Anything short of this is not the true Christian measure. They were a comedy team who specialized in country music parodies and It was "but now" a little while ago; now he has another "now." dead -- Refers to being separated from God and under the rule of the evil one (see v. 2 and note). Would to God that thou couldst say, "And he hath quickened me, for with all my loveliness, and all my excellence, I was by nature dead in trespasses and sins." It was the golden age of the city state. Paul uses an even more vivid picture. We are no longer like outsiders in a foreign land. Another of Paul's blessed "nows." You have got a wrong and blasphemous concept of God. It needs the Trinity to make a Christian, and when you have got a Christian, it needs the Trinity to make a prayer. Alas! "There are three outstanding schools of moral pathology traceable throughout the centuries. But in Ephesians the aim is of a much more absolute and direct character. When the moon has become black as sackcloth of hair, the life that is within us shall be as bright as when God first gave it to us. 110 and 2:1122. Nostrums and palliatives aggravate rather than allay the disease. What is that? "Trespasses" literally means to "fall beside," and "sins" literally means "a failing to hit the mark" (Thayer 485, 30). ", This problem of the barriers is by no means confined to the ancient world. Pythagoras said: "The whole air is full of Spirits." 2:11-22 So then remember, that once, as far as human descent goes, you were Gentiles; you were called the uncircumcision by those who laid claim to that circumcision which is a physical thing, and a thing produced by men's hands. Sin appears as sin; he cannot understand it. He is arrested, tried, found guilty, sentenced to a term of imprisonment and/or to a fine. It was true that the Gentile was without hope because he was without God. 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. He is a man that is far gone. But, as things now are. When God made the world, it was a wonder, and the angels came from afar to see his handiwork. Say that you had been dead fifty years; that is nearer to the mark. L: We gather to share our witness to Gods Is He not satisfied with giving us a nature like His own? That is, all our strength is to lean on another, even the Lord. according to the prince of the power of the air, that even now works in the children of disobedience ( Ephesians 2:2 ): Now, there may have been a time in the history of the world that a person would challenge the fact that Satan is behind the course or the flow of the world. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1950), Vol. . But in that which comes before us in our epistle, it is not a question even of the highest creature on earth one that was called to have dominion on earth, and be the image and glory of God here below. God made known His choice, not when the creature was to be proved, but when it had failed to the uttermost; but the choice itself was decided on by God Himself before the creature came into being. Do you not hear the noise of the infernal bellows when "the children of disobedience: swear, and use unclean language? We need, but we have, the Holy Spirit who is surely all-sufficient, if looked to. "The danger lay," T. R. Glover wrote, "in every generation, in the same fact of single cities, furious for independence at all costs. This is the beginning of another extended sentence in the Greek (2:1-10). And he would have to treat the rest of the fellows to the drinks. When the worm is there, you cannot put your finger on it, and say, "Stop; eat no more." It is the mystery of Christ emphatically; and the part about Christ is the higher of the two. The Jew had an immense contempt for the Gentile. He was not constrained to enter into a full or long explanation. Satan's purpose for you is your destruction, and so as he is guiding the course of the world, it is a destruction derby. WebSelect from the options below to find worship ideas that fit what you're looking for. I do not know how it is that the young man never was loosed. In the admirable wisdom and grace of God it is the direct setting aside of that which is found in all earthly systems, where the individual is merely a portion of a vast body which arrogates to itself the highest claims. "Rabbi," she said, "bring me near." It isn't just our talking, it is our whole manner of life. They are in Christ; Christ died, and therefore they died. To forgive another's wrongs is not enough for a Christian. In their natural state, all people are spiritually dead because of sin. The oneness in Christ is in Christ and not in any external change. You did he make alive Beare pointed out that the various pronouns "you" (Ephesians 2:1,2), "we all" (Ephesians 2:3), and "us we" (Ephesians 2:4), "refer to the distinction between Jews and Gentiles only to nullify it. What was it for? These are the things that were the motivation behind our lives. Now, as a dad, do you think that suddenly I would think, "All right, I have got this kid now where I want him. Our world belongs to him! 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." But the man who lives the Christless life takes his own way of things, even when he knows what God's way is. In other words, the Son of God never was made the Son, He is never even called the child ( ) of God. Hear the word of truth, the good news of our salvation. 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. I thought I was going to die. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:21-23 NIV). And so Gideon took the 300. The heart itself then, is broken, and bleeds at ten thousand wounds. The Lord might be where there are only two gathered together unto His name. All this wondrous scheme is to the glory of His grace. The tendency has always been when we send missionaries abroad to produce people who wear English clothes and speak the English language. In Ephesians death is the very first place where we find even Christ. 