He Himself is the beginning, He Himself the end, He Himself all the way through. (118) To bring home more effectually to the Ephesians the general doctrine of Divine grace, he reminds them of their former condition. But wicked men are slaves to Satan, for they walk according to him; they conform their lives and actions to the will and pleasure of this great usurper. God has many ways of revealing his will to men. There is some perplexity in the language; but, if we attend carefully to what the apostle says about those two parts, the meaning is clear. Paul thinks of this building going on and on, with each part of the building being fitted into Christ. There is neos ( G3501) which is new simply in point of time; a thing which is neos ( G3501) has come into existence recently, but there may well have been thousands of the same thing in existence before. The rose and the lily breathe forth their fragrance around it, but the corpse perceives it not. He broke down longstanding walls of prejudice and hostility between Jew and Gentile,male and female, slave and free. In the Iliad (6: 146-149) Glaucus and Diomede meet in single combat. Clearly God has a purpose, a settled and glorious plan to gather the whole universe under Christ as its Head. Having no hope, and without God in the world: It is an awful description, but a truthful description, of what we were. In the Ephesians 2:1 he speaks of their internal state, in this of their outward conversation: Wherein, in which trespasses and sins, in time past you walked, you lived and behaved yourselves in such a manner as the men of the world are used to do. 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. Amen. we all say together We are one in Christ. "Youth's beauty fades, and manhood's glory fades. He commands his companions, who by bad example are bearing him on his bier to his grave, to stop, and then there is a partial reformation for awhile, and after that there comes the strong out-spoken voice "Young man, I say unto thee, arise!" 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." Livy writes: "The Greeks wage a truceless war against people of other races, against barbarians." Please note: If you use material from this blog, please be careful to credit the original author and source. I pray you that are instructed, and have become fathers, never laugh at babes in grace, if they ask you the most absurd questions. "There are three outstanding schools of moral pathology traceable throughout the centuries. Less than $5/mo! 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. Therefore, the thought of total human depravity as something inherited must be incorrect. though we never earned it and dont deserve it. They tell me that "creeds are dead." The have but anticipated the statement of the fourth and fifth verses: "God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.". What reason have sinners then to be looking out for that grace that will make them, of children of wrath, children of God and heirs of glory! Grace alone would not suffice, glory alone would not serve, but both. We were dead, all of us; and yet we were not all like one another. The re:Worship survey on pandemic worship practices has been completed. That is what Christ does for us. It is evident in this verse that the deadness of unregenerated people is a derivative, not of their birth, but of their sins. 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. The object is "us," and the prepositional phrase "with Christ" describes "us." You are interested, you are pleased, you are amused, with what they say. They are "ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.". Christ did not do the same thing with the young man that he did with the daughter of Jairus. So in Ephesians 5:1-33 he says, "This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church." For "if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ." conceived before the foundation of the universe. John explains, "Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness" (1 John 3:4 NIV). They are clearly identified in each blog post. Once is enough for the intelligent. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. We let cruel words slip out of our mouths, disguised as humour or opinion. "Deep in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, Feelings lie buried that grace can restore.". We may put this very simply; it is through Jesus that we are at home with God. We commonly have a wrong idea of sin. We had neither the eye that could see, nor the ear that could hear, nor the power that could feel. And if you've ever been to Jerusalem, you know how common rocks are around that city. For the first time in his life Little Billee has taken part in a drunken debauch and has himself been drunk. 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." He felt his need and that of the work. 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. God does for sinners what they cannot do themselves. Paul was the chosen witness to fill up that blank. The barrier between Jew and Gentile was absolute. The flesh is anything in us which gives sin its chance; it is human nature without God. She confessed that she was a sinner and asked to be admitted to the Jewish faith. I would rather find Christ where he is not, than not to find him where he is. The whole work is thus presented in its completeness from first to last; nevertheless, it is only "through faith" as yet. The unity in Christ produces Christians whose Christianity transcends all their local and racial difference; it produces men who are friends with each other because they are friends with God; it produces men who are one because they meet in the presence of God to whom they all have access. (vi) It is life which is deserving only of the wrath of God. They describe the Christians condition as an unbeliever before God justified him or her. Then, everything surprises you. 