Ephesians 2:1
1 And [kai] you [humas] hath he quickened, who were [on] dead [nekros] in trespasses
[paraptoma] and [kai] sins; [hamartia] KJV-Interlinear
1 And
you were dead in your trespasses and sins, NASB
Quickened, means to make
alive, or made to live, or made to be alive.
Who were dead, ‘nekros,’
means to be separated from something.
Death is a separation from life, and in this case, death is a separation
from spiritual life.
There are several types
of death which are addressed by the Bible.
There is physical death,
which we think of most of the time, when the soul leaves the body.
There is spiritual death,
as in the case of unbelievers, wherein we are separated from all association
with God.
There is carnal death,
mostly for believers who commit sins and are separated from fellowship with
God.
There is sexual death,
wherein the sexual apparatus ceases to function. Usually in old age, but this can occur at any
age for a variety of reasons.
The subject here is
spiritual death, but death follows the attributes that are associated with
physical death.
When we are born into
this world, we are born physically alive, but spiritually dead. We are unbelievers from the very first breath
of our life.
But just as in the world
of the physically dead, wherein the corpse cannot see, hear, think, smell,
respond, react, touch, speak, taste, and so forth, so too, the spiritually dead
person lacks these attributes with respect to the spiritual life.
The unbeliever cannot
gain access to the spiritual realm in any way, cannot detect it, cannot measure
it, cannot discover it on his own, cannot get there on his own.
In the case of the gospel,
the Holy Spirit intercedes so that the unbeliever can make a choice for life or
a continuation of their death state.
Dead in trespasses and sin
defines the state of the unbeliever.
This is not addressing the believers state.
God, or rather Christ, of
whom this subject continues for the previous chapter, makes us alive through the
mechanics of salvation.
In the previous chapter,
the concept of power, is addressed, wherein God uses power in many different
ways in order to bring His plan together.
Here is but one aspect of
the use of that power. God brings life
into that which is dead. God creates a
new opportunity for those who have no opportunity.
You cannot do this on
your own. You cannot work for your salvation. You cannot earn your salvation. You cannot deserve
your salvation. You cannot cause or
bring about your own salvation. You can
do nothing to save yourself. Only God
can accomplish that. You can only
believe and God does the rest.
Apart from salvation, you
are totally depraved, and from this concept of total depravity, human works and
effort are rejected and excluded from Gods plan. Without God, Gods plan, Christ, the Cross and
faith, you have nothing, you are nothing.
You begin this life as a
speck of dust, biological mush. Into
that dust God imputes human life, which He alone creates, not you, not your
momma or daddy. And the essence of life
which likewise cannot be measured, removed, or have anything done with it, is
nothing, but an essence placed into dust.
God in his great sense of
humor, can make the very beautiful and the ugly, the very talented and the
untalented, the very gifted and the ungifted, and so forth, out of mere dust,
and bring it all to physical life.
But physical life,
physical talent, physical beauty and such are not enough. They all fade into corruption following
physical death unless there is another life obtained from God. And that life comes only from God, and only
through faith, and only because of the work of Christ on the Cross who was
first raised from the dead and ascended into heaven and is currently seated at
Gods right hand, the highest place of honor in existence.
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