Again, by it the apostle, writing to the Galatians, vindicated God's ways with man, and set the Christian outside the law. WebAll Calls to Worship Fragrance God is Out There In The Beginning Joy of the Lord Perfectly imperfect Stephen Ministry Stewardship (Psalm 103) Trinity II Trinity I Veni Sancte Spiritus Spirit (Advent III) Keep your lamps trimmed Justice Healing Talents Comfort (Advent II) To God be all Glory Call To The Beach Blessing of the Animals Who just delights to spend pleasant days together with you. 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. And then comes the case of Lazarus. " If you don't, your wife does. He hath "quickened us together with Christ, and hath raised us up together." We were living in the sphere of rebellion against God (cf. The life of Christ, the life of God, is infused into us in that moment when we are quickened from our death in sin. No one is precisely the same after he has sinned. "And so God provided the way for the forgiveness of our sins, and having forgiven us our sins we became alive in the spirit, or were born again. 19. God Is Spirit Before the creation of the heavens and the earth, there was nothing but God. First of all, he thought that it must lie in riches, which often many people feel. But as long even as he is merely in conflict with his own nature, he can hardly be said to be on Christian ground at all. The ages to come will have for their wonder the quickened children of God. then, I grieve to say it, ye are dead! They both mean the same thing; he missed the mark. It is affirmed here of those to whom Paul wrote at Ephesus, that before they were converted, they were dead in sins. There is not anywhere a more explicit proof of depravity than this, and no stronger language can be used. We want your renewing of us, but often it hurts. She liveth not; but she is still caressed. When we love him, that love recreates and restores our will towards goodness. What a deal of dead worship there is! 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. Everybody is doing it, get on board.When I was a small fellow I used to often ask my mother if I could go a certain place. Do a certain thing. The Rabbi refused. You can scarcely get hold of the idea; death doth such awful work with us, it is such a Vandal with this mortal fabric, it so rendeth to pieces this fair thing that God hath builded up, that we can scarcely bear to contemplate his works of ruin. or our anger gets the better of us and we lash out. Such is the very power that has taken you and me up in divine grace, and wrought toward us. Their very wife, when they go into the house, rushes upstairs to be out of the way. We never can go astray, if we follow the path of the Lord Jesus. They had seen creation, and sung at the sight. The foreigner was always regarded with suspicion and dislike. "But God, rich in His mercy, in His love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses and sins." The Papists, who are eager to seize every opportunity of undervaluing the grace of God, say, that while we are out of Christ, we are half dead. You are full members of the family of God." (v) It is the life which follows what the King James Version calls the desires of our flesh. But it is not so with the revelation of the mystery. for you; alas! 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. Greece was made up of famous cities--Athens, Thebes, Corinth and the rest and it very nearly encountered disaster because the cities refused to cooperate to meet the common threat. Reader 2 You, there, youre scruffy, youre tough. Do we discipline and train our children as we ought, or do we often shirk the issue? My, I love them." (i) He made both Jew and Gentile into one new man. 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. This is a sobering reminder of the total sinfulness and lostness from which believers have been redeemed. Such is the truth, if indeed we have learnt the Christ as God teaches Him. 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 the connection is important. But Biblical Christianity probes the patient to the quick. 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. It sees no beauty in the landscape; hears not the voice of a friend; looks not upon the glorious sun and stars; and is unaffected by the running stream and the rolling ocean. Isaiah 59:1-2. 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. Now, this morning, I trust I shall not be tedious; I shall endeavour to make the subject as interesting as possible, and also endeavour to be brief. 8, 9. Whatever could contribute to it, whatever fell in according to it, everything that God Himself could do to bind us up with Christ, sharing with us all that is glorious in Christ His own Son, even to His holy nature and relationship with the Father, as far as this could be conferred on a creature, is no more than God had in His heart yea, is what God has given us now, and will display in heavenly Places ere long. I have been born again by the Spirit of God through Jesus Christ. 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. Whether it was so or not, I do not know. Paul speaks about people being dead in sins. The very structure of the chapter, as has been noticed, is a sort of confirmation of this. "Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ." 