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." In communion with the objects of it, we go out into the resulting scenes of glory on every side; knowing Christ's love though unknowable, and filled into God's fulness though infinite. The Son is as truly man as God, and as such gives gifts to men. When we get "together with Christ", then are we made alive, then are we saved. For many of you it is your favorite subject. (i) It is life lived in the way this present age lives it. But, at the same time, our living prayer bursts out hours before the appointed time, or sometimes it will not come at the time. "Yes, Lord." "Youth's beauty fades, and manhood's glory fades. 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 ). The words he uses are interesting. The son, who "was dead" to his father, repents and confesses his sin. Does he inflict his moods on his family? 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. 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. children of God, citizens of the Kingdom. in -- indicates the realm or sphere in which lost sinners exist. But up to this the saints are contemplated as such. When we realize what sin is, we come to see that it is not something which theologians have invented. 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. 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. Encourage them to do so, let them tell you their difficulties. Even in their bitterest days the Jews never doubted that that Messiah would come. Whosoever will be taken doing so will himself be responsible for the fact that his death will ensue.". The only thing which can restore his relationship to her is an act of free forgiveness on her part. I fear that some people go to a place of worship because they get a better sleep there than anywhere else. 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. There is some perplexity in the language; but, if we attend carefully to what the apostle says about those two parts, the meaning is clear. The glorious salvation that He has given to us. The breast-plate means the practical righteousness of the saint himself. Sin kills ideals; men begin to do without a qualm the thing which once they regarded with horror. 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. 4, 5. The second picture Paul uses is that of a building. The Holy Ghost thus takes a corresponding part. Other nations might be governed by democracy or aristocracy; Israel was a theocracy. Such is not the character of God's dwelling now. It is not merely that he accepts names given him by God, but God delights in putting him in this place of lordship, and to a certain extent also of fellowship lordship to that which is below him, and fellowship as regarded his wife. Reader 2 I cant remember a time when I felt alien here. Our work bears fruit that makes a difference. He knows instinctively that she was part of himself, and gives her a name suitably. We were living. STOP delaying to get to know the Bible better! This is the great want simple, genuine faith in the Holy Ghost. 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. What he desires, we desire. There will never be a time when God doesn't love you. He rules the universe from His heavenly throne No God? Judging what I am, I confess that all my blessing is in the Saviour, who did not merely come to bless me as a living man in the world, but died and is risen again; and 1, confessing Him who is thus dead and risen, have part in His death. For we were by nature, that is, we were doing what comes naturally to the fallen man. The flesh is that part of our nature which gives sin a bridgehead and a point of attack. what Paul does in this passage is to paint a vivid contrast between what man is by nature and what he can become by grace." They have run the full ten yards, it is still empty. We lived in the actual commission of all those sins to which corrupt nature inclined us. Very naturally. 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? All rights reserved worldwide. The general doctrine of this morning is, that every man that is born into the world is dead spiritually, and that spiritual life must be given by the Holy Spirit, and can be obtained from no other source. 3 say to god, how awesome are your deeds! The Jews had rejected their own Messiah. 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. Such is the character of our blessing, and such its seat. Thus Epictetus says, , . They believed that the air was so crowded with these demons that there was not room to insert a pinpoint between them. Now do you agree with that or not? Which is the worst state of all, far worse than being without circumcision. Men are justified by grace through faith in Christ Jesus. But in regard to religion, all is dead. I wish you would. Contents. Paul goes on to tell of the priceless gifts which come with the new unity in Christ. So this Greek word meander is the word that Paul uses here. Finally, "receive the helmet of salvation, [there the head is lifted up, not in presumption, but with none the less joy and courage,] and the sword of the Spirit," which is expressly said to be the word of God. Worship the Lord with gladness. The Papists, who are eager to seize every opportunity of undervaluing the grace of God, say, that while we are out of Christ, we are half dead. Then suppose someone came with the news that the door was still open and a welcome was waiting at home. Ay, so it is with the young woman or the young man I mean to describe now. What does that mean? That in fact is always what love does. But the morning when it was reversed, then he came to the realization that it was God.And he blew the trumpet in Israel and gathered together 32,000 men to face the 135,000 Midianites. The child is not aware of whether it is distant or a near object till some time after. Hence it is that righteousness disappears in this epistle. it grieves me to the heart, to think that some of you are all that heart could wish, except that one thing; yet lacking that which is the only thing that can deliver you. It was written by Thom Shuman. I allowed pleasure to dominate me. (LogOut/ 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. Paul seems to allow no middle ground, a person is either dead or alive. Realize that; believe in it; rejoice in it; triumph in it. we are reluctant to speak the truth to each other for fear of offending. He Himself is the measure of the walk of the new man, and the manifestation of it is Christ Himself. 