It needs a Milton to conceive of the walk of God; but he that hath the divine life walks with God; and sometimes he seems to step from Alp to Alp, from sea and ocean, accomplishing what, unaided, he would never even attempt. Hence we have those gifts alone which are the expression of the grace of Christ toward the saints that He loves, for ministerial work, for the building up of His body. (i) Sin kills innocence. They would put a hoop on a pole, and each man would take his quiver of arrows and shoot his arrows through the hoop one at a time. And I worship Him in Spirit and in truth.And so He has made us alive, alive spiritually, for by grace are we saved. Our state and course are such as deserve wrath, and would end in eternal wrath, if divine grace did not interpose. 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. Jesus begins by taking that sense of estrangement away. He thinks of every church as the part of a great building and of every Christian as a stone built into the Church. 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." Are we as good workmen as we could be? To be before Him without having His own nature would be impossible; and therefore it is not stated as a matter of predestination, but of choice. Paul uses an even more vivid picture. This application consists of two parts. Is every working hour filled with our most conscientious work and is every task done as well as we could possibly do it? The instructor is dead, and you are dead. He remembers his covenant forever, Once it was a screw you could slip off or on; you said you were master of your pleasures now your pleasures are master of you. When we get "together with Christ", then are we made alive, then are we saved. I shall not do so; for although I have read portions which refer to that glorious subject, I have had pressed on my mind a subject which is not the resurrection of Christ, but which is in some measure connected with it the resurrection of lost and ruined men by the Spirit of God in this life. STOP delaying to get to know the Bible better! , , SSL- . "Now therefore". And when a man is born into the kingdom of God, he has to learn everything; and consequently, if he is wise, he questions older and wiser believers about this and about that. 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." And you have got the wrong address. to you who were far off and to you who were near. Not only so, but they had walked according to the course of that which is most of all offensive to God "of this world, according to the prince of the authority of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience;" for indeed they were, one as much as another, children of disobedience. (AM) 18For through him we both have access(AN) to the Father(AO) by one Spirit. Not yet had the loving finger closed the eyelid; there seemed to be a light still lingering in her eye; like a lily just nipped off; she was as fair as life itself. [1] John William Russell, Compact Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1964), p. 476. Both the xenos ( G3581) and the paroikos ( G3941) were always on the fringe. 3. ], "Having described our spiritual possessions in Christ, Paul turns to a complementary truth: our spiritual position in Christ. "And so God provided the way for the forgiveness of our sins, and having forgiven us our sins we became alive in the spirit, or were born again. If you don't, your wife does. We are in this position, that God is now working in us, through this divine life, to make us the most wonderful reflectors of his grace that he has yet formed. God had never so spoken of man before. That is, we were living by the lower nature, the animal nature, living after the lust of our flesh, and the lust of our minds. "Rabbi," she said, "bring me near." 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." 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. "He that loveth his wife loveth himself; . That paradox has two arms. There is a certain spiritual competence supposed, a due preparation not only of heart, but also of knowledge; or, as the apostle said, "we speak wisdom among them that are perfect," Here no lengthy exposition would be wanted about it, because they were not so infantine as to suppose that the truth of God depends on the number of times that a thing is asserted. No man ever made himself to live. We so easily convince ourselves that we deserve a little more. That means that we all need help. 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 WebA CALL TO WORSHIP From the Shadows to Reality! Looking for something? Just as the Canaanites tried to keep the Israelites out of the land which God assured Moses the tribes were to have for their possession, so Satan's great effort is to hinder the saints of God from realizing their blessedness in heavenly places. The Lord impress this solemn truth on all your hearts by his own spirit; for Jesus Christ's sake! He uses therefore the highest terms in order to express it. And so maybe you would have five men in the contest. And so they wrote "hath he quickened" in italics in order to indicate the fact that they themselves added those words. Submissions: I am so grateful to those of you who send me your own material to post! Our having put off the old man, and our having put on the new man. He wanted to be like the Most High God ( Isaiah 14:14 ). NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. in Exod. Rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you! If someone fine loves us, we know that we do not and cannot deserve that love. No matter how long your tape measure, Gods love would be longer! 