The God Who is Rich in Mercy

Ephesians 2:1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.


What an awesome communication this is to us. These few verses are absolutely loaded with revelation!

The thought is one that flows straight from chapter 1 which magnifies the work of Christ and the greatness of His work in us and then goes into chapter 2. But for times sake I am picking it up in chapter 2.

There is a phrase I want us to focus on in this communication of Scripture. It is the phrase “and were by nature,” in verse 3.

We once were something different than we are now. We once were dead.

I love how the Holy Spirit moves Paul to say, “and you He made alive.”

Dead people do not up and decide one day they are going to live.

In every example of someone being raised from the dead I find no evidence of a single one of them crying out for someone to come and lay hands on them. The very thought of that is absurd. No one even considers such a thing.

The picture of being dead is one of utter helplessness. So here we were in a state of utter helplessness.

In that state of helplesness God made us alive!  There is no denying that we were once dead, but now, we are alive.  We could do nothing about it, so God did something.  He made us alive!