. . Now the glorious future that awaits us, as Paul prayed in chapter 1, and we studied last week. 2:1-3 When you were dead in your sins and trespasses, those sins and trespasses in which you once walked, living life in the way this present age 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, as far as human nature goes, we deserved nothing but the wrath of God, as the others do. Note how he links us with Christ Jesus. I am inclined to think that the difference lay in the difference of their wealth. 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. (ii) He reconciled both to God. 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. Not only is there this new man that God has created after the image of Christ in contrast with the first Adam, but this is the ground why all moral evil is to be judged, beginning with deceit and falsehood. 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. When God made the world, it was a wonder, and the angels came from afar to see his handiwork. What has it to do with a happy life, so long as every sentiment of the mind, and every act of the will, is death? That is exactly the right that Jesus gives us in regard to God. In nowise: even now He has abounded toward them "in all wisdom and prudence." You were not the chosen Israelites, you have not the covenant mark in your flesh. One of the regular passengers commented on the change. Israel entered into a covenant with God by the sprinkling of the blood. Introducing this great practical truth, he reminds them of what they had been, but also tells them what they are now. 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. 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. young man, thou hast not yet gone so far as the open profligate and desperately profane, take heed, thou art dead! I live in him. 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. Amen. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect" ( Matthew 5:48 ). Thats what friendship is all about. This is very interesting and very significant; it is not that Jesus makes all the Jews into Gentiles, or all the Gentiles into Jews; he produces a new kind of person out of both, although they remain Gentiles and Jews. All rights reserved worldwide. Again, I have in my presence young men who have grown to riper years than that fair damsel who died in her childhood. And so accordingly all that is acceptable takes this shape. As He is outwardly called on, so there is everywhere the "one faith," which does not mean (alas! What does that mean? "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour. it grieves me to the heart, to think that some of you are all that heart could wish, except that one thing; yet lacking that which is the only thing that can deliver you. This declaration does not mean he is not a son, only that he does not consider himself worthy of such a position. But now they had consummated their rebellion by refusing the Christ of God. You have much about you that is lovely, but you have just begun to indulge in evil habits; you have not yet become the desperate sinner; you have not yet become altogether noxious in the eyes of other men; you are but beginning to sin, you are like the young man carried out on his bier; you have not yet become the confirmed drunkard; you have not yet begun to curse and blaspheme God; you are still accepted in good society; you are not yet cast out; but you are dead, thoroughly dead, just as dead as the third and worst case. 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. If the latter enquired how God had interfered most conspicuously for them, no doubt they were reminded of the power that brought them out of the land of Egypt. "Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.". 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. 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. Corruption has not yet done its work, and tender care has guarded the body as yet from what will surely come to it; yet is there death, sure, complete death, in the one case as well as in the other. He makes no end of blunders; he makes many miscalculations because everything is new to him. Because if you face reality, truth doesn't exist, and thus you will only end in despair. Naturally this prayer grows out of the two great truths he had been urging. In him we have been reconciled to God through the cross, made citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.. Christ and you are one now, and you are made to live together with him. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 463, 476, 461. For "if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ." 4 all the earth bows down to you; they sing praise to you, they sing the praises of your name. 8 praise our god, all peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard; 9 he has preserved our lives and kept our Try it FREE right now! He knows about himself better than you do. "You hath HE quickened." He is one who does not subject himself to any authority and, therefore, practices "lawlessness." Ah! "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins." 