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Verse 7. _THAT IN THE AGES TO COME_] God has produced us an
_example_, and one which shall be on record through all generations,
that he quickens dead souls; that he forgives the sins of the most
sin...
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THAT IN THE AGES TO COME - In all future times. The sense is, that the
riches of divine grace, and the divine benignity, would be shown in
the conversion of Christians and their salvation, to all futu...
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2. THE PRODUCTION OF THE MASTERWORK AND ITS DESTINY
CHAPTER 2:1-10
_ 1. What we are by nature (Ephesians 2:1)_
2. What God does--rich in mercy (Ephesians 2:4)
3. The destiny of the masterwork (Ephe...
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CHRISTIANS ARE RAISED AND EXALTED IN THE RISEN AND EXALTED CHRIST BY
GOD'S FREE GRACE AND GIFT. The recipients of the letter, like other
people, had been (spiritually) dead by reason of the sins and
t...
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When you were dead in your sins and trespasses, those sins and
trespasses in which once you walked, living life in the way in which
this present age of this world lives it, living life as the ruler of...
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Although we were all like that, I say, God, because he is rich in
mercy and because of his great love with which he has loved us, made
us alive in Jesus Christ, even when we were dead in trespasses (i...
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THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD (Ephesians 2:1-10)...
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THAT. In order that. Greek. _hina._
AGES. See App-129.
EXCEEDING. See Ephesians 1:19.
KINDNESS. See Romans 2:4. App-184.
THROUGH. Greek. _en_. App-104....
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_the ages to come_ All future periods of development in His Kingdom.
The phrase must not be restricted to the future history of the Church
on earth; it is akin rather to the frequent formula for the e...
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Ephesians 1:15 to Ephesians 2:10. THANKSGIVING PASSING INTO PRAYER FOR
SPIRITUAL INSIGHT
This section corresponds to the section of thanksgiving which in all
St Paul’s Epistles except Gal., 1 Tim. and...
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ἽΝΑ ἘΝΔΕΊΞΗΤΑΙ, ‘to display as a trait of his own
character.’
ἘΝ ΤΟΙ͂Σ ΑἸΩ͂ΣΙΝ ΤΟΙ͂Σ ἘΠΕΡΧΟΜΈΝΟΙΣ.
Cf. Ephesians 1:21 τῷ μέλλοντι and Ephesians 3:21. ‘The
ages that are coming on.’ There is a vista ah...
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ΈΝΔΕΊΞΗΤΑΙ _aor. conj. pass. от_ ΈΝΔΕΊΚΝΥΜΙ
(G1731) показывать, проявлять,
демонстрировать, доказывать (Schnackenburg).
В папирусах это слово употреблялось
почти как юридический термин в _знач._
доказ...
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THE RICHES OF DIVINE GRACE DISPLAYED
Ephesians 2:4. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love
wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened
us together...
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_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 2:1-10)
C. Once dead, now alive with Christ. Ephesians 2:1-10.
1.
Before conversion, dead through trespasses and sins, Ephesians 2:1-3.
a.
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Divine Purpose...
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That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his
grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
[ Endeixeetai (G1731)] 'That He might show forth (middle reflexive
voice: fo...
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1 Compare the condition of the two classes with that of the individual
believer in Rom_6:2. Such as have "died to sin" "together with
Christ", "are vivified together with Him", and "are reckoning
them...
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2:7 us (g-18) That which is actually bestowed, not merely in the heart
of God....
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GENTILES AND JEWS ARE NOW ONE IN CHIRST
1-10. Further illustration of God'S power. He raised both Gentiles and
Jews from the death of sin and exalted them to Christ's side....
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CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR
EPHESIANS
_LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_
CHAPTER 2
2:1-10 ~ *SALVATION BY *GRACE
2:1-3 ~ OUR PAST LIFE
V1 In past days, you were *spiritually dead be...
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IN THE AGES TO COME. — Properly, _the ages which are coming on_ —
the ages both of time and of eternity, looked upon in one great
continuity. Here, again, the manifestation of the riches of God’s
grac...
