Salvation
Transformation
A life of sanctification and righteousness.
Ephesians
2
New
Life Individually
2 And although you were dead in
your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you formerly lived
according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom
of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of
disobedience, 3 among whom all of us also formerly lived out our
lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the
mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…
4 But God, being rich in mercy,
because of his great love with which he loved us, 5 even though we
were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you
are saved!— 6 and he raised us up with him and seated us with him
in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 to demonstrate in the
coming ages the surpassing wealth of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ
Jesus. 8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 it is not from works, so that
no one can boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, having been
created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we may
do them.
New
Life Corporately
11 Therefore remember that
formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh—who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the
body by human hands— 12 that you were at that time without the
Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the
covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But
now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the
blood of Christ. 14 For he is our peace, the one who made both
groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility, 15 when
he nullified in his flesh the law of commandments in decrees. He did this to
create in himself one new man out of two, thus making peace, 16 and
to reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by which the
hostility has been killed. 17 And he came and preached peace to you
who were far off and peace to those who were near, 18 so that
through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So
then you are no longer foreigners and non citizens, but you are fellow citizens
with the saints and members of God’s household, 20 because you have
been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus
himself as the cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building, being
joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom
you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
4/6/19