We could almost have died with delight at times when we have realized the glorious things that God has prepared for them that love him. Forgive the poverty of our accomplishing. Modern progress has made the world a neighbourhood: God has given us the task of making it a brotherhood. But suppose that someone whom both of these conflicting parties love comes and talks to them, there is every chance that peace will be made. Reader 1 Christ came and proclaimed peace. Paul's theme in this chapter continues to be the glorious blessings of the saved "in Christ," as contrasted with their former state of being without any hope whatever. 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. As though the keen, quick, razor edge of his power to reach and re-evoke the by-gone charm and glamour and essence of things had been blunted and coarsened. I thank God for that good godly advice from my mother.In times past we just flowed with the current, the weathervane. 2. People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. When all things that are shall be like old ocean's foam, which dissolves into the wave that bears it, and is gone for ever; we shall live, and we shall live in Christ, and with Christ, glorified for ever. Such an one is the openly profligate, to whom we give wide quarters, lest we touch him. Are we as good parents as we might be? But up to this the saints are contemplated as such. III. forgiven and free, through what Christ has done for us. . It is a time of asking, a time of enquiring. Then he adds the great exemplar and spirit of it all, according to the forgiveness with which God met us in Christ. It is truly an astonishing statement. Reader 2 I try so hard, I do my best. The Holy Ghost gives us the certainty and joyful assurance of our place as saints; the Holy Ghost at the same time gives us the foretaste of the bright inheritance of God that lies beyond. The barrier between Jew and Gentile was absolute. 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). A corpse is insensible. ], "The unbeliever is not sick; he is dead! Now it is here in the Greek text, finally we have got it. However this be, "We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works," a peculiar kind of good works, suited to the relationship in which we stand. It is a present thing in every sense, though, of course, needed for heaven and eternity. 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." Our work bears fruit that makes a difference. They should thank God there is an escape, it has been provided by Jesus Christ. Sin creates a division between us and God. If you don't, your wife does. Then the apostle introduces us to another topic. That is, we can't earn it. The word Paul uses (apokatallassein, G604) is the word used of bringing together friends who have been estranged. the One who would calm our fears with peace and hope. In point of fact, from his conversion right through, the revelation of the mystery was involved. Here again we are at something which was very real in the days of Paul but which is not so real to us. And as for Lazarus, he is shut up with a stone. But then I confessed my sin and God forgave me my sin completely. But it is very different in relation to the mother whose child he killed. ye are dead! 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 Holy Ghost thus takes a corresponding part. You might not like it so well; it would not look well in print. There is his habit of swearing; how often will an oath come into his mouth, and he will have as hard work as he can to thrust it down again! Then the diversities are brought before us. He may shed abroad the love of God therein; but He is rather said to dwell in us, making the body God's temple. Amen. I cannot help reminding you, that you must not overlook the fact that Paul will not go a hair's breadth away from Christ. It is neither the tabernacle, nor the temple, but His habitation in Spirit. You mothers, do this with your little children. 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. He tracked her down. That is what God says about us, you may come closer than others, but we have all come short of the glory of God. . This was the first of the great divisions. We remember with gratitude how people shared their faith with us so that we are no longer strangers and aliens. '', "whoever is without wisdom, lo, he is , "as a dead man";''. 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. You, by God's grace are a man; this little one is but a new-born babe; hear what he has to say. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" They said that the Gentiles were created by God to be fuel for the fires of Hell; that God loved only Israel of all the nations that he had made; that the best of the serpents crushed, the best of the Gentiles killed. That general doctrine, I shall illustrate in rather a singular way. 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. This pericope is a condensation of Pauls exposition of redemption in Romans. L: Glory I cannot tell you what are the debaucheries, the degrading lusts, the devilish, the bestial sins into which wicked men will run, when spiritual death has had its perfect work in them, and sin has manifested itself in all its fearful wickedness. For "if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ." How solemn to learn what the old man is in its most detestable forms, against all which the Christian is warned! Israel entered into a covenant with God by the sprinkling of the blood. He always comes back to that theme. There was a time, more than four hundred years before this, when Greece was threatened with invasion by the Persians. Faith. If God reveals it now, the idea of man of ourselves being the first and main object in the mind of God is impossible. When Paul speaks of you, he is speaking of the Gentiles; when he speaks of us he is speaking of the Jews, his fellow countrymen. 