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MEDITATIONS ON EPHESIANS 2:1-16

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
-Ephesians 2:1

Q.1
What is the condition of the Ephesian Christians prior to the quickening of God? *

And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
-Ephesians 2:1

Q.2
To whom were they obedient to prior to regeneration or spiritual birth? *

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
-Ephesians 2:2

Q.3
What kind of spirit works in the lives of the disobedient? *

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
-Ephesians 2:2

Q.4
Their past attitude is lustful and their minds are fleshly because they were _________________________. *

Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
-Ephesians 2:3

Q.5
What is our condition when God showed us His great love and mercy? *

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
-Ephesians 2:4-5

Q.6
What does the word "quicken" mean? *

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
-Ephesians 2:4-5

Q.7
How will God show the exceeding riches of his grace and kindness toward us? *

Q.8
How can a person obtain salvation? *

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
-Ephesians 2:8

Q.9
Can a sinner be saved by his works? *

Not of works, lest any man should boast.
-Ephesians 2:9

Q.10
Why did Paul say that salvation is not of works? *

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
-Ephesians 2:8-9

Q.11
If a person will accept Jesus by faith, what will become of him according to 2 Corinthians 5: 17? *

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
-2 Corinthians 5:17

Q.12
The phrase "created in Christ Jesus unto good" works means... *

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
-Ephesians 2:10

Q.13
In time past, prior to believing in Christ, they were without Christ and ________. *

Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
-Ephesians 2:11-12

And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
-Ephesians 2:16

Q.14
Now they obtain peace and relationship with God through ________. *

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
-Ephesians 2:13-14

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