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The Darkness and the Light

Background Author: Paul Author: Paul Recipients: Ephesian believers Recipients: Ephesian believers Place: Rome / Prison Place: Rome / Prison

Background Purpose: Preventive maintenance Purpose: Preventive maintenance Theme: The believers’ wealth and walk Theme: The believers’ wealth and walk Outline: Outline:  Orthodoxy 1-3  Orthopraxy 4-6

What Is It About? The believer’s wealth is described to help believers live in accordance with it.

What Is Inside?

Our Trinitarian Blessings Blessings (1: 3-14)   Chosen by Father   Redeemed by Son   Sealed by Spirit Prayer for comprehension (1:15-23)

Dead (2:1) Two types of death   Physical (Gen 2:16-17)   Spiritual (Isa 59:1-2)

Demonically Influenced (2:2) Satan’s authority   John 12:31; 2 Cor 4:4 Satan rules the world   Luke 4:5-7; 1 John 2:15-16

Depraved (2:3a) Our inherited nature   Rom 5:12 Works of the flesh   Gal 5:19-21

Doomed (2:3b) God’s holiness (Isa 6:3) Man’s sinfulness Our collision course (John 3:36)

The Darkness (2:1-3) Dead (2:1) Demonically influenced (2:2) Depraved (2:3a) Doomed (2:3b)

Made Alive (2:5) Formerly: dead Presently: regenerated

Authority Transferred (2:6-7) Formerly: demonically influenced Presently: seated with Christ

Saved by Grace (2:8-9) Formerly: doomed Presently: recipient of grace

Saved Unto Good Works (2:10) Formerly: depraved Presently: walk according to good works

Man’s Problems; God’s Solutions Problems Death (2:1) Demonically influenced (2:2) Doomed (2:3b) Depraved (2:3a) Solutions Life (2:5) Authority transferred (2:6-7) Grace (2:8-9) Good works (2:10)