InEphesians 1:1-23; Ephesians 1:1-23 he began with the Jews, and then showed the Gentiles brought in; but now he begins with the outer circle where the Gentiles were. Now, the highest being that of the Son, we accordingly are brought into that relationship, though not, of course, in the sense in which He was eternally so. The Lord impress this solemn truth on all your hearts by his own spirit; for Jesus Christ's sake! The increase of immorality, the increase of pornography, the acceptance of abortion, and homosexuality, and these other trends that we see, Satan is behind them orchestrating as he is leading the world to hell. thou art dead! CALL TO WORSHIP Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth. So Paul goes on to say that in Christ these barriers are down. An easy path could not be divine, as men and things are on earth. We are his workmanship say some of the translations of Ephesians 2:10. Just as the Canaanites tried to keep the Israelites out of the land which God assured Moses the tribes were to have for their possession, so Satan's great effort is to hinder the saints of God from realizing their blessedness in heavenly places. Outsiders, rank outsiders, far away from any rights, or any participation in the rights of God's children. 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 !" The Marks Of The Christless Life ( Ephesians 2:1-3 Continued). We were dead; but we are quickened by the Spirit of God. We cannot earn God's love; but we can and must show how grateful we are for it, by seeking with our whole hearts to live the kind of life which will bring joy to God's heart. Again, I have in my presence young men who have grown to riper years than that fair damsel who died in her childhood. Oh, be aware of his devices; seek to "keep the heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." They were a comedy team who specialized in country music parodies and If there be a spiritual death, and you are dead, be startled; for within a little while God will say, "Bury my dead out of my sight." You are looking : call to worship ephesians 2. Is it so with us? Unto Good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. This is not a question therefore of the place or standing of the Christian, but rather of his condition or state, which the Spirit would have in unison with the love of Him who alone made either possible. That peace is won at the price of his blood, for the great awakener of love is the Cross. But now, consequent on His resurrection from the dead, and of the place given Him in heaven above all, there was made known to these very principalities and powers "the manifold wisdom of God," made known to them before it came to pass, the sure deliverance of the whole scene of creation, of man, of Israel, as well as of the earth. There are vast plans and projects, and the world is intensely active. God commended His love towards us even that while we were yet sinners Christ died for the ungodly. 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." It is not, of course, a display of glory before men's eyes; yet is it most real a proper dwelling of God on earth, answering to, though not necessarily coextensive with, those who are constituted the body of Christ glorified on high. This new life makes us capable of walking with God; that is a grand thing. 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. Hear then, the good news that in Jesus Christ we are forgiven. 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." Of course that was all rubbish; it cannot be done to order. A. And God said Gideon, "The men that are with you are too many, because I know the heart of this people. "What set you cleaning and polishing these old engines of yours?" For instance, the Jewish Rabbinic writers tell how a Gentile woman came to Rabbi Eliezer. Web(EPHESIANS 2:1718, ALT.) And all this hangs upon that first sentence, "You hath he quickened." If everybody is jumping in the fire, are you going to jump in the fire? In Christ we belong in the family, adopted. And to show my appreciation, Dad, I just thought that today I would come over and just do whatever you would like me to do for you. The tendency has always been when we send missionaries abroad to produce people who wear English clothes and speak the English language. (iii) Greater than anything else, Jesus Christ revives and restores the lost will. People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. Here you see the greatness of his grace, in that "he loved us, even when we were dead in sins.". Dress in your new self, which is being re-formed into the image of God, in true righteousness and holiness.. I knew that no man but a Christian ever could or would cry out against sin with that bitter wail; and that, if the grace of God was not with him, he would rest satisfied and contented; but that, if he felt that sin was a horrible thing, and he was a wretched man because of it, and must be delivered from it, then he surely must be a child of God, especially if he could add, "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.". I might be stumbling onto a phenomena of nature that I don't understand. God loves us so much he gave us 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. 