‘By Grace We Have Salvation Through Faith.’
Ephesians 2:1-10.
a) Ephesians 2:1. We were dead in our trespasses and sins. This is our history.
b) Ephesians 2:2. This is the past way without Grace and Salvation:-
1- According to the course of the World System.
2- Living according to the prince of the power of the air. (Satan)
3- Satan is now working in those people who go against the purposes of God.
c) Ephesians 2:3. This is the way in which we were all living in the past:-
1- In the pleasures of our flesh.
2- Giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind.
3- By nature the children of wrath.
d) Ephesians 2:4. God is full of Mercy through the great Love He had and has for us.
e) Ephesians 2:5. The operation of Grace is that even though we were dead in our sins, God made us alive together with Christ.
f) Ephesians 2:6. Now He has raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
g) Ephesians 2:7. The future is that in the time to come He might make clear the full wealth of His Grace in his Mercy to us in Christ Jesus.
h) Ephesians 2:8. This is how we are Saved:-
1- By Grace.
2- Through Faith.
3- Not by ourselves.
4- It is the Gift of God.
i) Ephesians 2:9. Salvation is not by human works.
j) Ephesians 2:10. How about Believers’ works? For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
(This QT fills me with thanks to God because By Grace I Have Salvation Through Faith)
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‘Do God’s Pleasure And Will.’
1 John 2:15-17.
a) 1 John 2:15. We are:-
1- Not to love the World system.
2- Not to love the things of the World system.
3- Void of the Love of the Father if we love the things of the World system.
b) 1 John 2:16. The World system is not of the Father but it is of the World. It is:-
1- Lust of the flesh.
2- Lust of the eyes.
3- Pride of life.
c) 1 John 2:17. The World system is passing away, and also its lusts ; but the one who does the Will of God lives forever.
(This Second one reminds me and calls me to Do God’s Pleasure And Will)
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Chris.
Faith is a very necessary part of the True Believer’s life. We live by Faith. Without Faith, the Bible says, it is impossible to please God. Some people talk like victims and say that they have no Faith. These people are deceived. We are told in Romans that Faith comes and it comes by hearing the Word of the Lord. So we can all have Faith and we can have more Faith.
