The Summation of All Things in Christ

Studies in Ephesians with a Local Church Emphasis

Lesson 22 :  Believers Are In a Saved State  (2:5-7)

Form and structure  –  Picking up Paul’s original thought from 2:1  –  Believers are in a ‘saved state’  –  ‘The unending state of the believer could not have been put in stronger language’  –  God’s sovereign freedom from obligation  –  Deliverance from sin is a present reality  –  The purpose of God’s grace: ‘in order that He might demonstrate’ (hina clause)  –  The coming ages: plural