The sinner chooses to live in contempt of any law or higher authority that would supersede his own will. I think there is something in this. Note the difference: the young maiden's new life was given to her secretly. 21. You have got a wrong and blasphemous concept of God. 12. They might otherwise think themselves more or less superior. Some have taken it to mean that without Christ men live in a state of sin which in the life to come produces the death of the soul. When the worm is there, you cannot put your finger on it, and say, "Stop; eat no more." 2As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,(A) 2in which you used to live(B) when you followed the ways of this world(C) and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air,(D) the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. Hence he says, "that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ," referring to himself and any other saints who had been chosen from the people of the Jews. Throughout the epistle all the secret is just this God would associate us with Christ (that is, of course, in everything that is consistent with the maintenance of the divine glory). 2:13-18 But as things now are, because of what Christ Jesus has done, you who were once far off have been brought near, at the price of the blood of Christ. I was no longer the captain of my soul, and did not know it. There he blows his coals, there he fabricates his instruments. (ii) It is life lived under the dictates of the prince of the air. Heres a prayer of confession based on Ephesians 2:11-22. It was written by Moira Laidlaw. Merciful God, we celebrate the way that you chose to bring unity and peace to peoplethrough the gift of your Son, our Lord, Jesus Christ. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so! 12. 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. Pauls use of the metaphor of death is significant, as it allows for no middle ground; a person is either dead or alive. Gideon's answer was: "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord shall rule over you" ( Judges 8:23). The words "trespasses" and "sins" are probably synonymous (compare 1 Corinthians 15:3 and Romans 4:25). Also he counted on their loving desire to know his affairs as well as to have their hearts comforted through Tychicus. No man ever made himself to live. 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." I ceased to be lord over myself. Kings on their coronation were anointed; and thus Christos ( G5547) , the literal Greek translation of the Hebrew Messiah ( H4886) , came to mean the Anointed One of God, the expected King whom God would send into the world to vindicate his own and to bring in the golden age. 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). It involved the keeping of the law. WebReflection/Call to worship - based on Ephesians 2:11-22 118 views Aug 1, 2021 A short reflection with pictures and music that can be used personally or in a shared act of We are "Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you." Would to God that thou couldst say, "And he hath quickened me, for with all my loveliness, and all my excellence, I was by nature dead in trespasses and sins." - FSB. Thus far the apostle has described the misery of a natural state in Ephesians 2:1-3, which we shall find him pursuing again in some following ones. "Because I live, ye shall live also." They are not, like the young maiden, still fondled, nor even, like the young man, still kept in the funeral procession: no, they have gone so far that decent people avoid them. He may shed abroad the love of God therein; but He is rather said to dwell in us, making the body God's temple. Thanks Be to God For This Change - v.8-10, 2:110 Pauls prayer (Eph 1:1523) refers to Gentiles (non-Jews) becoming part of Gods family. Walls of prejudice still exist and barriers of racism still hold people back from reaching their true potential. "Deep in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, Feelings lie buried that grace can restore.". "You mean you go to church on Sunday evening and you listen to a Bible study? Sin brings forth death, and death brings forth corruption. The main point then is that God has made believers alive, raised us up, and seated us with Christ. , : , 196006, -, , 22, 2, . in Num. DEATH is often used by all writers, and in all nations, to express a state of extreme misery. One of the regular passengers commented on the change. There is, indeed, life, and energy, and motion. I ended in horrible disgrace.". But we are not at liberty to set aside the declarations of our Lord and of the Apostle Paul, that, while we remain in Adam, we are entirely devoid of life; and that regeneration is a new life of the soul, by which it rises from the dead. No statement can be conceived more exact. 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." Take heed, I beseech you, ye fairest, youngest, most upright, and most honest; when the dead are separated from the living, unless ye be regenerated, ye must go with the dead; though ye be never so fair and goodly, ye must be cast away, unless you live. He made us at the first; he has new-made us. (iii) Greater than anything else, Jesus Christ revives and restores the lost will. Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? The heart itself then, is broken, and bleeds at ten thousand wounds. But in Ephesians the aim is of a much more absolute and direct character. No one is precisely the same after he has sinned. The life everlasting, the life that can never die, is put into us then, even as Christ said, "The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." II. 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. And you have got the wrong address. (ii) Sin kills ideals. Therefore we need never fear, no matter what the blessing and the privilege may be. 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 has its heavenly association as the one body of Christ; it has its earthly place and responsibility as the "habitation of God through the Spirit." 