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. And so they wrote "hath he quickened" in italics in order to indicate the fact that they themselves added those words. we are reluctant to speak the truth to each other for fear of offending. Desire is a bad master, and to be at the mercy of desire is to be a slave. This is a sobering reminder of the total sinfulness and lostness from which believers have been redeemed. (Ephesians 2:1). Suppose two people have a difference and go to law about it; and the experts in the law draw up a document, which states the rights of the case, and ask the two conflicting parties to come together on the basis of that document. Ephesians 2:5- :. Dress in your new self, which is being re-formed into the image of God, in true righteousness and holiness.. The Lord is close to everyone who calls upon God; God hears our cries and will save us. gain access to 50+ premium resources to enhance your study of Scripture. Oh! After some months of Matheson's ministry, communion time came round. He came to take away the sense of estrangement and of guilt, by telling us that God wants us just as we are. 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. Oh, the many dead prayers that are heard at the bedside; so many good words rushed through at a canter! Scripturally-based resources for worship planners and leaders. Following the crowd, following the course of the world. 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." What did he mean by that? He told them that his heart had been troubled because of his refusal to allow their dead comrade to be buried in the churchyard; so, early in the morning, he had risen from his bed and with his own hands had moved the fence to include the body of the soldier who had died for France. IT MIGHT NATURALLY be expected that I should have selected the topic of the resurrection on what is usually called the Easter Sabbath. "Oh!" for you; alas! Christianity demands forgiveness, but the ancient writers said it was a sign of weakness to have the power to avenge oneself for injury and not to do so. The words hath he quickened mean, hath he made alive, or made to live; John 5:21; Rom 4:17; 1 Corinthians 15:36. Who were dead in trespasses and sins - On the meaning of the word dead, see the notes at Romans 5:12; Romans 6:2, note. Now the glorious future that awaits us, as Paul prayed in chapter 1, and we studied last week. 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. What a deal of dead worship there is! To have consciousness is a great mercy, even if it be only painful consciousness, and if every movement of life within seems to harrow up your soul. And all this hangs upon that first sentence, "You hath he quickened." It is an awful thing to have your conscience hardened, as in the very fires of hell, till it becomes like steel. It can never rise above its human source. The first is nature; the second is relationship. Loose him, and let him go ." No doubt it is a giving up of self, and therefore the fruit of divine grace. In Christ the great mystery of God is revealed; In Christ we are called to be blameless and free. Oh how happy is the man whose sins are covered. WebWe were living. It is a pleasant thing to hear an honest confession; they are dead to dead men. 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. ". For example, the Matthew and Luke accounts of the Lord's Prayer use the words interchangeably; and, as Blaikie said, "The distinction cannot be carried out in all other passages. The moment the apostle comes to inward relationship, he leaves the universality of phrase and speaks only of the saints of God "in you all." '', "whoever is without wisdom, lo, he is , "as a dead man";''. 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. This new walk and life that I have in the Spirit, this resurrected life of Jesus Christ. I spent my life trying to satisfy my fleshly desires.We read concerning Solomon the king, as he was trying to find meaning in life how that he pursued so many different directions. Put away your previous way of life, your old self, corrupted and deluded as it was, and be renewed in every aspect of your thinking. Hence, to make the mystery to be the church is a very serious moral as well as doctrinal mistake. Since we are dependent upon God for our eternal life and since our sin destroys our relationship with God, we are dead, cut off, alienated from the source of eternal life. When we realize what sin is, we come to see that it is not something which theologians have invented. Believe in Christ! Series A: 2022 - 2023. New to this blog? When I say Christ is our peace. "Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ." 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. In the sense that their only king was God. That is to say, it is life lived on the world's standards and with the world's values. This he did so that in the age to come the surpassing riches of his grace in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus might be demonstrated. Again, by it the apostle, writing to the Galatians, vindicated God's ways with man, and set the Christian outside the law. When did God start loving you? Paul begins by reminding his readers that they lived in alienation from God (vv. Men by nature are all dead. We know ourselves chosen, adopted as children of God. no one has any special standing or bragging rights. Aren't they perfect? The, good for an Israelite, for a Gentile, for a man, is wholly different from the good for a Christian, because their relationships are not the same as his. Notice what OUR PRESENT POSITION IS, if God has quickened us. "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;" not that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, but "rooted," etc., that ye "may be able to comprehend with all saints." And what will happen to you when the word of God is, "Depart, depart, depart, depart," and unto the graveyard of souls, to the fire that never shall be quenched, you and the rest of the dead are taken away? It literally means a miss. A thing which is kainos ( G2537) is new in the sense that it brings into the world a new quality of thing which did not exist before. ~ survey response This could not be true of us. "Give her meat." Having walked in the will of God, I cannot understand why any man would fear it. 