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CHAPTER 8
SAVED FOR AN END
Ephesians 2:7
The plan which God has formed for men in Christ is of great dimensions
every way, -in its length no less than in its breadth and height. He
"raised us up and...
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ἵνα ἐνδείξηται ἐν τοῖς αἰῶσιν τοῖς
ἐπερχομένοις τὸν ὑπερβάλλοντα
πλοῦτον τῆς χάριτος αὐτοῦ : _that He might
shew forth in the ages that are coming the exceeding riches of His
grace_. For the τὸν ὑπερβ...
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A new paragraph begins at this point. This is denied indeed by some,
who would connect the καὶ ὑμᾶς of Ephesians 2:1 immediately
with the ἡμᾶς τοὺς πιστεύοντας of Ephesians 1:19
(Knatchbull), the ἐνήρ...
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WHAT GRACE HAS DONE
Ephesians 2:1
Evidently dead men may walk; that is, they may be dead to the eternal
world but alive to this world, which is moving past like the films of
a moving picture. The dea...
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The next subject is the edification or building of the Church. The
materials of the building are found amid things which are absolutely
opposed to the will and purpose of God. From this material God,...
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In Christ Jesus
Just as God's justice and righteousness called for wrath upon sinful
man, his abundant mercy flowing out of his multi-faceted love caused
him to make provision for lost mankind. He mad...
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(7) That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his
grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. (8) For by grace
are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it...
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In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its
fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need
on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
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Grace That Unifies
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Last week in our study of Chapter one of Ephesians, Paul told us in
verse 6 that Jesus has "made us accepted in the beloved."
1. And we talked about the Greek...
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7._That in the ages to come. _The final and true cause — the glory
of God — is again mentioned, that the Ephesians, by making it the
subject of earnest study, might be more fully assured of their
salv...
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In Chapter 2 [4] the operation of the power of God on earth, for the
purpose of bringing souls into the enjoyment of their heavenly
privileges, and thus of forming the assembly here below, is presente...
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THAT IN THE AGES TO COME,.... This is the end of God's permitting sin,
in which men are morally dead; and of his suffering them to go on in
sin, in a state of unregeneracy; and of his quickening them...
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That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his
grace in _his_ kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Ver. 7. _In his kindness toward us_] We come not to the knowledge of
God but...
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Eph. 2:7. "That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches
of his grace in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus."
Intimating that this was not made known in ages past, but in a gre...
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_That in the ages to come_ As if he had said, His great design in
doing all this for us is, that in all succeeding ages, under the
dispensation of the gospel, _he might show_ Might demonstrate and
dis...
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THAT IN THE AGES TO COME HE MIGHT SHOW THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS
GRACE IN HIS KINDNESS TOWARD US THROUGH CHRIST JESUS....
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God's grace manifested toward the sinners:...
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BELIEVERS CHANGED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH
(vs.1-10)
The first three verse of chapter 2 go back to consider the state and
circumstances from which the Ephesians had been brought, the same sad
state to...
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CHAPTER 2
Before we can fully understand the _________ we have in Christ, we
must understand our condition of our __________ without Christ.
God has ____________ us. This word means that God has mad...
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“THAT IN THE AGES TO COME HE MIGHT SHOW THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS
GRACE IN KINDNESS TOWARD US IN CHRIST JESUS”
“In the ages to come”: “Lit., the ages, those which are coming
on” _(Vincent p. 376)._...
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1-10 Sin is the death of the soul. A man dead in trespasses and sins
has no desire for spiritual pleasures. When we look upon a corpse, it
gives an awful feeling. A never-dying spirit is now fled, an...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
for man, so that coming to maturity in them, he may produce the fruit
of immortality; and who, through His kindness, also bestows [upon him]
eternal things, "that in...
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Ephesians 2:7 that G2443 in G1722 ages G165 come G1904 (G5740) show
G1731 (G5672) exceeding G5235 ...
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‘That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his
grace in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.'
And the final purpose of God in all this is that He might continually
reveal His good...
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1. _Redemption in Christ as Deliverance from Death through a New
Creation._
The Apostle applies to his readers the great truths set forth in chap.
