Ephesians 2: 1-7

1. Our Lost Condition (1-3)

2. What Christ did for us (4-7)

3. Grace in Salvation (8-10)

Read the passage and find words that describe:

Our lost condition

Our new state in Christ

God’s attitude to us.

Eph 2:1 And you he made

Eph 2:1 when you

were dead

through the

trespasses and sins

Eph 2:2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, 1

Jam 1:14-15 but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

Jam 1:15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin; and sin when it is full-grown brings forth death.

following the prince of the power of the air,

Heavenlies

Atmosphere

Earth

2

Atziluth – Divine Realm-Archetypal World (World of Emanations) or Divine World

Briah- Spiritual RealsmCreative World or World of Thrones

Yetsirah- Mental RealmFormative World

Assiah- Material RealmManifest World

Divine

Spiritual

Mental

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The Unknown

DivineThird Heaven

SpiritualSecond Heaven

Mental

First Heaven

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The Unknown

"I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven" (2 Cor. 12:2)

following - the spirit that is now at work in the sons of

Eph 2:3 Among these we all once lived in

the passions of our flesh,

Eph 2:3 following the 3

desires of

Bodyand mind,

Eph 2:3 and so we were by nature children of wrath,

like the rest of mankind.

Eph 2:4

But God,

Eph 2:4 who is rich in mercy,

Eph 2:4 out of the great love with which he loved us,

Eph 2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses,

Eph 2:5 even when we were dead through our trespasses,

Eph 2:5 made us alive together

with Christ

1. Suzoopoieo

Sun = With

Zoo = Alive

Poieo = Make

Make alive with Christ. Col 2:13

συζωοποιεω

Eph 2:5 (by grace you have been saved),

2. Sunegerio

Sun = with

Egerio = energized, alive, awaken, lifted up

συνεγειρω

Eph 2:6 and raised us

up with him,

Eph 2:6 and made us sit with him

3. Sunkathizo

Sun = with

Kathiso = cause to sit down

συγκαθιζω

Eph 2:6 in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Divine

Spiritual

Mental

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The Unknown

ChristJoh 1:12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God

Pauline Theology of Redemption

The Secret Mystical Teaching of Israel

Divine

Spiritual

Mental

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The Unknown

Divine

Spiritual

Mental

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The UnknownLet us make Man in our own image.Gen 1:26-28

Divine

Spiritual

Mental

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The UnknownLet us make Man in our own image.Gen 1:26-28

Psa 8:5 thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor.

Divine

Spiritual

Mental

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The Unknown

Gen 3:24 He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Divine

Spiritual

Mental

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The Unknown

Heb 2:7 Thou didst make him for a little while lower than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor,

Divine

Spiritual

Mental

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The Unknown

Gal 3:23 Now before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed.

Divine

Spiritual

Mental

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The Unknown

Gal 3:23 Now before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed.

Divine

Spiritual

Mental

Material

Trinity

Cherubim & Seraphim

Arch angels

Angels

Zoologicals

The Unknown

ChristJoh 1:12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God

Rom 8:14-17 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship. When we cry, "Abba! Father!"

It is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

The Tree contains ten centers called sephiroth, individually sephira, which are connected by 22 paths.

The Kabala is presented, symbolically in the form of The Tree of Life.

Eph 2:7 that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace

in kindness toward us

in Christ Jesus.