This is not a question therefore of the place or standing of the Christian, but rather of his condition or state, which the Spirit would have in unison with the love of Him who alone made either possible. (i) Sin kills innocence. The internal state is the great point here. Such rebels do not deserve Gods love, but God loves them nevertheless. N461919. One of the tokens that life is coming back to him is, that he wakes up out of a pleasant sleep, and feels pain. He gives him a glory. And what will happen to you when the word of God is, "Depart, depart, depart, depart," and unto the graveyard of souls, to the fire that never shall be quenched, you and the rest of the dead are taken away? 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. Hence it is said, "One Lord," which is precisely that which is owned in the common creed of Christendom. In Jesus name we pray. And we at one time were following that course, dead in our trespasses and sins, living an aimless life without purpose as we follow the trends that were being set by Satan. 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. He to whom I look up, by and in whom alone I can know God and the Father, is God Himself Let the notion of time come into the conception given of Godhead and of the persons Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and all would be falsehood and confusion. Submissions: I am so grateful to those of you who send me your own material to post! Christ is not darkness but light, and puts all in the light; He makes us to be children of the light, that so we may be able to judge ourselves, not discerned by man as such, but capable of discerning whatever claims our attention. Here are some indexes that might be helpful: INDEXES: For a complete list of all the indexes on this blog, click here. All through these then we have, but more particularly in the first, the interweaving of the duty with the manifestation of God's grace: "Christ also loved the church." That is the way we are to God. (i) It is life lived in the way this present age lives it. It can never rise above its human source. They both mean the same thing; he missed the mark. There never can be spiritual understanding, unless souls let in this after all plain principle, that the suited good depends on the relationship in which we are placed, whether to God, or to any other. Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" The Lord is just in all ways, Faithful in all things. No, no. Eternity isn't long enough. And he never recovered the full use of that most precious faculty, the boon of youth and happy childhood, and which he had once possessed, without knowing it, in such singular and exceptional completeness. P: Lord, open our hearts and let us share your Good News. You may search it through and through to find a single flattering word to unregenerate man; but you will search in vain. And they began to be merry (Luke 15:21-24 NASB). But in Ephesians the aim is of a much more absolute and direct character. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; And you hath he quickened: The writer now shows that the same power exercised on the body of Christ to raise Him from the dead (1:19-20) is used upon those who are dead in sins to resurrect them from spiritual death (2:5). If a Jew married a Gentile, the funeral of that Jew was carried out. That which was easy to him becomes a bed of thorns. These demons were not all bad, but many were, out to propagate evil, to frustrate the purposes of God and to ruin the souls of men. When did God start loving you? ", But there are other elements. If you are spiritually dead, nothing here belongs to you; but if he hath quickened you, you may take every single sentence of the chapter, and say, "That is mine, and glory be the grace of God!". That accounts for everything: "together with Christ." And every believer is where his Head is; and if we are members of Christ's body, we are in heaven. 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 old clothes were comfy and familiar. It shines in full contrast with Israel. Looking for something? Again, by it the apostle, writing to the Galatians, vindicated God's ways with man, and set the Christian outside the law. Be it our part with diligence (for this is needed) "to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.". Were there an interval of one instant between the Father and the Son, did the Father exist in any respect before the Son as such, all the truth of God as revealed in the Bible perishes. He was privileged to do all as unto Christ; as the master again must remember that he had his own Master in heaven. Neither in that blessed state in Christ, nor in the wretched condition mentioned here, is there any such thing as "being dead to sin" in the sense of exemption from the temptations to sin. What a wonderful thing it is to have become sympathetic with God! When we realize what sin is, we come to see that it is not something which theologians have invented. He went up after all the working of evil had been really defeated and destroyed in the sight of God. We all benefit from your creativity and generosity. The course and tenour of their lives are according to his suggestions, and in compliance with his temptations; they are subject to him, and are led captive by him at his will, whereupon he is called the god of this world, and the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. 