What did he mean? "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." He was not constrained to enter into a full or long explanation. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, God loved us even when we were dead in sins. Its searching diagnosis pronounces that mortification has set in and that nothing less than infusion of fresh lifeblood can work a cure. L: Glory "I should break down," says one. 22. And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins. "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." Then follows a prayer of the apostle the first of those he pours out for the Ephesian saints. the One who would calm our fears with peace and hope. Thus Epictetus says, , . 407 Spirit Divine, Attend Our Prayers CALL TO Date Service Readings Ephesians 3:1-12 Matthew 2:1-12 Read all. The rotten Lazarus may come out of his tomb, as well as the slumbering maiden from her bed. He felt his need and that of the work. The word that Paul uses here is, kainos ( G2537) ; he says that Jesus brings together Jew and Gentile and from them both produces one new kind of person. Note the difference: the young maiden's new life was given to her secretly. And I was fearful of yielding my life to God. These verses continue the theme of redemption (Ephesians 1:7). 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." (Ephesians 1:1) It was pre-eminently for this that he had been chosen as an apostle; and he represents his apostleship not here as a question of calling, but "by the will of God:" everything in this epistle flows from the will of God; "to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.". We are by nature drudges to the flesh, and to our corrupt affections, Ephesians 2:3; Ephesians 2:3. Of course. Glory from the church, glory from generation upon generation. Paul uses the word paroikos ( G3941) for sojourner. 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? They are clearly identified in each blog post. For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus for good works, works which God prepared beforehand that we might walk in them. God had a dwelling-place of old in Israel; but it was a house made with hands, however magnifical, that followed the tabernacle of witness in the desert, in both of which the Shechinah, or visible sign of His glory, deigned to dwell. He then expounded the means whereby we appreciate our calling (i.e., knowledge given by the Holy Spirit through Gods revelation, Ephesians 1:15-23). Why, sometimes we can pray, and prevail, and come off conquerors; and at another time, we can only bow at the throne, and groan out, "Lord, help me; I cannot pray; the springs seem to be all sealed." It is not for God's ambassador to wash his mouth beforehand; let him boldly reprove, as men do boldly sin. And so Christ gives us more light. * The Lord Jesus is repeatedly called , translated "son" and "child" in the English version of the Acts of the Apostles, but more properly God's servant as Messiah. the spring in your step to go where youre sent. Hear the word of truth, the good news of our salvation. Our having put off the old man, and our having put on the new man. The Jew had an immense contempt for the Gentile. But in Jesus, the Son of God, there was this character of Son in His own title and being from everlasting. 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. If you have been quickened, even though your life be feeble, you may cry to the living God with the "Abba, Father," which never comes from any lip but that which has been touched and quickened by the Holy Spirit. But then I confessed my sin and God forgave me my sin completely. The son, who "was dead" to his father, repents and confesses his sin. In the next verse we have that which has been justly designated the unity of profession, where all things may come in to mar. This was peculiarly needed. So many times we think that God started loving us when we started being loving. That would cease, for God is a Spirit, they that worship Him worship Him in Spirit and in truth. the One whose love is the bedrock of our lives. Most wholesome blessedness! There are vast plans and projects, and the world is intensely active. we want to know what is right and do what is right. WebCall to Worship Psalm 104:1-4, 33 Benediction Ephesians 3:20-21 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins." 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. He prays for the saints "that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory [for this is what his mind connected with it], may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints." I do not know how it is that the young man never was loosed. You are full members of the family of God." 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. In its place he put love to God and love to men. 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. Sin appears as sin; he cannot understand it. What has God done? They do not know that things are at a distance; they have to learn that fact by looking many times. Ay, so it is with the young woman or the young man I mean to describe now. Here the apostle would have Christ to be more the satisfying object of our affections. There are some personages in St. Paul's Cathedral; I have not seen them lately, but I have seen them. The purpose: That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace, and his kindness toward us, through Christ Jesus ( Ephesians 2:7 ). 'Spiritual Resurrection' and 'Life from the Dead'. The special point before the apostle's mind is that this was the choice of God before the world, in which we are brought to know the infinite blessing. WebCall to Worship Psalm 104:1-2 Bless the LORD, O my soul! 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. And you have got the wrong address. my dear hearers, "quickened together with Christ"? Such is the measure, if measure it can be called, of the grace wherein we stand. My life was ruled and dominated by the lust of my flesh and by the lust of my mind. We all benefit from your creativity and generosity. Introducing this great practical truth, he reminds them of what they had been, but also tells them what they are now. there are some that are a stench in the nostrils of the Almighty; some whose character is hideous beyond all hideousness. He might have given Himself ever so truly in pity for us; but it would not have been perfection, had He not "given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour." Friends, our God has poured out grace upon grace. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things ("sins" Ephesians 2:20) you are now ashamed of? 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. 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. Not with equal footsteps, but with tottering gait, we follow in that selfsame path that God has marked out for himself. 