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 You cannot resolve to "groan at one o'clock, and weep at three o'clock." The church is but a consequence; and we bless God for this, and bless Him also that we know the church is but the complement of Christ. You, and you, and you, are citizens in this Kingdom. But profound truths are for those who have spiritual understandings; and such do not require many words to comprehend them. 16-18. Notice what OUR PRESENT POSITION IS, if God has quickened us. Life is usually capable of pleasure, but the new life is capable of the highest conceivable pleasure. For "if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ." Nor is there full Christian service, except in proportion as it is according to this pattern and in this power. It involved the keeping of the law. What has God done? 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. 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. Find Related Songs (Not this year) Second Sunday after Christmas Day: God would frame a new sort of workmanship worthy of Himself; and therefore all question of antecedent measures disappears. Ah! I told you just now that the life which the Holy Spirit gives us when we are born again, is the life of God. No, not even so, and for this reason God has relationships, and these relationships are shown in Jesus just as much as His nature is. for you, that you should still be dead! Of all the creatures that live and breathe, man is the only one on earth that became a living soul by the breath of the Lord God, who, as it is written, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. All the enmity of natural men is against that truth. I must draw near to him in prayer.". He came to take away the sense of estrangement and of guilt, by telling us that God wants us just as we are. We are by nature bond-slaves to sin and Satan. They are dead because of sinful acts that they themselves have committed (cf. You remember that our Saviour raised three dead persons; I do not find that during his lifetime he caused more than three resurrections. Is it so, beloved? Let the redeemed of the Lord say so! Come, friends, let us confess our sins to the Lord. Reader 2 I cant remember a time when I felt alien here. Before they close in fight, Diomede wishes to know the lineage of Glaucus, and Glaucus replies: "Why enquirest thou of my generation? I remember the first week of that new life, and how, on the second Sabbath, I went to the place where I had heard the gospel to my soul's salvation, thinking that I would attend there. Ephesians 4:18; John 17:3). It is not. Jesus reawakens the ideal in the heart of man. Paul speaks of the condition of the Gentiles before Christ came. we know too well) saving faith necessarily, but the faith of Christendom; and accordingly "one baptism" is its mark, because thus they are put on or take the ground of professing the one Lord and one faith. In every Greek city there were xenoi ( G3581) and their life was not easy. He can sin by either violating the standard of Gods will or by failing to come up to its standards. I may have some here. (J) 6And God raised us up with Christ(K) and seated us with him(L) in the heavenly realms(M) in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace,(N) expressed in his kindness(O) to us in Christ Jesus. Only into the first of them could a Gentile come. "Like trying to get an octopus into a paper bag." At the same time we know with utter conviction that we must spend all life in trying to be worthy of it. This was the first of the great divisions. 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. 76. The Son would be a creature not self-subsisting, not therefore truly God. If the latter enquired how God had interfered most conspicuously for them, no doubt they were reminded of the power that brought them out of the land of Egypt. As He is outwardly called on, so there is everywhere the "one faith," which does not mean (alas! the One whose love is the bedrock of our lives. Are we in life where we ought to be? It was brought in either to convict the Corinthians of their utter departure through the spirit of the world, the flesh taking that shape, or it was brought in triumphantly on their restoration. Then follows a prayer of the apostle the first of those he pours out for the Ephesian saints. No God? As Origen had it: "The scars remain." Is it so? Those who had been far from God were brought near, and the door was shut to no one. Then the diversities are brought before us. 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. There are some personages in St. Paul's Cathedral; I have not seen them lately, but I have seen them. 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." "Oh!" Do you not hear the noise of the infernal bellows when "the children of disobedience: swear, and use unclean language? X, p. 638. Let the earth be glad! 