Ephesians 2:1-7
November 22, 2015
preached by Pastor Don Willeman
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“Puritanism was impelled by the insight that all of life is God’s. The Puritans lived simultaneously in two worlds-the invisible spiritual world and the physical world of earthly existence. For the Puritans, both worlds were equally real, and there was no cleavage of life into sacred and secular. All of life was sacred.”

~Leland Ryken in his book Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were

“The generous man will be prosperous, and he who waters will himself be watered.”

~Proverbs 11:25

“He who oppresses the poor taunts his Maker, but he who is gracious to the needy honors Him.”

“Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.”

~Proverbs 14:31 & 34

“God’s law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.”

~C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892), famed London preacher

“Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.”

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

~G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), English writer and journalist

Sermon Passage

Ephesians 2:1-7 (NASB)

¹And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, ² in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. ³ Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even  as  the  rest. ⁴ But  God,  being  rich  in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), ⁶ and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, ⁷ so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.