EPHESIANS – WEEK 6

BUT GOD – PART 2

JUNE 7, 2026

EPHESIANS 2:1-3 – 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 flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 

EPHESIANS 2:4 – But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us… 

EPHESIANS 2:4-5 – 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…

Mercy = Us not receiving what we deserve.

Grace = Us receiving what we do not deserve.

πλούσιος (plousios) – rich, over-abounding, without measure, unlimited.

EPHESIANS 2:6 – …and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus…

συνήγειρεν (sunegeiro) – To cause to live again together with others.

EPHESIANS 2:7 – …so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 

ὑπερβάλλον (huperballon) – Hyper, surpassing, beyond measure.

πλοῦτος (ploutos) – riches

“If you can count all of your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”

J. Paul Getty

EPHESIANS 2:8-9 – For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

EPHESIANS 2:10 – For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

ποίημα (poiema) – a created, beautiful, masterpiece.