call to worship: ephesians 2
Psalm 111: Praise the Lord, now and forever! in the lust of our flesh, as we were fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; as we were by nature the children of wrath, even as the others ( Ephesians 2:3 ). When you are through with that, wash out the garbage cans." Change). That law had been worked out into thousands and thousands of commandments and decrees. Each of them with ten arrows, and one after another they would shoot their arrow through the hoop there at the top of the pole. 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. Someone may even make it almost to the pier, a hundred feet off of the pier and gulp, gulp, gulp, you know.Now, you have all come short, no one made it. He is far less concerned with your tunefulness than your integrity. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit," when he has given us the new life. He was a sinner. Less than $5/mo! 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. 21. * CALL TO WORSHIP From Ephesians 2 Leader: We were once dead through our trespasses and sins when we followed the course of this world. Everybody is doing it." What did he mean? It kills innocence; sin may be forgiven but its effect remains. That is what Christ does for us. III. Oh how good it is to have God's forgiveness. But the saints, now being made the objects of these heavenly counsels of God, have a wisdom and prudence of their own, quite peculiar to the new creation in Christ, and its proper relations: God puts no limits to it. Praise the Lord! 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. 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. Ephesians 4:1-32 begins the proper exhortatory portion, and here, first of all, urges a walk in view of such a calling as is ours, diligently keeping the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. For the first time in his life Little Billee has taken part in a drunken debauch and has himself been drunk. Who is delighted when He sees you happy and joyful. Do not the tears rain on her, as if they would sow the seeds of life in that dead earth again? The young man's was given more publicly. New to this blog? If it be illustrated in Christ, if it be bound up with Him, fear not to trust simply and to believe implicitly. "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins." Christ is Victor; his rule has begun. The air is represented as the seat of his kingdom: and it was the opinion of both Jews and heathens that the air is full of spirits, and that there they exercise and exert themselves. This is the great want simple, genuine faith in the Holy Ghost. It was revealed by Paul alone. The next thing is that we take "the whole armour of God, that we may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand. Paul's point of view is undeniably true; and for two reasons. There is nothing mysterious about this. 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. children of God, citizens of the Kingdom. There are vast plans and projects, and the world is intensely active. Israel's was at best a mere creature relationship, though, no doubt, having a special place in creation. He is holy in nature, and blameless in His ways. Numbers are of small account here. in being constantly visited by penitents I have sometimes blushed for this city of London. We need, but we have, the Holy Spirit who is surely all-sufficient, if looked to. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on. How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! The mark that God has established for you is perfection. Believe in Christ! This declaration does not mean he is not a son, only that he does not consider himself worthy of such a position. Whether we were corrupt or not, is not a question that I need to raise here; let everyone judge concerning himself. The Rabbi refused. Thus is touched, incidentally, the need of our souls as offenders against God, but only so far as to show that it was in no way overlooked. This is pursued then first with reference to the Gentiles, for now the order is reversed. 2:11-12 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. We know how he would bend down and be as it were a; Gentile to one without law, and a Jew to one under law, to do good to souls. "I see you've changed your house," he said to her. But the divine nature is given to us in its qualities of holiness and love. If youre my age or older you may remember Homer and Jethro. Were ripping off the crops from the children of Israel, they were hiding their food in caves and all. You can't be meaning me." Hallelujah! Search as they might they could find no trace of the freshly dug soil. It is not in treaties and leagues to produce peace. It is not so in the word of God. They do not know that things are at a distance; they have to learn that fact by looking many times. Friends, our God has poured out grace upon grace. The tendency is ever to set aside what is personal for that which is corporate. We come to prayer too rarely, and we ask of you too sparingly. New to this blog? The word for sin is hamartia ( G266) ; and hamartia ( G266) is a shooting word. 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. And mark; as in the case of the maiden the sin was in the chamber, secret; in the next case it was in the open streets, public; but in this case it is secret again. 2As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,(A) 2in which you used to live(B) when you followed the ways of this world(C) and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air,(D) the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 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? It has its heavenly association as the one body of Christ; it has its earthly place and responsibility as the "habitation of God through the Spirit." Encourage them to do so, let them tell you their difficulties. Now, secondly, let us think of OUR PRESENT LIFE. The tendency has always been when we send missionaries abroad to produce people who wear English clothes and speak the English language. Not so. He made for them, and in them, new heavens and a new earth.". Nor is there full Christian service, except in proportion as it is according to this pattern and in this power. So many times we think that God started loving us when we started being loving. Israel was supremely the covenant people. I don't want to commit myself to God." It is apparent the erring son is representative of an erring Christian, for it is speaking of someone who is an heir wasting the blessings of his father in a sinful, rebellious way. And there is no escape; that is the world's message to the world.Paul said, "How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?" Oh, what a change from the past to the present! in Exod. And note, too, that this young man, though carried out to his grave, was not like the maiden; she was in the garments of life, but he was wrapped in the cerements of death . (ii) We saw that sin killed the ideals by which men live. Impossible that the creature could be or do so; and therefore the creature is never said to be love. Hands had to be washed in a certain way; dishes had to be cleaned in a certain way; there was page after page about what could and could not be done on the Sabbath day; this and that and the next sacrifice had to be offered in connection with this and that and the next occasion in life, The only people who fully kept the Jewish law were the Pharisees and there were only six thousand of them. Then we hear the particulars, and in a very orderly manner. Eternity isn't long enough. "What have you been up to?" "[1] (1Timothy 5:6; Revelation 3:1). When I say Christ is our peace. See the result of that difference. 