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." (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.". 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. 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. And now but one thing I have to say to those who are quickened; and then adieu this morning, and may God bless you! Satan is behind the world's fashions, the trends, directing, orchestrating those destructive, damning forces that we see pervading our society. There is a certain spiritual competence supposed, a due preparation not only of heart, but also of knowledge; or, as the apostle said, "we speak wisdom among them that are perfect," Here no lengthy exposition would be wanted about it, because they were not so infantine as to suppose that the truth of God depends on the number of times that a thing is asserted. fol. Such is, in fact, the condition of a sinful world. (Note also Romans 5:12; Romans 5:21; James 1:15; James 5:20; Romans 7:5; Romans 7:10; Romans 7:13; Romans 7:24; John 5:24.). In what sense were the people of Israel different from other peoples? God loves us so much he gave us (ii) Sin kills ideals. 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. 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 ). The priest said that he was very sorry but in that case he could not permit burial in his churchyard. Oh how happy is the man whose sins are covered. But the Christian is even now himself, with his fellow-saints, the object of the very same power which never can be outshone the power that raised up Christ from the dead. This was peculiarly needed. 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? 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. Death always implies a change from the state of being alive. How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! It is the rockiest city in the world. 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. Most wholesome blessedness! The maiden's life was given gently by a touch; but in the young man's case it must be done, not by the touching of him, but by the touching of the bier. He is our peace. No, it will go on, to your utter ruin. That is the natural man, apart from Jesus Christ, and you, black is this picture that Paul paints of you and of me. But he has raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus ( Ephesians 2:6 ): Or in the heavenlies. That is not the result of some great effort on my part. It was God's gift to you. The dead that lie on the battle-field, torn of dogs or kites, rotting, corrupting in the sun, what a horrible sight! Then follows a prayer of the apostle the first of those he pours out for the Ephesian saints. Thus ought instructed saints to deal with those who have been newly quickened. Here with those who are our sisters and brothers. This could not be true of us. It is expressly not against any powers that were living and acting in the world. It sees no beauty in the landscape; hears not the voice of a friend; looks not upon the glorious sun and stars; and is unaffected by the running stream and the rolling ocean. There are merchants whose names stand high and fair. 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. Tell a man who is breathing that there is no air. 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. It was the golden age of the city state. I mean, that they like the amusements of the world; they like to put on their shroud sometimes just for a treat. The practical outcome of all this, that some of you do not know anything at all about it. 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. , , SSL- . 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. Besides, take "the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one." "That he might present it to himself [not merely to the Father, but present it to himself] a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." my sister, that thou who in thine outward carriage art so good, should yet have sins in the chamber of thine heart, and death in the secresy of thy being, which is as true a death as that of the grossest sinner, though not so thoroughly manifested. Finally, He enunciated the motive for our calling (i.e., the unmerited grace of God, Ephesians 2:1-10). Oh! Ephesians 2:5- :. I didn't think anybody would miss the one. Heres a contemporary call to worship inspired by Ephesians 2: 19-22. the One who names each of us as a beloved child. Here are some indexes that might be helpful. "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." These are the two former points. He wanted to be like the Most High God ( Isaiah 14:14 ). And you hath he quickened - The words hath he quickened, or made to live, are supplied, but not improperly, by our translators. All men, being naturally children of disobedience, are also by nature children of wrath: God is angry with the wicked every day. young man, thou hast not yet gone so far as the open profligate and desperately profane, take heed, thou art dead! 