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Ephesians speaks to our deepest questions about God: the redemptive plan of God written from ages past now revealed; the work of Christ complete and effective now and for eternity; the power of the Holy Spirit to change lives and build a community. The clear message of God’s unfathomable grace establishes the believer’s hope and undergirds the call for faithful living. Down through the centuries,...

with the deed. We will return to look more closely at the meanings of these verbs below, but here I want to note that Paul includes himself and all Jewish believers (“we”) together with the Gentile believers (“you”) in these acts of God. But in the middle of this great claim, he switches to using the second-person plural—“by grace you have been saved” (2:6). Why not say “we have been saved”? I think the verb tense is important. The verb is in the perfect tense, both here and in 2:8, which indicates
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