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 between them by what he did. Where these are made and kept right, we can then safely follow what God will show us in due time, but not otherwise. To the Gentile life was not worth living; to the Jew it was the way to greater life. 17He came and preached peace(AL) to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. That is, he looks at the inner source, not merely at the glorious results. You mothers, do this with your little children. "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling." God's choice of Israel was not favouritism, for it was choice not for special honour but for special responsibility. Psalm 65: Hes got the whole world in his hands! I have been joined back together with God through the Spirit. "Among whom we all had our manner of living, or our lifestyles in times past." Observed, 1. Sin brings forth death, and death brings forth corruption. Ah! 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. Lord God, we confess that we have each of us grieved the Holy Spirit. 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. It may not be in our conscious memory, but everything we ever did or saw or heard is buried in our subconscious memories. "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. This application consists of two parts. It comes to us with pain; it gives us many surprises; and it suggests a large number of questions. 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. This literally means a slip or a fall. But in Ephesians the aim is of a much more absolute and direct character. Than these nothing less becomes those so blessed. All the chances are that the breach will remain unhealed, for peace is seldom made on the basis of a legal document. It is translated walk. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, Your justice like the great deep. Now we come to the third and last case LAZARUS DEAD AND BURIED. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.". 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. But if you are a living child of God, you cannot do that. Web4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you I wish you would. My father is a nobody and I am the least in my father's household. Had He brought the Gentiles into the place that Israel once occupied? released into hope to live for praise and for glory. In this chapter, Paul discusses how that happens: Christs victory over evil powers makes reconciliation with God possible. They believed that the air was so crowded with these demons that there was not room to insert a pinpoint between them. But Jesus calls all sorts of people together. Heres a contemporary call to worship inspired by Ephesians 2: 19-22. the One who names each of us as a beloved child. We had no sense with which to comprehend spiritual things. 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 "for which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak." As Origen had it: "The scars remain." Nostrums and palliatives aggravate rather than allay the disease. Neither in that blessed state in Christ, nor in the wretched condition mentioned here, is there any such thing as "being dead to sin" in the sense of exemption from the temptations to sin. With a terrible activity of spiritual death; 3. I might be stumbling onto a phenomena of nature that I don't understand. If you are spiritually dead, nothing here belongs to you; but if he hath quickened you, you may take every single sentence of the chapter, and say, "That is mine, and glory be the grace of God!". 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. 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. 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." 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. There is no work that you can do that can make you alive spiritually. Therefore, put on the full armour of God. I thought I was going to die. It is not now either sovereign love, or love of complacency. II. I cannot describe to you the lusts and vices of a fullgrown sinner. Outsiders, rank outsiders, far away from any rights, or any participation in the rights of God's children. So with the psalmist in Psalm 32 , I can say, "Oh how happy is the man, whose transgressions are forgiven. 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. That is precisely why sin is so universal. Jesus recreates the will. Take them down to the stream and let them get a drink of water. Why was it not so with the young man? The young man's was given more publicly. (119) He does not mean simply that they were in danger of death; but he declares that it was a real and present death under which they labored. How dies the wise man as a fool, this too is empty, it doesn't satisfy. Come into Gods presence with singing! "[2], Trespasses and sins Barry suggested a difference in the meaning of these terms, making "sins" to "denote universal and positive principles of evil doing, and trespasses, failure in visible and special acts of those not necessarily out of the right way. But, at the same time, our living prayer bursts out hours before the appointed time, or sometimes it will not come at the time. But up to this the saints are contemplated as such. When the father sees the son, he can see the haughty spirit has been replaced by humility (Luke 15:20; Matthew 6:8). 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. Imagine in Solomon's day when silver was as common as rocks. That they do not appear in the original Greek text in this place. (ii) That is to say that works have nothing to do with earning salvation. Everything else in Ephesians 2:1-7 is of subordinate importance. ), Someone can be physically alive and yet spiritually dead at the same time. Left him with 10,000 men to face the 135,000 Midianites. All have sinned, or missed the mark, and come short of the glory of God. He came and preached peace to you who were far off. See how Paul's language grows and swells and rises as he proceeds! The sinner chooses to live in contempt of any law or higher authority that would supersede his own will. 4. 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. The boogieman will get you, you know." Not the law, but Christ. Rita Snowden quotes two very relevant sayings. I know it on the best authority, and the truest, too. The moral order of this is exceedingly beautiful. Your habits are not now commendable, you know they are not; you stand convicted while I speak to you this morning; you know your ways are evil. We lived in the actual commission of all those sins to which corrupt nature inclined us. "There are three outstanding schools of moral pathology traceable throughout the centuries. 