Ephesians 2:4-10

Dear Brethren,

Good Thursday morning.

Our great heavenly Father has done so much for you and I. When we stop and consider His great mercy and grace, we stand in awe, wondering why God has treated us so mercifully. We say to ourselves, "We are truly not worthy of His lovingkindness." But yet the fact remains that He does love us and has been kind to us.

In Ephesians 2:4-10, the apostle Paul reminds the brethren of what God, "who is rich in mercy," has done for the saints. Because of His "love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses," our heavenly Father has "made us alive together with Christ." We have not earned this salvation. We do not merit this salvation. It is truly by the grace of God that we have been raised up together to set "in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus." It is by the grace of God that we have been saved!

Here is Ephesians 2:4-10 presented for your consideration.

Ephesians 2:4-10

4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

In Love,

John Duvall