Ephesians (Program #21) – Once Far Off, but Now Near
Let me ask you a question, before we were saved, what was our status before God? Well, yes, we were sinners condemned to judgment. But actually according to Paul in Ephesians we had 2 major problems: first our nature. We were dead in offenses and in sins, that’s verse 1 and 2 of Chapter 2. But our problem also involved our status before God. As he points out in verses 12-13 “That you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who were once far off have become near in the blood of Christ.” So, we see that our problem before God extend far beyond sins and even beyond our being dead before Him. We have a status problem.
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