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Ephesians chapter 2 verses 4 through 7, but God being rich in mercy, because of the great love

with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.

By grace you have been saved, and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly

places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace,

in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Yes, are those verses not awesome? What God has done in our lives

when we were dead in our trespasses? We were dead in our sin, headed to eternal death,

because of our sin. That's what we were, and you read the beginning of Ephesians chapter 2,

you see even more descriptions. Following the course of this world, following the prince of the

power of the air, we were living in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of our bodies,

our minds, by nature we were children of wrath, like that's the language used to describe us,

and culmination of it all there in verse 5, we were dead, not kind of dead or partly dead or not,

just not doing well in a need of some help, we were dead. And God, who is rich in mercy,

listen to the language, because of the great love with which He loved us, He made us alive.

This is what happened, this is what happened to the Christian. He or she was dead,

and now he or she is alive, like it's not he or she was bad, and now he or she is better,

or not he or she was okay, and now he or she is improved. No, he or she was dead before, without

spiritual life, and now is alive with Christ, raised up with him, seated with him, and now

heavenly place is in Christ Jesus, this is describing the union we have with Jesus, so that,

listen to this purpose clause, so that in the coming ages, so just think about, ages and ages and

ages to come, God is going to show the immeasurable riches of His grace toward us in Christ.

There's ages to come of immeasurable riches for us to enjoy. So we pray, God, all glory be to your

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