Gods Amazing Grace Toward Us

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Gods Amazing Grace Toward Us
Ephesians Sit, Walk, Stand Part 3
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• Understand our CONDITION before God without
  Christ.
• WE
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• A) were DEAD
• And you were dead in your trespasses and sins
  vs. 1
• B) were living in step with a FALLEN
  world.
• in which you formerly walked according to the
  course of this world, according to the prince of
  the power of the air, of the spirit that is now
  working in the sons of disobedience. vs. 2

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C) Were living according to the desires of the
FLESH. Among them we too all formerly
lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the
desires of the flesh and of the mind vs.
3 D) Were deserving Gods WRATH. and were
by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
vs. 3
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  2. Gods GRACE is greater. vs 4-6   But
God, - being rich in mercy, vs. 4   -
because of His great love with which He loved us,
vs. 4   - even when we were dead in our
transgressions, vs. 5 - made us alive
together with Christ (by grace you have been
saved) vs. 5   - and raised us up with Him,
vs. 6   - and seated us with Him in the heavenly
places in Christ Jesus, vs. 6
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3. Gods GLORY will be displayed through His
grace forever. so that in the ages to
come He might show the surpassing riches of His
grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
 For by grace you have been saved vs. 7, 8a
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 4. Our part in receiving saving grace is FAITH,
not WORKS.   For by grace you have been
saved through faith and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God not as a result of works,
so that no one may boast. vs. 8,9
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 5. What place do WORKS have in the believers
life? For we are His workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand so that we would walk in
them. vs. 10