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Nov 10, 2024

Ephesians - The Nature of Eternity

Passage: Ephesians 2:1-7

Speaker: Chris Godley

Series: Ephesians

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: heaven, mercy, grace, eternal, wrath

By nature we have run away from God, owing him our very lives. But God, who is rich in mercy, has run farther and faster by pouring out his just wrath on Christ so that we could be brought home. We are Eternal Beings living a temporary experience.

Ephesians 2:1-7

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But[ God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, 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 coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

 

SERMON DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

  • In your faith journey, did you ever have a moment where it felt like you went from being dead to being alive? How does Paul’s words in this passage shed light on your faith experience?
  • What is the wrath of God? What is it not?
  • What is the favor of God? What is it not?
  • How does repentance and faith bear witness to who we are in Christ? How does grief and joy?
  • What does living by the nature of eternity look like for you today?