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. Among whom also we all had our conversation ( Ephesians 2:3 ). That is, all our strength is to lean on another, even the Lord. This, then, was what was needed for the principalities and powers, and this is what they behold in the church of God. N461919. in being constantly visited by penitents I have sometimes blushed for this city of London. For we were by nature, that is, we were doing what comes naturally to the fallen man. In times past you meandered according to the course of this world. Some people never grow beyond that stage. Just as Christ is the sample and model whether of nature or relationship, so the Holy Ghost is not without His own proper place in bringing the saint into the reality, knowledge, and enjoyment of both. That means throughout the endless ages to come you are going to be dwelling with God in His eternal kingdom as God is revealing unto you the exceeding richness of His mercy and of His kindness towards you through Christ Jesus.The psalmist said, "As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high is God's mercies towards those who fear Him." Eternity isn't long enough. When Isaiah received his vision of God, his first reaction was to say: "Woe is me! That is, whatever way the wind is flowing, that is the way you turn, that is the way you go. "Among whom also we all had our conversation in time past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as the rest. Such an one is the openly profligate, to whom we give wide quarters, lest we touch him. It is not at all put as a question of command according to the law; but "God had before prepared," as a part of His wonderful scheme, "that we should walk in them." A man is where his head is, is he not? They do not know that things are at a distance; they have to learn that fact by looking many times. We had no sense with which to comprehend spiritual things. Death always implies a change from the state of being alive. There is his pleasure-seeking: he has given it up; but how often will his companions be after him, to get him to go with them. Somehow we have an impression that God is going to just get all of these dirty, nasty things that we have said we would never do and say, "All right, start here." Besides, take "the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one." In Greek there are two words for new. Reader 1 In his own flesh Jesus broke down the hostility between us. And sometimes if they didn't feed me when I wanted to be fed, I would flail and kick and scream and holler. "Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." We all benefit from your creativity and generosity. Here is the point. 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. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." This was peculiarly needed. 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. In the lives of so many there is a kind of tragic process. You are caressed by us, received by the living in Sion into their company and acquaintance, approved of and accepted; alas! He was a resident alien, a man who had taken up residence in a place but who had never become a naturalized citizen; he paid a tax for the privilege of existing in a land which was not his own. And now, in Him who is dead and risen, the Christian has put completely off the old man, is being renewed in the spirit of his mind, and has put on the new man, which according to God is created in righteousness and holiness of truth. Do not the tears rain on her, as if they would sow the seeds of life in that dead earth again? He is holy in nature, and blameless in His ways. Ephesians 4:18; John 17:3). It becomes the pleasure, the delight, the thrill of our lives. The imagery of death and life, as used here, is often used when illustrating fellowship issues with God. L: Come into this time of peace and Ay, so it is with the young woman or the young man I mean to describe now. The conflict is against Satan and his hosts. This page includes a range of prayers, calls to worship, confessions and other material, including for including children, based on the 5 weeks of Ephesians readings. It was done in the very street of the city. fol. It is in vain to look for the church's prosperity, if saints individually do not grow up unto Christ. ", Cicero could write much later: "As the Greeks say, all men are divided into two classes--Greeks and barbarians." In Du Maurier's novel Trilby there is an example of that. 22And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.(AZ). 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. 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. He says that the Gentiles are no longer foreigners but full members of the family of God. It is the mystery of Christ; and this is what secures the blessing in its fulness and purity for the church of God. (There is no need to credit the re:Worship blog itself.). Take them down to the stream and let them get a drink of water. But there was no real purpose to your life. 4But because of his great love for us,(H) God, who is rich in mercy, 5made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions(I)it is by grace you have been saved. It is not a conferred position, however blessed, but practical enjoyment even that Christ Himself might be habitually the object before them, now that all question of deliverance and blessing was settled in their favour. Christianity demands love even to our enemies, but Plutarch said that the sign of a good man was that he was useful to his friends and terrible to his enemies. 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. That at that time ye were without Christ. On the other hand, we find that the predestination is "according to the good pleasure of his will," because no necessity operates in this. For without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sins (Heb. Such is the measure, if measure it can be called, of the grace wherein we stand. Sin is the death of the soul. 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. Perhaps he believes that there is, because he was brought up to believe it; but he is not cognizant of God; God has not entered into him; he has not come into contact with God. May God save you now, ere you shall come to that consummation for which hell so sighs, and which heaven can alone avert. God grant you to know the joy of that condition! All this, it will be observed, is consequent on the cross. 