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. WebJETHRO: Why, Homer, youre my best and closest friend. Do we ever see the hurt look in our parents' eyes and know that we put it there? What has God done? It is not the wants of man in any sense, either positively or negatively. There must always be something about him: "Having abolished in his flesh. ], THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD ( Ephesians 2:1-10 ). This engineer was soundly converted. And you hath he quickened This chapter should not have been separated from the preceding, with which it is most intimately connected. Such an one is the openly profligate, to whom we give wide quarters, lest we touch him. When the preacher said that Paul was not a Christian when he wrote those words, though I was only seven days old in divine things, I knew better than that, so I never went there any more. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' sake. I fear that some people go to a place of worship because they get a better sleep there than anywhere else. "And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." God has given us a life that is more precious than the Koh-i-noor, a life that will outlast the sun and moon. 5. 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. Once is enough for the intelligent. 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. Twenty-two thousand of them turned on their heal and left. 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. 13). I speak to you who are quickened by grace. Ah! Ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Date Service Readings Ephesians 3:1-12 Matthew 2:1-12 Read all. A man is where his head is, is he not? It simply affirms a fact - that in relation to real spiritual life they were, in consequence of sin, like a dead man in regard to the objects which are around him. When we get "together with Christ", then are we made alive, then are we saved. We want your renewing of us, but often it hurts. That is what the Church should be like. 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. gain access to 50+ premium resources to enhance your study of Scripture. Hear then, the good news that in Jesus Christ we are forgiven. . For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:21-23 NIV). The life everlasting, the life that can never die, is put into us then, even as Christ said, "The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." 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. There are merchants whose names stand high and fair. 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. God is King! 110 and 2:1122. Only into the first of them could a Gentile come. Through Jesus there is a place for all men in the family of God. Why was it not so with the young man? Until he finally concluded that life was empty and frustrating, there was nothing worthwhile under the sun, that is, after it says, "and all that I did not withhold from myself anything that my heart desired." Jesus Christ must quicken the one as well as the other, and bring them all to know and love his name. Matthew 12:35; Matthew 15:18-19), and not because of sins of other (Ezekiel 18:20). 19. Other nations might be governed by democracy or aristocracy; Israel was a theocracy. The door was shut in her face; but now the door was open. 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. Sin is an organic epidemical malady, a slow devitalizing poison issuing in moral necrosis; not a stage of arrested or incomplete development, but a seed-plot of impending ruin." It is revealed to us here. The Lord is just in all ways, Faithful in all things. CALL TO WORSHIP Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth. Gideon's answer was: "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the Lord shall rule over you" ( Judges 8:23). I would like to just commit to You." Reader 1 There is a response in this reading. WebWe were living. "Rejoice, O my soul, in thy youth; soon shall other men be in life, "No mortal is happy of all on whom the sun looks down. "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. Not so Lazarus; the Jews came to weep at his tomb. Ephesians 2:5- :. Young people want instruction; they want building up in the faith; they generally lack knowledge; they have not the deep experience of the older man; they do not know so much about sin, nor even so much about salvation as the older man that has been a guilty sinner; they need to be fed. But then he adds a third point, which was not given in the previous part of the chapter; namely, that they might know "what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead.". They were dead in relation to that to which they afterward became alive - i. e., to holiness. It is a course that is leading to destruction. The stone is rolled before him. When a person really and truly falls in love, his love compels him to goodness. Is a woman as good a wife as she might be? He consequently is the lone God and Father of all," not merely of all believers, for this is a mistake of its force, but of all absolutely; just as we were told in verse 15 of that same chapter, that of Him every family in heaven and earth is named. ye are dead! We are no longer like outsiders in a foreign land. When I tried to hide my guilt I was miserable. Not a word is said of sending Him into the world, or of His life and labours there, any more than of our doing this or being that. Paul tells Timothy, "But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives" (1 Timothy 5:6 NASB). WebCall to Worship: Ephesians 2: 11-22 We gather together in the name of Jesus Christ members of Gods family, and brothers and sisters to one another. Now the word conversation is an old English word, and we have a new definition for that word today. 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? He tracked her down. or our anger gets the better of us and we lash out. Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; Remember what you were. How did Christ destroy them? no one has any special standing or bragging rights. 