They have new life in Christ
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📚✭And you he has made alive, you who were dead✭ in trespasses and sins, 2 📚in which in time past you walked according to the course of this world✭, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience. 3 📚Among them we also, all of us✭, had our life in time past in the cravings of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature✭ the children of wrath✭, even as others. 4 📚But God, who is rich in mercy✭, because of his great love✭ with which he loved us, 5 📚✭even when we were dead in sins, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),They are seated with Christ in the heavenly places
6 📚and raised us up together✭, and seated us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
They have a glorious future
7 📚✭so that in the ages to come he might show the exceedingly great riches✭ of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
They are God’s workmanship
8 📚✭For by grace you are saved through faith✭, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God✭; 9 📚not of works, so that no one should boast. 10 📚✭For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good deeds, which God ordained beforehand that we should be active✭ in them.
They are near to God and have access to His presence
11 📚✭Therefore remember, that in time past you were Gentiles✭ according to the flesh, called “Uncircumcision” by those who are called “the Circumcision” in the flesh made by hands; 12 📚✭that at that time you were without Christ, were shut out from the commonwealth of Israel, and were strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 📚But now in Christ Jesus you✭ who at one time were far off are brought near by the blood of Christ.
14 📚For he is our peace✭, who has made the two one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition between us, 15 📚by abolishing in his flesh✭ the cause of enmity, that is, the law of commandments with its regulations, so that from the two he might make one new man✭ in himself, and so make peace; 16 📚and that he might reconcile✭ both to God in one body by the cross, by which he destroyed the enmity. 17 📚And he came✭ and preached peace to you who were far off✭, and to those who were near✭. 18 📚✭For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
They are citizens of heaven and members of God’s household
19 📚✭Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but are fellow citizens with the saints, and belong to the household of God✭,
They are God’s holy temple
20 📚✭and are built on the foundation of the apostles✭ and prophets✭, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone✭. 21 📚In him the whole building is fitted together and grows✭ into a holy temple in the Lord. 22 📚In him you also✭ are being built together for a dwelling✭ place of God through the Spirit.