Ephesians
Ch 2
1. What we are by nature
	- condemned v3b
	- dead v1
	- enslaved v2-3a
2. What we are by Grace
	- loved recipients of mercy v4
	- made alive in/with Christ v5
	- raised, seated with Christ v6
3. What God did
	- saved by grace through faith v5, 8
	- Created v10
4. WHY God did it
	- mercy v4a
	- love 4b
	- grace v5, 8
	- kindness v7
	- display His grace in ages to come ("future grace") v7

note: His intentions/motives are blended through out the discourse of our lives and God's purpose, as if we can't talk of either one without ALSO/ALWAYS talking of GOD'S NATURE and PURPOSE
Ephesians 5
5 - immoral, impure, greedy...are ALL of these describing the "idolater", or just "greedly/covetous"?; for THESE people there is NO struggle - they are NOT tempted because temptation implies a struggle, implies at least a vague DESIRE to resist or at least a RECOGNITION of the rightness to resist  - so it is SEEN as a failure to act immorally, impurely, greedily; 
	These people - they had NO conflict with their sin, NO STRUGGLE, no desire to resist, NO BELIEF that resisting was NEEDED - THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT SAVED; and there were these people  there claiming to BE Christians who were ENDORSING their behaviors to others - DECEIVING TRUE BELIEVERS INTO such wrong behavior (v6)
vv3-7, 8ff   Paul distinguishes between those who commit such acts as FAILURES in a Christian life and those who are utterly and unreservedly and wholeheartedly given over to these sins; who believed these behaviors were acceptable (ie Antimonian Gnostics)
	2 Groups: 
		1. Those who sin and REALIZE it is sin
		2. Those who sin and who see NOTHING WRONG with their sin;
v8  not IN darkness, but darkness ITSELF, NOW "LIGHT in the LORD";
v11  implies Children of the Light CAN STILL participate IN dark deeds - we NOW can CHOOSE, but it ain't automatic, IS it??
vv14-15ff   the "sleepers" are UNsaved but Paul is concerned that, tho SAVED we FAIL to ACT that way, acting instead just like the unsaved - "unwise" (v15), "foolish" (v17), "drunk" (v18), 
Ephesians 6
9-10  Masters don't be fooled by mere worldly circumstances - God's decision to let you be the master and the other to be the slave has absolutely NO bearinng on EITHER of your spiritual circumstances or on GOD'S perspective on you BOTH; Remember Jesus placed greater value on serving that ruling and more often called Himslef a servant than a King - and He was BOTH;