But it is by grace, God's glorious gift of love to me. The effect of a great love is always a cleansing thing. He talks of "the remote tribes of barbarians belonging to the bestial class." 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. For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves ( Ephesians 2:8 ): What not of yourselves? Oh, you did stutter and stammer over it! He made for them, and in them, new heavens and a new earth.". For example, the Matthew and Luke accounts of the Lord's Prayer use the words interchangeably; and, as Blaikie said, "The distinction cannot be carried out in all other passages. Contents. Sort of concluding, you might as well bomb out and stay drunk, there is nothing else, too much pain to try to face reality.Sort of the philosophy that a lot of people have taken today. (i) We saw that sin kills innocence. We know ourselves chosen, adopted as children of God. The next day they came back to see that the grave was all right and to their astonishment could not find it. But if we are to walk thus, let us not forget the prayer for the state of our hearts which precedes these exhortations. Is not this the meaning of the institution? Would God send out and bring in the Gentiles to fill their place? Meanwhile it is again presented to us in this new fact, that we are brought in as objects of His perfect favour in the Beloved. It was as though a tarnishing breath had swept over the reminiscent mirror of his mind and left a little film behind it, so that no past thing he wished to see therein was reflected with quite the same pristine clearness. ~ survey response 30. But in Jesus, the Son of God, there was this character of Son in His own title and being from everlasting. 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. Have we reached the goal of goodness to which we might have attained? And mark; as in the case of the maiden the sin was in the chamber, secret; in the next case it was in the open streets, public; but in this case it is secret again. I believe that God liked it better than many of the collections. For we are his workmanship.". He gives them new life, and he does this on the basis of Christs death and resurrection. And as to his wife, he instantly understands, though he had been in a deep sleep while she was being formed. He gave Himself for us. There he blows his coals, there he fabricates his instruments. In the Scriptural view, sin equals death; and there is no light or casual view of either in the Bible. Our work bears fruit that makes a difference. Please note: If you use material from this blog, please be careful to credit the original author and source. Hence we are said to be "light in the Lord," and we need to shake off the things of death that encumber the light, and hinder it. For we were by nature, that is, we were doing what comes naturally to the fallen man. Our English word sin comes from a root "to miss." 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. In the Iliad (6: 146-149) Glaucus and Diomede meet in single combat. Your self-made man usually worships his creator very earnestly; and your self-saved man glorifies him that saved him. And she used to say, "Son, it doesn't make any difference if everybody is doing it or not. I know the heart of this people. We come to prayer too rarely, and we ask of you too sparingly. Yet this is one of the results of our possessing the new life; and I will say this, the sharpest pang of spiritual life is better than the highest joy of carnal life. Oh, dear friends, let us never have a dead creed! These verses are really preliminary to Pauls main point. From the beginning, through all the crises of our times, until his kingdom fully comes, God keeps covenant forever. Utter strangers to the covenants made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. If you have been quickened by the Spirit of God, your prayers are living prayers. But it is very different in relation to the mother whose child he killed. But hamartia ( G266) brings us face to face with what sin is, the failure to be what we ought to be and could be. As a Christian you're going to have to learn to go against the current. Brilliant colors flashed across this black background. When we were still dead in our trespasses and sins God loved us.God has loved you from eternity, there has never been a time when God didn't love you. What is the effect of this life upon us? Whereas you talk about so many who say, "When I get to my death bed, maybe, you know, I will consider turning my life over to Him. Does he inflict his moods on his family? We all benefit from your creativity and generosity. ib;. It is the failure in any sphere of life to be what we ought to be and could be. The flesh is that part of our nature which gives sin a bridgehead and a point of attack. He remembers his covenant forever, This divine life usually begins with pain. The mark that God has established for you is perfection. He could condescend. But no matter how hard we may try to hit the mark, none of us have really hit the mark that God has required for man. Many a man's life is embittered because he feels that he has never had what his talents and his work deserve; but in the sight of God no man deserves anything but condemnation. A man is where his head is, is he not? God is not only love but light; and inasmuch as this epistle reveals how fully God associates us with Christ according to His own nature, so having first shown us the privilege of loving, as He Himself loved us in Christ, now it shows that we are made "light in the Lord." They were a comedy team who specialized in country music parodies and "I should break down," says one. If everybody is jumping in the fire, are you going to jump in the fire? But suppose that someone whom both of these conflicting parties love comes and talks to them, there is every chance that peace will be made. Call to Worship (Ephesians 1) Hope in Christ! "To be dead in trespasses and sins does not mean unconsciousness or non-existence. "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. God Is Spirit Before the creation of the heavens and the earth, there was nothing but God. "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." WebPrayer of Confession. His glory is the first object of our being. Ah, whither shall we flee? 