What does Ephesians 2:1 say God did for believers who were dead in trespasses and sins?
Paul writes in Ephesians 2:1 that God quickened, or made alive, believers who were dead in trespasses and sins. This shows God's life-giving action toward those who were spiritually dead, making them alive as part of His saving work, according to Scripture.
Les teaches that Ephesians 2:1 declares God quickened, or made alive, believers who were dead in trespasses and sins. He connects this to the hopelessness of Israel and of a lost person, figuratively encamped on the shores of the Red Sea, with the enemy behind, locked in from both sides, and the Red Sea in front. Les explains that Paul, writing to believers, says they were on the other side of the Red Sea in trespass and sins. Verses 2 and 3 picture Israel in Egypt and every person before salvation: walking according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, who is Satan himself, the devil. So God's making alive addresses the dead condition described in verse 1.
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
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What does Ephesians 2:1 say about our condition before salvation?
Ephesians 2:1 pictures the lost person as being dead in trespasses and sins, on the other side of the Red Sea, before God made them alive.
Who is Paul addressing when he says 'you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins' in Ephesians 2:1?
Paul always writes to the believer, so when he says in Ephesians 2, 'you hath he quickened... who were dead in trespasses and sins,' he is addressing believers and describing them as having been made alive from death in sins.