“The Moment of Adoption” | December 12, 2021

Ephesians 2:1-7
​I.    “The Walking Dead”

Ephesians 1:3-23; 1:18-19; Psalm 139; Ps 51
Ephesians 2:1-3; Col 1:21; Eph 1:20-21; 2:1, 5
Genesis 2:16-18, 25; 3:1-7, 24
Romans 5:12-14; Ro 1:18-25; 11:30; Eph 4:17-22;
Colossians 3:7-9; Eph 6:12; Rev 9:11
1 John 2:15-17; Eph 2:2; 2:3; Ro 7:5, 18, 25; 8:3-12…
1 Peter 1:14-16; Ro 1:24-32; Ro 5:12; Matt 13:24-30
Ephesians 2:12; Eph 1, 5; Ro 8:29-30
Romans 5:15-17, 21; Rev 22:5
II.      “Raised To Life!”

Ephesians 2:4-7; Titus 3:4-7
Ephesians 1:3-6
John 3:3-8; Eze 36:25-27; 37:1-14; Mk 16:16; Jn 1:12-13
Acts 2:38; 2Cor 5:17; Eph 5:26-27; Gal 6:5; 1Pe 1:3;
Hebrews 10:22; 1Co 15:50
Ephesians 2:6-7; Col 3:1-4
Col 2:13-15
Revelation 3:20-22; Matt 19:28; Rev 17:14; Rev 20:4

Greek Word Study:
Dead: ‘nekros: from ‘nekus’: a corpse, dead; a dead person;
as an adj: (fig) in opposition to the life of the Gospel, e.g. of
persons: dead to Christ and His Gospel and thus exposed to
punishment, Spiritually Dead. (Eph 2:1, 5; Col 2:13; Rev 3:1)
World: ‘kosmos’: from ‘komeo’: orderly arrangement; (by
imp) the world, inc. its inhabitants (lit or fig) [moral] In the
Jewish mode of speaking: the present world, the present
order of things, as opposed to the kingdom of Christ; hence,
always with the idea of transience, worthlessness, and evil
both physical and moral, the seat of cares, temptations,
irregular desires. (Eph 2:2 and many others)
Sons: ‘uihos’: hwee’-os: (fig) means the son of
something as one connected with or partaking of; sons
of disobedience. Followed by the genitive implying
character, quality (Eph 2:2)
Passions: ‘epithumia’: a longing (esp. for what is
forbidden), a lusting; Noun meaning strong desire in a
bad sense: irregular and inordinate desires, appetites,
lusts; the lust of the flesh means carnal desires (Eph 2:2)
Flesh: ‘sarx’: Human nature (with its frailties [physical
or moral] and passions). Noun meaning flesh of a living
creature in distinction from a dead one. By metonymy,
flesh as used for the body, the corpus, the material
nature as distinguished from the spiritual (pneuma,
spirit). As implying sinfulness, proneness to sin, the
carnal nature, the seat of carnal appetites and desires,
whether physical or moral (Eph 2:3 and many others);
by metonymy flesh, human nature, man.
By nature: ‘phusis’: (by imp): natural production,
(lineal descent), by extension: a genus, species (Fig)
native disposition, by birth, mankind. (Eph 2:3)
Made us alive together: ‘suzoopoieo’: sudzo-poy-A-oh:
to reanimate conjointly with, (fig): to make alive
together with; from sun (together) and zoopoieo (to
revitalize, to make alive, come to (give) Life) (Eph 2:5)
Raised us up with Him: ‘sunegeiro’: soon-eg-I-ro: to
rouse (from death) in company with i.e. (fig) to revivify
spiritually in resemblance to Christ: - raise up with
from ‘sun’ (together) and ‘egeiro’ (to raise): to raise up
together. Used in the NT of being raised up together
with Christ. Sunegeiro does not refer to merely being
raised in the likeness of Christ’s Resurrection, but
rather, it points to a condition or work effected by
union with Christ in His resurrection, taking place in,
and proceeding from it. (Eph 2:6; Col 2:12-14; 3:1)