Even now, though plainly made known in this epistle and elsewhere, how few Christians there are who rest in it as their assured portion! To keep the men from glorying or boasting in what God was going to do. It was developed in a positive and comprehensive way, as in Romans. They said that they did not know. Lazarus was of a rich family; very likely they wrapped him up with more care. Then the diversities are brought before us. But this young maiden is still caressed; so it is with many of you; you are loved even by the living in Sion; God's own people love you; the minister has often prayed for you; you are admitted into the assemblies of the saints, you sit with them as God's people, you hear as they hear, and you sing as they sing. We let cruel words slip out of our mouths, disguised as humour or opinion. It is the word used of bringing a sacrifice to God; it is the word used of bringing men into the presence of God that they may be consecrated to his service; it is the word used for introducing a speaker or an ambassador into a national assembly; and above all it is the word used for introducing a person into the presence of a king. The special point before the apostle's mind is that this was the choice of God before the world, in which we are brought to know the infinite blessing. When the Psalmist sang: "I will extol thee, my God and king" ( Psalms 145:1) he meant it literally. And some of you older men, perhaps, have never preached yet; but you might if you tried; I wish you would. Paul's point of view is undeniably true; and for two reasons. Call to Worship #2 L: Welcome to worship this morning. It is the confident trust of the heart in the favour of God in which we stand, not the remembrance of our first subjection to the gospel. No doubt it is a giving up of self, and therefore the fruit of divine grace. Israel entered into a covenant with God by the sprinkling of the blood. They have run the full ten yards, it is still empty. If you're interested in reading the results, visit here: https://pandemicworshipsurvey.blogspot.com/. But what has this to do with the kingdom of God? He was privileged to do all as unto Christ; as the master again must remember that he had his own Master in heaven. We need, but we have, the Holy Spirit who is surely all-sufficient, if looked to. - FSB. It is the same life in the new-born believer as in yonder bright spirits that stand before the throne of God. To those who have not, I daresay it will seem as an idle tale. Clearly life was going to be completely different for any nation which had a consciousness of destiny like that. It is not the impartation of Godhead: none can be so foolish as to think of such a thing. Some people never grow beyond that stage. Semi-pelagianism admits his ill-health, but affirms that the symptoms will yield to proper treatment, to a course of tonic drugs and a scrupulous regimen. Is every working hour filled with our most conscientious work and is every task done as well as we could possibly do it? This, then, was the way in which the new life, spiritual life, came into us. ~ survey response Desire is a bad master, and to be at the mercy of desire is to be a slave. One of the tragedies of the nineteenth century was the career of Oscar Wilde. How solemn to learn what the old man is in its most detestable forms, against all which the Christian is warned! For it is he who is our peace; it is he who made both Jew and Gentile into one, and who broke down the middle wall of the barrier between, and destroyed the enmity by coming in the flesh, and wiped out the law of commandments with all its decrees. By Gods grace, Christ not only died to bear the penalty of human sin, but he rose to glorious life in the heavenly world so that repentant sinners can have a glorious new life in him (4-7).This salvation is entirely Gods work. Worship is exactly what Satan has always desired. I cannot describe to you the lusts and vices of a fullgrown sinner. It is neither "faith" nor "the faith." I should be ashamed to tell the things which some of you have done. The door was shut in her face; but now the door was open. Oh how good it is to have God's forgiveness. Jesus wants to do good things through us! To forgive another's wrongs is not enough for a Christian. * The Lord Jesus is repeatedly called , translated "son" and "child" in the English version of the Acts of the Apostles, but more properly God's servant as Messiah. And God throughout eternity is going to be revealing the exceeding greatness of His mercy and of His kindness, these things that He has given and provided and done for you through Jesus Christ. He could condescend. One might distrust a mystery, if it centred in the church. These good things are Gods plan for the way that we live our lives. Such is the truth, if indeed we have learnt the Christ as God teaches Him. Very naturally. He commands his companions, who by bad example are bearing him on his bier to his grave, to stop, and then there is a partial reformation for awhile, and after that there comes the strong out-spoken voice "Young man, I say unto thee, arise!" Ah! It is not the source of the blessing (Ephesians 1:1-23); nor the place into which we are now brought as being made one with Christ (Ephesians 2:1-22); nor the objects to whom we are bearing testimony. I mention this, because it is a striking proof that an error imported into Scripture leads even right-minded men into sad evil. Caused spiritual death. The legions of apostate angels are as one power united under one chief; and therefore what is called the powers of darkness elsewhere is here spoken of in the singular number. This cheek might mantle with a blush to tell the deeds of darkness which some of the ungodly of this world habitually practise. But then he adds a third point, which was not given in the previous part of the chapter; namely, that they might know "what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead.". We know ourselves called, but were so easily distracted. The love of God is the most amazing, the most powerful, the most abundant, the most intimate, the most lovely thing. Consequently here it is not an energy already put forth, but he pleads that Christ might dwell by faith