Not even Jesus can give a man back his lost innocence, for not even Jesus can put back the clock; but what he can do is take away the sense of guilt which the lost innocence necessarily brings with it. God's choice of Israel was not favouritism, for it was choice not for special honour but for special responsibility. The three main verbs are "made alive" (Ephesians 2:5), "raised up" (Ephesians 2:6), and "seated" (Ephesians 2:6). So with the sinner in regard to the spiritual and eternal world. He to whom I look up, by and in whom alone I can know God and the Father, is God Himself Let the notion of time come into the conception given of Godhead and of the persons Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and all would be falsehood and confusion. "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself." And there may be a marathoner in the group that will get within a mile of the shore before he goes under. This engineer was soundly converted. have been brought near by the death of Jesus on the cross. But as he said that by revelation it was made known to him, so he would from God communicate it to them. Our present position is this, first, that we are raised from the dead. If a person had never lived before, and had come into life a full-grown man, everything would be as strange to him as it is to a little-child; and everything is strange to a new-born man in the spiritual realm into which he is born. For if we are in Christ, we have a vantage ground which makes all things clear. So with the psalmist in Psalm 32 , I can say, "Oh how happy is the man, whose transgressions are forgiven. As we look at the course of this world, as we look at the way things are going, as we look at the latest rock stars, the latest idols, they have become quite obvious of the bondage and the chains, and of the cruelty, and of the evil by which they are inspired.In Copenhagen we saw these posters all over town. The believer's life is the life of Christ in the believer. Transgressions (false steps, cf. Oh! Evidently it was just a little bit to heavy. Their lust is one which can only be perpetrated at midnight; a deed which can only be done when shrouded by the astonished curtains of darkness. There are merchants whose names stand high and fair. Do we discipline and train our children as we ought, or do we often shirk the issue? We want your renewing of us, but often it hurts. Any task that you may have around here, I just would like to spend a day with you, Dad, doing whatever you'd like for me to do." The sight of that Cross awakens in the hearts of men of all nations love for Christ, and only when they all love Christ will they love each other. "The unity of the Spirit" seems to be the general name for that great fact which is now established that unity of which Christ is the chief, and to which we all belong. Jesus removed the fences between man and man because he abolished all religion founded on rules and regulations and brought to men a religion whose foundation is love. When Aristotle is discussing bestiality, he says: "It is found most frequently among barbarians," and by barbarians he simply meant non-Greeks. Thanks to those of you who took time to answer questions and offer comments about how your congregation navigated worship during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is not the wants of man in any sense, either positively or negatively. The essence of the world's standard is that it sets self in the centre, the essence of the Christian standard is that it sets Christ and others in the centre. (AI) His purpose was to create in himself one(AJ) new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, 16and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross,(AK) by which he put to death their hostility. - ! 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. And as for Lazarus, he is shut up with a stone. Is it so with us? Among whom also we all had our conversation ( Ephesians 2:3 ). But Christ at the right hand of God gives gifts unto men; and, as it is said here, "He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;" bringing in both the highest gifts and also those ordinarily requisite for the good of the saints. I don't think that that would be challenged much anymore. Is it so, beloved? WebJETHRO: Why, Homer, youre my best and closest friend. As the good Spirit works that which is good in obedient souls, so this evil spirit works that which is evil in wicked men; and he now works, not only heretofore, but even since the world has been blessed with the light of the glorious gospel. there are some that are a stench in the nostrils of the Almighty; some whose character is hideous beyond all hideousness. Christianity demands love even to our enemies, but Plutarch said that the sign of a good man was that he was useful to his friends and terrible to his enemies. 