Peter Barnes | Ephesians 2:1-4
SERMON NOTES
But God …
(Eph. 2:1-4)
Martyn Lloyd-Jones calls them ‘two wonderful words’.
– what happened to Christ (1:20-22) is parallel to what happens to the believer (2:6).
1. We are all naturally dead in sin.
– 2:1-3; Rom.3:9-18
Aristotle: ‘Virtue is in our power and so too is vice.’ Not so, says Paul.
– John 5:24
2. We are in bondage to the world, the devil, and the flesh.
– the world (Gal.1:4)
– the devil (Luke 8:12)
– the flesh (Rom.8:7-8)
– Martin Luther’s The Bondage of the Will; John 3:36
3. But God is rich in mercy.
– 2:4; 1 John 4:10