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Every so often what we need to do is we need to stop. And we need to realize. And we need to take a deep breath. Because we need to see that this is it.
What we are going to dig into this Sunday in Ephesians 2:1-10 is a word of God that has been parsed and preached and analyzed and analogized, poeticized, and prayed over. This is it. This is the heart of the Gospel. This is the centrality of Christ. The epicenter of grace. This is law, this is gospel. This is anthropology, this is theology, this is soteriology, all these high concept words trying to teach us what we have on our hands in this text. This is it.
I’ve only got one goal for this sermon. My goal is to amplify the grace of God in your heart. Today, my challenge to you is to open your heart to this text- take it deeply into your heart and let your love for God and his grace grow. This is it. This is the heart of everything that Jesus died to give you.
Ephesians2:1-10
Ephesians 2:1-10
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh m and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