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." We know how he would bend down and be as it were a; Gentile to one without law, and a Jew to one under law, to do good to souls. And what is the first lesson of the truth as it is in Jesus? Rita Snowden quotes two very relevant sayings. Paul was the chosen witness to fill up that blank. Sin is the death of the soul. Psalm 65: Hes got the whole world in his hands! By Gods grace, Christ not only died to bear the penalty of human sin, but he rose to glorious life in the heavenly world so that repentant sinners can have a glorious new life in him (4-7).This salvation is entirely Gods work. But I ripped off this poster that was there because it was so intriguing. Oh, what a change from the past to the present! That is the way we are to God. He that is alive unto God asks for what he wants, and believes that he shall have it, and he gets it. So you see what the divine life does when it comes into the soul. The "hope of his calling" is the bright prospect of the saints themselves, as they are in Christ before God. There are some personages in St. Paul's Cathedral; I have not seen them lately, but I have seen them. 2:4-10 Although we were all like that, I say, God, because he is rich in mercy and because of his great love with which he has loved us, made us alive in Jesus Christ, even when we were dead in trespasses (it is by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Christ, and gave us a seat in the heavenly places with Christ, because of what Christ Jesus did for us. In the Iliad (6: 146-149) Glaucus and Diomede meet in single combat. It was not a question of the flesh: how could this be trusted? 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." In him we have been reconciled to God through the cross, made citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.. There were more tears than words; it was not a "dry" discourse; you wetted it well with tears of grief and anxiety. How blessed is the character and the spring of Christian service! He's just sort of wandering, meandering. But at this point, Paul is just saying, and you. You have blessed me so much, I just want to do whatever You like me to do today, Father. He goes farther, and says, "Be filled with the Spirit." One of the tokens that life is coming back to him is, that he wakes up out of a pleasant sleep, and feels pain. If you have been quickened by the Spirit of God, your prayers are living prayers. Are we as good parents as we might be? Very likely the old sinner's experience will not be a feeding experience. But outside of Christ the message is true. 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.". Paul goes on to say that we are recreated by God for good works. So should our walk be. "But now". There the individual blessing of the soul has the first place. The Greek words used there is poeima, the very word from which the English Word poem is derived. (119) Classical writers employ the same metaphor, to denote not spiritual death, with which they were unacquainted, but the absence of moral principle, or utter ignorance of right and wrong. In this passage Paul's thought flows on regardless of the rules of grammar; he begins sentences and never finishes them; he begins with one construction and halfway through he glides into another. There is a change somewhere;" and that change is from death to life, from darkness into God's marvellous light. This was always their comfort in the midst of disasters and troubles. Alas! In Sophocles we find some of the loveliest and the saddest lines in all history. There is no place good enough for Christ the Son but heaven. Here are some indexes that might be helpful. When the elder called at this old woman's cellar with the cards, he found that she had gone. It was not the result of works, for it was God's design that no one should be able to boast. 2 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom 8. "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.". The Temple consisted of a series of courts, each one a little higher than the one that went before, with the Temple itself in the inmost of the courts. "Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you." Its construction was very elegant; upon it stood pillars at equal distances from one another, declaring the law of purity, some in Greek and some in Roman letters that no foreigner should go within the sanctuary" (The Wars of the Jews, 5, 5, 2). Man." 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. New to this blog? The Gifts Of The Unity Of Christ ( Ephesians 2:13-18 Continued). There was Jesus lying in the grave; and from that grave God raised Him, and set Him on the highest pinnacle of heaven's glory not only of that which then was, but that ever shall be. 