◄ Ephesians 2 Devotional Commentary ►

Ephesians 2:1

The living-spirit and life-soul of Adam was breathed into his lifeless, dusty frame, by the life-breath of the eternal Holy Spirit. But the spirit of Adam died the moment he sinned. From that time forward, every member of the human race comes into this world as a fallen creature, estranged from their Creator; a pro-created being who, from conception, is spiritually dead.

From the 'fall' of Adam in the paradise of God, every man read more...

Ephesians 2:2

The extraordinary riches of God's glory and His glorious inheritance of the saints, which is ours in Christ Jesus, cascades into our hearts in the first chapter of Ephesians. As we read this chapter, we discover the overflowing riches of God's grace and the tender love that the Father has bestowed on all who trust in Christ as Saviour, for we are accepted in the Beloved and have become eternally united with our Saviour, by grace through faith in Christ alone.

Ephesians 2:3

We are blessed to know that we have been saved by grace through faith in Christ. We have been born again into the heavenly family of God, as part of a new and better creation with a perfect Federal Head - we are members of the New Man, Christ Jesus. But we should never forget everything we used to be before we were redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ our Lord. 

We should never forget that we were unregenerate read more...

Ephesians 2:4

I doubt that we will ever fathom the depths of God's love for us, for His love is infinite and we are finite. But nonetheless, the love of God is rich in mercy towards us who were born dead in trespasses and sins.

Paul starts this discourse in Ephesians by reminding us of our previous lives, dead in our trespasses and sins, having no hope in the world, under the reign of the prince of the read more...

Ephesians 2:5

Every man and woman that has ever drawn breath is born dead in trespasses and sins, and is at enmity with God. Fallen humanity is separated from our holy God by an unbridgeable sin barrier. But even when we were spiritually dead in sin, totally alienated from God, and without the slightest hope in the world, God provided access to Himself. He gave us new life and made us alive, through faith in Christ.

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Ephesians 2:6

As believers, we are united with Christ, and because the Lord Jesus broke the power of sin and death and hell when He rose from the dead, the strength of sin in our lives has also been broken and we have been raised up into newness of life, in Him.

But God did so much more for us when the Lord Jesus died and rose from the dead, and then ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father in great glory and majesty. He gave read more...

Ephesians 2:7

The salvation of the sinner is evidence of the abounding and overflowing riches of God’s amazing grace towards the children of men, and in the eternal ages to come, this salvation will stand as a witness of the undeniable proof to both men and angels - the inexhaustible and unsearchable riches of God’s grace towards those who have been saved by His blood.

Think about it! We, who were spiritually blind, dead in trespasses, and read more...

Ephesians 2:8

God has given humanity an amazing gift, and that gift is salvation - the salvation of the spirit, the salvation of the soul, and the salvation of the body, which was procured through the shedding of Christ’s blood in payment for the sins of the whole world - "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God."

Salvation is a gift of grace that is available to read more...

Ephesians 2:9

The full price of salvation was paid by Christ on Calvary's Cross and can never be gained in any other way, except as a free gift of grace. And that salvation is accessed by faith in the finished work of Christ Jesus, the eternal Son of God and perfect Son of Man.

No part of salvation can ever never be gained by man's works, for men can never be good enough to pay the price of sin. The amazing truth is that because of God's read more...

Ephesians 2:10

We are God's masterpiece, God's workmanship, God's handiwork, God's creatures – we are God's new creation in Christ Jesus. We were born spiritually dead in our sins. In God's eyes, we were a rotting corpse, the putrefying remains of a fallen creation with no beauty that God should desire us; with no hope, help, comfort, or peace in the world.

We were products of a fallen creation, estranged from our Creator, and antagonistic read more...

Ephesians 2:11

When we are positioned in Christ and united with Him by faith, we receive all we need for life and godliness. We are given God's sufficient grace and His supernatural strength through the indwelling Spirit of Christ, Who causes us to be victorious in our journey through life, and enables us to be triumphant in every situation we meet.

When we were saved by grace through faith in Christ, we were transferred from Satan's kingdom read more...

Ephesians 2:12

There are many places in the Bible that tell us to remember. We are to remember the former things and we are to remember our Creator in the days of our youth. In our Christian faith, it is salutary to be reminded of what we are apart from God's grace and to recall what we used to be before we were saved by grace through faith in Christ. We are to remember what we used to be before our salvation, so that we are in a position to contrast it with His read more...

