All the chances are that the breach will remain unhealed, for peace is seldom made on the basis of a legal document. 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. He would have something more. Herein is love. The father in this parable represents God and shows our Fathers continuing love for his children who have forsaken the right way. it grieves me to the heart, to think that some of you are all that heart could wish, except that one thing; yet lacking that which is the only thing that can deliver you. One of the tragedies of the nineteenth century was the career of Oscar Wilde. Verse Ephesians 2:1. Paul thinks of this building going on and on, with each part of the building being fitted into Christ. That peace is won at the price of his blood, for the great awakener of love is the Cross. We all benefit from your creativity and generosity. 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. The ages to come will have for their wonder the quickened children of God. It is the failure in any sphere of life to be what we ought to be and could be. That paradox has two arms. It is not that our good works put God in our debt; rather that God's love lays on us the obligation to try throughout all life to be worthy of it. It is impossible to exaggerate the snares and difficulties of Christendom. though we never earned it and dont deserve it. God would frame a new sort of workmanship worthy of Himself; and therefore all question of antecedent measures disappears. 2 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 (ii) The Gentiles had no hope of a Messiah. 13. In point of fact, He looks for the expression and exercise of it, be assured, from all of us, though no doubt according to our measure. God is King! When I tried to hide my guilt I was miserable. Few would venture on so bold a statement as that; but if you boldly do the thing, I must speak of it. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. I do not deny but that a Christian may slip elsewhere. (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. CALL TO WORSHIP Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth. To us it could be but eternal purpose, to Him eternal being; to us pure grace, but to Him His own indefeasible right. The next verse shows that this is not forgotten, for account is taken of the fact, and it is provided for. Well, then, we have a new life. "Trespasses" literally means to "fall beside," and "sins" literally means "a failing to hit the mark" (Thayer 485, 30). We so easily convince ourselves that we deserve a little more. "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;" not that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, but "rooted," etc., that ye "may be able to comprehend with all saints." That is, we were living by the lower nature, the animal nature, living after the lust of our flesh, and the lust of our minds. So go out and tell all of the men who are afraid to go to war to go home." "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." (iii) Greater than anything else, Jesus Christ revives and restores the lost will. We come to prayer too rarely, and we ask of you too sparingly. And if you've ever been to Jerusalem, you know how common rocks are around that city. Oh! Impossible that the creature could be or do so; and therefore the creature is never said to be love. It is only his love in Christ which has forgiven men who deserved nothing but punishment from him, men who had grieved his love and broken his law. In Jesus name we pray. This, then, was what was needed for the principalities and powers, and this is what they behold in the church of God. So with the psalmist in Psalm 32 , I can say, "Oh how happy is the man, whose transgressions are forgiven. We have had the gospel thus in all the epistles that have gone before. Such is the measure, if measure it can be called, of the grace wherein we stand. Glory from the church, glory from generation upon generation. Do we ever even try to say thank you for what has been done for us? ", This problem of the barriers is by no means confined to the ancient world. Accordingly we hear inGenesis 2:1-25; Genesis 2:1-25 how he gave names to all that was put under him. Here we come to what is universal. ". Now we must turn to the diversities. Now, as life comes thus with strange surprises, and mingled with pain, so, dear friends, it comes often with many questions. He has forgiven you in Christ; and you are called to do the same. Note, too, that in the case of this maiden, whom we have introduced to you, the daughter of Jairus, she is yet caressed ; she has only been dead a moment or two, and the mother still presses her cheek with kisses. Here are some indexes that might be helpful. That is what cannot happen in the family of God. But the Gentiles had no such hope. There is no work that you can do that can make you alive spiritually. All the enmity of natural men is against that truth. That is what Christ does for a man. Sin brings forth death, and death brings forth corruption. When Aristotle is discussing bestiality, he says: "It is found most frequently among barbarians," and by barbarians he simply meant non-Greeks. When the Psalmist sang: "I will extol thee, my God and king" ( Psalms 145:1) he meant it literally. Jesus ended legalism as a principle of religion. dear friends, I cannot take you to see Lazarus in his grave. Oh! A day he wants to share with his dad. You are full members of the family of God." Such an one must have only got the lower end of the line, and not the full truth in its own native purity and freshness from God. 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. 