State Analysis II ...

Wednesday, Jan 19, 2022. Hello and good morning! We have discussed the human state of life yesterday, working out the perspective of the New Testament. Humans who live ignoring the creator and source of life of the universe have lost their connection to the source of life. They are called “dead” from his perspective. Life is the connection with him, dead refers to the missing link.

But death is not the end of the story. God wants life, and here we come to the story of Jesus!

New Life through Jesus …

There is new life in and through Jesus. Let us first read and study the way this is framed in the biblical letter which the apostle Paul wrote to the church in Ephesus.

4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. (Ephesians 2, 4-7)

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(Roland Potthast)