What Is Your Position?
I just read Ephesians 2:1-7 and have to say that it really strengthened and excited me! It is a powerful passage of Scripture that I haven’t heard preached much. Not only this, but when it is usually preached, it seems to be watered down.
There is awesome truth to strengthen the faith of the believer found in this passage.
At one time, we were dead in our transgressions and habitually walked in them. We followed the ways of the world, under the control of the prince of the power of the air. We once had our lot thrown in with those who are called sons of disobedience; who are careless, rebellious, unbelieving and go against the purposes of God. We lived our lives inflamed for the passions of the flesh and under the influence of dark imaginations. We were, by nature, heirs of God’s wrath. (Ephesians 2:1-3 AMP)
That is a very bad position to be in. I do not, for one second want to be an heir to God’s wrath. Just think about that for a minute.
However – and all praise, laud and honor be to God for this – God, being so unbelievably rich in love and mercy, has made us alive in Christ Jesus, even while we were dead in our sins. He gave us the very life of Christ. We are saved through grace, through His unmerited favor. (Ephesians 2:4,5 AMP).
Now that’s awesome, but it gets even better!
Verse 6 says that we have been raised up together with Christ and we have been made to sit down together with Him in the heavenly realm. If Christ now sits at the right hand of God and has been given authority over all and we sit next to Him, what does that say about us? If you think about this, it is truly mind-blowing! And verse 7 tells us that God did this to clearly demonstrate the all-surpassing riches of His free grace in kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ.
I am reminded of these great truths whenever I listen to one of my all-time favorite hymns, Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, "Soar we now where Christ has led. Following our exalted Head. Made like Him, like Him we rise. Ours the cross, the grave, the skies."
Talk about a position to be in! I want nothing less than what God has provided me in Christ Jesus, and I mean NOTHING less.
In Christ,
Clint Herman
There is awesome truth to strengthen the faith of the believer found in this passage.
At one time, we were dead in our transgressions and habitually walked in them. We followed the ways of the world, under the control of the prince of the power of the air. We once had our lot thrown in with those who are called sons of disobedience; who are careless, rebellious, unbelieving and go against the purposes of God. We lived our lives inflamed for the passions of the flesh and under the influence of dark imaginations. We were, by nature, heirs of God’s wrath. (Ephesians 2:1-3 AMP)
That is a very bad position to be in. I do not, for one second want to be an heir to God’s wrath. Just think about that for a minute.
However – and all praise, laud and honor be to God for this – God, being so unbelievably rich in love and mercy, has made us alive in Christ Jesus, even while we were dead in our sins. He gave us the very life of Christ. We are saved through grace, through His unmerited favor. (Ephesians 2:4,5 AMP).
Now that’s awesome, but it gets even better!
Verse 6 says that we have been raised up together with Christ and we have been made to sit down together with Him in the heavenly realm. If Christ now sits at the right hand of God and has been given authority over all and we sit next to Him, what does that say about us? If you think about this, it is truly mind-blowing! And verse 7 tells us that God did this to clearly demonstrate the all-surpassing riches of His free grace in kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ.
I am reminded of these great truths whenever I listen to one of my all-time favorite hymns, Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, "Soar we now where Christ has led. Following our exalted Head. Made like Him, like Him we rise. Ours the cross, the grave, the skies."
Talk about a position to be in! I want nothing less than what God has provided me in Christ Jesus, and I mean NOTHING less.
In Christ,
Clint Herman
posted by Clint Herman @ 7:55 AM
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