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. Down among the foundations there may be a Saxon crypt; on some of the doorways or the windows there may be a Norman arch; one part may be Early English and another Decorated and another Gothic; some may have been added in our own day. But it gets up again, and so it learns to walk. And they don't know the joy that we have in the presence of the Lord as we worship Him and as we sing unto Him our love and our praises and our thanksgiving. In Christ we are blessed, in Christ we are chosen. That is because this is far more a lyric of the love of God than a careful theological exposition. Web14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its The living child of God likes to get as far as ever he can away from the death that once held him bound. For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus for good works, works which God prepared beforehand that we might walk in them. Through Jesus there is a place for all men in the family of God. We commonly have a wrong idea of sin. That not of yourself, the faith didn't come from you. Visit that site for many other excellent lectionary-based worship resources. 3. There was a moral necessity for a nature suitable to God, if we were to be in His presence at all; but there was none for this special relationship. He that has the divine life is lifted up into the infinities; he gets to hear that which cannot be heard, and see that which cannot be seen, for "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. The sinner chooses to live in contempt of any law or higher authority that would supersede his own will. Following the fads.But then Paul gives us an awesome insight, and that is that these fads and fashions of the world are really being directed by none other than Satan. That is not the result of killing the seven-headed dragon and grabbing the three golden apples. 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. When the elder called at this old woman's cellar with the cards, he found that she had gone. However this be, "We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works," a peculiar kind of good works, suited to the relationship in which we stand. Very naturally. Before Christ the barriers were up; after Christ the barriers were down. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Never were they to reign; never will they be one with Christ like the saints. What a difference that news would make! Not that we love God, but that God loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 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). I would like to just commit to You." They are clearly identified in each blog post. No statement can be conceived more exact. It sees not, and hears not, and feels not. That is, we don't deserve it. The miserable condition of the Ephesians by nature is here in part described. ye are dead! She was very poor and there were no luxuries, but the attic was as light and airy and clean as the cellar had been dark and dismal and dirty. If God reveals it now, the idea of man of ourselves being the first and main object in the mind of God is impossible. Isn't that what existential philosophy pretty much declares? And then maybe we can do a little water skiing in the afternoon, and I would be looking for those things that we could really enjoy together. Observed, 1. 20, Ephesians, p. 61. We know ourselves loved, but we balk at the cost. Its unity comes not from organization, or ritual, or liturgy; it comes from Christ. That reality will lead to despair, therefore you cannot face reality. 110 and 2:1122. Perhaps he believes that there is, because he was brought up to believe it; but he is not cognizant of God; God has not entered into him; he has not come into contact with God. That is living prayer. They had seen the ways of God with man, and with Israel; and surely they had entered into the glory of God that was involved in all His ways. The word course has its root meaning in Greek weathervane. He that is alive unto God asks for what he wants, and believes that he shall have it, and he gets it. In Corinthians we have this, and properly in its place. Men by nature are all dead. III. He came and preached peace to you who were far off. I have been joined back together with God through the Spirit. The first thing sin does is create a feeling of estrangement between us and God. "Rejoice, O my soul, in thy youth; soon shall other men be in life, "No mortal is happy of all on whom the sun looks down. Thank God, dear hearer, if you have living pangs. [Using THE FAITH WE SING, p. 2080, "All I Need Is You", offer the following call to worship] L: Place your trust in the Lord. P: Cast away those things which detract from your faith in God. L: God will provide for all your needs. P: The love of Jesus Christ and his witness strengthens and sustains us. ALL: AMEN! His grace has predestinated us to the very highest relation that of sons unto Himself by Jesus Christ "according to the good pleasure of his will." Hence the condition in which we were found here below came into view; and, as we have seen, it was total ruin, whether Jew or Gentile be looked at. We are very changeable; but when God is with us, when the days are spiritually bright and long, and we have come into the midsummer of our heavenly bliss, we would not change places with the angels, knowing that by-and-by we shall be nearer to the throne than they are; and, while they are God's honoured servants, yet they are not beloved sons as we are. "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God." . 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? For it is by grace appropriated by faith that you have been saved. That is the result of life. No God? The son, who "was dead" to his father, repents and confesses his sin. (There is no need to credit the re:Worship blog itself.). . The Son is as truly man as God, and as such gives gifts to men. There we were, tripping right along with the crowd, as they were trying to satisfy the lust of their flesh, and the lust of their mind. This pericope is a condensation of Pauls exposition of redemption in Romans. What is the other?" The course and tenour of their lives are according to his suggestions, and in compliance with his temptations; they are subject to him, and are led captive by him at his will, whereupon he is called the god of this world, and the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Is a woman as good a wife as she might be? But it is by grace, God's glorious gift of love to me. Meanwhile He tenderly cares for the church. 