CHRISTIANS ARE RAISED AND EXALTED IN THE RISEN AND EXALTED CHRIST BY
GOD'S FREE GRACE AND GIFT. The recipients of the letter, like other
people, had been (spiritually) dead by reason of the sins and
trespasses in which they formerly walked in accordance with the course
of the existing world-order, a... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GENTILE IS NOW ONE WITH THE JEW IN GOD'S NEW MAN, AND AN INTEGRAL
PART OF GOD'S TEMPLE. Those who, like the readers, were once Gentiles,
are especially bound to remember the condition from which they were
rescued (Ephesians 2:11): at that time without Messiah, they were
aliens in relation to the... [ Continue Reading ]