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. Does she really take an interest in her husband's work and try to understand his problems and his worries? New International Version (NIV), Jew and Gentile Reconciled Through Christ, In contexts like this, the Greek word for. To keep the men from glorying or boasting in what God was going to do. 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. I was born in a body of flesh, and from the beginning my fleshly appetites were dominating me. 2. 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. For we are his workmanship.". * 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. We know ourselves loved, but we balk at the cost. It was true that the Gentile was without hope because he was without God. The "hope of his calling" is the bright prospect of the saints themselves, as they are in Christ before God. Spiritual death is the state of being separated from fellowship or affiliation with God. New to this blog? But the man who lives the Christless life takes his own way of things, even when he knows what God's way is. One said to me, when joining the church, "Either I am a new creature, or else the world is altogether altered from what it was. That reality will lead to despair, therefore you cannot face reality. Both are now introduced by grace into an entirely new and heavenly place in Christ, which was not so much as heard of before. Believe in Christ! Pythagoras said: "The whole air is full of Spirits." 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. In Christ we are made new through his blood; In Christ we are forgiven, signed with the Spirit. In nowise: even now He has abounded toward them "in all wisdom and prudence." Timeweb - , , . The Church will realize her unity only when she realizes that she does not exist to propagate the point of view of any body of men, but to provide a home where the Spirit of Christ can dwell and where all men who love Christ can meet in that Spirit. He made for them, and in them, new heavens and a new earth.". 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. The Greek could say: "We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree, "I rejoice and disport me on my youth; long enough beneath the, earth shall I lie, bereft of life, voiceless as a stone, and shall, leave the sunlight which I loved; good man though I am, then. 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. Ye have all that heart could wish for, except the one thing needful; ye have all things save love to the Saviour. Deepen your knowledge of Scripture. And now this spiritual birth, my spirit is now alive, and with my spirit alive I now have fellowship with God. Self would have hindered; had there been a particle, it would have ruined both His person and His work; but this is not the truth as it is in Jesus. The law or "mark" in this context is the righteous will of God. The ancient world had its barriers. You were really not going anywhere, you were just existing. "The danger lay," T. R. Glover wrote, "in every generation, in the same fact of single cities, furious for independence at all costs. But there was no real purpose to your life. What a solemn sight is presented to us by a dead body! God is King! 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. we are reluctant to speak the truth to each other for fear of offending. Then the apostle introduces us to another topic. "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." When Peter realized who Jesus was, his first reaction was: "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord" ( Luke 5:8). It is the rockiest city in the world. We dare to believe that you and I are part of a plan. 16-18. It is impossible for flesh to be true to it. In this chapter, Paul discusses how that happens: Christs victory over evil powers makes reconciliation with God possible. 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.". Here the prayer is not, as in the first chapter, that they might know the power that had wrought toward them; it is now that their hearts might be in the secret of His grace according to the power that works in them. In Christ we belong in the family, adopted. Thus we have at last the church developed in its two main characters. Yes, life is a strange thing; and if you have the life of God in your soul, you will undergo many changes, and not always be what you want to be. Sin is the failure to hit the target of life. Throughout all eternity, God's grace and love and mercy being revealed. But hamartia ( G266) brings us face to face with what sin is, the failure to be what we ought to be and could be. Paul thinks of this building going on and on, with each part of the building being fitted into Christ. Paul cannot do without Christ, you see. The hand of God was heavy on my life. 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 thinks of every church as the part of a great building and of every Christian as a stone built into the Church. Ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; You are not only in the kingdom, but you are in the royal household, which is better still. L: We gather to share our witness to Gods The whole work is thus presented in its completeness from first to last; nevertheless, it is only "through faith" as yet. We confess our trying to you, and ask for your power to be at work within us. You might as well just, you know, get into a fuzz of drugs or into the folly of liquor, because there is no sense in trying to be sober. Altogether differently here "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" has blessed us where Christ is on high. Why was it not so with the young man? and are scared of people who look strange. That is the first part of our position, that we have come to live a separate life now, and have quitted the path we trod before. And you think that I would think of every dirty, miserable task around the house and send him to do them? Yet nothing is more certain than that God so speaks to our faith. 