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. God then brings out His own secret, after having kept it hidden from all past ages and generations, though, of course, it has been before Him from the beginning. Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Ephesians, the second chapter.Paul is going to talk about someone tonightvery interesting. The mark of the pierced hand is on everything: "We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus.". He says that the middle wall of the barrier between has been torn down. A religion based on love can at once be a universal religion. Stand, oh stand away from him. 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. WebA CALL TO WORSHIP From the Shadows to Reality! As much dead as the worst of men, although your death is not so apparent. There he blows his coals, there he fabricates his instruments. Are you. For the Lord is a gracious god, whose mercy is everlasting; and whose faithfulness endures to all generations. New International Version (NIV), Jew and Gentile Reconciled Through Christ, In contexts like this, the Greek word for. (i) We saw that sin kills innocence. The Call to Worship: As followers of Jesus Christ, living in this world - which some seek to control, but which others view with despair - we declare with joy and trust: Our world belongs to God! Other nations might be governed by democracy or aristocracy; Israel was a theocracy. The very truth which, learnt and enjoyed in the Holy Ghost, conduces to all lowliness and meekness, as it calls for mutual forbearance in love, flesh would abuse to all pride and vain-gloriousness, to high-minded contempt of others, and bitter self-confidence. Dear God we are sorry for not loving people like you do. Certainly not in the first man Adam. This is true of Jews and Gentiles alike. Was there only this? 30. 3 all of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[ a] and following its desires "And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." 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. That is not the result of some great effort on my part. It is told that in the congregation in Edinburgh to which George Matheson came there was an old woman who lived in a cellar in filthy conditions. These words do not attribute to God all wisdom and prudence, which certainly would be nothing new; but they intimate that He has now conferred on His saints all wisdom and prudence. X, p. 638. 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.". You! These are the two former points. WebPaul writes to the Ephesians that "in the past you were spiritually dead because of your disobedienc One of my son's housemates -- Ephesians 2:1-10 -- Fourth Sunday in Lent - B -- 2003 One of my son's housemates at college is an artist. New to this blog? And every believer is where his Head is; and if we are members of Christ's body, we are in heaven. Series A: 2022 - 2023. 3. It would be something like the minister's sermon which he "got up" beforehand, and upon which he wrote in the margin "weep here," "here you must show great emotion." And so Christ gives us more light. No God? The battle of the Reformation has to be fought over again. ~ survey response 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. Where these are made and kept right, we can then safely follow what God will show us in due time, but not otherwise. They believed that it went on for three thousand years; then came a conflagration in which the whole universe was consumed in flames; then the whole process began all over again, and the same events and the same people exactly repeated themselves. He has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, "that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." 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). What was our lifestyle? Israel had always had the radiant hope in God which burned clearly and inextinguishably even in her darkest and most terrible days; but in his heart the Gentile knew only despair, before Christ came to give him hope. And so these gifts are given, as it is said, "till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man., unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up unto him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.". 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. It comes to us with pain; it gives us many surprises; and it suggests a large number of questions. I am inclined to think that the difference lay in the difference of their wealth. The apostle accordingly is now led at the sight of the mystery of Christ into another prayer, in which he asks "the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ [for now he takes up the other relationship,], of whom the whole [rather, every] family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; being rooted and grounded in love, that ye may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fulness of God.". Also he counted on their loving desire to know his affairs as well as to have their hearts comforted through Tychicus. "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 object is "us," and the prepositional phrase "with Christ" describes "us." Who just delights to spend pleasant days together with you. He prayed that they might know what is the hope of their calling. Isaiah 59:1-2. Come into Gods presence with singing! Grace alone would not suffice, glory alone would not serve, but both. And God said Gideon, "The men that are with you are too many, because I know the heart of this people. Copyright 2019 by Zondervan. He was a sinner. It is thus seen to be founded on the great facts and standing privileges mentioned at the end of Ephesians 2:1-22; but it is the desire that the saints should know God's present power to an indefinite extent working in them in spiritual enjoyment, through the Holy Ghost's power, giving us to have Christ the definite and constant object of the heart. And His Spirit is bearing witness with my spirit that I am His child, and because of His Spirit bearing witness with my spirit I cry Abba, I cry Father. When the preacher said that Paul was not a Christian when he wrote those words, though I was only seven days old in divine