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. After some months of Matheson's ministry, communion time came round. This was peculiarly needed. Oh, what a change from the past to the present! Call to Worship (Ephesians 1) Hope in Christ! It creeps along, pleased to make any kind of progress; and when it gets up on its little feet, it moves from one chair to another, trembling at every step it takes, and presently, down it goes. But not merely this. He has not come to God consciously. He might have been pleased to choose none; but if we are to be brought into His presence at all, it is impossible to be there without having the divine nature, in a moral sense (and, of course, one only speaks of this). The first thing is to "be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might." Love it is which, as it were, puts all in movement that belongs to God. That is a perfectly possible translation; but the word Christos ( G5547) is not primarily a proper name although it has become one. What was to be done? No God? It was written by Thom Shuman. Never were they to reign; never will they be one with Christ like the saints. The Jew had an immense contempt for the Gentile. But now he speaks briefly. 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 . As the hymn has it: The Work And The Works Of Grace ( Ephesians 2:4-10 Continued). God loves us so much he gave us For instance, the Jewish Rabbinic writers tell how a Gentile woman came to Rabbi Eliezer. The church follows; and as it belongs to Christ, so it is a part of Him. We wish that death did not remain, the old nature hampering us; but, in perfect proportion as the new life is really in us, we now run parallel 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. Thus in the Godhead there are the relationships of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The father affirms, "for this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found" (Luke 15:24 NASB). He says that the middle wall of the barrier between has been torn down. 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." I cannot help stopping a minute to know whether it is so with you, my dear hearers, and praying that what I might have to say may act as a kind of sieve, separating between the really living and those who only think that they are alive, so that, if you have not been quickened, if you are only "a child of nature, finely dressed," but not spiritually alive, you may be made aware of it. So, too, has our modern world. ", In the Homeric Hymns the assembly of Olympus is charmed by the Muses who sing "of the deathless gifts of the gods and the sorrows of men, even all that they endure by the will of the immortals, living heedless and helpless, nor can they find a cure for death, nor a defence against old age.". The flesh is anything in us which gives sin its chance; it is human nature without God. Such seems to have been the measure of Adam's wisdom and prudence. We know ourselves chosen, adopted as children of God. It was not even lawful to render help to a Gentile woman in childbirth, for that would be to bring another Gentile into the world. It needs the Trinity to make a Christian, and when you have got a Christian, it needs the Trinity to make a prayer. This does not yet appear; for there is nothing to indicate to mankind what He purposes to do. Most wholesome blessedness! 3 say to god, how awesome are your deeds! my brother, alas! 10. I thought, "Yes; I know all about that; that is my case." That is what Paul is doing here. And I was fearful that God was going to suddenly start making me do all of these distasteful things that I said I would never do.What if my son should come to me, and say, "Dad, I have been thinking, I really had a good life, you have always provided a roof over my head, you have always provided food on the table, I always had clothes to wear. Psalm 111: Praise the Lord, now and forever! When the Psalmist sang: "I will extol thee, my God and king" ( Psalms 145:1) he meant it literally. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, Your justice like the great deep. young man, thou hast not yet gone so far as the open profligate and desperately profane, take heed, thou art dead! Or, what was the manner of life that we lived? Hence the expression does not go beyond the riches of God's grace. He is a man that is far gone. The son, who "was dead" to his father, repents and confesses his sin. But we are not at liberty to set aside the declarations of our Lord and of the Apostle Paul, that, while we remain in Adam, we are entirely devoid of life; and that regeneration is a new life of the soul, by which it rises from the dead. In fact, it comes from a game in archery that the British used to have. But, at the same time, our living prayer bursts out hours before the appointed time, or sometimes it will not come at the time. The rotten Lazarus may come out of his tomb, as well as the slumbering maiden from her bed. Call to Worship #2: L: We gather to share in our love of God. 19. I speak to you who are quickened by grace. It is not so in the word of God. The Holy Ghost thus takes a corresponding part. In Romans, in 1st and 2nd Corinthians, and in Galatians righteousness was largely used. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. In the next verse the apostle opens out that which is move particularly connected with "the God of our Lord Jesus Christ." Sin kills the will; the thing so grips a man that he cannot break free. (iii) Greater than anything else, Jesus Christ revives and restores the lost will. Glorious God, we come in worship this morning well aware of falling short of our glory. Nothing short of this suffices. In their natural state, all people are spiritually dead because of sin. "To be dead in trespasses and sins does not mean unconsciousness or non-existence. Aren't they perfect? 