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 so in the morning when the fleece was wet and the ground was dry, he said, "Now I want to make sure about this. Who that knows what man is, and God, as Christ has made both known, would dare to rest in any one person or thing which did not find its brightest form in Christ Himself? 9:2). And what a wrong concept people have of what it means to surrender your life to the will of God.For once a person does, they find as, Jesus said, "I delight to do thy will, O Lord." Isn't that what existential philosophy pretty much declares? Copyright 2019 by Zondervan. 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. my dear hearers, "quickened together with Christ"? It was the golden age of the city state. My life was ruled and dominated by the lust of my flesh and by the lust of my mind. For if we are in Christ, we have a vantage ground which makes all things clear. Are we as good workmen as we could be? Date Service Readings Ephesians 3:1-12 Matthew 2:1-12 Read all. 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 ). Only into the first of them could a Gentile come. But Biblical Christianity probes the patient to the quick. Series A: 2022 - 2023. The oneness in Christ is in Christ and not in any external change. He was a sinner. Another of Paul's blessed "nows." The choice of the saints for heavenly blessedness was before the creation of the universe, before the foundation of the world. This, then, was what was needed for the principalities and powers, and this is what they behold in the church of God. The world as it is has invaded our souls. To us it could be but eternal purpose, to Him eternal being; to us pure grace, but to Him His own indefeasible right. Now do you agree with that or not? If we stain a garment or a carpet, we may send it to be cleaned, but it is never again quite the same. 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. You remember when you first began to confess Christ to a friend. We don't want trouble, we dont do conflict here! For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus for good works, works which God prepared beforehand that we might walk in them. 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. Spiritually, when one "misses" the mark of keeping Gods will, he has sinned. 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.". As a Christian you're going to have to learn to go against the current. Paul was the chosen witness to fill up that blank. Jesus has something to do about each of them. We are no longer like outsiders in a foreign land. It is the failure in any sphere of life to be what we ought to be and could be. Here again the apostle brings in the relation of the Holy Ghost to the new things. Connected with nature, He has sealed us, as it is said here and elsewhere; and connected with relationship, He is the earnest. How could it be otherwise, seeing that He who sits on His throne, tar above every creature in God's presence and in all ages, is a man, but withal the very Son of God? "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." The contrast is with Adam, who had a knowledge that was suited to his own place and relationship. Let this, then, be held as a fixed principle, that the union of our soul with God is the true and only life; and that out of Christ we are altogether dead, because sin, the cause of death, reigns in us. Think of their giving themselves first to the Lord, then to us by the will of God. ye young men who come up to the house of God, and who are outwardly so good; alas! He that is alive unto God asks for what he wants, and believes that he shall have it, and he gets it. For the first time in his life Little Billee has taken part in a drunken debauch and has himself been drunk. And God throughout eternity is going to be revealing the exceeding greatness of His mercy and of His kindness, these things that He has given and provided and done for you through Jesus Christ. In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, as the adequate motive and object before Him, even His own glory. We let cruel words slip out of our mouths, disguised as humour or opinion. That is our relationship to God. But I must add that we are also capable of acute pain to which we were strangers once. Now it is possible to make atonement for a broken law, but it is impossible to make atonement for a broken heart; and sin is not so much breaking God's law as it is breaking God's heart. As the light that shone then was brighter, than the sun at noonday, so in the vision the truth about to be learnt was entirely outside and superior to the present or the past. In this order He gave them the body to be edified, and ministry carried on, but always the individual first. , . "I see you've changed your house," he said to her. WebJETHRO: Why, Homer, youre my best and closest friend. I would not think of closing my eyes in sleep unless I had some sense of his love shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost. Call to Worship (Psalm 107, Ephesians 2, John 3) God loves us with a steadfast love. What is that? But I ripped off this poster that was there because it was so intriguing. Our world belongs to him! For instance, the Jewish Rabbinic writers tell how a Gentile woman came to Rabbi Eliezer. Have we been quickened from above? It was written by Thom Shuman. Is it so, beloved? We know ourselves called, but were so easily distracted. "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." 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. 