Thus far the apostle has described the misery of a natural state in Ephesians 2:1-3, which we shall find him pursuing again in some following ones. The word Paul uses (apokatallassein, G604) is the word used of bringing together friends who have been estranged. Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. Submissions: I am so grateful to those of you who send me your own material to post! He Himself is the measure of the walk of the new man, and the manifestation of it is Christ Himself. "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. There is a certain murderous power in sin. What he desires, we desire. The barrier between Jew and Gentile was absolute. Sin kills ideals; men begin to do without a qualm the thing which once they regarded with horror. It is a pleasant thing to hear an honest confession; they are dead to dead men. History Psalms, a discussion of 105 & 106. This; not only that we hear of the one body, and that saints compose this body, but that a new man is seen. It is a priceless boon to have the right to go to some lovely and wise and saintly person at any time; to have the right to break in upon him, to take our troubles, our problems, our loneliness, our sorrow to him. And he would have to treat the rest of the fellows to the drinks. Such is not the character of God's dwelling now. (i) Paul insists that it is by grace that we are saved. 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 He had spoken of the poor idolatrous Gentiles and their awful condition; but "we all," says he, putting himself along with them, Jews as we were, children of the covenant and what not, were none the less dead in offences and sins. As He is outwardly called on, so there is everywhere the "one faith," which does not mean (alas! They are put into the grave, in order that all may be hidden. Here are some indexes that might be helpful. Some people never grow beyond that stage. 76. And why is all this? Is a woman as good a wife as she might be? But now, founded on this, the apostle prays thus for them, that the Holy Ghost would so act in the inner man that there might be no hindrance to Christ, and that they might know, not the Holy Ghost (for this they did not doubt), but Christ dwelling there by His power constantly. . Observed, 1. WebCall to Worship Psalm 104:1-4, 33 Benediction Ephesians 3:20-21 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. "We were by nature the children of wrath, even as others." Find Related Songs (Not this year) Second Sunday after Christmas Day: Love it is which, as it were, puts all in movement that belongs to God. 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. Now, they do appear in the original Greek text down in verse Ephesians 2:5 , but it does not appear here at the beginning of this text. Exodus 24:1-8 gives us a dramatic picture of how the Jewish people accepted the covenant and its conditions--"All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do" ( Exodus 24:3; Exodus 24:7). Here are some indexes that might be helpful. In the next verse the apostle opens out that which is move particularly connected with "the God of our Lord Jesus Christ." 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. The priest told them gently that he was bound to ask if their comrade had been a baptized adherent of the Roman Catholic Church. The word for desire is epithumia ( G1939) which characteristically means desire for the wrong and the forbidden thing. He would have something more. Ephesians 2:2). There is neos ( G3501) which is new simply in point of time; a thing which is neos ( G3501) has come into existence recently, but there may well have been thousands of the same thing in existence before. Besides, there is love, the activity, as well as, the moral qualities, of His being. The words hath he quickened mean, hath he made alive, or made to live; John 5:21; Rom 4:17; 1 Corinthians 15:36. Who were dead in trespasses and sins - On the meaning of the word dead, see the notes at Romans 5:12; Romans 6:2, note. * The Lord Jesus is repeatedly called , translated "son" and "child" in the English version of the Acts of the Apostles, but more properly God's servant as Messiah. 1.And you who were dead. Satan's purpose for you is your destruction, and so as he is guiding the course of the world, it is a destruction derby. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. But God who is rich in His mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead has made us alive. All this, it will be observed, is consequent on the cross. at the price of the blood of Christ. 30. Let us take a crude and imperfect analogy. He then expounded the means whereby we appreciate our calling (i.e., knowledge given by the Holy Spirit through Gods revelation, Ephesians 1:15-23). And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Here the apostle repeats that high, large, and blessed phrase already so familiar to us, "that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ; in whom ye also [trusted]." 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. "You hath HE quickened." For instance, the Jewish Rabbinic writers tell how a Gentile woman came to Rabbi Eliezer. Here he prays to the Father of our Lord Jesus, not simply to the God that had raised up the Christ from the dead, and was glorifying Him on high. The man who is under their domination has taken sides against God. 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". 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. '', "whoever is without wisdom, lo, he is , "as a dead man";''. An easy path could not be divine, as men and things are on earth. But then the possession of a nature capable of communing with God did not and could not satisfy. 