call to worship: ephesians 2

Having no hope, and without God in the world: It is an awful description, but a truthful description, of what we were. The legions of apostate angels are as one power united under one chief; and therefore what is called the powers of darkness elsewhere is here spoken of in the singular number. 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." 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." "Sir," answered the engineer, "I've got a glory." See the result of that difference. Not that we love God, but that God loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. That man who came down but was found alone to the end of His earthly course would now be alone no more; He would have a new and suited body, believing Jews and Gentiles fellow-heirs and of the same body. And desire is not simply a fleshly thing; it is the craving for any forbidden thing. But now they had consummated their rebellion by refusing the Christ of God. This, then, was the way in which the new life, spiritual life, came into us. Who is delighted when He sees you happy and joyful. As much dead as the worst of men, although your death is not so apparent. So with the sinner in regard to the spiritual and eternal world. Contents. Do a certain thing. Though it is the mystery of Christ, it is not exclusively about Christ. Spiritually, when one "misses" the mark of keeping Gods will, he has sinned. The defensive comes before the offensive; and all should follow dependence on the Lord. (based on Ephesians 2: 11-22) Merciful God, we celebrate the way that you chose to bring unity and peace to peoplethrough the gift of your Son, our Lord, trespasses and sins --. But, as things now are. That girl, dead in the room, upon her bed, had little about her that could show her death. 2. l Caphtor, fol. They had seen creation, and sung at the sight. It is not so in the word of God. I tell you, I would be so shocked if I had one of my sons come and say something like that to me. Please note: If you use material from this blog, please be careful to credit the original author and source. No worries, no concerns, no consideration, "Talk to me later, man, I'm having too great a time." Its tougher than titanium and softer than a feather, more electric than lightning, more vast than the universe. At the final judgment, those who "practice lawlessness" will hear the Lord say, "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness" (Matthew 7:21-23 NASB). 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. So this Greek word meander is the word that Paul uses here. He is the Lord our God; his judgments are in all the earth. At the same time we know with utter conviction that we must spend all life in trying to be worthy of it. It is not love of something good in us; it is love of us because of everything good in him. That is not worship which consists in doing as Hodge did, when he said, "I like Sunday, for then I can go to church, and put my legs up, and think of nothing at all." With a terrible activity of spiritual death; 3. Grace, empowered by hope and love, shows how God is active in the lives of the faithful. How everything is connected with Christ! Skip to this week's readings. Here is the point. we would seize the opportunities to serve. Another of Paul's blessed "nows." Spiritual death is the state of being separated from fellowship or affiliation with God. "I see you've changed your house," he said to her. Its searching diagnosis pronounces that mortification has set in and that nothing less than infusion of fresh lifeblood can work a cure. I thank God for that good godly advice from my mother.In times past we just flowed with the current, the weathervane. Indeed, these are the very qualities of God Himself. It can never rise above its human source. 9:2). When he was suffering for his fall, he wrote his book De Profundis and in it he said: "The gods had given me almost everything. Let this then rest in His hands. 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. The evil spirit has been driven out, and he no more works in us. And therefore only an act of free forgiveness of the grace of God can put us back into the right relationship with him. The design of the apostle in this and some following verses, is to show the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and to set forth the sad estate and condition of man by nature, and to magnify the riches of the grace of God, and represent the exceeding greatness of his power in conversion: the phrase. But profound truths are for those who have spiritual understandings; and such do not require many words to comprehend them. "Deep in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, Feelings lie buried that grace can restore.". So Paul goes on to say that in Christ these barriers are down. So long as the object falls upon the retina. There is bondage. As the end of the latter will be incomparably worse than the former, so judgment will be commensurate with man's apostasy from grace; for the Lord must come from heaven, "in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and on them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our world belongs to God! At its heart is a desire to rediscover and refresh the best of past Wesleyan hymns and write new congregational worship that is a call to justice, compassion, mercy, 1.Worship Elements: March 14, 2021 Ministry Matters; What exactly did he mean by that? . He to whom I look up, by and in whom alone I can know God and the Father, is God Himself Let the notion of time come into the conception given of Godhead and of the persons Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and all would be falsehood and confusion. When two parties are at variance, the surest way to bring them together is through someone whom they both love. When a person really and truly falls in love, his love compels him to goodness. And then comes the case of Lazarus. " Here are some indexes that might be helpful: INDEXES: For a complete list of all the indexes on this blog, click here. This is where we should be, where we may be if we are quickened by the divine life. we are reluctant to speak the truth to each other for fear of offending. Now Paul uses two pictures, which would be specially vivid to a Jew, to show how that hatred is killed and a new unity has come. And ah! 