He demonstrated this power in the Messiah by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavens—

And you were dead in your trespasses and sins

made us alive with the Messiah even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!

He made of no effect the law consisting of commands and expressed in regulations, so that He might create in Himself one new man from the two, resulting in peace.

He did this so that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross and put the hostility to death by it.

for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,
and the Messiah will shine on you.

He did this to present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.