99 Intercession 65 Corporate Worship Idea 62 Liturgy 53 Confession 49 Praise 44 no one has any special standing or bragging rights. The relationship in the Godhead has nothing to do with the question of time; and the great mistake that has been wrought by all human philosophy is from introducing notions of time where time can have no place whatever. Where these are made and kept right, we can then safely follow what God will show us in due time, but not otherwise. ], "Having described our spiritual possessions in Christ, Paul turns to a complementary truth: our spiritual position in Christ. Now he unites both in this place of richest blessing; for He has even "made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." Each circle hitherto was getting larger and larger. Take a passage in 2 Corinthians (2 Corinthians 8:5), which has been before us only a short time ago: "And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God." Change). Hence it was that they might "be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and. We need, but we have, the Holy Spirit who is surely all-sufficient, if looked to. Altogether differently here "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" has blessed us where Christ is on high. In any Christless society there can be nothing but middle walls of partition. And God was almost a boogieman to us. "The danger lay," T. R. Glover wrote, "in every generation, in the same fact of single cities, furious for independence at all costs. I was born in a body of flesh, and from the beginning my fleshly appetites were dominating me. Sin appears as sin; he cannot understand it. 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. Is He not satisfied with giving us a nature like His own? 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. But in Jesus, the Son of God, there was this character of Son in His own title and being from everlasting. Everywhere Christ Jesus Himself is intermixed with every portion. The fallen nature of man, which is dominated by his flesh, and thus is ruled by his fleshly desires. Less than $5/mo! There has been the full unfolding of God's love, and the answer to it in the saints here below in their nature, and in the ways that manifest the new nature. And as to his wife, he instantly understands, though he had been in a deep sleep while she was being formed. "Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption." All rights reserved worldwide. It was revealed by Paul alone. Where have we gone astray? And here is the key, and that which accounts for the astonishing display of what God is now doing in man. It is simply an inevitable law of love. There are some who have houses large and tall, who on the exchange are reputable and honorable, and everyone admits them and receives them into their society; but ah! there are some of the merchants of London who practise lusts that are abominable. (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. And so they wrote "hath he quickened" in italics in order to indicate the fact that they themselves added those words. 13). 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. To the Gentile life was not worth living; to the Jew it was the way to greater life. To be an Israelite was to be a member of the society of God; it was to have a citizenship which was divine. The Unity In Christ ( Ephesians 2:13-18 Continued). Well, at least you are interested in the subject. And you hath he quickened This chapter should not have been separated from the preceding, with which it is most intimately connected. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. 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." And will you notice, yet once more, that this young maiden's death was a death confined to her chamber . my dear friends, my much loved friends, how many there are among you, I repeat, that are all that the heart could wish, except that one thing that you love not my Master. Have we been quickened from above? There were more tears than words; it was not a "dry" discourse; you wetted it well with tears of grief and anxiety. "And when, after some forty-eight hours or so, he had quite slept off the fumes of that memorable Christmas debauch, he found that a sad thing had happened to him, and a strange! Jesus came to tell men that they cannot earn God's approbation by a keeping of the ceremonial law but must accept the forgiveness and fellowship which God in mercy freely offers them. Impossible that the Head should not be there as well as the body; and the apostle speaks as to Christ yet more than as to the assembly. Had He brought the Gentiles into the place that Israel once occupied? Chrysostom, famous preacher of the early Church, says that it is as if one should melt down a statue of silver and a statue of lead, and the two should come out gold. Jesus wants to do good things through us! But pleasantly shocked, that I would want to make that one of the greatest days of his life. The song of the nightingale is not to be analysed by the laws of musical composition. The Jew had an immense contempt for the Gentile. They are clearly identified in each blog post. Call to Worship #2: L: We gather to share in our love of God. Philo said: "There are spirits flying everywhere through the air." there are some that are a stench in the nostrils of the Almighty; some whose character is hideous beyond all hideousness. "Among whom we all had our manner of living, or our lifestyles in times past." The glorious salvation that He has given to us. But, besides the new man which lives in dependence, we need to guard against losing power according to God. "The men that are with you are too many. The internal state is the great point here. At the same time there is no exclusion of Gentile believers, but the reverse. The same "Beloved" who accounts to us for the counsels of God has brought in redemption. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, Your justice like the great deep. He says that the middle wall of the barrier between has been torn down. (i) He made both Jew and Gentile into one new man. Life is usually capable of pleasure, but the new life is capable of the highest conceivable pleasure. Here he is drawing the contrast between the life of the Gentile and of the Jew. Call to Worship (Ephesians 1) Hope in Christ! 