It is expressly not against any powers that were living and acting in the world. 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. But it is not said that we are love. And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins. All this, it will be observed, is consequent on the cross. We cannot earn God's love; but we can and must show how grateful we are for it, by seeking with our whole hearts to live the kind of life which will bring joy to God's heart. That is, whatever way the wind is flowing, that is the way you turn, that is the way you go. In what sense were the people of Israel different from other peoples? (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. In the sense that their only king was God. He is one who does not subject himself to any authority and, therefore, practices "lawlessness." Life is usually capable of pleasure, but the new life is capable of the highest conceivable pleasure. To illustrate, one may shoot an arrow and fail to hit the mark, or shoot an arrow and have it fall beside the mark. It is not that our good works put God in our debt; rather that God's love lays on us the obligation to try throughout all life to be worthy of it. 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." And we at one time were following that course, dead in our trespasses and sins, living an aimless life without purpose as we follow the trends that were being set by Satan. You had nothing to do with this. "Deep in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, Feelings lie buried that grace can restore.". These verses are really preliminary to Pauls main point. To succumb to that is inevitably to come to disaster. height; and to know the love of Christ." Nothing they do can bring them back to life, because no matter how much good they try to do, they are still sinners. It is in vain to look for the church's prosperity, if saints individually do not grow up unto Christ. Their very wife, when they go into the house, rushes upstairs to be out of the way. Whereas we were once dead to God (Ephesians 2:1-3), we are now alive in God (Ephesians 2:4-10). 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. Please note: If you use material from this blog, please be careful to credit the original author and source. X, p. 638. 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. It was developed in a positive and comprehensive way, as in Romans. As though the bloom of that special joy, the gift he had of recalling past emotions and sensations and situations, and making them actual once more by a mere effort of will, had been brushed away. 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. When the father sees the son, he can see the haughty spirit has been replaced by humility (Luke 15:20; Matthew 6:8). Now you have become also sympathetic with similar life in others. 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.". If a Jew married a Gentile, the funeral of that Jew was carried out. They are clearly identified in each blog post. Far different was Israel's case, however favoured as a nation. dead -- Refers to being separated from God and under the rule of the evil one (see v. 2 and note). They might otherwise think themselves more or less superior. The chapter itself is a parenthesis. The choice of the saints for heavenly blessedness was before the creation of the universe, before the foundation of the world. And so Christ gives us more light. in being constantly visited by penitents I have sometimes blushed for this city of London. She was very poor and there were no luxuries, but the attic was as light and airy and clean as the cellar had been dark and dismal and dirty. Please note: If you use material from this blog, please be careful to credit the original author and source. "The air is the house of the disembodied spirits." When God gives people a new life, they must live a new life (8-10). Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. Dear God, we like people who look like us. (J) 6And God raised us up with Christ(K) and seated us with him(L) in the heavenly realms(M) in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace,(N) expressed in his kindness(O) to us in Christ Jesus. If, sometimes, through the infirmity of the flesh, you fall into that state of slumber, you loathe yourselves for it, but you rouse yourself up, and say, "I must worship my God; I must sing, I must praise God. [Note: Stott, p. Oh! But there is yet more. What has God done? "But God, rich in His mercy, in His love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses and sins." The tendency is ever to set aside what is personal for that which is corporate. Everything else in Ephesians 2:1-7 is of subordinate importance. New to this blog? I shall not do so; for although I have read portions which refer to that glorious subject, I have had pressed on my mind a subject which is not the resurrection of Christ, but which is in some measure connected with it the resurrection of lost and ruined men by the Spirit of God in this life. Ah, whither shall we flee? There must always be something about him: "Having abolished in his flesh. By fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, men contract that filthiness of flesh and spirit from which the apostle exhorts Christians to cleanse themselves, 2 Corinthians 7:1. The building up of the body is the fruit of God's blessing the individual saints. 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 Praise to the Father of Lord Jesus Christ! 