All other combats are outside the calling of a Christian. 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. Love is God's nature, but it is a sovereign prerogative in Him. 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. 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. But I now relate back to Jesus Christ, my Father after the Spirit. God had a dwelling-place of old in Israel; but it was a house made with hands, however magnifical, that followed the tabernacle of witness in the desert, in both of which the Shechinah, or visible sign of His glory, deigned to dwell. In other words, the Son of God never was made the Son, He is never even called the child ( ) of God. (AM) 18For through him we both have access(AN) to the Father(AO) by one Spirit. Dear God, we like people who look like us. He can sin by either violating the standard of Gods will or by failing to come up to its standards. Ay, but those salt tears are tears of barrenness. to you who were far off and to you who were near. (E) 3All of us also lived among them at one time,(F) gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a](G) and following its desires and thoughts. 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). I pray you that are instructed, and have become fathers, never laugh at babes in grace, if they ask you the most absurd questions. 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. earth that looks fertile enough to bring forth life with but one living tear? 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. No God? Thus, having Him who is the centre of all glory dwelling in our affections by faith, we enter into, and become established in, the grace which is the secret of it all. It is not something extraneous that acts on God as a motive, but His own love flowing out from Himself according to His holy nature, and in perfect consistency with His character and ways. The word walked here in Greek is a word that should be translated meandered. Let the stealer steal no more." Among whom also we all had our conversation ( Ephesians 2:3 ). But if you are a living child of God, you cannot do that. The Ephesians, by trespassing and sinning, had brought themselves into a state of deplorable wretchedness, as had all the heathen nations; and having thus sinned against God, they were condemned by him, and might be considered as dead in law-incapable of performing any legal act, and always liable to the punishment of death, which they had deserved, and which was ready to be inflicted upon them. Delivered on Sabbath Morning, April 12, 1857, by the REV. 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. You have blessed me so much, I just want to do whatever You like me to do today, Father. That is, he looks at the inner source, not merely at the glorious results. I cannot describe to you the lusts and vices of a fullgrown sinner. But this was not enough. My, I love them." Praise to the Father of Lord Jesus Christ! Once more, we are told, "He hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." Then the diversities are brought before us. What is that? Vid. The new-born child of God is just like the new-born child of man in some things; and after a time that child begins to walk. * To us, to be called children of God is more intimate than to be styled His sons; but it would derogate from the Lord. Would God send out and bring in the Gentiles to fill their place? The re:Worship survey on pandemic worship practices has been completed. He made us at the first; he has new-made us. He was not constrained to enter into a full or long explanation. How is it that I find some who say they are people of God; but yet are rather fond of wearing their grave-clothes? What benefit did you reap at that time from the things ("sins" Ephesians 2:20) you are now ashamed of? But I must add that we are also capable of acute pain to which we were strangers once. There are indeed some missionary churches who would have all their congregations worship with the one liturgy used in the churches at home. 8, 9. Now, notice verse Ephesians 2:5 , "with Christ," verse Ephesians 2:6 , "in Christ Jesus," verse Ephesians 2:7 , "through Christ Jesus." [1] John William Russell, Compact Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1964), p. 476. And I worship Him in Spirit and in truth.And so He has made us alive, alive spiritually, for by grace are we saved. (v) It is the life which follows what the King James Version calls the desires of our flesh. No time to worry about where the path, the flow is leading. ", 20, 21 Upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom, You see, it is always that, in him, in Christ: "in whom". It needs the Trinity to make a Christian, and when you have got a Christian, it needs the Trinity to make a prayer. WebCalls To Worship Love Adapted from Psalm 36:5-7 Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the skies. Many a man's life is embittered because he feels that he has never had what his talents and his work deserve; but in the sight of God no man deserves anything but condemnation. The young man has not yet drained the intoxicating cup, although he has had some whisperings of the sweetness of it; he has not yet run into the ways of wickedness, though he has had temptations thrust upon him; as yet he has kept his sin in his chamber, and most of it has been unseen. ], "The unbeliever is not sick; he is dead! "But God, rich in His mercy, in His love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses and sins." He sees no beauty in religion; he hears not the call of God; he is unaffected by the dying love of the Saviour; and he has no interest in eternal realities. 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!" The Lord is close to everyone who calls upon God; God hears our cries and will save us. The ancient world believed strenuously in demons. '', "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". In the lives of so many there is a kind of tragic process. Philo said: "There are spirits flying everywhere through the air." This, then, was what was needed for the principalities and powers, and this is what they behold in the church of God. He thinks of every church as the part of a great building and of every Christian as a stone built into the Church. Israel was supremely the covenant people. Living God, thank you for re-working us to become more like Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith; We have this expression, "by grace are ye saved," twice over in this chapter. It was just that kind of news that Jesus brought. but are fellow citizens with the saints in the household of God.. Let every one praise the Lord! In France some soldiers with their sergeant brought the body of a dead comrade to a French cemetery to have him buried. Then follows a prayer of the apostle the first of those he pours out for the Ephesian saints. This application consists of two parts. 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. Scripturally-based resources for worship planners and leaders. In Du Maurier's novel Trilby there is an example of that. This illustration of spiritual fellowship lost does not end sadly. Suppose two people have a difference and go to law about it; and the experts in the law draw up a document, which states the rights of the case, and ask the two conflicting parties to come together on the basis of that document. So with the sinner in regard to the spiritual and eternal world. I was a natural man, dominated by my fleshly needs. "That he might present it to himself [not merely to the Father, but present it to himself] a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." Come, friends, let us confess our sins to the Lord. Thus in the Godhead there are the relationships of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The lark sings for the joy of singing. "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. 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. Again, I have in my presence young men who have grown to riper years than that fair damsel who died in her childhood. One thing more, and I have done. What he desires, we desire. Space, time, matter, and energy were all created by him, which means that he himself does not consist in space, time, matter, or energy. For you will mark that men, when they are only half gone in wickedness, do it openly; but when they are fully gone their lust becomes so degrading that they are obliged to do it in secret. "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself." 110 and 2:1122. for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins ( Ephesians 2:4-5 ). 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. we would understand the One who calls us to faith. The boogieman will get you, you know." God is not only love but light; and inasmuch as this epistle reveals how fully God associates us with Christ according to His own nature, so having first shown us the privilege of loving, as He Himself loved us in Christ, now it shows that we are made "light in the Lord." There he blows his coals, there he fabricates his instruments. Following the fads.But then Paul gives us an awesome insight, and that is that these fads and fashions of the world are really being directed by none other than Satan. With a terrible activity of spiritual death; 3. Well, if you think I would think that, you don't know me. Here the prayer is not, as in the first chapter, that they might know the power that had wrought toward them; it is now that their hearts might be in the secret of His grace according to the power that works in them. That law had been worked out into thousands and thousands of commandments and decrees. It kills innocence; sin may be forgiven but its effect remains. And they seem to have no qualms yielding and flowing with the will of Satan, which will lead to their ultimate destruction. With the coming of Christ the Gentile entered into that new view of history in which a man is always on the way to God. He loves his Son, and we love his Son. He tracked her down. This pericope is a condensation of Pauls exposition of redemption in Romans. - FSB. It is well, also, if it is a time of sitting at Jesus' feet, for there is no other place so safe to a new-born believer as the feet of Jesus. How could it be otherwise, seeing that He who sits on His throne, tar above every creature in God's presence and in all ages, is a man, but withal the very Son of God? 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." Heres a contemporary call to worship inspired by Ephesians 2: 19-22. the One who names each of us as a beloved child. Such seems to have been the measure of Adam's wisdom and prudence. 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