Please turn with me Ephesians 2, verse 4. So what is true of us now in light of the dignity of Christ? God has allowed His people even now to share in a measure of the dignity and authority that Christ has seated at the right hand of God. We are going to read verses 4 through 10.
We will be doing good works for eternity as the bride of Christ. Verse 7 explains why God so generously demonstrates His love, so that we will be in awe for all eternity over His incredible kindness and love that will never end. It will take eternity to fully understand and appreciate God's law, if that would be even possible. But thanks to having God's Holy Spirit running through us, we will be enabled to understand. It will take eternity to completely fathom God's abundant and unending love.
So if we are faithful Christians, we are in Christ, and that means that we are considered seated with Him in the heavenly places. Wherever the Bridegroom is, the bride is also, and the standing, the dignity, and the position that belonged to Him belong to us, to her.
Speaking of the virtuous woman but also in a spiritual sense, to the bride of Christ. The moment she becomes His bride, she shares in everything with Him. Therefore, she must uphold her position, responsibilities, and dignity.
Do we uphold God's dignity in our everyday life? We certainly try but we certainly also need the Holy Spirit to help us and to empower us to be able to do that.
There is no greater insult against the Bridegroom than someone's refusal to honor His bride. But she must be worthy. Dignity is the quality or state of being worthy, honored, or esteemed. This is something we are told repeatedly.
This is all talking about Christ having struck down the middle wall of partition between Jew and Gentile and brought them into the same body, and now he is saying that His means of justification for both Jew and Gentile is the same. By grace you have been saved, whether you are a Jew or whether you are a Gentile, and you have been raised up together and made to sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
This is very clear. I could basically put my notes in my Bible and sit down because this is the answer to the question that was coming up. Jew and Gentile are saved, justified the same way. It is by grace. God chooses us by His own will, by His own volition, and then He shows love to us and mercy and grants us this favor that we could come before Him, be drawn to Christ, and have our sins forgiven once we accept the sacrifice of Christ. Well, repent and accept that sacrifice of Christ.
