FROM DEATH TO LIFE
Pastor Matt Lewandowski
Sunday, March 7th, 2021
EPHESIANS 2:1-10 (NIV)
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
1: DEAD IN SIN
DEAD IN SIN, LIVING IN SIN
- Metaphorically speaking, death can be a kind of
- What is spiritual death?
Romans 3:23
- Apart from God’s grace, we are
UNDER THE
- The World
- The Devil
- The Flesh
HEADED FOR WRATH,
Romans 6:23
Revelation 20:11-15
2: BUT GOD RAISED US TO LIFE
We were dead in our sin, BUT GOD… and His grace!
Because He is rich in mercy and because of His great love
Romans 5:6-8
John 3:16He made us
- He
3: BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH
Grace vs Merit/works
- What is the cause/root of salvation?
- Why are works important?
- What is faith? Saving faith?
- Faith is the required
- Faith is not