We had neither the eye that could see, nor the ear that could hear, nor the power that could feel. Do you not hear the noise of the infernal bellows when "the children of disobedience: swear, and use unclean language? When we realize what sin is, we come to see that it is not something which theologians have invented. Do not the tears rain on her, as if they would sow the seeds of life in that dead earth again? If a Jew married a Gentile, the funeral of that Jew was carried out. 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. God then brings out His own secret, after having kept it hidden from all past ages and generations, though, of course, it has been before Him from the beginning. He is startled a hundred times. And here is the key, and that which accounts for the astonishing display of what God is now doing in man. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." A man is where his head is, is he not? I mention this, because it is a striking proof that an error imported into Scripture leads even right-minded men into sad evil. We so easily convince ourselves that we deserve a little more. I was a pretty good little kid until my fleshly appetites took over, and then I began to yell until they took care of feeding me. We need both motive and object, and hence could not be said to be love; because not we, but only God acts from Himself, as much as for Himself. That is what Christ does for us. Aren't they perfect? But it is by grace, God's glorious gift of love to me. So the man, who has once been raised by the quickening power of the Holy Spirit, quits the dead; his old company does not suit him. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. children of God, citizens of the Kingdom. earth that looks fertile enough to bring forth life with but one living tear? But hamartia ( G266) brings us face to face with what sin is, the failure to be what we ought to be and could be. When we were still dead in our trespasses and sins God loved us.God has loved you from eternity, there has never been a time when God didn't love you. Here are some indexes that might be helpful. The God that divided the Red Sea, and brought them across Jordan, was equal to any difficulty that might ever assail them again. But the connection is important. [4] The full thought would seem to be "all kinds of sin.". WebAll Calls to Worship Fragrance God is Out There In The Beginning Joy of the Lord Perfectly imperfect Stephen Ministry Stewardship (Psalm 103) Trinity II Trinity I Veni Sancte Spiritus Spirit (Advent III) Keep your lamps trimmed Justice Healing Talents Comfort (Advent II) To God be all Glory Call To The Beach Blessing of the Animals Do we ever even try to say thank you for what has been done for us? Where these are made and kept right, we can then safely follow what God will show us in due time, but not otherwise. That they do not appear in the original Greek text in this place. 1.Worship Elements: March 14, 2021 Ministry Matters; And yet, mark you, the daughter of Jairus was as dead as Lazarus; though the manifestation of death was not so complete in her case. They draw their inspiration from another fount, from a desire to walk according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air. This was always their comfort in the midst of disasters and troubles. All rights reserved worldwide. Also he counted on their loving desire to know his affairs as well as to have their hearts comforted through Tychicus. Some kind of life, I acknowledge, does remain in us, while we are still at a distance from Christ; for unbelief does not altogether destroy the outward senses, or the will, or the other faculties of the soul. Ye have all that heart could wish for, except the one thing needful; ye have all things save love to the Saviour. And then, as He begins to minister His truth to our heart, and He begins to really speak to us, they don't understand that thrill of God's Word really ministering to our lives and to the things of our lives. The essence of the world's standard is that it sets self in the centre, the essence of the Christian standard is that it sets Christ and others in the centre. I trust you will understand what I wish to convey that the death is the same in all cases; but the manifestations of it is different; and that the life must come from God, and from God alone. in Num. And so he began to amass to himself wealth until he was the richest man in the world, and silver was as common as rocks in Israel. The object is "us," and the prepositional phrase "with Christ" describes "us." Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. - FSB. Then we hear the particulars, and in a very orderly manner. See, it is always Christ, his flesh, his blood, his life. And what is the first lesson of the truth as it is in Jesus? I believe that God liked it better than many of the collections. Yet this is one of the results of our possessing the new life; and I will say this, the sharpest pang of spiritual life is better than the highest joy of carnal life. God had never so spoken of man before. 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. What has God done? Christ is Victor; his rule has begun. In Sophocles we find some of the loveliest and the saddest lines in all history. 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? Rita Snowden tells a story of the war. How did Christ destroy them? To those who want to reject Christ, the message is true; there is no escape. So with the psalmist in Psalm 32 , I can say, "Oh how happy is the man, whose transgressions are forgiven. This is true of Jews and Gentiles alike. "Wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. No statement can be conceived more exact. He has 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." And God is going to lay some heavy, heavy trip on us just because we submitted ourselves to His will. 