CHAPTER TWO

THE NEW MAN
CREATED BY CHRIST IN HIMSELF
AND ENLIVENED BY GOD WITH CHRIST AS LIFE,
AS THE POEM, THE MASTERPIECE, OF GOD

Scripture Reading: Eph. 2:14-22, 4-10

OUTLINE

1. Created by Christ—Eph. 2:14-22:
1. In Himself as the sphere and element substantially—v. 15.
2. By slaying the enmity (the issue of the different ordinances in living and worship) through the cross—v. 16b.
3. Putting the two (Israel and the Gentiles) into one Body—v. 16a.
4. To be God's household and God's kingdom—v. 19.
5. Being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit—vv. 20-22:
1. Upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets—v. 20a.
2. With Christ as the joining cornerstone—v. 20b.
2. Enlivened by God—vv. 4-10:
1. With Christ as life organically—vv. 5-6:
1. Making the members (constituents) of the new man alive together with Christ—v. 5.
2. Raising them up together with Christ—v. 6a.
3. Seating them together with Christ in the heavenlies—v. 6b.
2. By grace through faith—v. 8:
1. By grace—by having the processed Triune God dispensed into the believers.
2. Through faith—through Christ moving in the believers as their faith, their substantiating ability to apprehend the divine favor given to them in Christ.
3. To be the poem, the masterpiece, of God—v. 10:
1. To show forth the wisdom in God's grace—cf. v. 7; 3:10.
2. And to have a new man walk in the good works which God prepared for him beforehand.
4. That God might display in the ages to come the surpassing riches of His grace toward the believers in Christ—2:7.