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). And God throughout eternity is going to be revealing the exceeding greatness of His mercy and of His kindness, these things that He has given and provided and done for you through Jesus Christ. I mean, that they like the amusements of the world; they like to put on their shroud sometimes just for a treat. So Paul goes on to say that in Christ these barriers are down. We were full of vigour towards everything which was contrary to the law or the holiness of God, we walked according the course of this world; but as for anything spiritual, we were not only somewhat incapable, and somewhat weakened; but we were actually and absolutely dead. I know it on the best authority, and the truest, too. See the result of that difference. 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. it is there not merely that He means to bless us, but that He has blessed us already. God never does; it is the tragedy of the Church that it is so often more exclusive than God. Paul closes this passage with a great exposition of that paradox which always lies at the heart of his view of the gospel. That is precisely why sin is so universal. (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.". He dwelleth, perhaps, in some back slum of a dirty lane; he knoweth not where to go. It is something with which life is permeated. Look back to what you used to be, to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged: "You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.". If "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ" has blessed us with every spiritual blessing above in Christ, this is the first need to have a nature capable of communion with His God, to have a condition that would do no dishonour, not only to the highest sphere, but to the holiest form and sphere in which God has ever made, Himself known. Now the very baptism of a Christian man is the confession of the truth, that God has in Christ judged flesh root and branch. Shall I tell it here? Rather is the very gospel to the sinner free and full, that, having the certainty of the divine fulness of our blessing, our hearts may be now open to enjoy Christ, and be occupied with His love. There you are, now youll all dressed up and ready for anything! Paul can never have too much of Christ. It will be as much as he can do to pull off his grave-clothes, to get rid of his old habits; perhaps to his death he will have to be rending off bit after bit of the cerements in which he has been wrapped. That paradox has two arms. We confess to you that we resist this work in us. It is not for God's ambassador to wash his mouth beforehand; let him boldly reprove, as men do boldly sin. I thought, "Yes; I know all about that; that is my case." But dead we were, most certainly. New International Version (NIV), In contexts like this, the Greek word for. But this young woman's death is in her chamber. If you're interested in reading the results, visit here: https://pandemicworshipsurvey.blogspot.com/. When I tried to hide my guilt I was miserable. What is the effect of this life upon us? The central idea of sin is failure, failure to hit the target, failure to hold to the road, failure to make life what it was capable of becoming; and that definition includes every one of us. To the father, the sinful "son" was dead in sin and lost. trespasses and sins -- The Greek words used here, paraptma and hamartia, describe the evil that controls and characterizes human life apart from God. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things ("sins" Ephesians 2:20) you are now ashamed of? Sins, , may probably mean here habitual transgression; sinning knowingly and daringly. It simply affirms a fact - that in relation to real spiritual life they were, in consequence of sin, like a dead man in regard to the objects which are around him. 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. 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. Oh! There was a moral necessity for a nature suitable to God, if we were to be in His presence at all; but there was none for this special relationship. 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 as for Lazarus, he is shut up with a stone. HOMER: I do know you would. Death In Life ( Ephesians 2:1-3 Continued). Ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; You are not only in the kingdom, but you are in the royal household, which is better still. What is the other?" Thus Israel stands in the permanent remembrance of power that redeemed them from the land of Egypt, and in the anticipation of a still greater manifestation that will eclipse whatever had been seen of old. When we started being sweet and kind, and you know, generous and good, and when we started just living such a perfect life, God said, "My, isn't that lovely? This text brings us Easter tidings; it sings of resurrection; it sounds in our ear the trumpet of a new life, and introduces us into a world of joy and gladness. Somehow we have an impression that God is going to just get all of these dirty, nasty things that we have said we would never do and say, "All right, start here." 8, 9. John explains, "Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness" (1 John 3:4 NIV). My father is a nobody and I am the least in my father's household. ". Christianity demands love even to our enemies, but Plutarch said that the sign of a good man was that he was useful to his friends and terrible to his enemies. 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. But profound truths are for those who have spiritual understandings; and such do not require many words to comprehend them. (i) Paul says of Jesus, "He is our peace." Intended for Reading on Lord's-day, July 31st, 1892, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, OUR TRANSLATORS, as you observe, have put in the words "hath he quickened", because Paul had thrown the sense a little farther on, and it was possible for the reader not to catch it. For it is by grace appropriated by faith that you have been saved. 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