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. 22. All the building that is going on is being fitted together in him, and it will go on growing until it becomes a holy temple in the Lord, a temple into which you too are built as part, that you may become the dwelling-place of God, through the work of the Spirit. When I say Christ is our peace. The Holy Ghost thus takes a corresponding part. As the good Spirit works that which is good in obedient souls, so this evil spirit works that which is evil in wicked men; and he now works, not only heretofore, but even since the world has been blessed with the light of the glorious gospel. "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." The word course has its root meaning in Greek weathervane. The "hope of his calling" is the bright prospect of the saints themselves, as they are in Christ before God. in -- indicates the realm or sphere in which lost sinners exist. (i) We saw that sin kills innocence. He gives them new life, and he does this on the basis of Christs death and resurrection. HOMER: I do know you would. Please note: If you use material from this blog, please be careful to credit the original author and source. The apostle accordingly is now led at the sight of the mystery of Christ into another prayer, in which he asks "the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ [for now he takes up the other relationship,], of whom the whole [rather, every] family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; being rooted and grounded in love, that ye may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fulness of God.". You are full members of the family of God." 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? Scripturally-based resources for worship planners and leaders. Also he counted on their loving desire to know his affairs as well as to have their hearts comforted through Tychicus. We know what God wants us to do; God has prepared long beforehand the kind of life He wants us to live, and has told us about it in his book and through his son. Evidently it was just a little bit to heavy. The Jews, or those who had been under Jewish teaching, had been for a while in an infantine state, or an Old Testament condition; but the Gentiles by faith passed simply and directly into the full Christian blessing. See, it is always Christ, his flesh, his blood, his life. He knows instinctively that she was part of himself, and gives her a name suitably. The Jew had an immense contempt for the Gentile. We have seen that the basic meaning of hagios ( G40) is different. That is all the worship a great many render to God, just getting to a place of worship, and there sitting still, and thinking of nothing at all. Beloved brethren and sisters in Christ, I think that you and I can say, that to us the surest fact in all the world is that there is a God. If you have been quickened by the Spirit of God, your prayers are living prayers. Faith dies and unfaith blossoms as a flower; Nor ever wilt thou find upon the open streets of men. Come, let me just press this matter home. In truth it is His grace to the full, and for heaven (not earth), though given to us to know here before we get there; "for by grace are ye saved." young man, thou hast not yet gone so far as the open profligate and desperately profane, take heed, thou art dead! Boy, I had the worst time with him trying to get him to hoe weeds in the backyard." A religion based on love can at once be a universal religion. You have got a wrong and blasphemous concept of God. If you're interested in reading the results, visit here: https://pandemicworshipsurvey.blogspot.com/. But in the epistle to the Ephesians we have none of these dealings with the first man, but that which forms and nourishes the new creation. We confess our trying to you, and ask for your power to be at work within us. Verse Ephesians 2:1. This repenting child then confesses his sin to his father and finds that "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9 NASB). He talks of "the remote tribes of barbarians belonging to the bestial class." P: Gods light has come to us! Thus in the Godhead there are the relationships of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. They are not Christians. As it moved as it meandered. I would rather find Christ where he is not, than not to find him where he is. Now we are Christians; and this decides the character of the duties we have to pay, or of the good works which He has before prepared that we should walk in them; for "we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus" for this very purpose. It was not confined to those that had their hope founded on Christ while the nation refused Him. It is possible that you would be trying very hard to hit the mark. It is thus seen to be