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. What did he mean by that? See how Paul keeps harping on that one string. How solemn to learn what the old man is in its most detestable forms, against all which the Christian is warned! "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." The King James Version has it that they were without Christ. And you hath he quickened This chapter should not have been separated from the preceding, with which it is most intimately connected. First he explains what God has done for all sinners in general; then he explains what God did for the Gentiles in particular." The worm had not yet begun to gnaw her cheek, the flush had not yet faded from her face; she seemed well-night alive. III. The Unity In Christ ( Ephesians 2:13-18 Continued). The sight of that Cross awakens in the hearts of men of all nations love for Christ, and only when they all love Christ will they love each other. (T) 10For we are Gods handiwork,(U) created(V) in Christ Jesus to do good works,(W) which God prepared in advance for us to do. And therefore only an act of free forgiveness of the grace of God can put us back into the right relationship with him. And here is the key, and that which accounts for the astonishing display of what God is now doing in man. There might be an adopted son without the nature. It is well to mark the difference. 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. I hold nothing as truth that I can put away on a shelf, and leave there. L: The brightness of the Star leads us! If I would deliver the Midianites in the hands of the 10,000, they would go around boasting in themselves and glorying in themselves. The rules and the regulations put up the fence; but love moved it. In Christ it was, of course, absolutely perfect: He did give Himself for us. He has raised us from the dead. "Sir," answered the engineer, "I've got a glory." To the father, the sinful "son" was dead in sin and lost. God Himself is acting for His own glory and according to His own love. Thus nature is the subject of verse 4, as relationship is of verse 5. The same "Beloved" who accounts to us for the counsels of God has brought in redemption. 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. On the other hand, for the Gentile history was going nowhere. ! Who wants to see you enriched in all things in Christ.Now on the other hand, Jesus said concerning Satan, "That he is come to rob and to kill and to destroy." The mark that God has established for you is perfection. There is kainos ( G2537) which means new in point of quality. Not that we love God, but that God loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. When God gives people a new life, they must live a new life (8-10). The Spirit is at work, renewing the creation. (v) It is the life which follows what the King James Version calls the desires of our flesh. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Are we as good workmen as we could be? For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:21-23 NIV). If you have been raised from the dead, after you had been buried in Norwood Cemetery, I would warrant you that you would not go there to-night to sleep. Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. 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. Vid. It is God in His proper nature, and in His relationship to Jesus. 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. No God? The glorious salvation that He has given to us. The Gifts Of The Unity Of Christ ( Ephesians 2:13-18 Continued). So the flow of the world, you just flowed with it. For we are his workmanship.". 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. 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. You who have been quickened will understand what I say. (There is no need to credit the re:Worship blog itself.). And all of those that get down and put their face in the water, send them home. Could the apostle say that to you, and to me? 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. I would rather find Christ where he is not, than not to find him where he is. Thus we have had, first of all, the great spiritual reality which is always true of Christians, and of none else. And then comes the case of Lazarus. " Take a passage in 2 Corinthians (2 Corinthians 8:5), which has been before us only a short time ago: "And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God." But the father said to his slaves, "Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found." 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. Such is the very power that has taken you and me up in divine grace, and wrought toward us. And if you've ever been to Jerusalem, you know how common rocks are around that city. But at this point, Paul is just saying, and you. Dress in your new self, which is being re-formed into the image of God, in true righteousness and holiness.. . If you do not, let the fact impress you. (There is no need to credit the re:Worship blog itself.). 2:11-12 So then remember, that once, as far as human descent goes, you were Gentiles; you were called the uncircumcision by those who laid claim to that circumcision which is a physical thing, and a thing produced by men's hands. He must always give it. 410). This is an of the former statements, that is, an exposition accompanied by an illustration. But if you had been quickened by the Holy Spirit fifty minutes, this would have been the first fact in the front rank of all fact, God is, and he is my Father, and I am his child. If but two acted accordingly, they ought to be and would be an expression of the unity of the Spirit. Paul had begun by saying that, as we are, we are dead in sins and trespasses; now he says that God in his love and mercy has made us alive in Jesus Christ. In the next verse the apostle opens out that which is move particularly connected with "the God of our Lord Jesus Christ." The first place where Christ is seen is in the grave whence God according to the mightiest action of His almighty power raised Him up. We quite like our old selves. 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. On the other hand, we find that the predestination is "according to the good pleasure of his will," because no necessity operates in this. Copyright 2019 by Zondervan. That is, when you see a person walking you make an assumption he is going someplace and he has a purpose in mind. And that is what should never happen in a church. It is a question not of acceptance before God, but of resisting the enemy who would take advantage of loose ways and a bad conscience. 1. The Jews believed that only by keeping the Jewish law was a man good and able to attain to the friendship and fellowship of God. I would say, "Why, Mom? In this order He gave them the body to be edified, and ministry carried on, but always the individual first. For the first time in his life Little Billee has taken part in a drunken debauch and has himself been drunk. We know ourselves chosen, adopted as children of God. Let us use a human analogy. It is in vain to look for the church's prosperity, if saints individually do not grow up unto Christ. The air is represented as the seat of his kingdom: and it was the opinion of both Jews and heathens that the air is full of spirits, and that there they exercise and exert themselves. We are by nature bond-slaves to sin and Satan. 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. In Jesus name we pray. 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