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Verse7 what does that mean

Ephesians 2

Paul further explains that it was not by our own efforts, in verse 9 when he says "not the results of works, so that no one may boast".

Paul says that salvation has fallen upon them all due to God, because we are like "dead corpses" which cannot do anything unless we are revived by God's grace.

give the answers to why we are saved and who saved us, it was by God through his grace and Christ.

Overall, the Letter to the Ephesians explains what Paul believes is the reason why the people of Ephesus and Asia Minor.

Again the word dead 'nekros' is used to suggest that we cannot save "state of spiritual deadness because of our trespasses

but because God makes us alive (spiritually) through Jesus Christ. Because man does not normally seek

God, said in Romans 3:10-11, it is God who must act first to save us from our sins and trespasses

ourselves because we are like dead corpses who can only be revived by God. Paul says it is God who made

us 'alive' again.

Paul explains to us how we are raised up with Christ, just like how Jesus rose form the

dead, we are now raised up from our state of spiritual deadness. Paul writes that Christ has "seated us with

him in the heavenly places", meaning although we may be physically alive here on earth, Jesus Christ has

assigned a place spiritually at the right hand of God. Paul explains that being saved is not only a physical

thing but more importantly, we are saved spiritually

with Christ, because this spiritual state we are now in is irreversible, unless_



Paul sums up or completes his teaching of Salvation and how God saves through GRACE.

Paul says that it is by grace we have received faith.

Paul explains how and why we are saved, that is because of grace and our faith.

We need to understand that it is not by our own efforts that we have left that state of spiritual deadness but by the life in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Mishael: it is by Faith in Jesus's work, that you are saved.