call to worship: ephesians 2

Web1) We start with our thumbs. They tell me that "creeds are dead." The Alexandrian and Claromontane copies, and one of Stephens's, and the Vulgate Latin version, read, "dead in your trespasses and sins"; and the Syriac version, "dead in your sins and in your trespasses"; and the Ethiopic version only, "dead in your sins". Here are some indexes that might be helpful: INDEXES: For a complete list of all the indexes on this blog, click here. 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." Satan is allowed to go on for a little while longer, because God is gathering out the joint-heirs, while the evil develops itself in a new form Man had been shown to be the enemy of all righteousness, and now betrays himself the enemy of all grace. Yes, life is a strange thing; and if you have the life of God in your soul, you will undergo many changes, and not always be what you want to be. 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. '', "no man is called a living man, but he who is in the way of truth in this world.----And a wicked man who does not go in the way of truth, is called, , "a dead man". Self would have hindered; had there been a particle, it would have ruined both His person and His work; but this is not the truth as it is in Jesus. Web14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by setting aside in his flesh the law with its He was lonely. He prayed that they might know what is the hope of their calling. 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. The devil seems to have some power (by God's permission) in the lower region of the air; there he is at hand to tempt men, and to do as much mischief to the world as he can: but it is the comfort and joy of God's people that he who is head over all things to the church has conquered the devil and has him in his chain. It was done in the very street of the city. Is a man as good a husband as he might be? 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. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved), and raised us up together." In Ephesians death is the very first place where we find even Christ. Click for: HYMN No. Paul uses an even more vivid picture. To us it could be but eternal purpose, to Him eternal being; to us pure grace, but to Him His own indefeasible right. We don't want trouble, we dont do conflict here! You have much about you that is lovely, but you have just begun to indulge in evil habits; you have not yet become the desperate sinner; you have not yet become altogether noxious in the eyes of other men; you are but beginning to sin, you are like the young man carried out on his bier; you have not yet become the confirmed drunkard; you have not yet begun to curse and blaspheme God; you are still accepted in good society; you are not yet cast out; but you are dead, thoroughly dead, just as dead as the third and worst case. Imagine in Solomon's day when silver was as common as rocks. We have not only left the dead, and become joined to Christ, but we are made to sit in heaven with Christ. 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. He always comes back to that theme. The Jews believed that only by keeping the Jewish law was a man good and able to attain to the friendship and fellowship of God. Oh, do not so! That peace is won at the price of his blood, for the great awakener of love is the Cross. If a person had never lived before, and had come into life a full-grown man, everything would be as strange to him as it is to a little-child; and everything is strange to a new-born man in the spiritual realm into which he is born. I knew that no man but a Christian ever could or would cry out against sin with that bitter wail; and that, if the grace of God was not with him, he would rest satisfied and contented; but that, if he felt that sin was a horrible thing, and he was a wretched man because of it, and must be delivered from it, then he surely must be a child of God, especially if he could add, "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.". No matter how long your tape measure, Gods love would be longer! The Revised Common Lectionary reads through Ephesians in Year B, Pentecost season. "The riches of the glory of his inheritance" embrace, of course, that vast scene of creation which is to be put under the glorified saints. And His Spirit is bearing witness with my spirit that I am His child, and because of His Spirit bearing witness with my spirit I cry Abba, I cry Father. Copyright 2019 by Zondervan. 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. Living things change. The choice of the saints for heavenly blessedness was before the creation of the universe, before the foundation of the world. As Origen had it: "The scars remain." Hallelujah! There are all kinds of architecture; but the building is a unity because through it all it has been used for the worship of God and for meeting with Jesus Christ. The Lord might be where there are only two gathered together unto His name. To have consciousness is a great mercy, even if it be only painful consciousness, and if every movement of life within seems to harrow up your soul. "Youth's beauty fades, and manhood's glory fades. Another of Paul's blessed "nows." Call to Worship #1: L: Darkness is banished! I do not deny but that a Christian may slip elsewhere. But it gave to the Jews the unique consciousness of being the people of God. 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. Are in italics. WebPrayer of Confession. New International Version (NIV), In contexts like this, the Greek word for. Heres a contemporary call to worship inspired by Ephesians 2: 19-22. the One who names each of us as a beloved child. 