 

Go out and tell the world the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the unfathomable love of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit for man, while there is still time.

We are to walk worthy of our calling, which means to walk in love, in light, and in wisdom. 

Paul points out to the Ephesians that they formerly walked according to the world’s ways and after the prince of the power of the air—namely, the adversarial spirit Satan. The sons of disobedience are people who disobey, whether Christians or non-Christians. 

Because of Adam’s sin, the entire human race is spiritually dead. 

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.

Ephesians 2:1-10

2 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, ² 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, ³ 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.

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.

¹³ And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 

Colossians 2:13

²¹ And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 

Colossians 1:21

³¹ Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. 

John 12:31

¹² For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of ³the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 

Ephesians 6:12

³ For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. 

1 Peter 4:3

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

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

⁹ who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, 

2 Timothy 1:9

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