Ephesians 2:12
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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Ephesians 2:12. Being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel,--
For us there was no paschal lamb, for us there was no high priest at Jerusalem, no altar smoked with a sacrifice for us, we were "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel," -
Ephesians 2:12. And strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
That is where the whole Gentile world stood, and this is experimentally where you and I stood till sovereign grace interposed for our salvation. What knew we about the covenants of promise? We knew nothing, and we did not care to know anything. What did we know about a hope? We should have died without a hope if God’s mercy had not come to us. What knew we, or what cared we about a God in the world? We may have thought that there was a God in heaven; but as actually operating upon the daily life of man, we knew no such God. We were "without God in the world:"