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. Come, friends, let us confess our sins to the Lord. Unquestionably the Spirit of God does evermore dwell in the Christian, though I am not aware that He is ever said to dwell in our hearts. This application consists of two parts. Space, time, matter, and energy were all created by him, which means that he himself does not consist in space, time, matter, or energy. And Gideon was in a cave as he was threshing the wheat to hide from the Midianites, and the angel of the Lord came to him and said, "Gideon, go and deliver the children of Israel from the oppression of the Midianites." The relationship with God would cease the moment that man disobeyed the commandment of God, the moment man transgressed. It is not the wants of man in any sense, either positively or negatively. If He is showing needy souls how they may be forgiven of God, He displays it in a thousand forms; if the need of righteousness, He repeats it over and over again. There is the whole Trinity in that one verse, Christ, the Spirit, the Father. And God, having these counsels before Him from everlasting, deigns to have a people, not only capable of enjoying Him as having the very same nature as His own, without which they could not enjoy glory; but, besides, if He has us in His presence, He would have us in the highest relationship into which grace could bring us. Does he try to make life easier for his wife? I would like to just commit to You." 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. thou art dead! Only in verse 22 is the church even named for the first time, where it is said God has given Christ "to be the head over all things to the church." If someone fine loves us, we know that we do not and cannot deserve that love. Less than $5/mo! As such we have not properly to fight with flesh at all, any more than to fight with the world. (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.". To us it is more to be born of the very nature of God, than to be sons adopted into the family of God. 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 And in the morning if it is wet and the ground is dry, then I will know that it is you." we would understand the One who calls us to faith. 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. 8. Reader 1 In his own flesh Jesus broke down the hostility between us. You don't know the heavenly Father. Reader 1 There is a response in this reading. They come to us, and ask, "What is this? We have others who are drunken, profane, unchaste; they are dead, not more dead than the others; but their death has left its terrible traces more plainly visible. It was said of one eminent commentator that he could not find Christ in the Scripture where he was; but it was said of Cocceius that he found Christ where he was not. 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 very power that has taken you and me up in divine grace, and wrought toward us. In France some soldiers with their sergeant brought the body of a dead comrade to a French cemetery to have him buried. Twenty-two thousand of them turned on their heal and left. It may not be in our conscious memory, but everything we ever did or saw or heard is buried in our subconscious memories. (LogOut/ Rita Snowden tells a story of the war. His life will be ever afterwards a loosing and letting go; for he will need it till he cometh up to be with God for ever and ever. This was the first of the great divisions. Friends, our God has poured out grace upon grace. But in regard to religion, all is dead. Ah! 10. Even the behavior of a -- Ephesians 2:1-10 -- Fourth Sunday in Lent - B -- 2003 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. Thus we have a new nature which hates sin, and the Holy Ghost which gives power for that which is good. This clearly is of the deepest possible interest to the saints. Imagine in Solomon's day when silver was as common as rocks. for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones." So this Greek word meander is the word that Paul uses here. 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. See the result of that difference. Then come the slaves similarly. Livy writes: "The Greeks wage a truceless war against people of other races, against barbarians." What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Bible Gateway Plus makes it simple. Well, if you think I would think that, you don't know me. We are by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 3. k Ib. For by grace are ye saved through faith; We have this expression, "by grace are ye saved," twice over in this chapter. He will make it good. Your self-made man usually worships his creator very earnestly; and your self-saved man glorifies him that saved him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. John 4:19-24 And that is what should never happen in a church. 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. Or, what was the manner of life that we lived? I would want to make it a great day.Now, do you think that our Father is any different? I do not know how it is that the young man never was loosed. The tendency is ever to set aside what is personal for that which is corporate. We were dead; but we are quickened by the Spirit of God. In other words, Christ was not raised up as an insulated individual, severed from all others by His glory and their sin and shame. Please note: If you use material from this blog, please be careful to credit the original author and source. . It was done in the very street of the city. It is not so in the word of God. 5. As we look at the course of this world, as we look at the way things are going, as we look at the latest rock stars, the latest idols, they have become quite obvious of the bondage and the chains, and of the cruelty, and of the evil by which they are inspired.In Copenhagen we saw these posters all over town. Paul uses two illuminating pictures. When the Psalmist sang: "I will extol thee, my God and king" ( Psalms 145:1) he meant it literally. Therefore, the thought of total human depravity as something inherited must be incorrect. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. Our English word sin comes from a root "to miss." Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice! 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. Well, dear friends, if we have been quickened, we have been quickened from above. 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