(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. That peace is won at the price of his blood, for the great awakener of love is the Cross. Now the very baptism of a Christian man is the confession of the truth, that God has in Christ judged flesh root and branch. When a man tells you that his creed is a dead thing, do not deny it for a minute; there is no doubt of the fact. Here with those who are our sisters and brothers. It is in a common love of him that people come to love each other. So should our walk be. 4But because of his great love for us,(H) God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions(I)it is by grace you have been saved. Ye were formerly lost; but now God, by his grace, has rescued you from destruction. And here we must observe, that, in laboring to give an impressive view of both of these parts, the apostle makes a break in the style by () a transposition. What does it matter about times, persons, or circumstances, if the Spirit abide to enable us, according to Scripture, diligently to keep His own unity? 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. You remember when you first began to confess Christ to a friend. Revealed to all the apostles and prophets of the New Testament, to one as much as another, it never seems to have taken such a hold of the others as of Paul. God therefore has not been pleased in the heights of divine truth to repeat words in the same way as His grace leads Him to do when He is helping the babes. Nor can it mean that they had no living intellect or mental powers, which would not have been true. "There is none righteous, no not one." "But to every [each] one is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ." The word Paul uses for access is prosagoge ( G4318) and it is a word of many pictures. Outsiders, rank outsiders, far away from any rights, or any participation in the rights of God's children. Have we reached the goal of service to others that we might have reached? When you see a person meandering you get the impression he is not really going anywhere and he doesn't have any purpose. Following the crowd, following the course of the world. This covenant relationship involved not only privilege, but also obligation. Amen. The panoply is against Satan and not God. Very likely the old sinner's experience will not be a feeding experience. I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber, one has some day to cry aloud from the house-top. A man is where his head is, is he not? Psalm 111: Praise the Lord, now and forever! 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. "And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." In other words, Christ was not raised up as an insulated individual, severed from all others by His glory and their sin and shame. And so they wrote "hath he quickened" in italics in order to indicate the fact that they themselves added those words. See how Paul's language grows and swells and rises as he proceeds! One of the tragedies of the nineteenth century was the career of Oscar Wilde. What reason have sinners then to be looking out for that grace that will make them, of children of wrath, children of God and heirs of glory! The third, and most memorable case, was that of Lazarus , who was not on his bed, nor on his bier, but in his tomb, ay, and corrupt too; but notwithstanding that, the Lord Jesus Christ, by the voice of his omnipotence, crying, "Lazarus, come forth," brought him out of the tomb. What does that mean) The name for the people of Israel was ho hagios laos ( G2992) , the holy people. He always comes back to that theme. 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. In Jesus name we pray. That is precisely why sin is so universal. He had missed the mark.Now, by the very root of the word, it does indicate, which is also true, that it is possible to be a sinner without wanting to be. The moment that Jesus presents Himself as the answer to what has been put forth already, the saints rise or are changed in the twinkling of an eye. "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." Man, Satan, yea, the judgment of God that had gone forth against Him because of our sins, had no force to detain Him in the grave. Now we are Christians; and this decides the character of the duties we have to pay, or of the good works which He has before prepared that we should walk in them; for "we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus" for this very purpose. It is not at all put as a question of command according to the law; but "God had before prepared," as a part of His wonderful scheme, "that we should walk in them." And so Christ gives us more light. who were dead -- Another demonstration of Gods power illustrated (Ephesians 1:19) is illustrated in the resurrection of the Ephesians from the dead! I told you just now that the life which the Holy Spirit gives us when we are born again, is the life of God. In its place he put love to God and love to men. I would like to just commit to You." For the first time in his life Little Billee has taken part in a drunken debauch and has himself been drunk. 16-18. Hence in the latter we find, not exactly choosing, but predestinating us: "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.". We are by nature bond-slaves to sin and Satan. It was grace in its deepest character and in its highest form, and so the apostle Paul was the suited vessel that God employed to instruct others, not merely the one to whom the revelation was made, but by whom the revelation was to be communicated. 