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Ephesians 2:1-10 and John 17
Ephesians 2: 1 -
10 (KJV)
1 And
you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein
in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the
prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of
disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our
conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of
the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as
others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith
he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together
with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) 6 And hath
raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus: 7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches
of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. 8 For
by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift
of God: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 10 For
we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath
before ordained that we should walk in them.
1-6 It wasn’t so
long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the
world, which doesn’t know the first thing about living, tell you how to live.
You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We
all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing
it, all of us in the same boat. It’s a wonder God didn’t lose his temper and do
away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible
love, he
embraced us. He
took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his
own,with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our
Messiah.
7-10 Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world
and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is
all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it.
It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did,
we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither
make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each
of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has
gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
The-True-Gospel-Bearers:
·
Preach
The Gospel with exactness, following God's rescue plan for humanity.
·
Walk
in the ordained work of Christ.
·
Believe
in the supernatural sustenance of The True Gospel.
·
Boast
in the complete work of THE CROSS.
1. The True
Gospel Bearers all over the nations of the world
(God's remnants
dispersed abroad, fully consecrated for The Gospel.)
Prayer:
·
Lord
please multiply Your Grace unto them to carry the hope of their faith firmly.
·
Grant
them the great faith needed to see the power of the True Gospel at work in all
things.
·
Let the
heaven sustain them in their daily walk with You.
·
Grant
them divine help to hold on to the message of The Cross without wavering.
·
Help
them to stay true to their “Message” and live worthy of The Gospel.
·
Let them
not be ashamed of what they preach, but to receive boldness to declare it
always.
·
Lord
please baptise them with the urgency of heaven to bear their Gospel-assignment.
·
Let them
come out of themselves for the divine multiplication of The True Gospel.
2. Our
immediate True-Gospel-Bearers
(Co-labourers in
the Kingdom Labour: ourselves as Calvary brothers and sisters.)
Prayer:
·
Lord
please take me back to the place where You make Your own. Dig out anything that
wants to contaminate the True Gospel in my life.
·
Help me
not to waste my time/my life on something or anything that does not have the
Gospel-value.
·
Lord
cause Your dealing with my life to achieve Your eternal purpose. Make me one
with myself in You.
·
Help me
to constantly concentrate on what concerns You in my generation.
·
Let me
remain in my calling despite the pressures of the world.
·
Do not
let me escape the overshadowing power of the Gospel.
·
Open my
life to the grace available to constantly serve You acceptably.
·
Grant me
the revelation of the maturity that sustains unity in Your Kingdom Work.
3. The Body
of Christ
(The Church and
various Fellowships.)
Prayer:
·
Lord
please cause all gatherings unto You to begin to operate in the “overshadowing effect of The Gospel.”
·
Help The
Church to know that - what makes The Gospel true is to simply preach The
Message of The Cross of Jesus.