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. A state of sin is a state of conformity to this world, Ephesians 2:2; Ephesians 2:2. Friends, our God has poured out grace upon grace. In this passage the son admits to his father that he has "sinned" and is "no longer worthy to be called your son." Any dead fish can float down the stream, it takes a live fish to swim against the current." 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. Thus ought instructed saints to deal with those who have been newly quickened. When you see a person meandering you get the impression he is not really going anywhere and he doesn't have any purpose. Singing with your whole heart may not manifest itself in loud, or at times even audible singing, but it is the bare minimum of what our Lord requires. ver 3, 11-13; Ro 11:30; 1Co 6:11; 5:8; Col 3:7; Tit 3:3; 1Pe 4:3, NIV, The Story, Hardcover, Comfort Print: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People, NIV, The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People, NIV, Verse Mapping Bible, Comfort Print: Find Connections in Scripture Using a Unique 5-Step Process, NIV, Story of Jesus: Experience the Life of Jesus as One Seamless Story, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Revelation, Paperback, Comfort Print, NIV, The Woman's Study Bible, Full-Color, Red Letter: Receiving God's Truth for Balance, Hope, and Transformation. But when presented to him, he knows all that it was meet for him to know then. This pericope is a condensation of Pauls exposition of redemption in Romans. It is the mystery of Christ; and this is what secures the blessing in its fulness and purity for the church of God. God commended His love towards us even that while we were yet sinners Christ died for the ungodly. 3 all of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[ a] and following its desires The Gifts Of The Unity Of Christ ( Ephesians 2:13-18 Continued). Connected with nature, He has sealed us, as it is said here and elsewhere; and connected with relationship, He is the earnest. As the old saying has it. He came so as to be left absolutely free to occupy Himself in love for God's glory and our desperate need. He prays accordingly that they might enter into both, realizing the holy peaceful atmosphere of the one, and the glorious expectations that were bound up with the other; for clearly the future is before his mind. The ancient world believed strenuously in demons. The world as it is has invaded our souls. He will bring him in everywhere. It was not even lawful to render help to a Gentile woman in childbirth, for that would be to bring another Gentile into the world. Therefore we need never fear, no matter what the blessing and the privilege may be. "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." WebCalls To Worship Love Adapted from Psalm 36:5-7 Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the skies. (LogOut/ But, at the same time, our living prayer bursts out hours before the appointed time, or sometimes it will not come at the time. Hence "one baptism" follows, which the context shows to be the plain initiatory rite of Christian profession, and nothing else. When I tried to hide my guilt I was miserable. It was a choice of God Himself before there was any creature responsible or dependent. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" (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.". my brother, alas! We have all sinned; we have all missed the mark. God loves us so much he gave us God has made our conscience quick as the apple of the eye; he has made our soul as sensitive as a raw wound, so that the very shadow of sin falling on the believer's heart will cause him great pain; and, if he does go into the actual sin, then, like David, he talks about his bones being broken, and it is not too strong a figure of the sorrow that comes upon the believing heart when sin has been committed, and God has been grieved. In body and mind they are under the control of Satan, and consequently are rebellious against God (2:1-3). But for this the most careful provision is laid on us. "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints; and for me [as the apostle blessedly adds], that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel" (what a gracious way of encouraging and strengthening saints, giving them a feeling of the value of their prayers, both in the sight of God, and in fellowship with the most blessed apostle that God ever gave the church!) 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. What has God done? 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. It is impossible to exaggerate the snares and difficulties of Christendom. 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. We are by nature drudges to the flesh, and to our corrupt affections, Ephesians 2:3; Ephesians 2:3. Start your free trial today! But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, God loved us even when we were dead in sins. The Lord impress this solemn truth on all your hearts by his own spirit; for Jesus Christ's sake! . 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. What a wonderful thing it is to have become sympathetic with God! See how Paul's language grows and swells and rises as he proceeds! 13. 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. It is not. You, by God's grace are a man; this little one is but a new-born babe; hear what he has to say. The relationship with God would cease the moment that man disobeyed the commandment of God, the moment man transgressed. But now fromEphesians 2:11; Ephesians 2:11 the apostle enters into particulars, and shows that the bringing down from God's own heights of these glorious counsels and making them thus manifest in man here below, completely sets aside the Jewish system, or rather supposes the setting aside of all Jewish elements. If you're interested in reading the results, visit here: https://pandemicworshipsurvey.blogspot.com/. It is translated walk. Chrysostom, famous preacher of the early Church, says that it is as if one should melt down a statue of silver and a statue of lead, and the two should come out gold. On the other hand, we find that the predestination is "according to the good pleasure of his will," because no necessity operates in this. No matter how long your tape measure, Gods love would be longer! 