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. The choice of the saints for heavenly blessedness was before the creation of the universe, before the foundation of the world. Now we must turn to the diversities. Such is the truth, if indeed we have learnt the Christ as God teaches Him. Now, the highest being that of the Son, we accordingly are brought into that relationship, though not, of course, in the sense in which He was eternally so. See the result of that difference. Faith dies and unfaith blossoms as a flower; Nor ever wilt thou find upon the open streets of men. We confess our trying to you, and ask for your power to be at work within us. But the moment you come to the "one Lord," this city, yea every city in Christendom, is a witness to a wide-spread profession of His name. He was raised up as the great manifestation of divine power for effectuating God's counsels as well as redemption. I mean, that they like the amusements of the world; they like to put on their shroud sometimes just for a treat. There is a certain murderous power in sin. 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. "Deep in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, Feelings lie buried that grace can restore.". who were dead in trespasses and sins; not only dead in Adam, in whom they sinned, being their federal head and representative; and in a legal sense, the sentence of condemnation and death having passed upon them; but in a moral sense, through original sin, and their own actual transgressions: which death lies in a separation from God, Father, Son, and Spirit, such are without God, and are alienated from the life of God, and they are without Christ, who is the author and giver of life, and they are sensual, not having the Spirit, who is the spirit of life; and in a deformation of the image of God, such are dead as to their understandings, wills, and affections, with respect to spiritual things, and as to their capacity to do any thing that is spiritually good; and in a loss of original righteousness; and in a privation of the sense of sin and misery; and in a servitude to sin, Satan, and the world: hence it appears, that man must be in himself unacceptable to God, infectious and hurtful to his fellow creatures, and incapable of helping himself: so it was usual with the Jews to call a wicked and ignorant man, a dead man; they say i, "there is no death like that of those that transgress the words of the law, who are called, , "dead men", and therefore the Scripture says, "turn and live". There must always be something about him: "Having abolished in his flesh. God therefore has not been pleased in the heights of divine truth to repeat words in the same way as His grace leads Him to do when He is helping the babes. The battle of the Reformation has to be fought over again. His glory is the first object of our being. And God is going to lay some heavy, heavy trip on us just because we submitted ourselves to His will. That at that time ye were without Christ. Which is the worst state of all, far worse than being without circumcision. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. Unquestionably the Spirit of God does evermore dwell in the Christian, though I am not aware that He is ever said to dwell in our hearts. C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. 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. he asked the engineer. Thus we have had, first of all, the great spiritual reality which is always true of Christians, and of none else. You remember when you first began to confess Christ to a friend. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. in trespasses and sins: The scriptures here maintain that "trespasses and sins" are what bring about spiritual death, not "hereditary depravity." Whatever was the current fad, here I am, flowing with it, you know. "Among whom also we all had our conversation in time 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 the rest. The object of the apostle is to show the great power which God had evinced toward the people Ephesians 1:19; and to show that this was put forth in connection with the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and his exaltation to the right hand of God in heaven; see the notes at Romans 6:4-11; compare Colossians 2:12-13; Colossians 3:1. Ephesians 1:7; Ephesians 2:5) and sins (acts of missing the mark) describe deliberate offenses against God. The re:Worship survey on pandemic worship practices has been completed. I thought I was going to die. "Give her meat." As spiritual death is nothing else than the alienation of the soul from God, we are all born as dead men, and we live as dead men, until we are made partakers of the life of Christ, agreeably to the words of our Lord, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live. (John 5:25). This clearly is of the deepest possible interest to the saints. It is the word used of bringing a sacrifice to God; it is the word used of bringing men into the presence of God that they may be consecrated to his service; it is the word used for introducing a speaker or an ambassador into a national assembly; and above all it is the word used for introducing a person into the presence of a king. Reader 2 You, there, youre scruffy, youre tough. Besides, take "the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one." (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 had missed the mark.Now, by the very root of the word, it does indicate, which is also true, that it is possible to be a sinner without wanting to be. "But now". 69. Jesus is never called a child in the sense in which I am now speaking He has His own relationship to the Father eternally. [4] The full thought would seem to be "all kinds of sin.". Not only were they called in time as we have been, but they were chosen in time, which we were not. Keep your mind always employed, and so you will escape him. 