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Ephesians 2:4-10
Excerpted from: The Eternal Privileges of the BridePlease 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.
Ephesians 2:10
Excerpted from: The Christian Paradox (Part One)He has got everything set up, He has got everything lined up, and He puts us into that, into the process where He is going to develop us. And He created us for good works. Remember, I talked about just a minute ago that we agreed to the obligation of doing what He says? Well, our obligation is good works. Our obligation, once we have this salvation, is to do what He says, to get with the program that He is prepared for us.
But we do not do them alone, thank God—and truly thank God. He is the one that is with us at every point because He plays a major role in preparing us to walk in these good works. In fact, He does almost everything, even in this, because the good works that we do are a minuscule part of the whole process of salvation. It would be probably astounding, we would probably fall flat on our faces if we could peel back the curtain and try to figure out what God has done versus what we have done in our salvation and see all the things at work going on that we have no idea are happening in order to produce salvation for us.
Ephesians 2:10
Excerpted from: Truth (Part 4)There we go, you see? We have been resurrected to life, as it were, so that there will be a change in the kind of life in which we are living because God is at work. The Creator is at work and it is so interesting that that word "workmanship" can be translated "work of art." That makes it so interesting because it is not merely a God who is giving a command and molding and shaping. What He is molding and shaping is artistic in its form.
He is taking into consideration all the nuances of all of the personalities, all of the differences of all of the people with whom He is working: Japanese, Chinese, Armenians, Syrians, Americans, Jews, and everybody else. All these people have nuances to their personalities and He is working with these people, you and me, not just in a manner to stamp out as with a die, an impression, but rather He is being artistic about this. And you know what art is like. There are so many expressions of art that are available. So there is the greatest Artist of all that is at work within us.
Ephesians 2:8-10
Excerpted from: Love and WorksThe right works do not earn us salvation but yet, we are created for good works. God ordained this from the very beginning. It is the right works that make life worth living. It is the right works that proves to God our understanding of His purpose. And it is the right works which show His love in us. And that love is shown to the world and ensures that the right kind of witness is going to be made for Him.
Ephesians 2:8-10
Excerpted from: Revelation 2-3 and WorksYou see, works do not pass from the picture because we are saved by grace. And that is made very evident in the book of Revelation because Christ, in His last message to His people at maybe the most important juncture in the history of mankind, says, "I know your works." His concern in those two letters is about conduct and overcoming and works.
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The Crowns of Success (Part One)
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The Relationship Deficit (Part Three)
The Three Witnesses of Christ (Part Three)
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The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part 2)
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Faith and the Christian Fight (Part One)
Faith and the Christian Fight (Part Two)
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The Great Flood (Part 2)
God's Sea of Glass (Part 1)
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Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part Four)
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Leadership and Covenants (Part Sixteen)
The Sabbath: Creation
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Making Faithful Choices (Part One)
Consequences of Resurrection and Ascension
Back to Life (Part Three)
Back to Life (Part Five)
Our Part in the Sanctification Process (Part One)
Letters to Seven Churches (Part Six): Sardis
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The Doctrine of Israel (Part Fifteen):The Israel of God
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