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. 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 remember with gratitude how people shared their faith with us so that we are no longer strangers and aliens. What does it matter about times, persons, or circumstances, if the Spirit abide to enable us, according to Scripture, diligently to keep His own unity? My, I love them." The earth is their sphere; it is there that Israel looks to be blessed, and the Gentiles somewhat farther off, but all in the ordered blessing of the Most High God. "Rabbi," she said, "bring me near." Alas! 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. 10. . This is and must be the medium, as far as the saints are concerned, grace being the spring on God's part: "and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. So the soldiers took their comrade sadly and buried him just outside the fence. There has been the full unfolding of God's love, and the answer to it in the saints here below in their nature, and in the ways that manifest the new nature. Unto Good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. And he never recovered the full use of that most precious faculty, the boon of youth and happy childhood, and which he had once possessed, without knowing it, in such singular and exceptional completeness. Because if you face reality, truth doesn't exist, and thus you will only end in despair. The poster has the picture of a young man, blood all around him, tied with chains, and in big letters, it said, "No escape." So many times we think that God started loving us when we started being loving. Looking for something? Perhaps you can scarcely, in the moment I can afford you, appropriate the idea to yourselves. When I lived in the country, I came up to look at the notabilities in St. Paul's Cathedral. Hence it was that they might "be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and. . Not so the young man; he is put on the bier; no man will touch him any more, or else he will be utterly defiled. I should be ashamed to tell the things which some of you have done. Just now, we read of "God, who is rich in mercy"; now the apostle speaks of "the exceeding riches of his grace", exceeding expression, exceeding comprehension, exceeding even sin itself, though that is all but infinite. For less than $5/mo. Reader 2 You, there, youre scruffy, youre tough. 76. 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. 1.Worship Elements: March 14, 2021 Ministry Matters; Also he counted on their loving desire to know his affairs as well as to have their hearts comforted through Tychicus. Would God send out and bring in the Gentiles to fill their place? "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." 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. He might have given Himself ever so truly in pity for us; but it would not have been perfection, had He not "given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour." The third, and most memorable case, was that of Lazarus , who was not on his bed, nor on his bier, but in his tomb, ay, and corrupt too; but notwithstanding that, the Lord Jesus Christ, by the voice of his omnipotence, crying, "Lazarus, come forth," brought him out of the tomb. (ii) That is to say that works have nothing to do with earning salvation. He can never put things right with her by serving a term of imprisonment and paying a fine. 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. The Son would be a creature not self-subsisting, not therefore truly God. (T) 10For we are Gods handiwork,(U) created(V) in Christ Jesus to do good works,(W) which God prepared in advance for us to do. In the Greek text Ephesians 2:1-7 are one sentence. The breast-plate means the practical righteousness of the saint himself. Here are some indexes that might be helpful: INDEXES: For a complete list of all the indexes on this blog, click here. 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. In the admirable wisdom and grace of God it is the direct setting aside of that which is found in all earthly systems, where the individual is merely a portion of a vast body which arrogates to itself the highest claims. What does that mean? There was Jesus lying in the grave; and from that grave God raised Him, and set Him on the highest pinnacle of heaven's glory not only of that which then was, but that ever shall be. Just look into this revelation of His love. The Alexandrian and Claromontane copies, and one of Stephens's, and the Vulgate Latin version, read, "dead in your trespasses and sins"; and the Syriac version, "dead in your sins and in your trespasses"; and the Ethiopic version only, "dead in your sins". He goes farther, and says, "Be filled with the Spirit." Have we been quickened from above? "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. (iv) It is a life which is at the mercy of desire. Ah, whither shall we flee? I do not know how it is that the young man never was loosed. Our world belongs to him! To honour one's father and mother was both an obligation and had a special promise under law. Finally, there is the activity now for others, just as before there was dependence for ourselves. May God save you now, ere you shall come to that consummation for which hell so sighs, and which heaven can alone avert. 3. k Ib. Man." 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 the warmth of God's truth as it just bears witness to our spirits.But Paul said that we were all once in that boat where Satan was guiding, leading to a shipwreck. As soon as the maiden was alive, Christ said, "Give her meat;" as soon as the young man was alive "he delivered him to his mother;" as soon as Lazarus was alive, he said, "Loose him, and let him go." They are scorned. And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins. Explains, `` be filled with the daughter of Jairus together we are one sentence work. 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