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. in being constantly visited by penitents I have sometimes blushed for this city of London. He does not need resuscitation; he needs resurrection. Paul can never have too much of Christ. No God? The mark of the pierced hand is on everything: "We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus.". They have to be covered up in the tomb of secresy; for men would scout them from society, and hiss them from existence, if they knew all. The word Paul uses (apokatallassein, G604) is the word used of bringing together friends who have been estranged. Christ did not do the same thing with the young man that he did with the daughter of Jairus. They said that the Gentiles were created by God to be fuel for the fires of Hell; that God loved only Israel of all the nations that he had made; that the best of the serpents crushed, the best of the Gentiles killed. The paroikos ( G3941) was one step further on. He was a sinner. Our work bears fruit that makes a difference. They are clearly identified in each blog post. In point of fact, from his conversion right through, the revelation of the mystery was involved. Say that you had been dead fifty years; that is nearer to the mark. A day he wants to share with his dad. The other word Paul uses, translated trespasses is paraptoma ( G3900) . It is the mystery of Christ emphatically; and the part about Christ is the higher of the two. You are caressed by us, received by the living in Sion into their company and acquaintance, approved of and accepted; alas! Whether we were corrupt or not, is not a question that I need to raise here; let everyone judge concerning himself. Very likely the old sinner's experience will not be a feeding experience. They should thank God there is an escape, it has been provided by Jesus Christ. Hath quickened us together with Christ. Enter boldly into the sweetness of His grace and fulness of His glory. Here is the point. Whether it be so or not with every person restored from drowning, I do not know; but I think that it is so with every person restored from drowning in the river of sin. We confess our dreaming to you, and ask for your dreams of how the world could be; release creativity in us, free our imaginations. Ephesians 2:1 . Well, then, we have a new life. But then those in respect of whom God the Father had such thoughts were in point of fact sinners. It is a divine spark, a light from the great central Sun of light, the great Father of Lights. But as long even as he is merely in conflict with his own nature, he can hardly be said to be on Christian ground at all. All rights reserved worldwide. Oh, dear friends, let us never have a dead creed! I must come to my third point; for our time flies. Jesus has something to do about each of them. And if I would deliver the Midianites into the hands of the 32,000, they would go around glorying in themselves. Holy Bible, New International Version, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. The words he uses are interesting. And so, looking from the outside in, they can't understand, but once we are on the inside walking in fellowship with God, experiencing His presence and His joy, we understand what it is all about. Christ and you are one now, and you are made to live together with him. What was to be done? And you -- God is referring to the non-Jews reading the letter. But was this all? First he explains what God has done for all sinners in general; then he explains what God did for the Gentiles in particular." But what has this to do with the kingdom of God? Not only was His resurrection this manifestation, but also whatever God put forth toward us was in virtue of that display of His energy was, so to speak, morally included in that power which raised up Christ from the dead. We have others who are drunken, profane, unchaste; they are dead, not more dead than the others; but their death has left its terrible traces more plainly visible. Paul begins by reminding his readers that they lived in alienation from God (vv. The second picture Paul uses is that of a building. We so easily convince ourselves that we deserve a little more. Ah, the last stage of death, the last stage of corruption, oh, how hideous; but the last stage of sin, hideous far more! And if children that had a relationship with their parents in the flesh and under law did so (for it was indeed right), how much more did it become Christian children to pay them reverence? Are we as good parents as we might be? (ii) Sin kills ideals. There were more tears than words; it was not a "dry" discourse; you wetted it well with tears of grief and anxiety. 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. 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. How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. So the soldiers took their comrade sadly and buried him just outside the fence. But I now relate back to Jesus Christ, my Father after the Spirit. Are in italics. 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. But Biblical Christianity probes the patient to the quick. Realize that; believe in it; rejoice in it; triumph in it. There the individual blessing of the soul has the first place. Thou hast the dew of thy youth, O child of God; and thou shalt have yet more of it, and be like thy Lord, when he shall take thee away from every trace of death, and the corrupt atmosphere of this poor world, and thou shalt dwell with the living God in the land of the living, for ever and for ever! ~ survey response Let the stealer steal no more." 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. 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. Therefore we need never fear, no matter what the blessing and the privilege may be. He is far less concerned with your tunefulness than your integrity. 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." If you had been raised from the dead, and had come out of your tomb, you would not go about London streets with your shroud on. How far the person has realised it is another matter; but such is the meaning of baptism. Before Christ the barriers were up; after Christ the barriers were down. The moment the apostle comes to inward relationship, he leaves the universality of phrase and speaks only of the saints of God "in you all." 