The Believer's Riches in Christ Jesus

Returning to Ephesians 2, this message shows that Paul's preaching to the Gentiles began not with good news but with the bad news of their hostility toward God, so that they might receive the far greater riches of true peace with God than

Working through Ephesians 2:14-16, the message shows how Christ tore down the dividing wall between Jew and Gentile by fulfilling the law's demands, and calls the church to walk in humility and gratitude for the privilege of being made one

Ephesians 2 shows Gentiles once alienated from God and His covenant promises being brought near by the blood of Christ. The gospel creates humility, forgiveness, and unity because Christ alone reconciles sinners to God and to one another.

Church Unity

Ephesians 2 teaches that sinners are spiritually dead and must be made alive by God, not merely trained into religious behavior. The message presses parents and the church to practice the doctrine of the new birth rather than trusting

New Birth

Ephesians 2 teaches that God makes dead sinners alive in Christ and creates them for good works prepared by Him. The message calls believers to find those purposes in the life of the local church through confidence, commitment, service, and

Ephesians 2 moves from spiritual death to the mercy of God, showing that salvation is His powerful work of making sinners alive with Christ. The only hope for those dead in sin is to look to Christ and be saved by grace.

Working through Ephesians 2:1-3, the sermon describes unconverted humanity as spiritually dead, enslaved to the world, the devil, and the flesh, and by nature under God's wrath just like the rest of mankind. It presses hearers to see their

Concluding this section of Ephesians 1, this message unpacks the immeasurable greatness of God's power shown toward believers and displayed in raising Christ, insisting that these deep doctrines must be experienced in the heart and not left

Continuing through Paul's prayer for the Ephesians, this message explains that spiritual understanding of God's truth comes only from the Holy Spirit's illumination, not human effort, and that theological truth must be lived out

Turning from the blessings of grace in Ephesians 1 to Paul's response to them, this message highlights how Paul praised the Ephesians for their faith in Christ and their specific, sacrificial agape love for the saints, and shows a pastor's