call to worship: ephesians 2

He came a divine person filled with love; and He went a man also, triumphant not with love only but in righteousness and power, to give effect to all the glorious counsels of His Father, which unjudged sin would have for ever frustrated. But, besides the new man which lives in dependence, we need to guard against losing power according to God. Accelerating into traffic, I looked up and saw a billboard with 6 words, 2 sentences, 1 sign of an imploding culture in two foot high letters. You had nothing to do with this. "Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." 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. Satan is allowed to go on for a little while longer, because God is gathering out the joint-heirs, while the evil develops itself in a new form Man had been shown to be the enemy of all righteousness, and now betrays himself the enemy of all grace. Just waiting to prove us wrong. As usual the apostle salutes the saints with the best wishes for their blessing. It is truly an astonishing statement. God had never so spoken of man before. My father is a nobody and I am the least in my father's household. Philo said: "There are spirits flying everywhere through the air." 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. Our English word sin comes from a root "to miss." He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth. There was a time, more than four hundred years before this, when Greece was threatened with invasion by the Persians. Many wonder that such truths as these should not have more words used in communicating them. though we never earned it and dont deserve it. The gospel of God's grace proclaims the very reverse. It is just the answer to the grace of God in Christ. But I dare say I have some characters that are illustrations of that case too. That is, he looks at the inner source, not merely at the glorious results. We wait for nothing greater nor its match; we await the results of this glorious power for the body and the creation; but we look for no new putting forth of power which can enter into competition with that which God has already shown in Christ. One wrote home: "It is better for you to be in your own homes, whatever they may be like, than to be in a strange land." But then I confessed my sin and God forgave me my sin completely. Judging what I am, I confess that all my blessing is in the Saviour, who did not merely come to bless me as a living man in the world, but died and is risen again; and 1, confessing Him who is thus dead and risen, have part in His death. So the man, who has once been raised by the quickening power of the Holy Spirit, quits the dead; his old company does not suit him. And he said, "I looked at all of the wealth and I said, 'How dies the rich man like the fool, this is emptiness.' These verses continue the theme of redemption (Ephesians 1:7). Ah! Beware of dead prayers; they are a mockery to the Most High. 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. Believe in Christ! First, let us talk a little about OUR QUICKENING. And strangers from the covenants of promise. 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." to live in the praise of his glorious grace! They were dead in sins, but now alive in Christ. And he would have to treat the rest of the fellows to the drinks. Man by his very nature cannot bring perfection to God; and so, if ever man is to win his way to God, it must always be God who gives and man who takes. no one has any special standing or bragging rights. Thus is touched, incidentally, the need of our souls as offenders against God, but only so far as to show that it was in no way overlooked. 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? Hence, to make the mystery to be the church is a very serious moral as well as doctrinal mistake. We are made partakers of the divine nature, or course, in a modified sense, but still in a true sense. This is an of the former statements, that is, an exposition accompanied by an illustration. They are dead because of sinful acts that they themselves have committed (cf. Living things change. according to the prince of the power of the air, that even now works in the children of disobedience ( Ephesians 2:2 ): Now, there may have been a time in the history of the world that a person would challenge the fact that Satan is behind the course or the flow of the world. But just as before, in the walk which shuts out hatred, and anger, and so on, we were warned against grieving the Spirit of God; so the power of the Holy Ghost asserts itself here. That is not the result of some great effort on my part. Oh, be aware of his devices; seek to "keep the heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." Lazarus was of a rich family; very likely they wrapped him up with more care. Which is the worst state of all, far worse than being without circumcision. (ii) He reconciled both to God. Such is not the character of God's dwelling now. 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." 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? As Christ fills the whole body of Christian believers with his fulness, (Ephesians 1:23,) so had he dealt with the converted Ephesians, who before were dead in trespasses, and dead in sins. But, as Paul said elsewhere, "Christ is the end of the law" ( Romans 10:4). 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. And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins. You see, after the total indulgence of the lust of his flesh, not withholding anything from himself, he came to the conclusion life is empty and frustrating; there is nothing worthwhile under the sun. Thou hast the dew of thy youth, O child of God; and thou shalt have yet more of it, and be like thy Lord, when he shall take thee away from every trace of death, and the corrupt atmosphere of this poor world, and thou shalt dwell with the living God in the land of the living, for ever and for ever! When God made the world, it was a wonder, and the angels came from afar to see his handiwork. He came so as to be left absolutely free to occupy Himself in love for God's glory and our desperate need. 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. When Peter realized who Jesus was, his first reaction was: "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord" ( Luke 5:8). And why is all this? Altogether differently here "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" has blessed us where Christ is on high. But dead we were, most certainly. 