founded on the great facts and standing privileges mentioned at the end of Ephesians 2:1-22; but it is the desire that the saints should know God's present power to an indefinite extent working in them in spiritual enjoyment, through the Holy Ghost's power, giving us to have Christ the definite and constant object of the heart. Sir Philip Gibbs in The Cross of Peace wrote: "The problem of fences has grown to be one of the most acute that the world must face. It is the failure in any sphere of life to be what we ought to be and could be. There is his lust; what a combat he will have with that, for many a month! Now we must turn to the diversities. They should thank God there is an escape, it has been provided by Jesus Christ. My father is a nobody and I am the least in my father's household. hath he quickened, is not in the original text, but is supplied from Ephesians 2:5, where it will be met with and explained: here those who are quickened with Christ, and by the power and grace of God, are described in their natural and unregenerate estate. 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. The rose and the lily breathe forth their fragrance around it, but the corpse perceives it not. I have been born again by the Spirit of God through Jesus Christ. DEATH is often used by all writers, and in all nations, to express a state of extreme misery. "Oh!" but are fellow citizens with the saints in the household of God.. Let every one praise the Lord! Pauls use of the metaphor of death is significant, as it allows for no middle ground; a person is either dead or alive. At the back of things there was a kind of essential despair. Bible Gateway Plus makes it simple. He is pouring out his heart, and the claims of grammar have to give way to the wonder of grace. Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. Now, dear friends, if we have received spiritual life, you see what a range of being we have, how we can rise up to the seventh heaven or sink down into the abyss. 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. If God's design had ever to be worked out, it must be worked out through a nation. I am certain that no ungodly man has any conception of the joy which often fills the believer's spirit. Our first birth, the natural life was of the flesh. Oh, hideous spectacle! You can refer to the answers below. The Greek could say: "We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree, "I rejoice and disport me on my youth; long enough beneath the, earth shall I lie, bereft of life, voiceless as a stone, and shall, leave the sunlight which I loved; good man though I am, then. The contrast is with Adam, who had a knowledge that was suited to his own place and relationship. It may well be that we have something to learn here. But now, consequent on His resurrection from the dead, and of the place given Him in heaven above all, there was made known to these very principalities and powers "the manifold wisdom of God," made known to them before it came to pass, the sure deliverance of the whole scene of creation, of man, of Israel, as well as of the earth. We would probably rather resent being called hell-deserving sinners. We know ourselves called, but were so easily distracted. There is Jairus's daughter; she lies on her bed; she seems as if she were alive; her mother has scarce ceased to kiss her brow, her hand is still in her father's loving grasp, and he can scarcely think that she is dead; but dead she is, as thoroughly dead as she ever can be. 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. (i) Sin kills innocence. Those who had been far from God were brought near, and the door was shut to no one. The unconverted man lives in God's world, sees God's works, hears God's Word, goes up to God's house on God's day, and yet he does not know that there is any God. "To be dead in trespasses and sins does not mean unconsciousness or non-existence. Ephesians 4:18; John 17:3). (ii) The Gentiles had no hope of a Messiah. 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. All these are sins of the flesh. It is not Jesus' purpose, however, that we should turn all men into one nation, but that there should be Christian Indians and Christian Africans whose unity lies in their Christianity. "The exceeding riches of his grace" are infinity itself; but they all come to us "through Christ Jesus." The first is nature; the second is relationship. We must be careful to understand what Paul means by the sins of the flesh. That is our relationship to God. This is true of Jews and Gentiles alike. , , SSL- . Stand, oh stand away from him. 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. No man ever made himself to live. P: Lord, open our hearts and let us share your Good News. Some who are strong swimmers may swim for a mile or two before they go under. 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. If there be a spiritual death, and you are dead, be startled; for within a little while God will say, "Bury my dead out of my sight." 76. We speak of Enoch walking with God, and we look at the holiness of his life; but did anybody ever think of the majesty of his life? This and nothing less or else is what He chooses us to be before Him chooses us to be in Christ in His own sight, and therefore with the fullest certainty that it shall be according to His own mind. And what had God done now? 