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. It is the same life in the new-born believer as in yonder bright spirits that stand before the throne of God. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so! 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. in trespasses and sins: The scriptures here maintain that "trespasses and sins" are what bring about spiritual death, not "hereditary depravity." After some months of Matheson's ministry, communion time came round. (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. Whatever was the current fashion. Other nations might be governed by democracy or aristocracy; Israel was a theocracy. (J) 6And God raised us up with Christ(K) and seated us with him(L) in the heavenly realms(M) in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace,(N) expressed in his kindness(O) to us in Christ Jesus. He takes His place there, of course always the Son; but, wonderful to say, humanity makes an integral and everlasting part, so to speak, of that divine person, the Son of God. This gives a very peculiar character to our blessedness. But in regard to religion, all is dead. Have we had a divine touch, a superhuman energy, a something which all the learning and all the wisdom and all the godliness of man could never work in us? Then, without delay, the next verses introduce a general view of the glorious topic that occupied him. 2:4-10 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 Jesus Christ, 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. We had neither the eye that could see, nor the ear that could hear, nor the power that could feel. What does that mean) The name for the people of Israel was ho hagios laos ( G2992) , the holy people. According to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: He makes them to be his forge. 2:11-22 So then remember, that once, as far as human descent goes, you were Gentiles; you were called the uncircumcision by those who laid claim to that circumcision which is a physical thing, and a thing produced by men's hands. Such contact with a Gentile was the equivalent of death; even to go into a Gentile house rendered a Jew unclean. He is the ultimate blessedness with which we are filled, the One in whom we most confide, being the Son, in whom dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. It is a revelation of God that comes in at the time when the Jews have, at least temporarily, lost their place altogether. That is living prayer. To forgive another's wrongs is not enough for a Christian. We quite like our old selves. (iv) It is a life which is at the mercy of desire. The phrase "hath he quickened" is not in the Greek text but is grammatically supplied by the KJV translators, even though the idea is not expressly stated until verse 5. Visit that site for many other excellent lectionary-based worship resources. 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. The holiness which he delights in we aspire after. God himself has had dealings with us. But was this all? This last was of all-importance to the saints, and the rather as that power had already been put forth. That is, there is a creative connection between God and man which is the source of man's moral relations with God, and the reason why man, and man alone of all creatures on the earth, shall live again and give an account of himself to God. But it is not so with the revelation of the mystery. can she be dead? Besides, as we have seen, the church is the dwelling-place of God through the Holy Ghost's presence here below. Isn't that what existential philosophy pretty much declares? Paul can never have too much of Christ. 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. You are full members of the family of God." Do you not hear the noise of the infernal bellows when "the children of disobedience: swear, and use unclean language? The heart itself then, is broken, and bleeds at ten thousand wounds. Israel was supremely the covenant people. And I worship Him in Spirit and in truth.And so He has made us alive, alive spiritually, for by grace are we saved. (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. You know what that means? Alas! The Holy Ghost thus takes a corresponding part. Are we in life where we ought to be? Reader 2 I cant remember a time when I felt alien here. Heres a contemporary call to worship inspired by Ephesians 2: 19-22. the One who names each of us as a beloved child. Consequently here it is not an energy already put forth, but he pleads that Christ might dwell by faith in their hearts. The new-born child of God is just like the new-born child of man in some things; and after a time that child begins to walk. 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. We must not overlook the fact that those who neglect (Hebrews 2:3) or choose not to receive forgiveness for their sins before their physical death (2 Corinthians 5:10) will experience a "second death" at the judgment (Revelation 21:8). Even Christ was tempted. Thus, having Him who is the centre of all glory dwelling in our affections by faith, we enter into, and become established in, the grace which is the secret of it all. Gideon went out and faced his troops and said, "All right, all of you that are afraid to go to battle, you can go on home." An easy path could not be divine, as men and things are on earth. I cannot describe to you the lusts and vices of a fullgrown sinner. Exodus 24:1-8 gives us a dramatic picture of how the Jewish people accepted the covenant and its