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. there are some that are a stench in the nostrils of the Almighty; some whose character is hideous beyond all hideousness. Jesus has something to do about each of them. Sing to him, sing praises to him; tell of all his wondrous works! Whatever could contribute to it, whatever fell in according to it, everything that God Himself could do to bind us up with Christ, sharing with us all that is glorious in Christ His own Son, even to His holy nature and relationship with the Father, as far as this could be conferred on a creature, is no more than God had in His heart yea, is what God has given us now, and will display in heavenly Places ere long. Have we been quickened from above? 1. (Ephesians 3:1-21) The closing theme shows us where and with whom are our true conflicts as Christians. These are the things that governed our lives in the past. No God? That law had been worked out into thousands and thousands of commandments and decrees. That is because this is far more a lyric of the love of God than a careful theological exposition. Who could, before He revealed His purpose, have so much as conceived such a dealing possible? When the Rabbis spoke about accepting a convert into Judaism, they said that he had been brought near. And so I gave myself to understanding and to wisdom, I said, 'The answer must lie in knowing,' and so I applied myself to wisdom until I was the smartest man in the world. He that sitteth upon the throne saith, "Behold, I make all things new;" and the renewed man says, "My Lord, it is even so." And is this all? You don't know the heavenly Father. to you who were far off and to you who were near. If you're interested in reading the results, visit here: https://pandemicworshipsurvey.blogspot.com/, We gather together in the name of Jesus Christ. There we have tongues, miracles, etc. In the prophets this too remains always the standard, until God exert His power in another way, when He shall be no longer spoken of as Jehovah that brought them out of the land of Egypt, but out of the north country into their land, where He shall settle them for ever. 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. So should our walk be. In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. (ii) Paul says of Jesus that he wiped out the law of the commandments with all its decrees. '', "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". P: We come to celebrate Gods abiding love! For it is he who is our peace; it is he who made both Jew and Gentile into one, and who broke down the middle wall of the barrier between, and destroyed the enmity by coming in the flesh, and wiped out the law of commandments with all its decrees. Web1) We start with our thumbs. Besides, there is love, the activity, as well as, the moral qualities, of His being. 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. Is a man as good a husband as he might be? We cannot describe it; no man can describe his first birth; it remains a mystery. We all benefit from your creativity and generosity. 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. This is the point. that you should yet be without grace in your heart! We wish that death did not remain, the old nature hampering us; but, in perfect proportion as the new life is really in us, we now run parallel with God. That is to say, it is life lived on the world's standards and with the world's values. This is an interested subject: I wish I could dilate upon it, but my voice fails me; and therefore, permit me to go to the third point very briefly. Now, this morning, I trust I shall not be tedious; I shall endeavour to make the subject as interesting as possible, and also endeavour to be brief. Where these are made and kept right, we can then safely follow what God will show us in due time, but not otherwise. For the Jew It was possible to say: "Remember that you are a citizen of God, and that you speak to the people of God." 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 That is the way we are to God. Upon his repentance and confession, his father forgives him; therefore, he spiritually "came to life again." This clearly is of the deepest possible interest to the saints. Oh, what a change from the past to the present! Having no hope, and without God in the world: It is an awful description, but a truthful description, of what we were. HOMER: I do know you would. What a deal of dead worship there is! The Call to Worship: As followers of Jesus Christ, living in this world - which some seek to control, but which others view with despair - we declare with joy and trust: Our world belongs to God! The experience of sin had left a kind of tarnishing film on his mind and things could never be quite the same again. Here he prays to the Father of our Lord Jesus, not simply to the God that had raised up the Christ from the dead, and was glorifying Him on high. ye daughters of Sion, who are ever at the house of prayer, oh! 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. This is the one conduit-pipe through which the streams of living water flow to the dead in sin; God's grace comes to us "Through Christ Jesus", and through him alone. 