12. That is what Paul is doing here. Have we been quickened from above? "Rabbi," she said, "bring me near." Father Taylor of Boston used to say: "There is just enough room in the world for all the people in it, but there is no room for the fences which separate them." Even after all our efforts we still so often feel that we have not done enough. I know the heart of this people. So I was once dead because of the trespasses and sins, but through Jesus Christ God has provided the forgiveness of my trespasses and sins. (i) He says that that life was lived in sins and trespasses. Throughout all eternity, God's grace and love and mercy being revealed. And now, in Him who is dead and risen, the Christian has put completely off the old man, is being renewed in the spirit of his mind, and has put on the new man, which according to God is created in righteousness and holiness of truth. Eternity isn't long enough. Hands had to be washed in a certain way; dishes had to be cleaned in a certain way; there was page after page about what could and could not be done on the Sabbath day; this and that and the next sacrifice had to be offered in connection with this and that and the next occasion in life, The only people who fully kept the Jewish law were the Pharisees and there were only six thousand of them. But what has this to do with the kingdom of God? So then the intervening wall with its barrier shut the Gentile out from the presence of God. ~ survey response Neither can he describe his new birth; that is still a greater mystery, for it is a secret inward work of the Holy Ghost, of which we feel the effect, but we cannot tell how it is wrought. The life of Christ, the life of God, is infused into us in that moment when we are quickened from our death in sin. God would have us set thoroughly clear and intelligently appreciating our individual place and relation to Himself. I am certain that no ungodly man has any conception of the joy which often fills the believer's spirit. Jesus Christ must quicken the one as well as the other, and bring them all to know and love his name. It was an absolutely new thing: never was seen one so glorious, never can there be another so triumphant, as the power there put forth. No matter how long your tape measure, Gods love would be longer! The very power that brought you out of the world and of your sins is the power that raised up Christ from the dead, set Him in the heavenly places, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fulness of that glorious Head to whom it is united. And I was fearful of yielding my life to God. Tomorrow morning let the ground be wet and the fleece dry." 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. I allowed pleasure to dominate me. Have we reached the goal of service to others that we might have reached? (iv) It is a life which is at the mercy of desire. Our having put off the old man, and our having put on the new man. The word for desire is epithumia ( G1939) which characteristically means desire for the wrong and the forbidden thing. None of us can make it on our own. So go out and tell all of the men who are afraid to go to war to go home." Such contact with a Gentile was the equivalent of death; even to go into a Gentile house rendered a Jew unclean. In truth it is His grace to the full, and for heaven (not earth), though given to us to know here before we get there; "for by grace are ye saved." Nor is there full Christian service, except in proportion as it is according to this pattern and in this power. Glory from the church, glory from generation upon generation. But now fromEphesians 2:11; Ephesians 2:11 the apostle enters into particulars, and shows that the bringing down from God's own heights of these glorious counsels and making them thus manifest in man here below, completely sets aside the Jewish system, or rather supposes the setting aside of all Jewish elements. (a) God is perfection; and, therefore, only perfection is good enough for him. Thus nature is the subject of verse 4, as relationship is of verse 5. But in Jesus, the Son of God, there was this character of Son in His own title and being from everlasting. All those who are in their sins, are dead in sins; yea, in trespasses and sins, which may signify all sorts of sins, habitual and actual, sins of heart and of life. Our world belongs to him! (iii) It is a life characterized by disobedience. One wrote home: "It is better for you to be in your own homes, whatever they may be like, than to be in a strange land." We all benefit from your creativity and generosity. Here are some indexes that might be helpful. Submissions: I am so grateful to those of you who send me your own material to post! The Greek called any man a barbarian who could not speak Greek; and they despised him and put up the barriers against him. And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. What a mystic union there is between the believer and his Lord! ye daughters of Sion, who are ever at the house of prayer, oh! The re:Worship survey on pandemic worship practices has been completed. Space, time, matter, and energy were all created by him, which means that he himself does not consist in space, time, matter, or energy. Sin brings forth death, and death brings forth corruption. WebCall to Worship Psalm 104:1-2 Bless the LORD, O my soul! In communion with the objects of it, we go out into the resulting scenes of glory on every side; knowing Christ's love though unknowable, and filled into God's fulness though infinite. The word Paul uses for access is prosagoge ( G4318) and it is a word of many pictures. As Christ fills the whole body of Christian believers with his fulness, (Ephesians 1:23,) so had he dealt with the converted Ephesians, who before were dead in trespasses, and dead in sins. He means far more than sexual sins. It is in vain to look for the church's prosperity, if saints individually do not grow up unto Christ. We are not always alike. He is pouring out his heart, and the claims of grammar have to give way to the wonder of grace. Consequently here it is not an energy already put forth, but he pleads that Christ might dwell by faith in their hearts. Series A: 2022 - 2023. Does he inflict his moods on his family? Come, friends, let us confess our sins to the Lord. "Well, I would like to know that for sure. To the father, the sinful "son" was dead in sin and lost. It is not now either sovereign love, or love of complacency. But he has raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus ( Ephesians 2:6 ): Or in the heavenlies. No time to worry about where the path, the flow is leading. There is no place good enough for Christ the Son but heaven. In every Greek city there were xenoi ( G3581) and their life was not easy. Our world belongs to him! Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples! Never were they to reign; never will they be one with Christ like the saints. The defensive comes before the offensive; and all should follow dependence on the Lord. Carefully remember this. If "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" has blessed us with every spiritual blessing above in Christ, this is the first need to have a nature capable of communion with His God, to have a condition that would do no dishonour, not only to the highest sphere, but to the holiest form and sphere in which God has ever made, Himself known. Who just delights to spend pleasant days together with you. We know ourselves chosen, adopted as children of God. But was this all? We little think of the experiments that children have to go through before they arrive even at the use of their eyes. Sinners in their pre-Christian state were "dead in sins"; but that deadness was not something they inherited, but came about through the guilt of sins committed. That not of yourself, the faith didn't come from you. 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. He talks of "the remote tribes of barbarians belonging to the bestial class." But it is by grace, God's glorious gift of love to me. He gave Himself for us. Being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel. Sin is an organic epidemical malady, a slow devitalizing poison issuing in moral necrosis; not a stage of arrested or incomplete development, but a seed-plot of impending ruin." The consequence is that we find the Spirit of God, now sent down from heaven, not only putting the saints into relationship with the Father, but, besides, dwelling in them and making them God's habitation through the Spirit. After his triumphs, the people came to Gideon and offered him the throne of Israel. make us bold as we claim your victory in the world. The church follows; and as it belongs to Christ, so it is a part of Him. This literally means a slip or a fall. Amen. You remember that our Saviour raised three dead persons; I do not find that during his lifetime he caused more than three resurrections. I should like some of you young men who do not pray at the prayer-meeting to make a start. In Galatians 5:19-21 Paul lists the sins of the flesh. These are the things that governed our lives in the past. Here are some indexes that might be helpful: INDEXES: For a complete list of all the indexes on this blog, click here. Paul had begun by saying that, as we are, we are dead in sins and trespasses; now he says that God in his love and mercy has made us alive in Jesus Christ. He hath "quickened us together with Christ, and hath raised us up together." What does that mean? In body and mind they are under the control of Satan, and consequently are rebellious against God (2:1-3). What We Are - v. 4-7 (Alive with Christ), III. He used to walk the streets at evening time. You might as well just, you know, get into a fuzz of drugs or into the folly of liquor, because there is no sense in trying to be sober. Left him with 10,000 men to face the 135,000 Midianites. And sometimes if they didn't feed me when I wanted to be fed, I would flail and kick and scream and holler. Your self-made man usually worships his creator very earnestly; and your self-saved man glorifies him that saved him. Exodus 24:1-8 gives us a dramatic picture of how the Jewish people accepted the covenant and its conditions--"All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do" ( Exodus 24:3; Exodus 24:7). And as there is one Lord, so "one faith." If you don't, your wife does. Web2 as for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. We were living in the sphere of rebellion against God (cf. Forgive us when we create barriers rather than tear them down. He is startled a hundred times. Reader 1 There is a response in this reading. Why was it not so with the young man? If God reveals it now, the idea of man of ourselves being the first and main object in the mind of God is impossible. 2:13-18 But as things now are, because of what Christ Jesus has done, you who were once far off have been brought near, at the price of the blood of Christ. "[1] (1Timothy 5:6; Revelation 3:1). Paul cannot do without Christ, you see. Well, dear friends, if we have been quickened, we have been quickened from above. And desire is not simply a fleshly thing; it is the craving for any forbidden thing. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. (iii) In the end sin kills the will. And it is just a joy and a pleasant delight, to gather with God's people and to just experience God's love and the love within the family of God. By fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, men contract that filthiness of flesh and spirit from which the apostle exhorts Christians to cleanse themselves, 2 Corinthians 7:1. And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins. The rotten Lazarus may come out of his tomb, as well as the slumbering maiden from her bed. Loose him, and let him go ." How everything is connected with Christ! 2:19-22 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners resident in a land that is not their own, but you are fellow citizens with God's consecrated people and members of the family of God. P: We come to celebrate Gods abiding love! We have not earned salvation nor could we have earned it. I speak to you who are quickened by grace. Connected with nature, He has sealed us, as it is said here and elsewhere; and connected with relationship, He is the earnest. We let cruel words slip out of our mouths, disguised as humour or opinion. "Sow an act and reap a habit; sow a habit and reap a character; sow a character and reap a destiny.". I don't want to commit myself to God." I would want to make it a great day.Now, do you think that our Father is any different? That judgment had fallen on Him necessarily and unsparingly; but in the face of everything calculated to hinder, God's power broke up the last stronghold of the enemy. Thanks Be to God For This Change - v.8-10, 2:110 Pauls prayer (Eph 1:1523) refers to Gentiles (non-Jews) becoming part of Gods family. The man who is under their domination has taken sides against God. Is it so? The Son would be a creature not self-subsisting, not therefore truly God. Ah! It is Christ, Christ, Christ, Christ; like the harp of Anacreon. And the warmth of God's truth as it just bears witness to our spirits.But Paul said that we were all once in that boat where Satan was guiding, leading to a shipwreck. He found her in an attic room. They said that they did not know. He that is alive unto God asks for what he wants, and believes that he shall have it, and he gets it. James 2:26 Verse 2 begins a description of Spiritual death. It is no use merely taking it up as a name or barren title. ". I know it on the best authority, and the truest, too. There is bondage. Tell a man who is breathing that there is no air. God Himself is acting for His own glory and according to His own love. There was Jesus lying in the grave; and from that grave God raised Him, and set Him on the highest pinnacle of heaven's glory not only of that which then was, but that ever shall be. Is there not good reason for saying that the church is but a consequence? But, besides the new man which lives in dependence, we need to guard against losing power according to God. There is the whole Trinity in that one verse, Christ, the Spirit, the Father. Remake us, Lord, again into your image, for we choose to imitate you. That reality will lead to despair, therefore you cannot face reality. We are It is impossible to exaggerate the snares and difficulties of Christendom. God alone is worthy of worship. The relationship in the Godhead has nothing to do with the question of time; and the great mistake that has been wrought by all human philosophy is from introducing notions of time where time can have no place whatever. But the father said to his slaves, "Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found." The experience of sin had left a kind of tarnishing film on his mind and things could never be quite the same again. And strangers from the covenants of promise. We would readily agree that the robber, murderer, the razor-slasher, the drunkard, the gangster are sinners, but, since most of us are respectable citizens, in our heart of hearts we think that sin has not very much to do with us. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:21-23 NIV). This cheek might mantle with a blush to tell the deeds of darkness which some of the ungodly of this world habitually practise. A pencil produced in the factory this week is neos ( G3501) , but there already exist millions exactly like it. 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. Sometimes through an uncurtained window he would see a family sitting round the table or the fire in happy fellowship; then the curtain would be drawn and he would feel shut out, and lonely in the dark. Is a man as good a husband as he might be? They would put a hoop on a pole, and each man would take his quiver of arrows and shoot his arrows through the hoop one at a time. Glorious God, we come in worship this morning well aware of falling short of our glory. Hallelujah! But I ripped off this poster that was there because it was so intriguing. Once more, we are told, "He hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." The moment the apostle comes to inward relationship, he leaves the universality of phrase and speaks only of the saints of God "in you all." Here he is drawing the contrast between the life of the Gentile and of the Jew. Reader 2 You, there, youre scruffy, youre tough. Be it our part with diligence (for this is needed) "to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.". That they do not appear in the original Greek text in this place. We all benefit from your creativity and generosity. The Jews believed that God had approached their nation with a special offer. 