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. suspicious of anyone who didnt look like us. The Son would be a creature not self-subsisting, not therefore truly God. So the soldiers took their comrade sadly and buried him just outside the fence. The law or "mark" in this context is the righteous will of God. "Ay," she said, "I have. Paul proceeded to conclude his revelation of the Christians individual calling in Christ (Ephesians 1:3 to Ephesians 2:10). 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 the mystery of Christ; and this is what secures the blessing in its fulness and purity for the church of God. In Romans, in 1st and 2nd Corinthians, and in Galatians righteousness was largely used. Then he adds the great exemplar and spirit of it all, according to the forgiveness with which God met us in Christ. (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 there is no escape; that is the world's message to the world.Paul said, "How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?" 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. Not the law, but Christ. As our children grow older, do we come nearer to them, or do they drift away until conversation is often difficult and we and they are practically strangers? Where God now seats me together in Christ in these heavenly places, or in the heavenlies. . We are in this position, that God is now working in us, through this divine life, to make us the most wonderful reflectors of his grace that he has yet formed. "You hath he quickened." In the verse before the apostle had spoken of the "one Spirit," and hence it would be superfluous to introduce the statement of His baptism here, even if the adjuncts did not exclude the idea. 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. History Psalms, a discussion of 105 & 106. No; the first thing he did was, he put his hand, not on him, mark you, but on the bier ; "and they that bare it stood still." Put away your previous way of life, your old self, corrupted and deluded as it was, and be renewed in every aspect of your thinking. "You mean you go to church on Sunday evening and you listen to a Bible study? WebEphesians Chapter 2 Verse 10 Prayer for Ephesians 2:10 For we are His creation-created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them. Submit Prayer Request Title Your Prayer Write Your Prayer Name Category Verification Code Praying through Ephesians 2:10 It was done in the very street of the city. 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. That is not the result of killing the seven-headed dragon and grabbing the three golden apples. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on. We would probably rather resent being called hell-deserving sinners. P: I will fasten the belt of truth about my waist. 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 You canna hear George Matheson preach and live in a cellar." It is a pleasant thing to hear an honest confession; they are dead to dead men. ", In the Homeric Hymns the assembly of Olympus is charmed by the Muses who sing "of the deathless gifts of the gods and the sorrows of men, even all that they endure by the will of the immortals, living heedless and helpless, nor can they find a cure for death, nor a defence against old age.". He rules the universe from His heavenly throne Then, everything surprises you. Twenty-two thousand of them turned on their heal and left. He gives them new life, and he does this on the basis of Christs death and resurrection. This has misled many beside the poor Puritans, who fancied they were called of God, as a Christian duty, to strive against kings and all in authority, when not satisfied with their ways or measures. This; not only that we hear of the one body, and that saints compose this body, but that a new man is seen. All the building that is going on is being fitted together in him, and it will go on growing until it becomes a holy temple in the Lord, a temple into which you too are built as part, that you may become the dwelling place of God, through the work of the Spirit. The words "trespasses" and "sins" are probably synonymous (compare 1 Corinthians 15:3 and Romans 4:25). You can't be meaning me." all that is out to hurt and twist and destroy! Being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel. He has forgiven you in Christ; and you are called to do the same. 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. But as he said that by revelation it was made known to him, so he would from God communicate it to them. And so in the morning when the fleece was wet and the ground was dry, he said, "Now I want to make sure about this. It cannot be otherwise. 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. there are some that are a stench in the nostrils of the Almighty; some whose character is hideous beyond all hideousness. In their natural state, all people are spiritually dead because of sin. When Paul speaks of you, he is speaking of the Gentiles; when he speaks of us he is speaking of the Jews, his fellow countrymen. One thing more, and I have done. ", Meanwhile, before a blow is struck at man's failure in the presence of righteousness, or at his apostasy from grace, that blessed Saviour, the only begotten Son in the bosom of the Father, the Son of man who is in heaven, went down to the very uttermost, and (having exhausted the powers of evil, and blotted out all that could rise against the objects of God's grace,) was raised and seated by God in heaven. 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.". 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