3. k Ib. WebThanksgiving and praise are called forth in response to a gracious God. Impossible that the creature could be or do so; and therefore the creature is never said to be love. (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. We desire to see his kingdom come as he does, and we pray for his will to be done on earth, even as it is in heaven. (AX) 21In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple(AY) in the Lord. Oh, to live in heaven, to dwell there, to let the heart be caught up from this poor life into the life that is above! I would say, "Why, Mom? The word Paul uses for access is prosagoge ( G4318) and it is a word of many pictures. WebJETHRO: Why, Homer, youre my best and closest friend. This illustration of spiritual fellowship lost does not end sadly. That girl, dead in the room, upon her bed, had little about her that could show her death. How far the person has realised it is another matter; but such is the meaning of baptism. There are no outsiders In Christ we belong in the family, adopted. Christ did not do the same thing with the young man that he did with the daughter of Jairus. It is not the wants of man in any sense, either positively or negatively. So he came and preached peace to you who were afar off, and peace to them who were near, because, through him, we both have the right of entry into the presence of the Father, for we come in the one Spirit. Amen. A religion based on love can at once be a universal religion. 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." He loves his Son, and we love his Son. That not of yourself, the faith didn't come from you. said one to me just now, "the man who is saved by his own righteousness cannot do much in the line of praising." 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.". Encourage them to do so, let them tell you their difficulties. "In whom ye, also [trusted], after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation." There might be many advantages about that kind of discourse. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." And you -- God is referring to the non-Jews reading the letter. all that is out to hurt and twist and destroy! There is Jairus's daughter; she lies on her bed; she seems as if she were alive; her mother has scarce ceased to kiss her brow, her hand is still in her father's loving grasp, and he can scarcely think that she is dead; but dead she is, as thoroughly dead as she ever can be. Ah! children of God, citizens of the Kingdom. It will not be the experience of walking with the saints. The fulfilling of the desires of the flesh and of the mind includes all the sin and wickedness that are acted in and by both the inferior and the higher or nobler powers of the soul. I think that, usually, when the divine life comes, the first consciousness that we get of a quickening is a sense of pain. This is his purpose, his ordinance, to which he will always stand. When a person really and truly falls in love, his love compels him to goodness. ", Meanwhile, before a blow is struck at man's failure in the presence of righteousness, or at his apostasy from grace, that blessed Saviour, the only begotten Son in the bosom of the Father, the Son of man who is in heaven, went down to the very uttermost, and (having exhausted the powers of evil, and blotted out all that could rise against the objects of God's grace,) was raised and seated by God in heaven. Their governor was God. In its place he put love to God and love to men. Who just delights to spend pleasant days together with you. He Himself is the beginning, He Himself the end, He Himself all the way through. Who could, before He revealed His purpose, have so much as conceived such a dealing possible? Contextually, the writer is stating that the Gentiles were spiritually dead to God because of their own "trespasses and sins.". People: All of us once lived to the passions and desires of flesh and senses; Leader: But God, who is rich in mercy and full of great love, made us alive together with Christ, when by grace we were What did he mean by that? Looking for something? ib;. How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! It is something with which life is permeated. It was developed in a positive and comprehensive way, as in Romans. They, and only they, have "one Spirit" dwelling in them. The Gifts Of The Unity Of Christ ( Ephesians 2:13-18 Continued). I ceased to be lord over myself. ye young men who come up to the house of God, and who are outwardly so good; alas! You had nothing to do with this. The conflict is against Satan and his hosts. because of what Christ Jesus has done, you who were once far off have been brought near. 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. P: Lord, open our hearts and let us share your Good News. 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). It may be perverted to this or anything else; but so far is our corporate place from being put in the foreground that we do not hear one word about the assembly as such till the close of the first chapter. "You hath HE quickened," is true of all who are quickened. 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.". And he said, "I looked at all of the wealth and I said, 'How dies the rich man like the fool, this is emptiness.' They are scorned. but it fills our hearts we can feel it! The re:Worship survey on pandemic worship practices has been completed. Here is the point. who were dead: This clause is speaking of spiritual death. First, let us talk a little about OUR QUICKENING. Therefore it is the failure to reach the goal we ought to have reached. Our duties flow from what we are, or are made. But now appeared something altogether new. Well, why don't we head on down to Huntington and let's spend a little while surfing. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil. And you did he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins. He does not need resuscitation; he needs resurrection. Not so Lazarus; the Jews came to weep at his tomb. The moral order of this is exceedingly beautiful. This old English word conversation doesn't really give you the true meaning of the Greek word, which is our manner of living. That is, when you see a person walking you make an assumption he is going someplace and he has a purpose in mind. Of course that was all rubbish; it cannot be done to order. He was privileged to do all as unto Christ; as the master again must remember that he had his own Master in heaven. Let no man think that, because he has escaped the grosser sins of the body, he has avoided the sins of the flesh. It is evident in this verse that the deadness of unregenerated people is a derivative, not of their birth, but of their sins. It is not love of something good in us; it is love of us because of everything good in him. Once a thing becomes a habit it is not far from being a necessity. [Note: Stott, p. 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