12. What you think that you and I knew from our birth, we did not so know; we had to learn it. The first thing sin does is create a feeling of estrangement between us and God. They were dead in sins, but now alive in Christ. You did he make alive Beare pointed out that the various pronouns "you" (Ephesians 2:1,2), "we all" (Ephesians 2:3), and "us we" (Ephesians 2:4), "refer to the distinction between Jews and Gentiles only to nullify it. Holy Scripture is not complimentary to unrenewed human nature. Then the scripture says none of you are perfect. We have others who are drunken, profane, unchaste; they are dead, not more dead than the others; but their death has left its terrible traces more plainly visible. 99 Intercession 65 Corporate Worship Idea 62 Liturgy 53 Confession 49 Praise 44 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. So go out and tell all of the men who are afraid to go to war to go home." 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. we would understand the One who calls us to faith. In France some soldiers with their sergeant brought the body of a dead comrade to a French cemetery to have him buried. 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. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 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." Take them down to the stream and let them get a drink of water. An outstanding illustration of spiritual death is found in the parable of the prodigal son: And the son said to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son." "Give her meat." 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. It was not confined to those that had their hope founded on Christ while the nation refused Him. When you see a person meandering you get the impression he is not really going anywhere and he doesn't have any purpose. 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. but it fills our hearts we can feel it! We don't want trouble, we dont do conflict 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. Yes, but He did not go up as He came down from above. The mark of the pierced hand is on everything: "We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus.". They are still natural men, dominated by their fleshly needs, and if they don't find satisfaction they scream and holler and yell and flail and kick.But I was born again by the Spirit of God, a spiritual birth. This was always their comfort in the midst of disasters and troubles. If someone fine loves us, we know that we do not and cannot deserve that love. Looking for something? ", But there are other elements. Now, the other people looking at us can't understand that, because they don't know what is going on inside. 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. If you're interested in reading the results, visit here: https://pandemicworshipsurvey.blogspot.com/. But if you had been quickened by the Holy Spirit fifty minutes, this would have been the first fact in the front rank of all fact, God is, and he is my Father, and I am his child. There can be peace only in Jesus Christ. Is it so? Those in Christ are legally dead to sin, in the sense of being free of the penalty of it, through the death of Christ. If you have been raised from the dead, after you had been buried in Norwood Cemetery, I would warrant you that you would not go there to-night to sleep. 2 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom 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. The main point then is that God has made believers alive, raised us up, and seated us with Christ. It is God in His proper nature, and in His relationship to Jesus. Look back to what you used to be, to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged: "You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.". They are "ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.". Psalm 65: Hes got the whole world in his hands! Now the very baptism of a Christian man is the confession of the truth, that God has in Christ judged flesh root and branch. Angels are not adequate judges of what pertains to us; they may be witnesses, but not judges. Hence the expression does not go beyond the riches of God's grace. So with the psalmist in Psalm 32 , I can say, "Oh how happy is the man, whose transgressions are forgiven. No, it will go on, to your utter ruin. On the other hand, we find that the predestination is "according to the good pleasure of his will," because no necessity operates in this. Those things result in death! What is the effect of this life upon us? There is no escape. make us bold as we claim your victory in the world. "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. forgiven and free, through what Christ has done for us. It is a time of asking, a time of enquiring. When the life begins to come to him, he feels as he never felt before; sin that was pleasant becomes a horror to him. Knowledge of standing and a, state answering to Christ's love, are the basis of a walk worthy of our calling. The words "trespasses" and "sins" are probably synonymous (compare 1 Corinthians 15:3 and Romans 4:25). But it gave to the Jews the unique consciousness of being the people of God. It is not love of something good in us; it is love of us because of everything good in him. As He is outwardly called on, so there is everywhere the "one faith," which does not mean (alas! He came a divine person filled with love; and He went a man also, triumphant not with love only but in righteousness and power, to give effect to all the glorious counsels of His Father, which unjudged sin would have for ever frustrated. Next the apostle turns to the boundless scene that lies before us, as in the preceding verses he had looked at what is behind us. I ceased to be lord over myself. Sin, then, is a failure to comply with the will of God through choice or disregard. The first thing is to "be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might." And that not of yourselves: it is a gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. They only have the "one hope of their calling." As Christ fills the whole body of Christian believers with his fulness, (Ephesians 1:23,) so had he dealt with the converted Ephesians, who before were dead in trespasses, and dead in sins. And the apostle concludes the whole of this part of the matter "to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." We would readily agree that the robber, murderer, the razor-slasher, the drunkard, the gangster are sinners, but, since most of us are respectable citizens, in our heart of hearts we think that sin has not very much to do with us. Alive in Christ Jesus. `` bring them all to know and love this life us...: https: //pandemicworshipsurvey.blogspot.com/ '' when he has given us a call to worship: ephesians 2 that is more than! 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