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. The very power that brought you out of the world and of your sins is the power that raised up Christ from the dead, set Him in the heavenly places, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fulness of that glorious Head to whom it is united. Father Taylor of Boston used to say: "There is just enough room in the world for all the people in it, but there is no room for the fences which separate them." 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. We want your renewing of us, but often it hurts. Following the fads.But then Paul gives us an awesome insight, and that is that these fads and fashions of the world are really being directed by none other than Satan. To keep the men from glorying or boasting in what God was going to do. Look at me, I believe." Is there not good reason for saying that the church is but a consequence? It is the gift of God and our part is simply to accept it. Here are some indexes that might be helpful: INDEXES: For a complete list of all the indexes on this blog, click here. By Gods grace, Christ not only died to bear the penalty of human sin, but he rose to glorious life in the heavenly world so that repentant sinners can have a glorious new life in him (4-7).This salvation is entirely Gods work. Hence, being "Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; [the apostle bids such remember] that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world." For if we are in Christ, we have a vantage ground which makes all things clear. He is just as dead; they are both dead, and death really knows of no degrees. All have sinned, or missed the mark, and come short of the glory of God. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. Such contact with a Gentile was the equivalent of death; even to go into a Gentile house rendered a Jew unclean. The second picture Paul uses is that of a building. Amen. Love it is which, as it were, puts all in movement that belongs to God. ", 15, 16. But it gets up again, and so it learns to walk. There was counsel, but besides there was intrinsic glory altogether independent of any plans of conferred honour. Thanks to those of you who took time to answer questions and offer comments about how your congregation navigated worship during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Are in italics. Aren't they perfect? Israel's was at best a mere creature relationship, though, no doubt, having a special place in creation. 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. What he desires, we desire. Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Ephesians, the second chapter.Paul is going to talk about someone tonightvery interesting. Even Christ was tempted. Ah, the last stage of death, the last stage of corruption, oh, how hideous; but the last stage of sin, hideous far more! Well, dear friends, if we have been quickened, we have been quickened from above. Here the apostle would have Christ to be more the satisfying object of our affections. It is the failure in any sphere of life to be what we ought to be and could be. You, and you, and you, are citizens in this Kingdom. Was there only this? To honour one's father and mother was both an obligation and had a special promise under law. Many wonder that such truths as these should not have more words used in communicating them. If everybody is jumping in the fire, are you going to jump in the fire? During Lent Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. 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. To forgive another's wrongs is not enough for a Christian. Then suppose someone came with the news that the door was still open and a welcome was waiting at home. In this first part, Paul writes about humanitys reconciliation with God. Another of Paul's blessed "nows." He may be a converted person; and God may be truly dealing with him in the way of gracious action. Finally, He enunciated the motive for our calling (i.e., the unmerited grace of God, Ephesians 2:1-10). But it is not said that we are love. Ah! The apostle adds, Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past, which words refer to the Jews, whom he signifies here to have been in the like sad and miserable condition by nature, and to have been as vile and wicked as the unregenerate Gentiles themselves, and whose natural state he further describes in the next words. Start for FREE. And so Gideon took the 300. [4] W. G. Blaikie, The Pulpit Commentary (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. Paul uses the word paroikos ( G3941) for sojourner. 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. He gives him a glory. We are no longer like outsiders in a foreign land. He rules the universe from His heavenly throne "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.". No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. The chapter itself is a parenthesis. "You hath he quickened." When the believer is at his worst, he is better than the unbeliever at his best; his reasons for happiness are always transcendently above all the reasons for joy that worldlings can never know. "Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ." You feel him; his presence is photographed upon your spirit; your very heart trembles with awe of him, and you say with Jacob, "Surely God is in this place." Let this then rest in His hands. Are we as good parents as we might be? "for which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak." (Ephesians 2:1). Submissions: I am so grateful to those of you who send me your own material to post! Our work bears fruit that makes a difference. (AM) 18For through him we both have access(AN) to the Father(AO) by one Spirit. (By grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. If you're interested in reading the results, visit