This passage from Ephesians describes the helpless and hopeless state that all humanity exists in due to sin, being spiritually dead and subject to God's wrath. It explains that God, in his great love and mercy, made believers alive through Christ by his grace, rather than by any good works or merits of their own. All the credit for salvation belongs to God alone. Those who have faith in Christ have been saved, given new spiritual life, and created by God to do good works for his purposes.

2. Ephesians 2:1-2
As for you, you were dead in your
transgressions and sins, 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.
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3. Ephesians 2:3-5
All of us also lived among them at one
time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful
nature and following its desires and
thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature
objects of wrath. But because of his great
love for us, God who is rich in mercy, made
us alive with Christ even when we were
dead in transgressions—it is by grace you
have been saved.
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4. Ephesians 2:6-7
And God raised us up with Christ and
seated us with him in the heavenly realms
in Christ Jesus, 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.
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5. Ephesians 2:8-10
For it is by grace you have been saved,
through faith—and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by
works, so that no one can boast. For we
are God’s workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus to do good works, which God
prepared in advance for us to do.
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7. We have all been in a
POSITIONS where we
required OUTSIDE help.

8. We have all been in a
POSITIONS where we
required OUTSIDE help.
Paul begins with how we were HELPLESS to
HELP ourselves.

9. We have all been in a
POSITIONS where we
required OUTSIDE help.
Paul begins with how we were HELPLESS to
HELP ourselves.
You were DEAD in sins and dead people can
do NOTHING.

10. We have all been in a
POSITIONS where we
required OUTSIDE help.
Paul begins with how we were HELPLESS to
HELP ourselves.
You were DEAD in sins and dead people can
do NOTHING.
If we miss by an INCH or a MILE we still
missed.

11. Not only can the dead not do
anything, but they are not
AWARE of their SITUATION.

12. Not only can the dead not do
anything, but they are not
AWARE of their SITUATION.
God judged SIN while making a way for the
SINNER.

13. Not only can the dead not do
anything, but they are not
AWARE of their SITUATION.
God judged SIN while making a way for the
SINNER.
God threw us a LIFELINE in Jesus called
GRACE

14. Not only can the dead not do
anything, but they are not
AWARE of their SITUATION.
God judged SIN while making a way for the
SINNER.
God threw us a LIFELINE in Jesus called
GRACE
We are expecting WRATH but God
UNEXPECTEDLY extends grace.

15. We have a new
POSITION of authority,
privilege and power.

16. We have a new
POSITION of authority,
privilege and power.
We can take no CREDIT in regard to our
SALVATION; salvation is completely a work
of God.

17. We have a new
POSITION of authority,
privilege and power.
We can take no CREDIT in regard to our
SALVATION; salvation is completely a work
of God.
We are God’s workmanship as God makes
SAINTS out of SINNERS.

18. Please take a moment to fill out your
Communication Card
My Next Step Today is to:
( ) Do the home life help (in bulletin)
( ) Reflect on the truths of Eph. 2:1-10
( ) Read Ephesians noting what I have received
in Christ
( ) Meditate on what it means to be God’s
workmanship
( ) Identify good works I can walk in as an
expression of gratitude and love
( ) Other________________________