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. Submissions: I am so grateful to those of you who send me your own material to post! P: We come to celebrate Gods abiding love! The children of disobedience are such as choose to disobey God, and to serve the devil; in these he works very powerfully and effectually. Even after all our efforts we still so often feel that we have not done enough. It was Jesus; and Jesus stood in what was altogether peculiar in a relationship that was perfectly according to God's counsels; but more than that, according to a relationship that was peculiar to His own person. Here he prays to the Father of our Lord Jesus, not simply to the God that had raised up the Christ from the dead, and was glorifying Him on high. If you don't, your wife does. I speak to you who are quickened by grace. And they began to be merry (Luke 15:21-24 NASB). In the Greek text Ephesians 2:1-7 are one sentence. And so Gideon took the 300. Young people, search after an instructive minister; seek after instructive books; search the Scriptures, and seek to be instructed: that is your principal business. Whenever a man realizes that he has sinned, he is oppressed with the feeling that he dare not approach God. Rita Snowden tells a story of the war. He broke down longstanding walls of prejudice and hostility between Jew and Gentile,male and female, slave and free. Paul will speak of nothing good except that which comes "through Christ Jesus." "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." He gives him a glory. 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. 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. 110 and 2:1122. You say, "Well, I believe God. "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling." We did not have it, nor did we earn it. for who should be more above the feelings of jealousy than those who delight in that which shows the greatness, and the glory, and the perfect goodness of God in His greatest work? How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! But pleasantly shocked, that I would want to make that one of the greatest days of his life. Paul knew that he needed to repeat himself, or people would forget what he taught. 5-7. To honour one's father and mother was both an obligation and had a special promise under law. For less than $5/mo. From the beginning, through all the crises of our times, until his kingdom fully comes, God keeps covenant forever. He that sitteth upon the throne saith, "Behold, I make all things new;" and the renewed man says, "My Lord, it is even so." ", Do you think this devotedness too much? This pericope is a condensation of Pauls exposition of redemption in Romans. Paul proceeded to conclude his revelation of the Christians individual calling in Christ (Ephesians 1:3 to Ephesians 2:10). Evidently also, it is no essential matter for present practice of faithfulness, whether few or many see and feel it: this is a question for God's will, who will act for His own glory, whether by many or by few. But at this point, Paul is just saying, and you. This page includes a range of prayers, calls to worship, confessions and other material, including for including children, based on the 5 weeks of Ephesians readings. Young people want instruction; they want building up in the faith; they generally lack knowledge; they have not the deep experience of the older man; they do not know so much about sin, nor even so much about salvation as the older man that has been a guilty sinner; they need to be fed. But now, founded on this, the apostle prays thus for them, that the Holy Ghost would so act in the inner man that there might be no hindrance to Christ, and that they might know, not the Holy Ghost (for this they did not doubt), but Christ dwelling there by His power constantly. In fact, it comes from a game in archery that the British used to have. The Son is as truly man as God, and as such gives gifts to men. Never were they to reign; never will they be one with Christ like the saints. But in Jesus, the Son of God, there was this character of Son in His own title and being from everlasting. One of the tragedies of the nineteenth century was the career of Oscar Wilde. - FSB. But what has this to do with the kingdom of God? [1] John William Russell, Compact Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1964), p. 476. There is nothing for us without Christ and his cross. Of all the creatures that live and breathe, man is the only one on earth that became a living soul by the breath of the Lord God, who, as it is written, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. He gave us life when we were born; but he has given us now a higher life, which could not be found anywhere else. "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." Forgive the poverty of our accomplishing. Why was it not so with the young man? The things that Paul has to say about you, so that they tried to sort of cushion the whole blow by giving you a peak ahead at what he is going to say about you. Now, secondly, let us think of OUR PRESENT LIFE. Hence we have those gifts alone which are the expression of the grace of Christ toward the saints that He loves, for ministerial work, for the building up of His body. He is a man that is far gone. 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