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Ephesians 2:11-18

“Remember What Life Has Been Like Since Jesus Came Into Our Hearts!”

  • Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
  • Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
  • 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
  • WE ARE TO REMEMBER THE DIVISIONS OF THE PAST
    • As non-believers we were separated from God.
      • Ephesians 2:11
  • WE ARE TO REMEMBER THE DEVASTATION OF THE PAST
    • Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye 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:
    • We were Christ-less
      • Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ…
    • We were Stateless
      • Ephesians 2: 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel…
    • We were promise-less
      • Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise…
    • We were hopeless
      • Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope…
    • We were Godless
      • Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye 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:
  • WE ARE TO REMEMBER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE PAST
    • Ephesians 2:13
    • The power of this destruction
      • Ephesians 2:13 …ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh…
      • Ephesians 2:14 For he…hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
      • 2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
    • The place of this destruction
      • Ephesians 2:13 …in Christ…
    • The price of this destruction
      • Ephesians 2:13… are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
      • Hebrews 10:4-10 (not on PowerPoint)
      • Hebrews 9:11–12 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; 12Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
      • Ephesians 6:1 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
      • 1 Peter 2:4–5 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.