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. Try it FREE right now! Do you remember when the new life came into you? Contemporary Call to Worship But for this the most careful provision is laid on us. Paul seems to allow no middle ground, a person is either dead or alive. He gave us life when we were born; but he has given us now a higher life, which could not be found anywhere else. Thus we have had, first of all, the great spiritual reality which is always true of Christians, and of none else. They come to us, and ask, "What is this? The instructor is dead, and you are dead. And now but one thing I have to say to those who are quickened; and then adieu this morning, and may God bless you! That is because this is far more a lyric of the love of God than a careful theological exposition. , . There must always be something about him: "Having abolished in his flesh. 11Therefore, remember that formerly(X) you who are Gentiles by birth and called uncircumcised by those who call themselves the circumcision (which is done in the body by human hands)(Y) 12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners(Z) to the covenants of the promise,(AA) without hope(AB) and without God in the world. Even as are the generations of leaves such are those likewise of men; the leaves that be the wind scattereth upon the earth, and the forest buddeth and putteth forth more again, when the season of spring is at hand, so of the generations of men one putteth forth and another ceaseth." It is a very blessed experience to be able to walk on earth, and look up to heaven; but it is a higher experience to live in heaven, and look down on the earth; and this is what the believer may do. You cannot resolve to "groan at one o'clock, and weep at three o'clock." my brother, alas! Life sees no charm in death. 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. To the Gentile life was not worth living; to the Jew it was the way to greater life. 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. "Among whom also we all had our conversation in time past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as the rest. Some who are strong swimmers may swim for a mile or two before they go under. Jesus has made us members of the household of God and he holds us togetherthrough the power of his Spirit. Lastly, "one God and Father of all." 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. In what sense were the people of Israel different from other peoples? This style of speech is left to those who scout divine inspiration. How is it that I find some who say they are people of God; but yet are rather fond of wearing their grave-clothes? God is King! P: We come to celebrate Gods abiding love! If it be illustrated in Christ, if it be bound up with Him, fear not to trust simply and to believe implicitly. We are made partakers of the divine nature, or course, in a modified sense, but still in a true sense. The practical outcome of all this, that some of you do not know anything at all about it. You were really not going anywhere, you were just existing. He has raised us from the dead. Good works can never earn salvation; but there is something radically wrong if salvation does not produce good works. Matthew 12:35; Matthew 15:18-19), and not because of sins of other (Ezekiel 18:20). We were dead, all of us; and yet we were not all like one another. No doubt it is a giving up of self, and therefore the fruit of divine grace. And desire is not simply a fleshly thing; it is the craving for any forbidden thing. Again, I have in my presence young men who have grown to riper years than that fair damsel who died in her childhood. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. They are dead because of sinful acts that they themselves have committed (cf. It is not merely that he accepts names given him by God, but God delights in putting him in this place of lordship, and to a certain extent also of fellowship lordship to that which is below him, and fellowship as regarded his wife. To those who have not, I daresay it will seem as an idle tale. Encourage them to do so, let them tell you their difficulties. young man, I weep, I weep over thee; thou art not yet so far gone, that they have rolled the stone against thee; thou art not yet become obnoxious; thou art not yet the staggering drunkard, nor yet the blasphemous infidel; thou hast much that is ill about thee, but thou hast not gone all the lengths yet. A thing which is kainos ( G2537) is new in the sense that it brings into the world a new quality of thing which did not exist before. But, at the same time, our living prayer bursts out hours before the appointed time, or sometimes it will not come at the time. For less than $5/mo. Ephesians 4:18; John 17:3). Among whom also we all had our conversation ( Ephesians 2:3 ). How blessed is the character and the spring of Christian service! They had a distinguished place before the Son became man. Reader 1 Christ came and proclaimed peace. We are sealed with the mark of the Holy Alas! Now, as life comes thus with strange surprises, and mingled with pain, so, dear friends, it comes often with many questions. When the believer is at his worst, he is better than the unbeliever at his best; his reasons for happiness are always transcendently above all the reasons for joy that worldlings can never know. He wished to sing of Cadmus; but his harp resounded love alone; and so the harp of Paul resounds with Christ alone, Christ alone. It is told that when Pericles, the greatest of the Athenians, was walking forward to address the Athenian assembly, he used to say to himself: "Pericles, remember that you are an Athenian and that you talk to Athenians." You see, after the total indulgence of the lust of his flesh, not withholding anything from himself, he came to the conclusion life is empty and frustrating; there is nothing worthwhile under the sun. This is the one conduit-pipe through which the streams of living water flow to the dead in sin; God's grace comes to us "Through Christ Jesus", and through him alone. And why is all this? The wages of sin is death. I wish you would. The three main verbs are "made alive" (Ephesians 2:5), "raised up" (Ephesians 2:6), and "seated" (Ephesians 2:6). 