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." Reader 2 You, there, youre scruffy, youre tough. They had seen the ways of God with man, and with Israel; and surely they had entered into the glory of God that was involved in all His ways. His glory is the first object of our being. What is that? I didn't think anybody would miss the one. Those things result in death! "God is not the God of the dead, but of the living," and, unless we are made alive unto him, he cannot be our God either here or hereafter. we want to know what is right and do what is right. 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 wrestling is not with flesh and blood, "but against principalities, against powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places." 410). [4] W. G. Blaikie, The Pulpit Commentary (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. 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. Is every working hour filled with our most conscientious work and is every task done as well as we could possibly do it? A man shoots his arrow at the target; the arrow misses; that is hamartia ( G266) . Realize that; believe in it; rejoice in it; triumph in it. The rules and the regulations put up the fence; but love moved it. Everything else in Ephesians 2:1-7 is of subordinate importance. And so in the morning when the fleece was wet and the ground was dry, he said, "Now I want to make sure about this. He does so by conscience, the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking within us; he does so by giving to men the wisdom and the commandments of his book; he does so through the advice of good and godly men. We commonly have a wrong idea of sin. Paul had begun by saying that, as we are, we are dead in sins and trespasses; now he says that God in his love and mercy has made us alive in Jesus Christ. (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. 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. This gives a very peculiar character to our blessedness. Sinners in their pre-Christian state were "dead in sins"; but that deadness was not something they inherited, but came about through the guilt of sins committed. 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. If youre my age or older you may remember Homer and Jethro. The English translators did not know what to make of the apostle, and so they changed it to "high places," which was an unwarrantable liberty, and gives the most perverse meaning. Sin appears as sin; he cannot understand it. "The unity of the Spirit" seems to be the general name for that great fact which is now established that unity of which Christ is the chief, and to which we all belong. I. If God has made you to live, come away from the dead; come away from their habits, and manners and customs. Nostrums and palliatives aggravate rather than allay the disease. Such an one is the harlot, from whom one's head is turned in the very street. All have sinned, or missed the mark, and come short of the glory of God. I was no longer the captain of my soul, and did not know it. (i) The Gentiles were called the uncircumcision by those who laid claim to that circumcision which is a physical and man-made thing. That is, when you see a person walking you make an assumption he is going someplace and he has a purpose in mind. Twenty-two thousand of them turned on their heal and left. The new life that made us sympathetic with God, and holy angels, and holy men, and with everything that is from above, has also made us capable of great pleasure. A religion based on all kinds of rules and regulations, about sacred rituals and sacrifices and days, can never be a universal religion. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. - FSB. Take heed, I beseech you, ye fairest, youngest, most upright, and most honest; when the dead are separated from the living, unless ye be regenerated, ye must go with the dead; though ye be never so fair and goodly, ye must be cast away, unless you live. You are princes of the blood imperial. "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once .named among you, as becometh saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking [even light words dishonour the Christian, as being contrary to Christ], nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. Those who were once "dead in sins" are now alive in Christ (Ephesians 2:1-10); and those who were once "aliens and strangers separated from God" are now members of God's family (Ephesians 2:11-22). Even though trained by godly parents, though well instructed in the gospel scheme, though saturated with the piety that surrounded us, we were dead, as dead as the harlot of the street, as dead as the thief in the jail. It is a priceless boon to have the right to go to some lovely and wise and saintly person at any time; to have the right to break in upon him, to take our troubles, our problems, our loneliness, our sorrow to him. Sometimes through an uncurtained window he would see a family sitting round the table or the fire in happy fellowship; then the curtain would be drawn and he would feel shut out, and lonely in the dark. Angels are not the object. 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. Then, everything surprises you. Paul was one of those; and there were others at Ephesus, as we well know in point of fact the first nucleus of the assembly there. The experience of sin had left a kind of tarnishing film on his mind and things could never be quite the same again. Come into Gods presence with singing! Worship is exactly what Satan has always desired. I thought I was going to die. Nothing they do can bring them back to life, because no matter how much good they try to do, they are still sinners. 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