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. If you don't, your wife does. You had nothing to do with this. Jesus Christ must quicken the one as well as the other, and bring them all to know and love his name. That is what Christ does for us. Thus is the Lord ever presented as the pattern. Nothing touches these. "The riches of the glory of his inheritance" embrace, of course, that vast scene of creation which is to be put under the glorified saints. I think there is something in this. The re:Worship survey on pandemic worship practices has been completed. 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. His boat was old and he did not worry over much about it; the engines were begrimed and ill-cared for. 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. We lived in the actual commission of all those sins to which corrupt nature inclined us. There were more tears than words; it was not a "dry" discourse; you wetted it well with tears of grief and anxiety. Christ is Victor; his rule has begun. And so he began to amass to himself wealth until he was the richest man in the world, and silver was as common as rocks in Israel. 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. As they were about to leave in bewilderment the priest came up. It is evident in this verse that the deadness of unregenerated people is a derivative, not of their birth, but of their sins. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. But in the epistle to the Ephesians we have none of these dealings with the first man, but that which forms and nourishes the new creation. What has all the confusion of men to do with the glorious reality that God has established His unity, of which we all form part by the power of His Spirit? It is translated walk. Between it and the Court of the Women there was a wall, or rather a kind of screen of marble, beautifully wrought, and let into it at intervals were tablets which announced that if a Gentile proceeded any farther he was liable to instant death. He came so as to be left absolutely free to occupy Himself in love for God's glory and our desperate need. "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 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. Call to Worship #2: L: We gather to share in our love of God. It is not a mere aggregate of Gentiles into the well-known line of old blessing, but one new man, not merely fresh in time, but of an absolutely new order, never seen or experienced before. How everything is connected with Christ! Even though we may be trying our best to hit the mark, we've come short of the glory of God. 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. You have blessed me so much, I just want to do whatever You like me to do today, Father. Trespasses, , may signify the slightest deviation from the line and rule of moral equity, as well as any flagrant offence; for these are equally transgressions, as long as the sacred line that separates between vice and virtue is passed over. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, April 12, 1857, by the REV. The miserable condition of the Ephesians by nature is here in part described. If but two acted accordingly, they ought to be and would be an expression of the unity of the Spirit. Impossible that the creature could be or do so; and therefore the creature is never said to be love. But Jesus calls all sorts of people together. Its construction was very elegant; upon it stood pillars at equal distances from one another, declaring the law of purity, some in Greek and some in Roman letters that no foreigner should go within the sanctuary" (The Wars of the Jews, 5, 5, 2). WebCall to Worship: Ephesians 2: 11-22 We gather together in the name of Jesus Christ members of Gods family, and brothers and sisters to one another. Israel entered into a covenant with God by the sprinkling of the blood. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. That is very wonderful. Righteousness supposes a claim in the first place, however met; even though it may be God's righteousness, still it is God acting in consistency with Himself and His own claims. Our God and Father does look for the display of the mind of Christ in us, so that we should be able to form a judgment according to Himself, and to express it about whatever comes before us. in the lust of our flesh, as we were fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; as we were by nature the children of wrath, even as the others ( Ephesians 2:3 ). Oh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples! Whenever a man realizes that he has sinned, he is oppressed with the feeling that he dare not approach God. Might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. Even as he stands in this place, he feels that if his next-door neighbour knew his guilt he would give him a wide berth, and stand far away from him; for he has come to the last stage; he has no marks of life; he is utterly rotten. The object is "us," and the prepositional phrase "with Christ" describes "us." Caused spiritual death. Having no hope, and without God in the world: It is an awful description, but a truthful description, of what we were. (iv) It is a life which is at the mercy of desire. "Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you." 12. He might have put us in any degree of relationship He pleased. They are clearly identified in each blog post. Amen. 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. Here God from Himself and for Himself is acting according to the riches of His own grace. They believed that the air was so crowded with these demons that there was not room to insert a pinpoint between them. Such is the power that has wrought now wrought toward us even while we are in this world. 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. He sees no beauty in religion; he hears not the call of God; he is unaffected by the dying love of the Saviour; and he has no interest in eternal realities. They had seen creation, and sung at the sight. Encourage them to do so, let them tell you their difficulties. Who is delighted when He sees you happy and joyful. He says that the middle wall of the barrier between has been torn down. Jesus has something to do about each of them. 22And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.