22. He was lonely. Paul closes this passage with a great exposition of that paradox which always lies at the heart of his view of the gospel. Another plan discloses itself. We had no sense with which to comprehend spiritual things. True, he starts with adultery and fornication, but he goes on to idolatry, hatred, wrath, strife, envyings, seditions, heresies. Those things result in death! All of us have sinned, all of us have missed the mark. Whatever was the current fad, here I am, flowing with it, you know. And they seem to have no qualms yielding and flowing with the will of Satan, which will lead to their ultimate destruction. (i) Paul insists that it is by grace that we are saved. But outside of Christ the message is true. So with the psalmist in Psalm 32 , I can say, "Oh how happy is the man, whose transgressions are forgiven. for you; alas! I told you just now that the life which the Holy Spirit gives us when we are born again, is the life of God. Christ and you are one now, and you are made to live together with him. The third case goes further still in the manifestation of death; for it is the case of which Martha, using strong words, said, "Lord, by this time he stinketh; for he hath been dead four days." Then we hear the particulars, and in a very orderly manner. Do you not hear the noise of the infernal bellows when "the children of disobedience: swear, and use unclean language? Tired of being on the heights I deliberately went to the depths in search for new sensation. Other nations might be governed by democracy or aristocracy; Israel was a theocracy. The words he uses are interesting. Someone may even make it almost to the pier, a hundred feet off of the pier and gulp, gulp, gulp, you know.Now, you have all come short, no one made it. Nor is there full Christian service, except in proportion as it is according to this pattern and in this power. And you hath he quickened - The words hath he quickened, or made to live, are supplied, but not improperly, by our translators. God has called you to be His child. Josephus, in his description of the Temple, says: "When you went through these first cloisters unto the second court of the Temple, there was a partition made of stone all round, whose height was three cubits. (AX) 21In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple(AY) in the Lord. That is the result of life. It creeps along, pleased to make any kind of progress; and when it gets up on its little feet, it moves from one chair to another, trembling at every step it takes, and presently, down it goes. They have jaded themselves. They were dead in relation to that to which they afterward became alive - i. e., to holiness. This cheek might mantle with a blush to tell the deeds of darkness which some of the ungodly of this world habitually practise. The child has a thousand things to ask; it has to learn everything. And what then is the truth as it is in Jesus? I am having fun. Then the apostle introduces us to another topic. The corpse looks like life still; yet is your beloved one in the coffin as dead as the mangled bodies on the battle-field. Call to Worship #2: L: We gather to share in our love of God. Then, without delay, the next verses introduce a general view of the glorious topic that occupied him. A religion based on all kinds of rules and regulations, about sacred rituals and sacrifices and days, can never be a universal religion. There is his drunkenness; oh, what a fight will he have with that! Hath quickened us together with Christ. Psalm 18: Part C- Jesus Resurrection Song, Psalm 51: Standing under the shower of Confession, Psalm 54: Help me now as youve helped me before. We are his workmanship say some of the translations of Ephesians 2:10. The epistle to the Ephesians truly understood will help none so to do. There is a change somewhere;" and that change is from death to life, from darkness into God's marvellous light. Is a man as good a husband as he might be? (i) He says that that life was lived in sins and trespasses. III. Call to Worship from Ephesians 2: We are saved by Gods grace. C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. Do not the tears rain on her, as if they would sow the seeds of life in that dead earth again? That would cease, for God is a Spirit, they that worship Him worship Him in Spirit and in truth. All the good works in the world cannot put us right with God; but there is something radically wrong with the Christianity which does not issue in good works. -(c)2020, Nathan Decker, worshipswake.wodpress.com. And they began to be merry (Luke 15:21-24 NASB). Talking about that forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden. He goes farther, and says, "Be filled with the Spirit." The sinner chooses to live in contempt of any law or higher authority that would supersede his own will. I must not attempt to describe it; words would fail me, and you would be too much shocked. for your ways are kindness, tenderness, forgiveness. ", But there are other elements. 4 all the earth bows down to you; they sing praise to you, they sing the praises of your name. 8 praise our god, all peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard; 9 he has preserved our lives and kept our The apostle treats it as our business diligently to observe it. The worm had not yet begun to gnaw her cheek, the flush had not yet faded from her face; she seemed well-night alive. 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. Paul tells Timothy, "But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives" (1 Timothy 5:6 NASB). He is one who does not subject himself to any authority and, therefore, practices "lawlessness." I trust you will understand what I wish to convey that the death is the same in all cases; but the manifestations of it is different; and that the life must come from God, and from God alone. "This is a great mystery," he adds at the close; "but I speak as to Christ and as to the church.". But pleasantly shocked, that I would want to make that one of the greatest days of his life. In Him we enter into favour, "in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences," not exactly according to the praise of his glory, "but according to the riches of His grace." 