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. Altogether differently here "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" has blessed us where Christ is on high. The following summaries about call to worship ephesians 2 will help you make more personal choices about more accurate and faster information. As Origen had it: "The scars remain." It is "to the praise of the glory of his grace." (iv) The Gentiles were strangers from the covenants on which the promises were based. Call to Worship #2 L: Welcome to worship this morning. Paul uses the word paroikos ( G3941) for sojourner. All the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: There is no church without Christ, no temple without him as its cornerstone, its priest, its glory. ", In the Homeric Hymns the assembly of Olympus is charmed by the Muses who sing "of the deathless gifts of the gods and the sorrows of men, even all that they endure by the will of the immortals, living heedless and helpless, nor can they find a cure for death, nor a defence against old age.". Even the faith, Do you remember when the Midianites had covered the land like grasshoppers? "I see you've changed your house," he said to her. "We were by nature the children of wrath, even as others." - ! Call number one is this: God calls you because God loves you, just 2) Call Number Two, hold your first finger: God calls you In its place he put love to God and love to men. Thus is the Lord ever presented as the pattern. The church is but a consequence; and we bless God for this, and bless Him also that we know the church is but the complement of Christ. He will make it good. 3. 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. Those who had been far from God were brought near, and the door was shut to no one. He could not speak; he was bound about in a napkin. He wished to sing of Cadmus; but his harp resounded love alone; and so the harp of Paul resounds with Christ alone, Christ alone. The work of Jesus is to show all men that God is their friend and that, therefore, they must be friends with each other. I mention this, because it is a striking proof that an error imported into Scripture leads even right-minded men into sad evil. We desire to see his kingdom come as he does, and we pray for his will to be done on earth, even as it is in heaven. As a Christian you're going to have to learn to go against the current. And there may be a marathoner in the group that will get within a mile of the shore before he goes under. If you're interested in reading the results, visit here: https://pandemicworshipsurvey.blogspot.com/. Dear God, we like people who look like us. Notice what OUR PRESENT POSITION IS, if God has quickened us. ver 3, 11-13; Ro 11:30; 1Co 6:11; 5:8; Col 3:7; Tit 3:3; 1Pe 4:3, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Revelation, Paperback, Comfort Print, NIV, Biblical Theology Study Bible, Comfort Print: Follow Gods Redemptive Plan as It Unfolds throughout Scripture, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Galatians, Paperback, Comfort Print, NIV, The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People, NIV, The Story, Hardcover, Comfort Print: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People, NIV, Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, Red Letter Edition: Bringing to Life the Ancient World of Scripture. When we were still dead in our trespasses and sins God loved us.God has loved you from eternity, there has never been a time when God didn't love you. For we were by nature, that is, we were doing what comes naturally to the fallen man. They describe the Christians condition as an unbeliever before God justified him or her. Then we have the children, who are called to obey their parents in the Lord. ! You will never discover it all. Thus we have at last the church developed in its two main characters. The Jews were so, as well as the Gentiles; and one man is as much so as another by nature, not only by custom and imitation, but from the time when we began to exist, and by reason of our natural inclinations and appetites. Before Christ the barriers were up; after Christ the barriers were down. We all benefit from your creativity and generosity. You canna hear George Matheson preach and live in a cellar." The Temple consisted of a series of courts, each one a little higher than the one that went before, with the Temple itself in the inmost of the courts. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on. Never were they to reign; never will they be one with Christ like the saints. L: The brightness of the Star leads us! And you -- God is referring to the non-Jews reading the letter. He does not need resuscitation; he needs resurrection. "In whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise, who is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.". There is no place good enough for Christ the Son but heaven. This style of speech is left to those who scout divine inspiration. When God gives people a new life, they must live a new life (8-10). Such an one must have only got the lower end of the line, and not the full truth in its own native purity and freshness from God. Search as they might they could find no trace of the freshly dug soil. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The Revised Common Lectionary reads through Ephesians in Year B, Pentecost season. I tell you, I would be so shocked if I had one of my sons come and say something like that to me. 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