Ephesians 2:13

God chose to take a people for His name from the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to proclaim to the nations the goodness of God. For thousands of years, the only way that mankind could approach a holy God was through Israel's high priest and their God-ordained sacrificial system.

Every sacrifice that was offered to God down through the centuries, pointed to the final, perfect sacrifice of the eternal, begotten, incarnate read more...

Ephesians 2:14

The Lord Jesus Christ has rightly been called the Prince of Peace, for Christ is the propitiation for our sins, bringing peace with God for all who believe in Him. And through Christ Jesus our Lord, those who have trusted in Him as Saviour may have the peace of God which transcends all human understanding guarding their heart and mind, for He has promised to keep in perfect peace those whose mind is stayed on Him.

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Ephesians 2:15

Jesus Christ made the Law of no effect by giving His sinless life to pay the full price of all sin, which was the only payment that a holy God could accept.

Only the shed blood of Jesus Christ (the perfect Son of God and sinless Son of Man), could satisfy the righteous demands of God Who had decreed that the wages of sin is death. Jesus died to pay that price for you, for me, and for all who would trust in Christ as Saviour, and read more...

Ephesians 2:16

Christ not only removed the sin-barrier between God and man through the sacrifice of His body on the Cross, but He also tore down the dividing walls of partition that separated Jew from Gentile, uniting them together in brotherly love, and making them 'one new man' in Christ.

Israel was chosen by God to be the people through Whom God would bless the nations of the world, and they were entrusted with the Word of God which was read more...

Ephesians 2:17

God's gracious message to mankind, both to Jew and Gentile alike, is reconciliation. In His grace and kindness, God intervened in the long-standing bitter enmity and deep-seated mistrust that existed between Jew and Gentile by making them into one new man in Christ. He intervened in the enmity between God and man by bringing all who trust in Christ Jesus as Saviour back into close fellowship with Himself. And that bond of unity is in His Son.

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Ephesians 2:18

As believers in Christ, we plead His righteousness. As Christians, we come to God in the name of Jesus. We are not worthy to gather up the crumbs under His table, but we can boldly approach the throne of grace because we appeal to Christ's worthiness and call on His righteousness. We petition the Father through the precious blood of His only begotten Son, and we approach the throne of grace in the name of Jesus: "For there is no other name given among men read more...

Ephesians 2:18

Both Jew and Gentile need to be reconciled to God. Both need God's forgiveness of their sins. Both need to be justified by faith in Christ. Both need to be redeemed, and both need propitiation from their sins. Both need to have God's righteous wrath turned away from them due to Christ's blood sacrifice at Calvary, which brings all who believe in Jesus Christ into full fellowship with the Father.

Both Jew and Gentile have fallen read more...

Ephesians 2:19

The Church is the Body of Christ and can be compared with a building of living stones that is being built up and fit together in a beautiful way by the Holy Spirit, into a holy temple, a permanent dwelling place for God. The Church of Christ is made up of the family of believers that have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour and God in this dispensation (from Pentecost to the Rapture).

The Church consists of a body of read more...

Ephesians 2:20

We live in a world where unschooled Christians are absorbing many false doctrines into their souls and seeking after palatable, ear-tickling teachings. Sadly, they are doing this to the detriment of their spiritual growth and in preference to giving heed to the sound truth of God's inerrant Word.

But Christ came into the world to be the final revelation to mankind, and God gave us all that we need for life and godliness in His read more...

Ephesians 2:21

God reconciled man back to Himself and restored the relationship between Jew and Gentile, through Christ's shed blood on a Roman cross and His glorious Resurrection from the dead.

But the unification of Jew with Gentile through the Cross of Calvary has meant so much more than simply setting aside past differences between two people groups, for it has resulted in the binding together of two incompatible and irreconcilable parties read more...

Ephesians 2:22

The good news of peace with God and an eternal relationship with Him has come by faith in Christ's shed blood for the redemption of the body and the forgiveness of sins. Having been born from above, we not only enjoy a new relationship with our Heavenly Father, but we have also become part of a wider and growing body; a new establishment, the Church, who are all members of Christ's Body and the holy Temple of the living God.

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