But God
You know those words or sentences or things like that in the Bible that we hear so many times that when we read them it's just like, oh yeah, whatever.
Have you ever really thought about what it means to be dead in your trespasses and sins?
And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Ephesians 2:1-3
And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Colossians 2:13
Trespass: Wrongful entry upon the lands of another.
To commit a transgression or offense; transgress; offend; sin.
Arrogantly step across the line.
Sin: Transgression of divine law.
Any act regarded as such a transgression, especially a willful or deliberate violation of some religious or moral principle.
Fall short of a target. Utterly and completely fail.
Dead: No longer living; deprived of life.
Not endowed with life; inanimate.
Resembling death; deathlike.
Bereft of sensation; numb.
Hard; cold; unresponsive.
To be dead in your trespasses and sins is very serious!
And I think when we are saved we tend to have the mindset of... "I made the decision to follow Jesus" "I turned from my sin and am saved" "I accepted Jesus into my life" But if you think about it. It wasn't you. You can't do anything when you are dead. Cuz you're DEAD!
Have you ever been to a funeral? The person in the coffin can't just suddenly decide that they are gonna be alive. It would take a miracle.
And that miracle is "BUT GOD"!
But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God--not because of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:4-10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God which is in me.
1 Corinthians 15:10
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23
Have you ever really thought about what it means to be dead in your trespasses and sins?
And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Ephesians 2:1-3
And you, who were dead in trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
Colossians 2:13
Trespass: Wrongful entry upon the lands of another.
To commit a transgression or offense; transgress; offend; sin.
Arrogantly step across the line.
Sin: Transgression of divine law.
Any act regarded as such a transgression, especially a willful or deliberate violation of some religious or moral principle.
Fall short of a target. Utterly and completely fail.
Dead: No longer living; deprived of life.
Not endowed with life; inanimate.
Resembling death; deathlike.
Bereft of sensation; numb.
Hard; cold; unresponsive.
To be dead in your trespasses and sins is very serious!
And I think when we are saved we tend to have the mindset of... "I made the decision to follow Jesus" "I turned from my sin and am saved" "I accepted Jesus into my life" But if you think about it. It wasn't you. You can't do anything when you are dead. Cuz you're DEAD!
Have you ever been to a funeral? The person in the coffin can't just suddenly decide that they are gonna be alive. It would take a miracle.
And that miracle is "BUT GOD"!
But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God--not because of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:4-10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God which is in me.
1 Corinthians 15:10
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23
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