2:1-3 When you were dead in your sins and trespasses, those sins and trespasses in which you once walked, living life in the way this present age lives it, living life as the ruler of the power of the air dictates it, that spirit who now operates in the children of disobedience--and once all we too lived the same kind of life as these children of disobedience do, a life in which we were at the mercy of the desires of our lower nature, a life in which we followed the wishes of our lower nature and of our own designs, a life in which, as far as human nature goes, we deserved nothing but the wrath of God, as the others do. One effect of this divine life is to put life into everything that we do. And I was fearful of yielding my life to God. Far different was Israel's case, however favoured as a nation. Then, without delay, the next verses introduce a general view of the glorious topic that occupied him. Love it is which, as it were, puts all in movement that belongs to God. Before Christ the barriers were up; after Christ the barriers were down. That is the natural man, apart from Jesus Christ, and you, black is this picture that Paul paints of you and of me. He prays for the saints "that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory [for this is what his mind connected with it], may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints." Paul uses two illuminating pictures. Were ripping off the crops from the children of Israel, they were hiding their food in caves and all. As our children grow older, do we come nearer to them, or do they drift away until conversation is often difficult and we and they are practically strangers? Is He not satisfied with giving us a nature like His own? That they do not appear in the original Greek text in this place. "Among whom we all had our manner of living, or our lifestyles in times past." Are those that He has brought into a share of His own moral nature and the relationship of sons to be left out of this? 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. Christianity demands service, but the world cannot understand the missionary for instance, who goes away to some foreign land to teach in a school or heal in a hospital for a quarter of the salary he or she might obtain at home in some secular service. It was not a question of the flesh: how could this be trusted? Ay, but those salt tears are tears of barrenness. What We Are - v. 4-7 (Alive with Christ), III. For it is by grace appropriated by faith that you have been saved. Ah, such were some of us; but we are cleansed! It sees no beauty in the landscape; hears not the voice of a friend; looks not upon the glorious sun and stars; and is unaffected by the running stream and the rolling ocean. earth that looks fertile enough to bring forth life with but one living tear? Praise the Lord! 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. for you, that you should still be dead! Vid. I must draw near to him in prayer.". How blessed is the character and the spring of Christian service! 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. The law or "mark" in this context is the righteous will of God. For the Jew It was possible to say: "Remember that you are a citizen of God, and that you speak to the people of God." This illustration of spiritual fellowship lost does not end sadly. But if you are a living child of God, you cannot do that. Call to Worship #2 L: Welcome to worship this morning. Everywhere Christ Jesus Himself is intermixed with every portion. They only have the "one hope of their calling." And you have got the wrong address. After his triumphs, the people came to Gideon and offered him the throne of Israel. They might otherwise think themselves more or less superior. I grew careless of the lives of others. Was there only this? Rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you! That was the new life putting forth powers with which it was not itself acquainted; and I believe that there are some of God's children who have powers that they will never find unless they try to use them. Israel was supremely the covenant people. We dare to believe that you and I are part of a plan. "You hath HE quickened," is true of all who are quickened. The statement of the father reflects the spiritual impasse of the father/son relationship while the son is in sin. So then the intervening wall with its barrier shut the Gentile out from the presence of God. ", Do you think this devotedness too much? The corpse looks like life still; yet is your beloved one in the coffin as dead as the mangled bodies on the battle-field. ; because all that is connected with man in the flesh and in the world is a sign to unbelievers, showing them the goodness of God, and the defeat of that wicked power which governs human nature as it is. 10. WebEvil Eyes Exaltation Exhaustion F Faith Faithfulness Family Father Fear Fear of the Lord Food Foreigner Forgiveness Freedom The Future G Gates Generations Gentleness Gifts That is exactly the right that Jesus gives us in regard to God. You who have been quickened will understand what I say. 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. 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. I. And so they wrote "hath he quickened" in italics in order to indicate the fact that they themselves added those words. (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. One said to me, when joining the church, "Either I am a new creature, or else the world is altogether altered from what it was. 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