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! He may sit in the heavenlies; Christ is there as his Representative. I would rather find Christ where he is not, than not to find him where he is. But Biblical Christianity probes the patient to the quick. for you; alas! I may have some here. He may shed abroad the love of God therein; but He is rather said to dwell in us, making the body God's temple. (vi) It is life which is deserving only of the wrath of God. It is not. Paul will speak of nothing good except that which comes "through Christ Jesus." Indeed, these are the very qualities of God Himself. Then, without delay, the next verses introduce a general view of the glorious topic that occupied him. Ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; You are not only in the kingdom, but you are in the royal household, which is better still. But in Ephesians we are in presence of a new creation in Christ, where claim is out of the question. Matthew 12:35; Matthew 15:18-19), and not because of sins of other (Ezekiel 18:20). Reader 1 You are no longer strangers. 3 say to god, how awesome are your deeds! With the coming of Christ the Gentile entered into that new view of history in which a man is always on the way to God. 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. These verses continue the theme of redemption (Ephesians 1:7). Talking about that forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. Throughout the epistle all the secret is just this God would associate us with Christ (that is, of course, in everything that is consistent with the maintenance of the divine glory). III. There is nobody here who would like to go and live in a grave. He was not constrained to enter into a full or long explanation. "Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit." Introducing this great practical truth, he reminds them of what they had been, but also tells them what they are now. And he would have to treat the rest of the fellows to the drinks. Who that knows what man is, and God, as Christ has made both known, would dare to rest in any one person or thing which did not find its brightest form in Christ Himself? Jesus has something to do about each of them. so that nothing could make walls between people. The following summaries about call to worship ephesians 2 will help you make more personal choices about more accurate and faster information. . Therefore we need never fear, no matter what the blessing and the privilege may be. (J) 6And God raised us up with Christ(K) and seated us with him(L) in the heavenly realms(M) in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace,(N) expressed in his kindness(O) to us in Christ Jesus. And he said, "Who are you? God loves us so much he gave us You have much about you that is lovely, but you have just begun to indulge in evil habits; you have not yet become the desperate sinner; you have not yet become altogether noxious in the eyes of other men; you are but beginning to sin, you are like the young man carried out on his bier; you have not yet become the confirmed drunkard; you have not yet begun to curse and blaspheme God; you are still accepted in good society; you are not yet cast out; but you are dead, thoroughly dead, just as dead as the third and worst case. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whosoever believes in Him does not perish but has everlasting life. (118) Il expose et esclarcit ce quil avoit dit ci-dessus. He explains and illustrates what he had formerly said.. (AM) 18For through him we both have access(AN) to the Father(AO) by one Spirit. But outside of Christ the message is true. See how Paul's language grows and swells and rises as he proceeds! Their governor was God. (Ephesians 3:1-21) The closing theme shows us where and with whom are our true conflicts as Christians. This is the point. The object is "us," and the prepositional phrase "with Christ" describes "us." Do you not hear the noise of the infernal bellows when "the children of disobedience: swear, and use unclean language? Jesus could occupy Himself in divine love. They both mean the same thing; he missed the mark. Now you have become also sympathetic with similar life in others. For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus for good works, works which God prepared beforehand that we might walk in them. How solemn to learn what the old man is in its most detestable forms, against all which the Christian is warned! In Christ we are made new through his blood; In Christ we are forgiven, signed with the Spirit. But there was no real purpose to your life. When a person really and truly falls in love, his love compels him to goodness. Though it is the mystery of Christ, it is not exclusively about Christ. As a Christian you're going to have to learn to go against the current. He made us at the first; he has new-made us. Self would have hindered; had there been a particle, it would have ruined both His person and His work; but this is not the truth as it is in Jesus. The sword must be the real intrinsic power of the word wielded in the Spirit, which does not spare anything. We confess to you that we resist this work in us. Look back to what you used to be, to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged: "You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.". (AP), 19Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers,(AQ) but fellow citizens(AR) with Gods people and also members of his household,(AS) 20built(AT) on the foundation(AU) of the apostles and prophets,(AV) with Christ Jesus himself(AW) as the chief cornerstone. 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