The ABC's of Salvation
The Book of Ephesians • Sermon • Submitted • Presented
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Introduction
Introduction
Zombies “The Walking Dead”
A. All are dead (1-3)
A. All are dead (1-3)
Trespasses vs Sins
Exalting Jesus in Ephesians We Were Dead (2:1)
We were dead, committing trespasses, in a sinful state.
Formally walked
the spirit that is now working
2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
Formally lived
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. 17 For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things that you please. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. 19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, 21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.
B. But God made us alive (4-9)
B. But God made us alive (4-9)
But God...
God’s Character
mercy, love (4)
grace, kindness (7)
God’s work
made us alive (5)
raised us up (6) “take off your grave clothes”
seated us (6)
In Christ (5, 6, 7)
Are Saved (Perfect tense)
Exalting Jesus in Ephesians God’s Work (2:5–7)
To capture what Paul is saying we could put it like this: You have been saved (past tense), you are being saved (present tense), and you will be saved (future tense).
By grace
Through faith
not of yourself
Gift of God
Not our work
C. Created for good works (10)
C. Created for good works (10)
His workmanship
Created for ...
Good works
Exalting Jesus in Ephesians Salvation Results in Good Works (2:10)
He states that works simply are not the root of our salvation. They are the fruit of salvation (cf.
8 “My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.
James 2:14-26
God prepared
4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love
15 But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased 16 to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood,
Walk in them
1 Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
Conclusion
Conclusion
I am not what I ought to be—ah, how imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be—I abhor what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good! I am not what I hope to be—soon, soon shall I put off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection. Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was; a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the apostle, and acknowledge, “By the grace of God I am what I am.”
- John Newton (Author of “Amazing Grace”
9 For I am the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