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. '', "whoever is without wisdom, lo, he is , "as a dead man";''. Start for FREE. for you, that you should lack the root of the matter. How blessed is the character and the spring of Christian service! 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. There we were, tripping right along with the crowd, as they were trying to satisfy the lust of their flesh, and the lust of their mind. 17He came and preached peace(AL) to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 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. The word walked here in Greek is a word that should be translated meandered. In this first part, Paul writes about humanitys reconciliation with God. Hence we are said to be "light in the Lord," and we need to shake off the things of death that encumber the light, and hinder it. but are fellow citizens with the saints in the household of God. They are clearly identified in each blog post. And I worship Him in Spirit and in truth.And so He has made us alive, alive spiritually, for by grace are we saved. Ephesians 2:1 . Less than $5/mo! The second was the case of the widow's son , who was on his bier, about to be carried to his tomb; and Jesus raised him up to life by saying, "Young man, I say unto thee, arise." Jesus wants to do good things through us! Hence it was that they might "be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and. True, he starts with adultery and fornication, but he goes on to idolatry, hatred, wrath, strife, envyings, seditions, heresies. We must be careful to understand what Paul means by the sins of the flesh. That is what love can do. 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. We know ourselves chosen, adopted as children of God. It is in vain to look for the church's prosperity, if saints individually do not grow up unto Christ. Of the whole Church the corner stone is Christ; and the corner stone is what holds everything together. I may have some here. Now, the text tells us that, though we were dead, yet Christ has come, and by his Spirit he has raised us out of the grave. The third case goes further still in the manifestation of death; for it is the case of which Martha, using strong words, said, "Lord, by this time he stinketh; for he hath been dead four days." Oh, be aware of his devices; seek to "keep the heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." Angels are not the object. And Gideon took them down to the stream and 9,700 of them got down on their knees and put their face in the water and began to drink and 300 of them picked it up in their hands. God has decreed that he will have a holy people. Sin, then, is a failure to comply with the will of God through choice or disregard. What exactly did he mean by that? The flesh is anything in us which gives sin its chance; it is human nature without God. The Jews had rejected their own Messiah. We have not only left the dead, and become joined to Christ, but we are made to sit in heaven with Christ. Glory from the church, glory from generation upon generation. Scripturally-based resources for worship planners and leaders. That is, whatever way the wind is flowing, that is the way you turn, that is the way you go. For it is by grace appropriated by faith that you have been saved. Ye were formerly lost; but now God, by his grace, has rescued you from destruction. And here we must observe, that, in laboring to give an impressive view of both of these parts, the apostle makes a break in the style by () a transposition. 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." Livy writes: "The Greeks wage a truceless war against people of other races, against barbarians." It is not love of something good in us; it is love of us because of everything good in him. Is there not good reason for saying that the church is but a consequence? Now note the next case. Beloved, "It doth not yet appear what we shall be." But Paul is not talking about the life to come; he is talking about this present life. You are peers of the court of heaven: "and the household of God. Reader 1 Christ came and proclaimed peace. Series A: 2022 - 2023. 99 Intercession 65 Corporate Worship Idea 62 Liturgy 53 Confession 49 Praise 44 Paul closes this passage with a great exposition of that paradox which always lies at the heart of his view of the gospel. L: I will place (i) It is life lived in the way this present age lives it. You canna hear George Matheson preach and live in a cellar." Oh, do not so! Dress in your new self, which is being re-formed into the image of God, in true righteousness and holiness.. Hence it is said, "One Lord," which is precisely that which is owned in the common creed of Christendom. Nevertheless, whether it was creation, whether man or favoured Israel, there was so much the more painful a declension that portended the judgment of God upon them. Paul uses two illuminating pictures. But in regard to religion, all is dead. They both mean the same thing; he missed the mark. "In whom ye, also [trusted], after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation." Sin is the failure to hit the target of life. That is what Christ does. 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). III. 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." There are some personages in St. Paul's Cathedral; I have not seen them lately, but I have seen them. A break-down sermon, that breaks the preacher down, might break the people down, too. He had missed the mark.Now, by the very root of the word, it does indicate, which is also true, that it is possible to be a sinner without wanting to be. He makes no end of blunders; he makes many miscalculations because everything is new to him. This was the first of the great divisions. 69. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on. How far the person has realised it is another matter; but such is the meaning of baptism. What did he mean by that? there are some that are a stench in the nostrils of the Almighty; some whose character is hideous beyond all hideousness. That awareness of God, that communion with God, or that fellowship and oneness that God intended that man should have with God. As such we have not properly to fight with flesh at all, any more than to fight with the world. Call to Worship #2: L: We gather to share in our love of God. This, then, was the way in which the new life, spiritual life, came into us. A religion based on all kinds of rules and regulations, about sacred rituals and sacrifices and days, can never be a universal religion. "Oh!" Who that knows what man is, and God, as Christ has made both known, would dare to rest in any one person or thing which did not find its brightest form in Christ Himself? Ephesians 1:7; Ephesians 2:5) and sins (acts of missing the mark) describe deliberate offenses against God. Paul speaks about people being dead in sins. Think of their giving themselves first to the Lord, then to us by the will of God. "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. At the same time, we learn by our experiments. To us it could be but eternal purpose, to Him eternal being; to us pure grace, but to Him His own indefeasible right. Just look into this revelation of His love. released into hope to live for praise and for glory. Looking for something? Paul can never have too much of Christ. That would cease, for God is a Spirit, they that worship Him worship Him in Spirit and in truth. It is impossible to exaggerate the snares and difficulties of Christendom. 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. In the next verse we have that which has been justly designated the unity of profession, where all things may come in to mar. "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!) We need, but we have, the Holy Spirit who is surely all-sufficient, if looked to. Shall I tell it here? In Du Maurier's novel Trilby there is an example of that. Then he adds the great exemplar and spirit of it all, according to the forgiveness with which God met us in Christ. (118) To bring home more effectually to the Ephesians the general doctrine of Divine grace, he reminds them of their former condition. One of the tokens that life is coming back to him is, that he wakes up out of a pleasant sleep, and feels pain. The very truth which, learnt and enjoyed in the Holy Ghost, conduces to all lowliness and meekness, as it calls for mutual forbearance in love, flesh would abuse to all pride and vain-gloriousness, to high-minded contempt of others, and bitter self-confidence. 13But now in Christ Jesus you who once(AC) were far away have been brought near(AD) by the blood of Christ. He may shed abroad the love of God therein; but He is rather said to dwell in us, making the body God's temple. To keep the men from glorying or boasting in what God was going to do. They are in Christ; Christ died, and therefore they died. I grew careless of the lives of others. There are plenty who err in that second direction nowadays. 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. We quite like our old selves. They are clearly identified in each blog post. N461919. "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." There is bondage. They only have the "one hope of their calling." WebThanksgiving and praise are called forth in response to a gracious God. Numbers are of small account here. Friends, as we gather our thoughts into quietness. It is not only the full extent of glory, but the sole satisfying spring, Christ thus dwelling in our hearts in the consciousness of His love "to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." I do not know how it is that the young man never was loosed. There is nobody here who would like to go and live in a grave. It is neither "faith" nor "the faith." And yet and now comes a blessed interposition yet this last case may be saved as well as the first, and as easily too. Conversation, we are talking with each other. You know I would. Oh! 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. I was a natural man, dominated by my fleshly needs. "[2], Trespasses and sins Barry suggested a difference in the meaning of these terms, making "sins" to "denote universal and positive principles of evil doing, and trespasses, failure in visible and special acts of those not necessarily out of the right way. Here are some indexes that might be helpful. There were more tears than words; it was not a "dry" discourse; you wetted it well with tears of grief and anxiety. As the hymn has it: The Work And The Works Of Grace ( Ephesians 2:4-10 Continued). We confess to you that we resist this work in us. They believed that it went on for three thousand years; then came a conflagration in which the whole universe was consumed in flames; then the whole process began all over again, and the same events and the same people exactly repeated themselves. I should like some of you young men who do not pray at the prayer-meeting to make a start. ~ survey response The child has a thousand things to ask; it has to learn everything. God is King! And she used to say, "Son, it doesn't make any difference if everybody is doing it or not. When the believer is at his worst, he is better than the unbeliever at his best; his reasons for happiness are always transcendently above all the reasons for joy that worldlings can never know. 