“God Prepared Beforehand…”
Blessings Folk!!
We have been looking at the Word related to walking in the power of the Presence of the Lord…
Are you aware that God has prepared for us the works in which we are to walk?
Are you aware that He did this “beforehand”...before the foundation of the world?...before our salvation?
It is true.
This has tremendous ramifications.
We don’t have to…
- try to find what God wants
- wonder if He has something for us to do
- believe the lie of the evil one that we are of no use
- etc. etc.
Read this carefully…
Eph 2:10
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
NASU
There are several things to examine...hangeth thou in there…
We are His workmanship.
We are created in Christ Jesus for good works.
God prepared these good works beforehand so that we would walk in them.
The Lord has a perfectly designed work for all Believers to walk in.
Now, read the expanded context of this verse. Do not allow familiarity to rob you of revelation of the Spirit...pray...ask the Lord to reveal Truth to you…
Eph 2:1-10
2 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.
3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
NASU
Here is how we formerly walked…
- dead in trespasses
- dead in sins
- according to the course of this world
- according to the power of the air
- according to the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience
- in the lusts of our flesh
- indulging the desires of the flesh
- indulging the desires of the mind
- within our nature as children of wrath
Then...one of the most exciting phrases in the Word…
But God…
- being rich in mercy
- because of His great love with which He loved us...even when we were dead in our transgressions
- made us alive together with Christ
- raised us up with Him
- seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
We can walk in the works of God because…
- prepared them beforehand
- we are raised up in Him...from death in the flesh to life in the Spirit
- we are seated with Christ..think on that...at this moment we are seated with Him… I formerly thought that this referred to our “position” with Christ...this is true...but, the more I learn of the mechanics of quantum physics...wow!!!
- by grace we have been saved...a gift...not based on our works…
Therefore, rejoice!!
Walk in the works already prepared for you!!
You are the workmanship of God created in Christ Jesus for good works...whoa!!!
Work it out!
Blessings!
Today’s reading from the “So That’s Why” Bible consists of pp. 515-520.
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