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All right, if you'll turn to Ephesians chapter 1.
Last week, we got to verse 8.
I'm going to pick up verse nine and go through verse 14.
What I didn't say last week is that.
In the original Greek verses 3 through 14 is one long sentence.
So it makes it kind of tough to tell which part of which verse goes with which?
So that's why there's some difficulty in verse 8-9.
It says which he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight it could be, that all wisdom and insight goes with verse nine.
So that's what I'm going to put it with.
I'm going to put that in all wisdom and insight goes with verse nine because it's hard to tell in the English.
What Paul meant to be where he meant to put a comma and all that, cuz it's all one sentence.
But before we get to verse 9 , I went to do a bit of a recap for what we talked about last week.
We talked about in verses 3 through 8, essentially three things that God works by his will through his grace for his glory.
And if I got some slides up here, if you want to put those up, Tom this is essentially the difference.
go to the next one.
Between understanding salvation is the work of God, mostly or essentially, or solely or a work of man.
So this is the Plan of Redemption, God's glory in Redemption.
So election and Grace, and Glory are done in God, and then in the middle, you have little man and they have his faith and his will.
And then you have Glory and Glorification this is God, bringing men back to himself reconciling them to himself.
So, if you go to the next slide, it's probably better turned this way.
Where man is running away from God, and God, in Grace adoption Redemption forgiveness in the cross.
He turns, man back to himself and Reconciliation for his own Glory.
So, The difference there.
Go to the next slide.
in what sense do we view this?
God's Plan of Redemption.
How should we view this and see here?
If we stand where we are?
See the "I" above the little, man, if you stand there and look back.
Which you say " Of course, that's all we can do we're humans we can't see from God's perspective" ah, but we can, how?
Right here, Ephesians chapter 1, it gives us God's perspective.
So if we're not careful and we stay here and we say I'm only going to understand this from this Viewpoint.
Then what happens is those two, little things, under man become Paramount.
They become the end-all.
I am saved 100% because of my faith.
God had nothing to do with it.
If you're not careful.
or I'm saved because it was an act of will.
Yes, your faith had something to do with it, but what you don't understand, Is that Faith was given to you in election or because of election.
It was given to you by God.
It was granted to you.
And your will was in bondage to sin until God freed it.
So, yes, there is a sense that it's your faith.
And, yes, there is a sense that it's your will.
But your faith and your will will not act apart from the act of God.
So if we're not careful.
We make these two little things faith and will be the foundation of our Salvation.
Really, and also, if you look in Ephesians chapter 2 its by grace that you were saved how? through faith.
So Grace is the foundation of our Salvation.
If you're not careful.
Lot times in churches, they'll Preach.
Like, faith is the foundation of our Salvation.
It's Grace upon Grace, upon Grace.
As we saw in John Chapter One, Faith is a means by which you lay hold of the grace.
But even that faith is given to you by God.
Because apart from him, you can do nothing.
You have nothing to offer.
You have no faith of your own.
God has to give it to you.
go to the next slide.
This is how we should do it.
You stand where God stands and you look at what God looks at.
You see the world.
You see salvation the way God sees it and again you say "well we're humans.
We can't do that.
We're finite," that's true.
But God in his word Through The Inspiration of the Holy Spirit has given us the view of God.
We were not there in the Heavenly places, were we? in a sense We were elected, then, but I wasn't standing there, watching this happen.
But God through the Holy Spirit has revealed to us his Plan of Redemption.
And notice that the top God is the agent.
God is the activation God is the one acting.
So in the Ephesians one, we can stand on this side with God and as the theologians say and I like it, think God's thoughts after him.
Isn't that what being a Christian is to think God's thoughts after him?
To do God's actions after him.
To be creative as he is creator, to be Holy as he is Holy, To be gracefilled as He is gracefilled.
So this is to stand in the right place and notice you see all the way to the end, where we share in God's glory for eternity.
Now, we're going to see here and in verse ten of this chapter that, that is summing up another way to put that is to sum up all things in Christ.
That Christ is the exact representation of his glory and his nature that God is displayed to the world in the face of his son, Jesus.
And being in Christ as a new creation.
And in Revelation, we see that the light of the glory of God is what we live in, there is no sun because we have the glory of God.
That's what that means.
Don't think that means that we somehow have our own Glory that we share with God, no that means that God, And His Grace has extended his plan of Glory, his plan to self glorification, to include you.
Isn't that crazy?
You think about the difference between us and God? God is pure perfect.
He's pure, he's righteous, He's Holy he's just.
What are we?
The opposite.
We're less than the opposite.
We're sinners were selfish.
full of impurities, adulteries all these things.
And yet God has so ordained that he will glorify himself through sinful men and women.
That's the glory of this passage.
So far from standing, where man is in the middle and saying, oh, faith and will, is the Foundation of everything.
No, it's the active election and grace of God in glorifying himself, and bringing many sons to repentance.
So what this means, as you see that the overarching line God's glory in Redemption is that you as a human being as a child of God who have put your faith in Jesus Christ.
This isn't every man woman and child.
This is those who have put their faith in Jesus Christ and what he did on the cross, for their sin.
That means that you are in this overall, plan of God that you are a passive agent.
God is the active agent.
He is actively bringing you to himself.
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