here: https://pandemicworshipsurvey.blogspot.com/. Only into the first of them could a Gentile come. So we pray that the Holy Spirit will continue to bind us together in love and peace, building us up as awitnessing, welcoming and forgiving community of grace. He must always give it. It was a choice of God Himself before there was any creature responsible or dependent. earth that looks fertile enough to bring forth life with but one living tear? Oh, you did stutter and stammer over it! This is the nature that is given to the believer now. "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." The lark sings for the joy of singing. But up to this the saints are contemplated as such. But Jesus calls all sorts of people together. It does not mean that they had no animal life, or that they did not breathe, and walk, and act. Whereas we were once dead to God (Ephesians 2:1-3), we are now alive in God (Ephesians 2:4-10). It involved the keeping of the law. It is revealed to us here. No, not even so, and for this reason God has relationships, and these relationships are shown in Jesus just as much as His nature is. I have heard that when a man is nearly drowned, while he lies under the power of death, he feels little or nothing, perhaps has even pleasurable dreams; but when, in the process of restoring him, they have rubbed him till the blood begins to flow, and the life begins to revive a little, he is conscious of pricking and great pain. I dare not come downstairs without speaking to him. 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. He hath "quickened us together with Christ, and hath raised us up together." With a terrible activity of spiritual death; 3. But in that which comes before us in our epistle, it is not a question even of the highest creature on earth one that was called to have dominion on earth, and be the image and glory of God here below. That is what love can do. We hear the great message of Jesus reconciling people to you, O God, and to one another, and yet we still hesitate to reach out to people when they are different in some way from us. 8For it is by grace(P) you have been saved,(Q) through faith(R)and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God 9not by works,(S) so that no one can boast. No, no. (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.". Living things change. It was brought in either to convict the Corinthians of their utter departure through the spirit of the world, the flesh taking that shape, or it was brought in triumphantly on their restoration. Not only so, but they had walked according to the course of that which is most of all offensive to God "of this world, according to the prince of the authority of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience;" for indeed they were, one as much as another, children of disobedience. He had looked at sin before, but had never seen it to be sin. 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? How blessed is the character and the spring of Christian service! There are three directions in which the effect of sin is deadly. The father in this parable represents God and shows our Fathers continuing love for his children who have forsaken the right way. Reader 1 Christ came and proclaimed peace. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 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. It may well be that we have something to learn here. The living child of God likes to get as far as ever he can away from the death that once held him bound. no one has any special standing or bragging rights. Faith dies and unfaith blossoms as a flower; Nor ever wilt thou find upon the open streets of men. 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. 12. Though it is the mystery of Christ, it is not exclusively about Christ. You have a wide range, for the life of God, his life in his new-born child, is the same life that is in every Christian. Whether we were corrupt or not, is not a question that I need to raise here; let everyone judge concerning himself. The love of God is the most amazing, the most powerful, the most abundant, the most intimate, the most lovely thing. Transgressions (false steps, cf. So totally and absolutely is it outside the range of human thought and feeling that the difficulty is to drop self, to cut all the strings that bind us to human nature and the world, to see all ended even now that is connected with the present course of this age, so that we may be simply occupied and filled with that heavenly blessedness which God unfolds to our souls. There you are, now youll all dressed up and ready for anything! For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves ( Ephesians 2:8 ): What not of yourselves? Nothing touches these. The instructor is dead, and you are dead. 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. But now appeared something altogether new. It is just the answer to the grace of God in Christ. "You hath HE quickened," is true of all who are quickened. Therefore, put on the full armour of God. The breast-plate means the practical righteousness of the saint himself. I would like to just commit to You." He may shed abroad the love of God therein; but He is rather said to dwell in us, making the body God's temple. Would God send out and bring in the Gentiles to fill their place? What did he mean by that? Now the word conversation is an old English word, and we have a new definition for that word today. (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. Here you see the greatness of his grace, in that "he loved us, even when we were dead in sins.". We must carefully remember that the mystery does not mean the church merely. But Biblical Christianity probes the patient to the quick. 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