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!". NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. I. The father in this parable represents God and shows our Fathers continuing love for his children who have forsaken the right way. In times past you meandered according to the course of this world. Such is, in fact, the condition of a sinful world. And the apostle concludes the whole of this part of the matter "to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." Christianity demands service, but the world cannot understand the missionary for instance, who goes away to some foreign land to teach in a school or heal in a hospital for a quarter of the salary he or she might obtain at home in some secular service. But the Gentiles had no such hope. It is not carnal blessing such as was in measure given under the law to Israel, and will be under the new covenant by and by; it is spiritual blessing. They are clearly identified in each blog post. The Rabbi refused. Besides, as we have seen, the church is the dwelling-place of God through the Holy Ghost's presence here below. The apostle treats it as our business diligently to observe it. In contrast to the blackness of my own past, now God. "[3] However, such a distinction is not corroborated by other New Testament use of the terms. 2:1-10 When you were dead in your sins and trespasses, those sins and trespasses in which once you walked, living life in the way in which this present age of this world lives it, living life as the ruler of the power of the air dictates it, that spirit who now operates in the children of disobedience--and once all we too lived the same kind of life as these children of disobedience do, a life in which we were at the mercy of the desires of our lower nature, a life in which we followed the wishes of our lower nature and of our own designs, a life in which, so far as human nature goes, we deserved nothing but the wrath of God, as the others do--although we were all like that, I say, God, because he is rich in mercy, and because of his great love with which he has loved us, made us alive in Christ Jesus, even when we were dead in trespasses (it is by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Christ, and gave us a seat in the heavenly places with Christ, because of what Christ Jesus did for us. Hands had to be washed in a certain way; dishes had to be cleaned in a certain way; there was page after page about what could and could not be done on the Sabbath day; this and that and the next sacrifice had to be offered in connection with this and that and the next occasion in life, The only people who fully kept the Jewish law were the Pharisees and there were only six thousand of 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. The re:Worship survey on pandemic worship practices has been completed. That is what Paul is doing here. It is the same life in the new-born believer as in yonder bright spirits that stand before the throne of God. Angels, for instance, are there; but they have no such relationship. 410). There never can be spiritual understanding, unless souls let in this after all plain principle, that the suited good depends on the relationship in which we are placed, whether to God, or to any other. The course and tenour of their lives are according to his suggestions, and in compliance with his temptations; they are subject to him, and are led captive by him at his will, whereupon he is called the god of this world, and the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. '', "no man is called a living man, but he who is in the way of truth in this world.----And a wicked man who does not go in the way of truth, is called, , "a dead man". Ah! "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once .named among you, as becometh saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking [even light words dishonour the Christian, as being contrary to Christ], nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. When the father sees the son, he can see the haughty spirit has been replaced by humility (Luke 15:20; Matthew 6:8). But I must add that we are also capable of acute pain to which we were strangers once. And as the unity flowed from the power of the Spirit sent down from heaven; so now when we come to gifts, it is expressly connected with Christ in glory. It was done in the very street of the city. It is told that when Pericles, the greatest of the Athenians, was walking forward to address the Athenian assembly, he used to say to himself: "Pericles, remember that you are an Athenian and that you talk to Athenians." Impossible that the Head should not be there as well as the body; and the apostle speaks as to Christ yet more than as to the assembly. The Jews had rejected their own Messiah. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil. But now there is love of relationship as well; and here too Christ appears, who is the pattern and perfection of grace in every respect. Paul cannot do without Christ, you see. And so I said, 'It must lie in leaving great monuments,' and so I applied myself to building, and I built all of these great monuments around Jerusalem, and when I looked at all of these great buildings and all I said, 'This too is empty; it doesn't satisfy.'" WebThe Art of Following - Matthew 4:12-23. He could condescend. Transgressions (false steps, cf. In point of fact, He looks for the expression and exercise of it, be assured, from all of us, though no doubt according to our measure. Accordingly we hear inGenesis 2:1-25; Genesis 2:1-25 how he gave names to all that was put under him. The old clothes were comfy and familiar. We know ourselves called, but were so easily distracted. To the Stoics history was cyclic. We confess our praying to you, and ask for your Spirit to pray within us. It is evident in this verse that the deadness of unregenerated people is a derivative, not of their birth, but of their sins. Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles, but he never forgot the unique place of the Jews in the design and the revelation of God. Here again we are at something which was very real in the days of Paul but which is not so real to us. There was the sovereign love of God in Christ forgiving us; there was love of complacency, inasmuch as we were to love according to that love with which we were loved, as shown us in the matchless love of Christ. Yes, yes! This is the point. "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." At the back of things there was a kind of essential despair. Our world belongs to him! 407 Spirit Divine, Attend Our Prayers CALL TO It is not Jesus' purpose, however, that we should turn all men into one nation, but that there should be Christian Indians and Christian Africans whose unity lies in their Christianity. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect" ( Matthew 5:48 ). 