in their hearts. Heres a prayer of confession based on Ephesians 2:11-22. - ! What has all the confusion of men to do with the glorious reality that God has established His unity, of which we all form part by the power of His Spirit? But the divine nature is given to us in its qualities of holiness and love. BEST VALUE in digital Bible study. Philo said: "There are spirits flying everywhere through the air." One said to me, when joining the church, "Either I am a new creature, or else the world is altogether altered from what it was. If God has made you to live, come away from the dead; come away from their habits, and manners and customs. If the latter enquired how God had interfered most conspicuously for them, no doubt they were reminded of the power that brought them out of the land of Egypt. What has it to do with a happy life, so long as every sentiment of the mind, and every act of the will, is death? But in the epistle to the Ephesians we have none of these dealings with the first man, but that which forms and nourishes the new creation. The contrast is with Adam, who had a knowledge that was suited to his own place and relationship. And what then is the truth as it is in Jesus? Then come the slaves similarly. Visit that site for many other excellent lectionary-based worship resources. Life will not be bound like that, I love to have an appointed season for prayer, and woe unto the man who does not have his time for prayer! 22. Oh! 2:1-10 When you were dead in your sins and trespasses, those sins and trespasses in which once you walked, living life in the way in which this present age of this world lives it, living life as the ruler of the power of the air dictates it, that spirit who now operates in the children of disobedience--and once all we too lived the same kind of life as these children of disobedience do, a life in which we were at the mercy of the desires of our lower nature, a life in which we followed the wishes of our lower nature and of our own designs, a life in which, so far as human nature goes, we deserved nothing but the wrath of God, as the others do--although we were all like that, I say, God, because he is rich in mercy, and because of his great love with which he has loved us, made us alive in Christ Jesus, even when we were dead in trespasses (it is by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Christ, and gave us a seat in the heavenly places with Christ, because of what Christ Jesus did for us. To those who want to reject Christ, the message is true; there is no escape. Tired of being on the heights I deliberately went to the depths in search for new sensation. It is the moral answer to what was shown in Christ, "that we should be holy and without blame before him in love." "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect" ( Matthew 5:48 ). "That he might present it to himself [not merely to the Father, but present it to himself] a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." young man, thou hast not yet gone so far as the open profligate and desperately profane, take heed, thou art dead! Nothing short of this suffices. suspicious of anyone who didnt look like us. Throughout all eternity, God's grace and love and mercy being revealed. I ended in horrible disgrace.". They have to be covered up in the tomb of secresy; for men would scout them from society, and hiss them from existence, if they knew all. Let me put out a fleece of wool. It was all a known thing that they were blessed by yea, with Christ, forming a part of Christ, expressly fellow-heirs, and of the same body. Nevertheless, whether it was creation, whether man or favoured Israel, there was so much the more painful a declension that portended the judgment of God upon them. There the individual blessing of the soul has the first place. Now, the text tells us that, though we were dead, yet Christ has come, and by his Spirit he has raised us out of the grave. They had a distinguished place before the Son became man. Another of Paul's blessed "nows." That is the way we are to God. I didn't think anybody would miss the one. And what will happen to you when the word of God is, "Depart, depart, depart, depart," and unto the graveyard of souls, to the fire that never shall be quenched, you and the rest of the dead are taken away? The tendency has always been when we send missionaries abroad to produce people who wear English clothes and speak the English language. How blessed is the character and the spring of Christian service! No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. The barrier between Jew and Gentile was absolute. For we have been brought together by the redeeming love of Jesus. They might otherwise think themselves more or less superior. So he came and preached peace to you who were afar off, and peace to them who were near, because, through him, we both have the right of entry into the presence of the Father, for we come in the one Spirit. Unregenerate souls are dead in trespasses and sins. As being the image and glory of God on earth, he is the one that gives names to his companion, or to the subject creation. I would be so pleased that he is wanting to do something to please me. We little think of the experiments that children have to go through before they arrive even at the use of their eyes. You were really not going anywhere, you were just existing. So we have many who are lovely, amiable, morally admirable, like him whom the Saviour looked upon and loved; yet they are dead for all that. Between it and the Court of the Women there was a wall, or rather a kind of screen of marble, beautifully wrought, and let into it at intervals were tablets which announced that if a Gentile proceeded any farther he was liable to instant death. They come to us, and ask, "What is this? No, no. WebCalls To Worship Love Adapted from Psalm 36:5-7 Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the skies. You can scarcely get hold of the idea; death doth such awful work with us, it is such a Vandal with this mortal fabric, it so rendeth to pieces this fair thing that God hath builded up, that we can scarcely bear to contemplate his works of ruin. (Ephesians 3:1-21) The closing theme shows us where and