Identity Of The Church You Are Saved
Part 7

This is now our seventh lesson of the series, “The Identity of the Church”. We have been learning from Paul’s letter to the saints at Ephesus about our identity as the church. How each of us as members of the body of Christ are the recipients of all the spiritual blessing that are in Christ. Then how the character of each member of the body of Christ is being conformed to the character of our Master Jesus Christ.

As we now move from chapter one to chapter two, we must note the first word of this second chapter is the word, “and”.

• Significant because that word then tells us that even though there is a chapter break, the thought and context are a continuation from the second half of previous chapter.
• Where Paul wrote, “¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him” (Eph. 1:17).
• Paul prays they will have spiritual discernment.
• To know the hope of His calling, the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe (1:18-19).
• This immeasurable greatness of the Father’s power is seen first in the resurrection of Jesus (1:20-21).

Here in chapter 2 of Ephesians Paul describes the immeasurable greatness of His power in another way.

• It is through this power that we will understand another aspect of who we are in Christ.
• He accomplishes this by comparing what we were before Christ saved us with what we are now that we are saved.

First Paul speaks to our old condition: “dead in trespasses and sins” (2:1-3)…