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Oh, A heart that has stopped beating is dead.

And at that point, any advice about heart healthy, diet or exercise is no longer helpful.

If a heart can't be resuscitated, nothing else matters.

In the same way, the spiritually dead person

needs a savior to give the gift of life. And on Truth for Life weekend, Alistair Begg

explores what God has done for us and why.

Well, I invite you to turn again to these opening verses of Ephesians 2.

We are not moving very quickly through them, but our pace is purposeful.

It's important as we come to them that we keep in mind that there is, if you like, a big story, that there is a big idea that

Paul is conveying. He emphasizes it twice in the recurring phrase, by grace, you have been saved.

And it is that story, it is that emphasis, which forms, if you like, the melody line that runs throughout the

entire section. And I found it helpful just to pay attention to the fact that our verses are

virtually bracketed by one verb, and that is the verb to walk in verse 2, and then you will notice that in verse 10,

God has good deeds prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

That notion of walking is a reference of our way of life, and it is an indication of the company that we keep and the way and the place in which we walk.

Previously, he says, you were walking in a different environment.

You were submitting to a different master, and you were understandably under the condemnation that follows, but now everything

has changed. Paul is reminding his readers here that they once listened to the voice of another.

They were once walking out with another, and they were enjoying the company of another,

that prince of the power of the air. But all that has now changed. In verses one to three,

we saw that he's describing the way that we were, we were dead, we were enslaved, and we were

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