Week 1 - Alive in Christ

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Text: Ephesians 2:5 (ESV)​

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even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.

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Main Message​​​​

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• If God made us alive, then we must be “dead” at one point in time.

• What Paul was trying to say it that, “we were spiritually dead” because of the sin that we have inherited.

• Once we are saved by grace through faith, we are no longer dead in our sin.

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• Walk in the newness of life

  • Walking in the newness of life, living new lives, should be our new mode or quality of life.

  • You are a new creation, old things have passed away, was buried, that is why we need to live the new life that we received through Christ.

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• No longer be enslaved to sin

  • To live in the newness of life is to not be dominated by sin. To not allow the old self to reign supreme in our life again.

  • To live in the newness of life is to allow the Holy Spirit, the spirit of God who resides in you take over your life.

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• Believe that you are alive in Christ

  • We need to believe that we are capable of living a holy life, a life not dominated by sin.

  • Only when we believe that our old sinful self has been buried, then and only then we will realize that we are alive in Christ.

 

Reflection Questions:

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1. What needs to change this week—a habit, an attitude, a thought, an action—for you to live like someone who is all the way alive in Christ?

2. As you reflect on the Bible passage, “alive in Christ”, what stands out to you about the character of God?

3. How have you been challenged and encouraged in your relationship with Jesus through what you’ve learned?