conditions--"All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do" ( Exodus 24:3; Exodus 24:7). But at this point, Paul is just saying, and you. (b) God is love; sin is therefore a crime, not against law, but against love. It is not so in the word of God. Believe in Christ! Both are shown to have been alike guilty and in need of God's mercy. Sinners are dead in state, being destitute of the principles, and powers of spiritual life; and cut off from God, the fountain of life: and they are dead in law, as a condemned malefactor is said to be a dead man. As He is outwardly called on, so there is everywhere the "one faith," which does not mean (alas! But Jesus calls all sorts of people together. And in the morning if it is wet and the ground is dry, then I will know that it is you." For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus for good works, works which God prepared beforehand that we might walk in them. Of old they had forfeited every claim according to the law, and were spared and kept in God's mercy and faithfulness. In the Iliad (6: 146-149) Glaucus and Diomede meet in single combat. That awareness of God, that communion with God, or that fellowship and oneness that God intended that man should have with God. This was peculiarly needed. Throughout all eternity, God's grace and love and mercy being revealed. Worship is exactly what Satan has always desired. [3] Alfred Barry, Ellicott's Commentary on the Holy Bible (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1959), Vol. Scripturally-based resources for worship planners and leaders. (ii) Paul says of Jesus that he wiped out the law of the commandments with all its decrees. "Unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end." 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. Oh, you did stutter and stammer over it! You can refer to the answers below. As spiritual death is nothing else than the alienation of the soul from God, we are all born as dead men, and we live as dead men, until we are made partakers of the life of Christ, agreeably to the words of our Lord, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. (John 5:25). The words "trespasses" and "sins" are probably synonymous (compare 1 Corinthians 15:3 and Romans 4:25). WebClick on "Find Related Songs" to search for worship songs for a given service. The priest told them gently that he was bound to ask if their comrade had been a baptized adherent of the Roman Catholic Church. 3. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things ("sins" Ephesians 2:20) you are now ashamed of? Come, let us worship God. The apostle adds that it was now revealed of the Spirit, "That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ by the gospel: whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. 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." As a Christian you're going to have to learn to go against the current. "There is none righteous, no not one." Paul speaks of the condition of the Gentiles before Christ came. It is not the wants of man in any sense, either positively or negatively. Whether it was so or not, I do not know. It was not confined to those that had their hope founded on Christ while the nation refused Him. If you're interested in reading the results, visit here: https://pandemicworshipsurvey.blogspot.com/, We gather together in the name of Jesus Christ. That would cease, for God is a Spirit, they that worship Him worship Him in Spirit and in truth. "And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." Our world belongs to him! At the same time there is no exclusion of Gentile believers, but the reverse. 3. k Ib. What can be conceived more dreadful than such a condition, positively without spiritual life, dead in offences and sins! In Christ we belong in the family, adopted. It was Jesus; and Jesus stood in what was altogether peculiar in a relationship that was perfectly according to God's counsels; but more than that, according to a relationship that was peculiar to His own person. He uses therefore the highest terms in order to express it. And it is just a joy and a pleasant delight, to gather with God's people and to just experience God's love and the love within the family of God. Nothing touches these. He made us at the first; he has new-made us. 5. We know ourselves chosen, adopted as children of God. 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. The Lord is just in all ways, Faithful in all things. And yet and now comes a blessed interposition yet this last case may be saved as well as the first, and as easily too. And that is what should never happen in a church. Call number one is this: God calls you because God loves you, just 2) Call Number Two, hold your first finger: God calls you I know it on the best authority, and the truest, too. Here again we are at something which was very real in the days of Paul but which is not so real to us. But as he said that by revelation it was made known to him, so he would from God communicate it to them. This salvation is Gods gift. When you see a person meandering you get the impression he is not really going anywhere and he doesn't have any purpose. In the next verse we have that which has been justly designated the unity of profession, where all things may come in to mar. The apostle concludes his prayer with an ascription of glory to Him in the Church unto all generations of the age of the ages, able to do far above all we ask or think according to His power which works in us. or our anger gets the better of us and