(AZ). There are indeed some missionary churches who would have all their congregations worship with the one liturgy used in the churches at home. Reader 1 Christ came and proclaimed peace. though we never earned it and dont deserve it. There is kainos ( G2537) which means new in point of quality. New to this blog? Verse Ephesians 2:4 . He commands his companions, who by bad example are bearing him on his bier to his grave, to stop, and then there is a partial reformation for awhile, and after that there comes the strong out-spoken voice "Young man, I say unto thee, arise!" The sinner arrogantly lives in total disregard of the will of God, as though the Creator has no law or moral judgment for His creation. Such contact with a Gentile was the equivalent of death; even to go into a Gentile house rendered a Jew unclean. There was counsel, but besides there was intrinsic glory altogether independent of any plans of conferred honour. In this passage Paul makes a kind of list of the characteristics of life without Christ. There might be many advantages about that kind of discourse. 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. Never were they to reign; never will they be one with Christ like the saints. The devil, or the prince of devils, is thus described. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 463, 476, 461. All through these then we have, but more particularly in the first, the interweaving of the duty with the manifestation of God's grace: "Christ also loved the church." We were dead; but we are quickened by the Spirit of God. God has called you to be His child. Now, if a man should miss the hoop, then he was called a sinner, you have missed. Here are some indexes that might be helpful: INDEXES: For a complete list of all the indexes on this blog, click here. 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." The fulfilling of the desires of the flesh and of the mind includes all the sin and wickedness that are acted in and by both the inferior and the higher or nobler powers of the soul. This, then, was what was needed for the principalities and powers, and this is what they behold in the church of God. The world is busy and active around it, but it is unconscious of it all. Hear the word of truth, the good news of our salvation. (ii) It is life lived under the dictates of the prince of the air. - FSB. And as the result, the soul that sins shall surely die. 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. I have some in my congregation that I look upon with fear. In this passage Paul's thought flows on regardless of the rules of grammar; he begins sentences and never finishes them; he begins with one construction and halfway through he glides into another. Is He not satisfied with giving us a nature like His own? 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. Life is usually capable of pleasure, but the new life is capable of the highest conceivable pleasure. Men are justified by grace through faith in Christ Jesus. He makes no end of blunders; he makes many miscalculations because everything is new to him. The dead that lie on the battle-field, torn of dogs or kites, rotting, corrupting in the sun, what a horrible sight! At first a man regards some wrong thing with horror; the second stage comes when he is tempted into doing it, but even as he does it, he is still unhappy and ill at ease and very conscious that it is wrong; the third stage is when he has done the thing so often that he does it without a qualm. But there is yet more. Stand, oh stand away from him. 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. It does not mean that they had no animal life, or that they did not breathe, and walk, and act. That is, when you see a person walking you make an assumption he is going someplace and he has a purpose in mind. I must draw near to him in prayer.". Forgive the poverty of our accomplishing. They are in Christ; Christ died, and therefore they died. In nowise: even now He has abounded toward them "in all wisdom and prudence." Transgressions (false steps, cf. We know how he would bend down and be as it were a; Gentile to one without law, and a Jew to one under law, to do good to souls. The re:Worship survey on pandemic worship practices has been completed. Please note: If you use material from this blog, please be careful to credit the original author and source. Our world belongs to him! But, besides the new man which lives in dependence, we need to guard against losing power according to God. To illustrate, one may shoot an arrow and fail to hit the mark, or shoot an arrow and have it fall beside the mark. What I want to hint at is this: when a man is far gone into sin, Christ does this for him he breaks off his evil habits. [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! The glorious salvation that He has given to us. Have we been quickened from above? No God? The loss of fellowship with a holy God. Clearly God has a purpose, a settled and glorious plan to gather the whole universe under Christ as its Head. The apostle has turned over a new leaf in the book of our history: "but now." "Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." If we want to know what the holiness, and blamelessness, and love of God is, we must look at Him; but in the same way also, if we desire to know what are the relationships into which God puts those He loves, where shall we find the highest? People: All of us once lived to the passions and desires of flesh and senses; Leader: But God, who is rich in mercy and full of great love, made us alive together with Christ, when by grace we were Latest of all, God divulged His wonderful scheme in which the man that came from above, the Son that became a man, the Word made flesh, had gone down to the very lowest in order to make good the glory of God morally in the scene where He had been most put to shame. 