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. (i) Sin kills innocence. I didn't think anybody would miss the one. In Romans the sinner is regarded as alive in sins; and death, the death of Christ, is the means of deliverance. Sort of concluding, you might as well bomb out and stay drunk, there is nothing else, too much pain to try to face reality.Sort of the philosophy that a lot of people have taken today. because of what Christ Jesus has done, you who were once far off have been brought near. "And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." 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. We little think of the experiments that children have to go through before they arrive even at the use of their eyes. can she be dead? Ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 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. Yes, but He did not go up as He came down from above. 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 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. And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins. You are a living man. Those in Christ are legally dead to sin, in the sense of being free of the penalty of it, through the death of Christ. (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.". 1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked 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: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But Satan has so lied to people about God, about the nature of God, that it has caused people to oftentimes fear submitting their lives to God.Now, when I was a child growing up in church, so many times I would hear people say, "You be careful what you say you are not going to do, because that is exactly what God is going to make you do. They had seen creation, and sung at the sight. There might be an adopted son without the nature. Oh that we might have grace to walk in communion with such grace! 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. As Origen had it: "The scars remain." It becomes the pleasure, the delight, the thrill of our lives. When you see a person meandering you get the impression he is not really going anywhere and he doesn't have any purpose. 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 I tell you, I would be so shocked if I had one of my sons come and say something like that to me. And as for Lazarus, he is shut up with a stone. 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." We lived in the actual commission of all those sins to which corrupt nature inclined us. If God's design had ever to be worked out, it must be worked out through a nation. Thank God, dear hearer, if you have living pangs. Call to Worship #2 L: Welcome to worship this morning. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' sake. Christ is not darkness but light, and puts all in the light; He makes us to be children of the light, that so we may be able to judge ourselves, not discerned by man as such, but capable of discerning whatever claims our attention. In the Iliad (6: 146-149) Glaucus and Diomede meet in single combat. Dear God we are sorry for not loving people like you do. Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. (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. Ah! Here are some indexes that might be helpful: INDEXES: For a complete list of all the indexes on this blog, click here. to live in the praise of his glorious grace! Call number one is this: God calls you because God loves you, just 2) Call Number Two, hold your first finger: God calls you Life is usually capable of pleasure, but the new life is capable of the highest conceivable pleasure. In the NIV vs. 1-7, three additional verbs not in the Greek. God has many ways of revealing his will to men. "Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.". They are put into the grave, in order that all may be hidden. And yet these putrid ones may live; these last are not more dead than the maiden upon her bed, though the death has more fully revealed itself in their corruption. or our anger gets the better of us and we lash out. "The men that are with you are too many. Once more, we are told, "He hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." (iv) It is a life which is at the mercy of desire. Through Jesus there is a place for all men in the family of God. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, April 12, 1857, by the REV. Eternity isn't long enough. But in times past you were just meandering through life. 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. Holy Scripture is not complimentary to unrenewed human nature. It is a revelation of God that comes in at the time when the Jews have, at least temporarily, lost their place altogether. When you are satiated to-day, you sit down and weep about to-morrow, what you shall have to eat. Ed. 21. This engineer was soundly converted. But then the possession of a nature capable of communing with God did not and could not satisfy. Oh, the thrill of joy that has sometimes gone through our spirits! And so Christ gives us more light. Man merely needs teaching. Not that the body is there yet, but that the body of Christ is heavenly in its character, although in fact on the earth now. 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 sinner chooses to live in contempt of any law or higher authority that would supersede his own will. When a man tells you that his creed is a dead thing, do not deny it for a minute; there is no doubt of the fact. I would rather find Christ where he is not, than not to find him where he is. When Isaiah received his vision of God, his first reaction was to say: "Woe is me! The most vital form of Greek religion was the Mystery Religions, and from many of them the barbarian was excluded. 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