we lash out. Therefore it is the failure to reach the goal we ought to have reached. Sometimes he feels merry, and can sing hymns; at another time, he can do nothing else but sigh and cry, though he scarcely knows wherefore. That is what God says about us, you may come closer than others, but we have all come short of the glory of God. The Lord upholds all who are falling, And brings us up when we are brought low. He dwelleth, perhaps, in some back slum of a dirty lane; he knoweth not where to go. To those who have not, I daresay it will seem as an idle tale. There we have tongues, miracles, etc. It is the word used of bringing a sacrifice to God; it is the word used of bringing men into the presence of God that they may be consecrated to his service; it is the word used for introducing a speaker or an ambassador into a national assembly; and above all it is the word used for introducing a person into the presence of a king. That is, we can't earn it. First he explains what God has done for all sinners in general; then he explains what God did for the Gentiles in particular." There is nothing mysterious about this. But the Son being before the Father as His supreme object of love and delight from all eternity, to bring us as sons before Him was as much a part of His counsels as to make us partakers of divine nature. The same power is needed in the conversion of a sinner which is needed in raising the dead; and one and the other alike demonstrate the omnipotence of him who can do it. What he desires, we desire. When we get "together with Christ", then are we made alive, then are we saved. So with the sinner in regard to the spiritual and eternal world. But if you are a living child of God, you cannot do that. He could condescend. It isn't just our talking, it is our whole manner of life. Well, if you think I would think that, you don't know me. Ephesians 2:5- :. The paroikos ( G3941) was one step further on. 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. A religion based on love can at once be a universal religion. 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. I live in him. Jesus reawakens the ideal in the heart of man. Stand, oh stand away from him. Ephesians 4: 1-16 Call to Worship: The unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Ephesians 4:1-6) Here with these people you are called into a calling. 13. 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. The one was not at all, nor was the other in such sort before. Tired of being on the heights I deliberately went to the depths in search for new sensation. If he gets to the feet of anybody else, he is apt to get ill-instructed at a time when everything warps his judgment, when he is exceedingly impressionable, and not likely to forget the mistakes that he has made, if he has borrowed them from others. Vid. So should our walk be. Everywhere Christ Jesus Himself is intermixed with every portion. It is not in treaties and leagues to produce peace. But this young woman's death is in her chamber. He that descended is the same also that ascended." In every Greek city there were xenoi ( G3581) and their life was not easy. Many wonder that such truths as these should not have more words used in communicating them. Was there only this? But the father said to his slaves, "Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found." 76. for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins ( Ephesians 2:4-5 ). God had never so spoken of man before. In His own actings it has no motive or spring except in Himself. 5. And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. I figured it was all right because there were so many around town. 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. Before Christ the barriers were up; after Christ the barriers were down. And God said Gideon, "The men that are with you are too many, because I know the heart of this people. May God save you now, ere you shall come to that consummation for which hell so sighs, and which heaven can alone avert. Now the very baptism of a Christian man is the confession of the truth, that God has in Christ judged flesh root and branch. All lost sinners are dead, and the only difference between one sinner and another is the state of decay." 12. Greece was made up of famous cities--Athens, Thebes, Corinth and the rest and it very nearly encountered disaster because the cities refused to cooperate to meet the common threat. 13). One might distrust a mystery, if it centred in the church. Even in their bitterest days the Jews never doubted that that Messiah would come. It may be perverted to this or anything else; but so far is our corporate place from being put in the foreground that we do not hear one word about the assembly as such till the close of the first chapter. So that our business as ministers when the young lambs are brought in, is to remember the injunction, "Feed my lambs;" take care of them; give them plenty of meat. We are in this position, that God is now working in us, through this divine life, to make us the most wonderful reflectors of his grace that he has yet formed. (AM) 18For through him we both have access(AN) to the Father(AO) by one Spirit. The gospel of God's grace proclaims the very reverse. But I ripped off this poster that was there because it was so intriguing. for you; alas! Angels are not the object. In Jesus name we pray. Grace, empowered by hope and love, shows how God is active in the lives of the faithful. 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