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. In 1871 one of these prohibiting tablets was actually discovered, and the inscription on it reads: "Let no one of any other nation come within the fence and barrier around the Holy Place. No matter how deep you drill, Gods love would be deeper! When the elder called at this old woman's cellar with the cards, he found that she had gone. 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. No, no. In the sense that their only king was God. Hear the word of truth, the good news of our salvation. Previous year: 2021-2022 | Next year: 2023-2024. WebThe Art of Following - Matthew 4:12-23. (v) It is the life which follows what the King James Version calls the desires of our flesh. The Revised Common Lectionary reads through Ephesians in Year B, Pentecost season. Do you remember when the new life came into you? The first place where Christ is seen is in the grave whence God according to the mightiest action of His almighty power raised Him up. We were dead, all of us; and yet we were not all like one another. That at that time ye were without Christ. He is equal to all, and, would have us count on His presence and power answering to the name of Christ. in our homes and schools, in our church and in our world. As it moved as it meandered. So, and you who were dead because of your trespasses and sins; Wherein times past you walked according to the course of this world ( Ephesians 2:2 ). They can se flattering speeches in addressing the ungodly; but the Holy Ghost never does. He Himself is the measure of the walk of the new man, and the manifestation of it is Christ Himself. As the old saying has it. The Family And The Dwelling-place Of God ( Ephesians 2:19-22). Call to Worship #1: L: Darkness is banished! Come into Gods presence with singing! Paul tells Timothy, "But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives" (1 Timothy 5:6 NASB). He abolished rules that restricted life and replaced them with the new commandment to love as he did. The song of the nightingale is not to be analysed by the laws of musical composition. And he would have to treat the rest of the fellows to the drinks. And God, having these counsels before Him from everlasting, deigns to have a people, not only capable of enjoying Him as having the very same nature as His own, without which they could not enjoy glory; but, besides, if He has us in His presence, He would have us in the highest relationship into which grace could bring us. New to this blog? Who just delights to spend pleasant days together with you. For example, the Matthew and Luke accounts of the Lord's Prayer use the words interchangeably; and, as Blaikie said, "The distinction cannot be carried out in all other passages. 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. thou art dead! Because if you face reality, truth doesn't exist, and thus you will only end in despair. "Sow an act and reap a habit; sow a habit and reap a character; sow a character and reap a destiny.". That is what Christ does. 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. The word that Paul uses here is, kainos ( G2537) ; he says that Jesus brings together Jew and Gentile and from them both produces one new kind of person. To be an Israelite was to be a member of the society of God; it was to have a citizenship which was divine. Hath quickened us together with Christ. It is used for a man losing the way and straying from the right road; it is used for a man failing to grasp and slipping away from the truth. But up to this the saints are contemplated as such. 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. That is living prayer. The things that Paul has to say about you, so that they tried to sort of cushion the whole blow by giving you a peak ahead at what he is going to say about you. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, April 12, 1857, by the REV. He commands his companions, who by bad example are bearing him on his bier to his grave, to stop, and then there is a partial reformation for awhile, and after that there comes the strong out-spoken voice "Young man, I say unto thee, arise!" (AX) 21In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple(AY) in the Lord. He sought to get Jesus to worship him during His wilderness temptations ( Matthew 4:9 ). But as he said that by revelation it was made known to him, so he would from God communicate it to them. This is a picture from the Temple. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whosoever believes in Him does not perish but has everlasting life. "And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." Can I belong just for who I am? II. It is told that when Pericles, the greatest of the Athenians, was walking forward to address the Athenian assembly, he used to say to himself: "Pericles, remember that you are an Athenian and that you talk to Athenians." 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. See the result of that difference. That is, we can't earn it. 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