Sermon Notes 4/16 – Ephesians 2

OUTLINE: vs 1-3 – Life Without Jesus Christ

                  vs 4-9 – The Intervention of God

                      v10 – Our Position in Christ

***Eph 2:1-10 goes from our CONDITION to our POSITION…….

Vs 1-3 – A DESCRIPTION OF LIFE WITHOUT JESUS – BEFORE SALVATION

         4 D’S

V1 – DEAD – Spiritually dead

v2 – DISOBEDIENT – were part of the kingdom of darkness

v3 – DEPRAVED – the flesh ruled us

v4 – DOOMED – under God’s wrath

verse 1 – YOU – refers to all born again believers

PROCLAIMING vs POSSESSION

-Proclaiming salvation is just saying you are saved

-Possessing salvation is knowing you are saved

-1 John 1:6-10

***Every person born is spiritually dead in trespasses and sins***

-trespasses are unknown sins – means to run aside from the truth

-sins – means to miss the mark and these are known sins

***Being spiritually dead is how we were before salvation, but this is not the way we are now – 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

        ***THROUGH CHRIST WE HAVE GONE FROM OUR CONDITION                                                                     TO OUR POSITION***

           There are times it is good to remember what we used to be like:

1. Because it brings great gratitude to our hearts for what the Lord has done for us – Psalm 105:1-5, 7

2. Because it helps us to see how far Jesus has brought us – Philippians 1:6

3. Because we understand what our main problem was and what the problem of every human being is – Ephesians 2:1

1. The Problem with Every Human Being Is The Sin Nature

— the problem is not acts of sins, but the sin nature

2. The Sin Nature Can Only Produce Sin –

3. Only Jesus Christ Can Break The Power Of The Sin Nature – John 1:29

-Isaiah 59:16 & 63:5 – The Incarnation says that God came to earth in the form of man, Jesus Christ, to redeem humanity

v4 – BUT GOD…