with whom are our true conflicts as Christians. The heart itself then, is broken, and bleeds at ten thousand wounds. We wait for nothing greater nor its match; we await the results of this glorious power for the body and the creation; but we look for no new putting forth of power which can enter into competition with that which God has already shown in Christ. His life will be ever afterwards a loosing and letting go; for he will need it till he cometh up to be with God for ever and ever. And what a wrong concept people have of what it means to surrender your life to the will of God.For once a person does, they find as, Jesus said, "I delight to do thy will, O Lord." In the Scriptural view, sin equals death; and there is no light or casual view of either in the Bible. This does not yet appear; for there is nothing to indicate to mankind what He purposes to do. for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins ( Ephesians 2:4-5 ). Remember that at that time you had no hope of a Messiah; you were aliens from the society of Israel, and strangers from the covenants on which the promises were based, you had no hope: you were in the world without God. 13. Now, this morning, I trust I shall not be tedious; I shall endeavour to make the subject as interesting as possible, and also endeavour to be brief. And here is the key, and that which accounts for the astonishing display of what God is now doing in man. Such contact with a Gentile was the equivalent of death; even to go into a Gentile house rendered a Jew unclean. So the flow of the world, you just flowed with it. One effect of this divine life is to put life into everything that we do. "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love." The rotten Lazarus may come out of his tomb, as well as the slumbering maiden from her bed. Reconciliation with God involves and necessitates reconciliation with man. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. What reason have sinners then to be looking out for that grace that will make them, of children of wrath, children of God and heirs of glory! But in Ephesians the aim is of a much more absolute and direct character. It may be perverted to this or anything else; but so far is our corporate place from being put in the foreground that we do not hear one word about the assembly as such till the close of the first chapter. It is remarkable that the mystery, though revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Holy Ghost, was not revealed by them. we know too well) saving faith necessarily, but the faith of Christendom; and accordingly "one baptism" is its mark, because thus they are put on or take the ground of professing the one Lord and one faith. Come, friends, let us confess our sins to the Lord. ", Meanwhile, before a blow is struck at man's failure in the presence of righteousness, or at his apostasy from grace, that blessed Saviour, the only begotten Son in the bosom of the Father, the Son of man who is in heaven, went down to the very uttermost, and (having exhausted the powers of evil, and blotted out all that could rise against the objects of God's grace,) was raised and seated by God in heaven. I think that, usually, when the divine life comes, the first consciousness that we get of a quickening is a sense of pain. P: Gods light has come to us! "Trespasses" literally means to "fall beside," and "sins" literally means "a failing to hit the mark" (Thayer 485, 30). The sinner sees no beauty there; and no human power can arouse him to act for God, anymore than human power can rouse the sleeping dead, or open the sightless eyeballs on the light of day. ], "The unbeliever is not sick; he is dead! "You hath HE quickened," is true of all who are quickened. The moral order of this is exceedingly beautiful. The ancient world was full of barriers. The earth is their sphere; it is there that Israel looks to be blessed, and the Gentiles somewhat farther off, but all in the ordered blessing of the Most High God. Could I just be me? God alone is worthy of worship. The same "Beloved" who accounts to us for the counsels of God has brought in redemption. Accordingly, in Ephesians 2:1-22, the apostle pursues this train, and shows that it is not another exertion of power, but a part of the very same work of God which raised up Jesus from the dead. One of the tokens that life is coming back to him is, that he wakes up out of a pleasant sleep, and feels pain. The unity which Jesus achieves is not achieved by blotting out all racial characteristics; it is achieved by making all men of all nations into Christians. So that our business as ministers when the young lambs are brought in, is to remember the injunction, "Feed my lambs;" take care of them; give them plenty of meat. Gideon's answer was: "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord shall rule over you" ( Judges 8:23). Hence he says, "that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ," referring to himself and any other saints who had been chosen from the people of the Jews. There was a time, more than four hundred years before this, when Greece was threatened with invasion by the Persians. He might have been pleased to choose none; but if we are to be brought into His presence at all, it is impossible to be there without having the divine nature, in a moral sense (and, of course, one only speaks of this). Let the stealer steal no more." The Holy Ghost is here viewed according to these two. But it is very different in relation to the mother whose child he killed. In another description he says of the second court of the Temple: "This was encompassed by a stone wall for a partition, with an inscription which forbade any foreigner to go in under pain of death" (The Antiquities of the Jews, 15, 11, 5). Loose him, and let him go ." The thought is overwhelming, that soon this body of mine must be a carnival for worms; that in and out of these places, where my eyes are glistening, foul things, the offspring of loathsomeness, shall crawl; that this body must be stretched in still, cold, abject, passive, death, must then become a noxious, nauseous thing, cast out even by those that loved me, who will say, "Bury my dead out of my sight." If He is showing