things, I knew better than that, so I never went there any more. God loves us so much he gave us The Holy Ghost is here viewed according to these two. Observe, therefore, that what was the first in counsel is the last in revelation. They tell me that "creeds are dead." Heres a prayer of confession based on Ephesians 2:11-22. "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling." The rotten Lazarus may come out of his tomb, as well as the slumbering maiden from her bed. He always comes back to that theme. None of us can make it on our own. So totally and absolutely is it outside the range of human thought and feeling that the difficulty is to drop self, to cut all the strings that bind us to human nature and the world, to see all ended even now that is connected with the present course of this age, so that we may be simply occupied and filled with that heavenly blessedness which God unfolds to our souls. The Jews who believe are taken out of their former place, as much as the Gentiles, who had no place. 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. (ii) That is to say that works have nothing to do with earning salvation. The internal state is the great point here. Now Paul uses two pictures, which would be specially vivid to a Jew, to show how that hatred is killed and a new unity has come. 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. IT MIGHT NATURALLY be expected that I should have selected the topic of the resurrection on what is usually called the Easter Sabbath. Not with equal footsteps, but with tottering gait, we follow in that selfsame path that God has marked out for himself. It was done in the very street of the city. Whither shall we flee to avoid the noxious odour of that reeking corpse? To have consciousness is a great mercy, even if it be only painful consciousness, and if every movement of life within seems to harrow up your soul. Does she really take an interest in her husband's work and try to understand his problems and his worries? Ephesians 4: 1-16 Call to Worship: The unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Ephesians 4:1-6) Here with these people you are called into a calling. The general doctrine of this morning is, that every man that is born into the world is dead spiritually, and that spiritual life must be given by the Holy Spirit, and can be obtained from no other source. He Himself is the beginning, He Himself the end, He Himself all the way through. 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. No matter whether Jews or Gentiles, principalities or powers, every family is derived from this universal source of existence "One God and Father of all, who is above all [there we find His supremacy], and through all [there we find His permeance, if one may so say, as the support, of the whole universe], and in you all" [His intimacy with the saints]. Just look into this revelation of His love. Ephesians 2 NIV - Made Alive in Christ - As for you, you - Bible Gateway Made Alive in Christ - As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 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 "Sir," answered the engineer, "I've got a glory." Each of them with ten arrows, and one after another they would shoot their arrow through the hoop there at the top of the pole. We were full of vigour towards everything which was contrary to the law or the holiness of God, we walked according the course of this world; but as for anything spiritual, we were not only somewhat incapable, and somewhat weakened; but we were actually and absolutely dead. When God gives people a new life, they must live a new life (8-10). Ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. When he was suffering for his fall, he wrote his book De Profundis and in it he said: "The gods had given me almost everything. He rules the universe from His heavenly throne Timeweb - , , . In times past you meandered according to the course of this world. His boat was old and he did not worry over much about it; the engines were begrimed and ill-cared for. 8For it is by grace(P) you have been saved,(Q) through faith(R)and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God 9not by works,(S) so that no one can boast. "There is none righteous, no not one." 13But now in Christ Jesus you who once(AC) were far away have been brought near(AD) by the blood of Christ. (AE), 14For he himself is our peace,(AF) who has made the two groups one(AG) and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15by setting aside in his flesh(AH) the law with its commands and regulations. This is the beginning of another extended sentence in the Greek (2:1-10). forgiven and free, through what Christ has done for us. That is what Christ does. Now the word conversation is an old English word, and we have a new definition for that word today. Then suppose someone came with the news that the door was still open and a welcome was waiting at home. Start for FREE. That which you believe, you must believe up to the hilt; believe it livingly, believe it really; for that is not believed at all which is only believed in the letter, but is not felt in the power of it. There is no consciousness of greatness in all the world like that. When young people are converted who have not yet acquired evil habits; when they are saved before they become obnoxious in the eyes of the world, the command is, " Give them meat ." But in regard to religion, all is dead. The practical outcome of all this, that some of you do not know anything at all about it. We were living. I figured it was all right because there were so many around town. WebThanksgiving and praise are called forth in response to a gracious God. And that is what should never happen in a church. Forgive the poverty of our accomplishing. That is, there is a creative connection between God and man which is the source of man's moral relations with God, and the reason why man, and man alone of all creatures on the earth, shall live again and give an account of himself to God. Our world belongs to God! No, it does not; it begins to crawl; it does not walk at first. 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