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. Christianity demands forgiveness, but the ancient writers said it was a sign of weakness to have the power to avenge oneself for injury and not to do so. It is not only the full extent of glory, but the sole satisfying spring, Christ thus dwelling in our hearts in the consciousness of His love "to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Now, dear friends, if we have received spiritual life, you see what a range of being we have, how we can rise up to the seventh heaven or sink down into the abyss. Yes, but He did not go up as He came down from above. Moses took the book of the covenant and read to the people. But it gave to the Jews the unique consciousness of being the people of God. He will make it good. "I should break down," says one. He merely now touches on the principle, as he had before let us see not merely God's counsels from before the foundation of the world, but the manner and means of their application through Christ our Lord to us in time. This cheek might mantle with a blush to tell the deeds of darkness which some of the ungodly of this world habitually practise. in our homes and schools, in our church and in our world. (ii) Paul says of Jesus that he wiped out the law of the commandments with all its decrees. These are the things that were the motivation behind our lives. 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." Thats what friendship is all about. - FSB. And there may be a marathoner in the group that will get within a mile of the shore before he goes under. 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. 10. Sin kills ideals; men begin to do without a qualm the thing which once they regarded with horror. It is the rockiest city in the world. We hear the great message of Jesus reconciling people to you, O God, and to one another, and yet we still hesitate to reach out to people when they are different in some way from us. Bible Gateway Plus makes it simple. It is not merely in the presence of an angel, still less before the world. You are a living man. As a Christian you're going to have to learn to go against the current. WebCalls To Worship Love Adapted from Psalm 36:5-7 Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the skies. 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." It is an awful thing to have your conscience hardened, as in the very fires of hell, till it becomes like steel. 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. They have tried everything. He came to tell us that no matter what we are like the door is open to the presence of God. One effect of this divine life is to put life into everything that we do. It is simply an inevitable law of love. 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. 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. It was developed in a positive and comprehensive way, as in Romans. When God made the world, it was a wonder, and the angels came from afar to see his handiwork. You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. In the Scriptural view, sin equals death; and there is no light or casual view of either in the Bible. Submissions: I am so grateful to those of you who send me your own material to post! This discussion has two parts: vv. You, by God's grace are a man; this little one is but a new-born babe; hear what he has to say. Here are some indexes that might be helpful: INDEXES: For a complete list of all the indexes on this blog, click here. Was there only this? What does that mean? It simply affirms a fact - that in relation to real spiritual life they were, in consequence of sin, like a dead man in regard to the objects which are around him. ~ survey response His love does not depend upon what we are; it flows from his own heart. Psalm 65: Hes got the whole world in his hands! In Ephesians death is the very first place where we find even Christ. 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. The one was not at all, nor was the other in such sort before. One man's weakness may be in his body and his risk may be sexual sin; another's may be in spiritual things and his risk in pride; another's may be in earthly things and his risk unworthy ambition; another's sin may be in his temper and his risk in envyings and strife. Come, let us worship God. Previous year: 2021-2022 | Next year: 2023-2024. Is not this the meaning of the institution? Even in their bitterest days the Jews never doubted that that Messiah would come. More than this; for "no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church." If we were able to take a wide angle lens picture of the service this evening and posted it on the bulletin board, and you went up to look at that picture, who is the first one you would look for? The words "trespasses" and "sins" are probably synonymous (compare 1 Corinthians 15:3 and Romans 4:25). It was true that the Gentile was without hope because he was without God. ", 15, 16. There was a lot of things I didn't want to do. The conflict of the Christian is not therefore with flesh, still less is it with the world, but with Satan, and with his power, viewed as interposing and hindering our enjoyment of our heavenly blessing. How did Christ destroy them? "Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." The Lord impress this solemn truth on all your hearts by his own spirit; for Jesus Christ's sake! 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