needy souls how they may be forgiven of God, He displays it in a thousand forms; if the need of righteousness, He repeats it over and over again. We are in this position, that God is now working in us, through this divine life, to make us the most wonderful reflectors of his grace that he has yet formed. ], THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD ( Ephesians 2:1-10 ). (ISAIAH 1:18, ALT.) You feel him; his presence is photographed upon your spirit; your very heart trembles with awe of him, and you say with Jacob, "Surely God is in this place." In Romans the sinner is regarded as alive in sins; and death, the death of Christ, is the means of deliverance. For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves ( Ephesians 2:8 ): What not of yourselves? Have we had a divine touch, a superhuman energy, a something which all the learning and all the wisdom and all the godliness of man could never work in us? I believe that God liked it better than many of the collections. Your self-made man usually worships his creator very earnestly; and your self-saved man glorifies him that saved him. Besides, it is not merely that the body will immediately respond to the call of the Lord Jesus, but even now the very same power Acts wrought toward us in making us Christians which "wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." No statement can be conceived more exact. They are put into the grave, in order that all may be hidden. All the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: There is no church without Christ, no temple without him as its cornerstone, its priest, its glory. What We Are - v. 4-7 (Alive with Christ), III. Might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. Ephesians 1:7; Ephesians 2:5) and sins (acts of missing the mark) describe deliberate offenses against God. The breast-plate means the practical righteousness of the saint himself. (i) The Gentiles were called the uncircumcision by those who laid claim to that circumcision which is a physical and man-made thing. The building up of the body is the fruit of God's blessing the individual saints. Where God now seats me together in Christ in these heavenly places, or in the heavenlies. It is in the tomb. If you haven't previously submitted something but would like to, you can find my email address by clicking on my name in the "About Me" section below. Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Ephesians, the second chapter.Paul is going to talk about someone tonightvery interesting. And if children that had a relationship with their parents in the flesh and under law did so (for it was indeed right), how much more did it become Christian children to pay them reverence? The other word Paul uses, translated trespasses is paraptoma ( G3900) . The design of the apostle in this and some following verses, is to show the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and to set forth the sad estate and condition of man by nature, and to magnify the riches of the grace of God, and represent the exceeding greatness of his power in conversion: the phrase. There will never be a time when God doesn't love you. If we were able to take a wide angle lens picture of the service this evening and posted it on the bulletin board, and you went up to look at that picture, who is the first one you would look for? As soon as the maiden was alive, Christ said, "Give her meat;" as soon as the young man was alive "he delivered him to his mother;" as soon as Lazarus was alive, he said, "Loose him, and let him go." Trespasses, , may signify the slightest deviation from the line and rule of moral equity, as well as any flagrant offence; for these are equally transgressions, as long as the sacred line that separates between vice and virtue is passed over. But, besides the new man which lives in dependence, we need to guard against losing power according to God. The enmity, even the law of commandments containeth in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he. This declaration does not mean he is not a son, only that he does not consider himself worthy of such a position. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so! Are you. Submissions: I am so grateful to those of you who send me your own material to post! No God? Remake us, Lord, again into your image, for we choose to imitate you. There is some perplexity in the language; but, if we attend carefully to what the apostle says about those two parts, the meaning is clear. It is altogether independent of the old creation, of that which might fail and pass away. The object of the apostle is to show the great power which God had evinced toward the people Ephesians 1:19; and to show that this was put forth in connection with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and his exaltation to the right hand of God in heaven; see the notes at Romans 6:4-11; compare Colossians 2:12-13; Colossians 3:1. So many of you have begun to form habits that are evil; you know that already the screw of the devil is tightening on your finger. All these are sins of the flesh. He came and preached peace to you who were far off. (iv) The Gentiles were strangers from the covenants on which the promises were based. Hence it was that they might "be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and. (iii) It is a life characterized by disobedience. The story is told of a negro engineer in a river ferry-boat in America. "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God." If you are spiritually dead, nothing here belongs to you; but if he hath quickened you, you may take every single sentence of the chapter, and say, "That is mine, and glory be the grace of God!". there are some of the merchants of London who practise lusts that are abominable. "Youth's beauty fades, and manhood's glory fades. Oh, do not so! Trespass, is taking the wrong road when we could take the right one; it is missing the truth that we should have known. I was a pretty good little kid until my fleshly appetites took over, and then I began to yell until they took care of feeding me. No teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. be hidden as slumbering! 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