Ryan Dehnert spoke to us from Ephesians 2:1-10. Our works have left us dead, but God’s power and kindness have united us with the risen Christ so we might become like him by trusting his grace.
Key Verse
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God–not by works, so that no one can boast. ”
Bible Readings: Ephesians 2:1-10
Outline:
intro: abundant life
1.dead in sin
2. but God…
3. alive in Christ
conclusion: abundant life in Christ
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Hey Rhino
Thanks for delivering God’s word to us so excellently. I particularly appreciated the way that you set it all up by describing the “spirit of the age” as presented by “God” in Bruce Almighty – that the answer to our problems lies “within” each one of us! What a hollow echo of the one true gospel – our hope is built on nothing less (and nothing more) than Jesus blood and righteousness, as we sang together yesterday.
May it be true today too!
I agree, Pete – we’re doing some ‘worldview’ stuff at the moment at TBT and last week in our discussion I was reminded of how we typically want to be the solution to our problems, or else we deny that any solution is possible (that is, we either think we are God, or we claim that God doesn’t exist, and that our physical world is all that there is to life).
Ephesians 2 is a great reminder that neither of these ways of thinking work… we’re not God (he gives life, we’re dead in our sin – bit of a contrast there, hey), and we are so dependent on him and his grace for the life we have. I am praying that at scpc we continue to look to Jesus alone for the solution to our greatest problem – and that we never look to ourselves to fix the world’s problems, or end up despairing that there is no solution to the mess our world’s in.