1. Beginnings, after god’s heart
Eph 2:1-10

2. Reality #1 You were dead Eph 2:1-3
All of us followed:
Ways of the world
Satan
Self gratification / rule

3. There are 3 schools of moral thought
Pelagianism asserts no such thing as original sin. Man relies on his own efforts for salvation.
Semi-pelagianism admits his ill-health, but affirms that the symptoms will yield to proper treatment, to a course of tonic drugs and a scrupulous regimen.
Biblical Christianity probes the patient to the core. Its searching diagnosis pronounces that mortification has set in and that nothing less than infusion of fresh lifeblood can work a cure. (Simpson)

4. Conclusion
“The unbeliever is not sick; he is dead!
He does not need resuscitation;
he needs resurrection.
All lost sinners are dead, and the only difference between one sinner and another is the state of decay.”
Warren Wiersbe

6. Reality #2 BUT God showed grace
God did:
Make us ALIVE
God’s GRACE saved us
RAISED us upwith Christ
SEATED us in the heavenly realm
God is:
Great in LOVE
Rich in MERCY
Full of GRACE

7. Reality #3 we respond out of god’s grace
v10 For we are God’s handiwork,
created in Christ Jesus to do good works, 
which God prepared in advance
for us to DO.