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. III. We were once strangers to each other and strangers to God. They were a comedy team who specialized in country music parodies and 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. How dies the wise man as a fool, this too is empty, it doesn't satisfy. The miserable condition of the Ephesians by nature is here in part described. Or secret places of the heart's own love. But Christ broke down the walls between us. (iii) In the end sin kills the will. Pauls use of the metaphor of death is significant, as it allows for no middle ground; a person is either dead or alive. Once is enough for the intelligent. My creed is part of my being. 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. There are no outsiders Clearly God has a purpose, a settled and glorious plan to gather the whole universe under Christ as its Head. God's choice of Israel was not favouritism, for it was choice not for special honour but for special responsibility. ib;. It is the confident trust of the heart in the favour of God in which we stand, not the remembrance of our first subjection to the gospel. Such is the character of our blessing, and such its seat. Our world belongs to him! Here are some indexes that might be helpful. 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. [1] John William Russell, Compact Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1964), p. 476. 8For it is by grace(P) you have been saved,(Q) through faith(R)and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God 9not by works,(S) so that no one can boast. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------. I live in him. That is what God says about us, you may come closer than others, but we have all come short of the glory of God. It is not love of something good in us; it is love of us because of everything good in him. The third case goes further still in the manifestation of death; for it is the case of which Martha, using strong words, said, "Lord, by this time he stinketh; for he hath been dead four days." The tendency has always been when we send missionaries abroad to produce people who wear English clothes and speak the English language. Paul tells Timothy, "But she who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she lives" (1 Timothy 5:6 NASB). 20, Ephesians, p. 61. 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." The most vital form of Greek religion was the Mystery Religions, and from many of them the barbarian was excluded. All those who are in their sins, are dead in sins; yea, in trespasses and sins, which may signify all sorts of sins, habitual and actual, sins of heart and of life. This declaration does not mean he is not a son, only that he does not consider himself worthy of such a position. Even the faith, Do you remember when the Midianites had covered the land like grasshoppers? Think of a great cathedral. But in Ephesians God cannot but have us imitate His own ways as they have shone in Christ. HOMER: Jethro, if you had two big luxurious houses like those ones in the Beverly Hills and I was livin yonder under the bridge without no home, would you give me one of your big luxurious houses? Someone may even make it almost to the pier, a hundred feet off of the pier and gulp, gulp, gulp, you know.Now, you have all come short, no one made it. 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. There is his pleasure-seeking: he has given it up; but how often will his companions be after him, to get him to go with them. The fallen nature of man, which is dominated by his flesh, and thus is ruled by his fleshly desires. Of course that was all rubbish; it cannot be done to order. God is King! 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. There is his habit of swearing; how often will an oath come into his mouth, and he will have as hard work as he can to thrust it down again! Some who are strong swimmers may swim for a mile or two before they go under. History Psalms, a discussion of 105 & 106. I am having fun. Next comes the case of the young man brought out of his grave; he is more than dead, he has begun to be corrupt, the signs of decay are upon his face, and they are carrying him to his tomb; yet though there are more manifestations of death about him, he is no more dead than the other. In Christ we are blessed, in Christ we are chosen. He knows about himself better than you do. This style of speech is left to those who scout divine inspiration. Accelerating into traffic, I looked up and saw a billboard with 6 words, 2 sentences, 1 sign of an imploding culture in two foot high letters. God himself has had dealings with us. It is not a question of rendering a testimony of the power of God working in man and dealing with the first creation. Accordingly not only does he enforce the truth first presented in the end of chapter 1, the church which is the body of Christ, but he also still more qualifies it as a "new man," and as "one body;" because, in treating of the two objects of grace, and component parts of the church, Jews and Gentiles who believe, he shows that God does not purpose to form two societies of these saints, but one body. To be an Israelite was to be a member of the society of God; it was to have a citizenship which was divine. Now I am too busy. He told them that his heart had been troubled because of his refusal to allow their dead comrade to be buried in the churchyard; so, early in the morning, he had risen from his bed and with his own hands had moved the fence to include the body of the soldier who had died for France. A man is where his head is, is he not? 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