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. The young man was the son of a widow. Not a word is said of sending Him into the world, or of His life and labours there, any more than of our doing this or being that. The re:Worship survey on pandemic worship practices has been completed. At first a man engages in some forbidden pleasure because he wants to do so; in the end he engages in it because he cannot help doing so. Man by his very nature cannot bring perfection to God; and so, if ever man is to win his way to God, it must always be God who gives and man who takes. We had neither the eye that could see, nor the ear that could hear, nor the power that could feel. That man who came down but was found alone to the end of His earthly course would now be alone no more; He would have a new and suited body, believing Jews and Gentiles fellow-heirs and of the same body. 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. Now, they do appear in the original Greek text down in verse Ephesians 2:5 , but it does not appear here at the beginning of this text. And so I gave myself to understanding and to wisdom, I said, 'The answer must lie in knowing,' and so I applied myself to wisdom until I was the smartest man in the world. ye are dead! This he did that in himself he might make the two into one new man, by making peace between them, and that he might reconcile both to God in one body through the Cross, after he had slain the enmity by what he did. I dare not come downstairs without speaking to him. trespasses and sins -- The Greek words used here, paraptma and hamartia, describe the evil that controls and characterizes human life apart from God. By grace are you saved.Now, not only has He made me alive. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect" ( Matthew 5:48 ). Are we as good workmen as we could be? Friends, as we gather our thoughts into quietness. Blessed be God! Just now, we read of "God, who is rich in mercy"; now the apostle speaks of "the exceeding riches of his grace", exceeding expression, exceeding comprehension, exceeding even sin itself, though that is all but infinite. Besides, take "the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one." And so Christ gives us more light. In Ephesians death is the very first place where we find even Christ. who were dead in trespasses and sins; not only dead in Adam, in whom they sinned, being their federal head and representative; and in a legal sense, the sentence of condemnation and death having passed upon them; but in a moral sense, through original sin, and their own actual transgressions: which death lies in a separation from God, Father, Son, and Spirit, such are without God, and are alienated from the life of God, and they are without Christ, who is the author and giver of life, and they are sensual, not having the Spirit, who is the spirit of life; and in a deformation of the image of God, such are dead as to their understandings, wills, and affections, with respect to spiritual things, and as to their capacity to do any thing that is spiritually good; and in a loss of original righteousness; and in a privation of the sense of sin and misery; and in a servitude to sin, Satan, and the world: hence it appears, that man must be in himself unacceptable to God, infectious and hurtful to his fellow creatures, and incapable of helping himself: so it was usual with the Jews to call a wicked and ignorant man, a dead man; they say i, "there is no death like that of those that transgress the words of the law, who are called, , "dead men", and therefore the Scripture says, "turn and live". What was our lifestyle? VII, p. 23. Take them down to the stream and let them get a drink of water. That in fact is always what love does. But Biblical Christianity probes the patient to the quick. dear friends, I cannot take you to see Lazarus in his grave. we want to know what is right and do what is right. The first was the young maiden, the daughter of Jairus , who, when she lay on her bed dead, rose up to life at the single utterance of Christ, " Talitha cumi !" Sin brings forth death, and death brings forth corruption. HOMER: Jethro, if you had two big luxurious houses like those ones in the Beverly Hills and I was livin yonder under the bridge without no home, would you give me one of your big luxurious houses? Believe in Christ! The young man has not yet drained the intoxicating cup, although he has had some whisperings of the sweetness of it; he has not yet run into the ways of wickedness, though he has had temptations thrust upon him; as yet he has kept his sin in his chamber, and most of it has been unseen. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' sake. Once is enough for the intelligent. 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. A. Oh, the thrill of joy that has sometimes gone through our spirits! He came and preached peace to you who were far off. He loves his Son, and we love his Son. It becomes the pleasure, the delight, the thrill of our lives. Oh how happy is the man whose sins are covered. . God has made our conscience quick as the apple of the eye; he has made our soul as sensitive as a raw wound, so that the very shadow of sin falling on the believer's heart will cause him great pain; and, if he does go into the actual sin, then, like David, he talks about his bones being broken, and it is not too strong a figure of the sorrow that comes upon the believing heart when sin has been committed, and God has been grieved. Now you have become also sympathetic with similar life in others. Paul thinks of this building going on and on, with each part of the building being fitted into Christ. What exactly did he mean by that? 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. Well, first, we have become now sentient towards God. 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