INTRO: Now you will not remember this, but a long time ago we began to look at Paul's first digression in this letter and it is regarding the salvation of the Gentiles. Since we are Gentiles, this has direct application to us. And Paul said that before we were saved we were dead. That is, we were dead spiritually. We had bios life but not the zoee life we spoke of in the last message. And the sphere of death was in trespasses and sins (2:1b). In 2:2-3 we had the cause of this death given. It was because of the sins in which we lived, and these sins were clearly set out for us there.
We have now, for several messages, been looking at the release from this death. And what we have spent time on is the first point of that, and that is how we were released from this death. When an unbeliever repents and believes in Christ, that unbeliever is given new life. It is resurrection life. That is how God releases us from this death in which we were held fast. And then God seats this new believer, in position, in the heavenlies. That is true of all of those who are true believers. And that brings us to the second point of the release from this death, and that is to answer this question: Why does God release us from this death? Why does God save wicked sinful people? Why?
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