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. As being the image and glory of God on earth, he is the one that gives names to his companion, or to the subject creation. Paul could not forget, because it was a fact of history, that the Jews were uniquely the instrument in God's hand. Well, first, we have become now sentient towards God. 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. Now, if a man should miss the hoop, then he was called a sinner, you have missed. New to this blog? Than these nothing less becomes those so blessed. Naturally this prayer grows out of the two great truths he had been urging. Paul begins by reminding his readers that they lived in alienation from God (vv. Our first birth, the natural life was of the flesh. WebCalling Adapted from 2 Chronicles 7:14-15 God says, If my people, Who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray, And seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and heal their land. It is God in His proper nature, and in His relationship to Jesus. Had He brought the Gentiles into the place that Israel once occupied? thou art dead! Do you remember when the new life came into you? Reader 1 But now in Christ you who once were far away. Ephesians 4:18; John 17:3). says one, "I have lived fifty years, and I have never felt anything of God." The central idea of sin is failure, failure to hit the target, failure to hold to the road, failure to make life what it was capable of becoming; and that definition includes every one of us. Thus nature is the subject of verse 4, as relationship is of verse 5. We little think of the experiments that children have to go through before they arrive even at the use of their eyes. To live according to the dictates of the flesh is simply to live in such a way, that our lower nature, the worse part of us, dominates our lives. Then follows a prayer of the apostle the first of those he pours out for the Ephesian saints. but it fills our hearts we can feel it! That peace is won at the price of his blood, for the great awakener of love is the Cross. That is the way we are to God. But up to this the saints are contemplated as such. His glory is the first object of our being. Isaiah records, "your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear" (59:2 NASB). 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. Call to Worship #2 L: Though storms rage around me, I will clothe myself with the whole armor of God. Since then it is not so much they that have lost, but man in and by Christ that has gained such a place as they never had nor could have. This is a sobering reminder of the total sinfulness and lostness from which believers have been redeemed. 30. From the beginning, through all the crises of our times, until his kingdom fully comes, God keeps covenant forever. It was God's gift to you. And that is what should never happen in a church. C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Death In Life ( Ephesians 2:1-3 Continued). Even Christ was tempted. The first is nature; the second is relationship. The first saints and faithful in the city of Ephesus, asActs 19:1-41; Acts 19:1-41 shows, were persons who had been baptized with the baptism of John, and afterwards brought from Jewish to Christian ground by the apostle Paul. (118) To bring home more effectually to the Ephesians the general doctrine of Divine grace, he reminds them of their former condition. WebLet your gentleness be evident to all - Philippians 4:4-7 Salt and Light - Matthew 5:13-16 Take up your cross - Mark 8:34-37 Become like a child - Matthew 18:1-6 Keep praying - Daniel 6:6-10 Love that is genuine - Romans 12:9-17 Maintaining our eco-system - 1 John 4:7-12 More than just rules - Deuteronomy 4:5-8 & 6:4-9 Whither shall we flee to avoid the noxious odour of that reeking corpse? For the mass subsequently brought in were Gentiles, and the gospel of salvation they forthwith received, without going through the intermediate steps that the others knew. He has forgiven you in Christ; and you are called to do the same. What does that mean? These are the things that governed our lives in the past. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. More than this; for "no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church." And there may be a marathoner in the group that will get within a mile of the shore before he goes under. And if children that had a relationship with their parents in the flesh and under law did so (for it was indeed right), how much more did it become Christian children to pay them reverence? We have not earned salvation nor could we have earned it. One thing more, and I have done. The relationship in the Godhead has nothing to do with the question of time; and the great mistake that has been wrought by all human philosophy is from introducing notions of time where time can have no place whatever. young man, thou hast not yet gone so far as the open profligate and desperately profane, take heed, thou art dead! 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. But now he speaks briefly. They want to be saved by their own morality, and all sorts of things that they put instead of salvation by grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. The thought is overwhelming, that soon this body of mine must be a carnival for worms; that in and out of these places, where my eyes are glistening, foul things, the offspring of loathsomeness, shall crawl; that this body must be stretched in still, cold, abject, passive, death, must then become a noxious, nauseous thing, cast out even by those that loved me, who will say, "Bury my dead out of my sight." It is not love of something good in us; it is love of us because of everything good in him. 8, 9. Such seems to have been the measure of Adam's wisdom and prudence. To those who have not, I daresay it will seem as an idle tale. See Matthew 12:24; Matthew 12:26. The world as it is has invaded our souls. Paul speaks about people being dead in sins. 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. Other nations might be governed by democracy or aristocracy; Israel was a theocracy. That is, we were living by the lower nature, the animal nature, living after the lust of our flesh, and the lust of our minds. But in Ephesians the aim is of a much more absolute and direct character. Ay, so it is with the young woman or the young man I mean to describe now. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. (b) God is love; sin is therefore a crime, not against law, but against love. Although about to show us what the church is in its heavenly blessing, that is, in its highest associations, he always begins with the individual. 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