It is an inestimable privilege to be a member of the body of Christ, the church over which God the Father has placed Jesus as Head (1:22–23). Sadly, we often forget the magnitude of this glorious privilege. We forget that, as Paul teaches in the opening verses of Ephesians 2, members of the Body of Christ were once dead but are now, by the power of the living God, alive.

Ephesians 2:1–10, like the two sections in chapter one, is one long, unbroken sentence. In this study, however, we will focus on vv. 1–4, where we see the power of the gospel in changing us from what we were because who God is and therefore because of what He does.