1, having in mind ‘the mighty working of the Father,...
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Ephesians 2:7. THAT HE MIGHT SHOW FORTH. More than ‘manifest,' or,
‘make known;' implying an active, effective, demonstration. This is
the purpose of the redeeming facts (Ephesians 2:4-6).
In THE AGES...
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THAT HE MIGHT SHEW
(ινα ενδειξητα). Final clause with ινα and first aorist
middle subjunctive of ενδεικνυμ. See Ephesians 1:7 for
"riches of grace" and Ephesians 1:19 for "exceeding"
(υπερβαλλον).I...
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Ephesians 1:18 ; EPHESIANS 2:7
Christ's Resurrection and Glory in Relation to the Hope of the Church.
I. The descent of the Son of God from His eternal majesty to the
infirmities and sorrows and temp...
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Ephesians 2:4
I. Note the three privileges which are here supposed to belong to
believers. (1) They are quickened. There can be no doubt that this
privilege, in some intelligible sense at least, is en...
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Ephesians 2:1. _And you he hath quickened._
Is it so? Could the apostle say that to you, and to me?
Ephesians 2:1. _Who were dead in trespasses and sins;_
Look back to what you used to be, to the h...
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Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened,_
You, who were by nature dead are now made alive unto God by the holy
Spirit. If you had nothing else to think of, all day long, but just
these five words,...
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Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened,_
Is it so? Can anyone lay his hand on your shoulder, and say right into
your ear, «You hath he quickened»? If so, why this deadness of
spirit? Why this worl...
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Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses
and sins;_
Then you owe your very life to him. You were dead, you were like a
corrupt carcass, but his life has been breathed in...
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Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses
and sins;_
What a great change, then, has taken place in the people of God! It is
described as being similar to the resurrection...
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Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses
and sins:_
These were your grave clothes. You were wrapped up in them. Nay, this
was your sarcophagus. You were shut up in it, a...
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CONTENTS: Method of Gentile salvation. Jew and Gentile made one body
in Christ, a habitation of God through the Spirit.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: A state of sin apart from Christ, is a sta...
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Ephesians 2:1. _You hath he quickened._ The word quickened is not in
the Greek, but the old Latin version repeats it here from the fifth
verse, presuming it to be implied. It reads well without it, th...
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TO DEMONSTRATE FOR ALL TIME. See 1 Timothy 1:16 and note. "This shows,
that in every age of time, all who believe and reach out through faith
to seize Christ, may expect forgiveness and new life in Ch...
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EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:6 RAISED US UP WITH HIM. Because of
Christ’s resurrection, those who believe in him are given new
spiritual life. SEATED US WITH HIM IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES. God has
allow...
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EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:1 Salvation by Grace through Faith.
This section, like Ephesians 1:3 and...
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_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_
Ephesians 2:4. BUT GOD, WHO IS RICH IN MERCY.—“Unto all that call
upon Him” (Romans 10:12). “He hath shut up all into disobedience,
that He might have mercy upon all”...
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EXPOSITION
EPHESIANS 2:1
SPIRITUAL HISTORY OF THE EPHESIANS. This passage corresponds to
Genesis 1:1. It is a history of creation, and we note the same great
stages.
1. C
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Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Ephesians, the second chapter.
Paul is going to talk about someone tonight...very interesting. You!
Well, at least you are interested in the subject. For many of you...
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1 Peter 1:12; 1 Timothy 1:16; 1 Timothy 1:17; 2 Thessalonians 1:12;...
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The ages to come (toiv aijwsin toiv ejpercomenoiv). Lit., the ages,
those which are coming on. Which are successively arriving until
Christ's second coming.
He might show [ε ν δ ε ι ξ η τ α ι]. The m...
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GRACE IN OPERATION
Ephesians 2:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We know of no Scripture which more beautifully sets forth God's grace
than Ephesians, chapter 2. The chapter begins with what we were in our
sins....
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The ages to come — That is, all succeeding ages....
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These words are expressive of the final cause, or special end, of that
salvation which God propounded in his gracious workings upon the
hearts of these Ephesians; namely, that in all present and succe...