SNT 0738 Alive To Christ
Alive To Christ Shows God’s great mercy and grace to His sons, in that every believer has been crucified with Christ, dead, buried, quickened, raised, seated with him, and made manifest with him in glory. SNT – 738 January 5, 1975 (Part of Ephesians 1974 Corps Teaching) Eph 1:17-19, 23; 2:1, 5, 3; Rom 6:1, 2, 10, 11; Gal 2:19; 1Pe 2:24 Eph 2:1-4, 10; 4:1,17; 5:2, 8, 15; 2Th 2:9-11; Eph 2:19; 1:18; Rom 6:1-4 Rom 6:5-8, 10-18; Eph 2:4-6; 1:7, 18 Eph 2:6, 7; Gal 2:20; Rom 6:3-5, 8; Col 3:1-4 ---------------------------------------------------- SNT - 738 January 5, 1975 Alive To Christ Take your Bibles tonight, please, and turn to Ephesians, the first chapter. I noticed this week that others nationally gave their predictions for the year 1975. Tonight I would like to share with you God’s predictions for all eternity. And that specifically for God’s sons and daughters who are dearly beloved in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 1:17 - The text reads “...may give unto you the spirit plus, that is to say, wisdom and revelation in the acknowledgement of him.” Ephesians 1:18 - is for this reason: understanding - that you may know 1) what is the hope of his calling, 2) what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints and 3) what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe. Now, at this point (in verse 19) there begins a parenthesis. The parenthesis goes all the way to the end of the chapter. Then, in 2:1, the “And you” is outside of the parenthesis. The text would read “Even you.” Then a parenthesis. And this one terminates after the word “sins” in verse 5. Then at the end of the verse you have another parenthesis which is in King James already. This is singularly significant and very remarkable. What I am going to teach you tonight, I knew 12 years ago and then forgot about it. It just never crystallized within me again until I was in New York. I had been working on it because we are doing Ephesians with the Corps this year, and I was trying to find ag
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in italics in the King James. That is not accurate. That is not enough. It has to be “quickened us together with Christ.” You see, “hath he quickened” without Christ would be useless. I wouldn’t want to live that way. From the context here, this verse (2:1) is dealing with our standing by grace and not 1 SNT-738 January 5, 1975 (Sunday Night) our state by nature. Most of us thought this was our state by nature - dead in trespasses and sins. In context, it isn’t dealing with that. I will show you why after a bit. This is dealing with our standing of grace and not with our state by nature because the state by nature is given in the last part of verse 3, “...were by nature the children of wrath.” The body of the church is not children of wrath. Therefore, verse 1 of chapter 2 is our standing of grace and not our state by nature. First of all in this verse that I want to now get into the dep