God is our Maker. "But though we cannot save ourselves by the good deeds we might do prior to our converting to Christ, yet in our union with Christ Jesus God has created us for a lifetime of good works by which we praise and worship Him. He has programed the world to demand the best from us, and he has taught us how we should live, through the Good News and the influence of the Spirit." Compare Matthew 25:31-46; Galatians 5:22-26.
Verse 10. _FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP_] So far is this salvation from being _our own work_, or granted for our own _works' sake_, that we are ourselves not only the _creatures_ of God, but our _new_...
FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP - We are his “making” - ποίημα poiēma. That is, we are “created or formed” by him, not only in the general sense in which all things are made by him, but in that special s...
2. THE PRODUCTION OF THE MASTERWORK AND ITS DESTINY CHAPTER 2:1-10 _ 1. What we are by nature (Ephesians 2:1)_ 2. What God does--rich in mercy (Ephesians 2:4) 3. The destiny of the masterwork (Ephe...
CHRISTIANS ARE RAISED AND EXALTED IN THE RISEN AND EXALTED CHRIST BY GOD'S FREE GRACE AND GIFT. The recipients of the letter, like other people, had been (spiritually) dead by reason of the sins and t...
THE CHRISTLESS LIFE AND THE GRACE OF GOD (Ephesians 2:1-10)...
When you were dead in your sins and trespasses, those sins and trespasses in which once you walked, living life in the way in which this present age of this world lives it, living life as the ruler of...
Although we were all like that, I say, God, because he is rich in mercy and because of his great love with which he has loved us, made us alive in Jesus Christ, even when we were dead in trespasses (i...
WORKMANSHIP. handiwork. Greek. _poiema._ Only here and Romans 1:20. Refers to the new creation of verses: Ephesians 2:5; Ephesians 2:6. CREATED. having been created. Gr _ktizo._ See...
_For_, &c. The connexion is, "works are not the antecedent, but the consequent, of your acceptance in Christ; _for_the true statement of the case is, that you were re-made, re-born, _in order to_work...
Ephesians 1:15 to Ephesians 2:10. THANKSGIVING PASSING INTO PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL INSIGHT This section corresponds to the section of thanksgiving which in all St Paul’s Epistles except Gal., 1 Tim. and...
ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂ ΓΆΡ ἘΣΜΕΝ ΠΟΊΗΜΑ. This raising out of death is virtually a new creation, cf. 2 Corinthians 5:16 f. The New Israel as the Old is God’s workmanship, Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 43:21;...
ΠΟΊΗΜΑ (G4161) свершение, работа. Это слово может также иметь значение "произведение искусства" особенно о поэзии и художественной литературе. В Септ, это слово обозначает созидательную деятельность Б...
DISCOURSE: 2099 SALVATION BY GRACE NOT HOSTILE TO GOOD WORKS Ephesians 2:8. _By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should...
WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP,— "In this new state in the kingdom of God, we are, and ought to look upon ourselves, not as deriving any thing from ourselves, but as the mere workmanship of God, created in Ch...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 2:1-10) C. Once dead, now alive with Christ. Ephesians 2:1-10. 1. Before conversion, dead through trespasses and sins, Ephesians 2:1-3. a.
Divine Means; Secondly, for Service...
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. WORKMANSHIP, [ poieema (G4161)] - 'a thing of His making,' 'handiwor...
1 Compare the condition of the two classes with that of the individual believer in Rom_6:2. Such as have "died to sin" "together with Christ", "are vivified together with Him", and "are reckoning them...
GENTILES AND JEWS ARE NOW ONE IN CHIRST 1-10. Further illustration of God'S power. He raised both Gentiles and Jews from the death of sin and exalted them to Christ's side....
CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS] He means the new creation, by which the whole human race, reunited in Christ, makes a fresh start (Ephesians 2:14; Ephesians 4:24; Galatians 6:15). Mankind began as one race;...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 2 2:1-10 ~ *SALVATION BY *GRACE 2:1-3 ~ OUR PAST LIFE V1 In past days, you were *spiritually dead be...
WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP. — This verse, on the contrary, is unique and remarkable, characteristic of the idea with which this Epistle starts — the election and predestination of God, making us what we a...
(1_ b._) Ephesians 2:8 (taking up and working out the parenthetical “by grace ye are saved” of Ephesians 2:5) form an instructive link of connection between these Epistles and those of the earlier gro...
CHAPTER 8 SAVED FOR AN END Ephesians 2:7 The plan which God has formed for men in Christ is of great dimensions every way, -in its length no less than in its breadth and height. He "raised us up and...
αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν ποίημα : _for we are His workmanship_ (or, handiwork). The αὐτοῦ is emphatic “ _His_ handiwork are we”. The word ποίημα occurs only once again in the NT (Romans 1:20, with reference to...
A new paragraph begins at this point. This is denied indeed by some, who would connect the καὶ ὑμᾶς of Ephesians 2:1 immediately with the ἡμᾶς τοὺς πιστεύοντας of Ephesians 1:19 (Knatchbull), the ἐνήρ...
WHAT GRACE HAS DONE Ephesians 2:1 Evidently dead men may walk; that is, they may be dead to the eternal world but alive to this world, which is moving past like the films of a moving picture. The dea...
The next subject is the edification or building of the Church. The materials of the building are found amid things which are absolutely opposed to the will and purpose of God. From this material God,...
Saved By Grace Notice salvation is not by grace, nor faith alone. There is no way man could earn his salvation, so it is said here to be by the unmerited favor of God. God's grace is extended to all m...
For we are (i) his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. (i) He speaks here of grace, and not of nature: therefore if the w...
_Fir we are his workmanship, not only as to our body and soul, but by a new creation in Christ Jesus, with a new heart by his grace. (Witham) --- St. Paul now compares our conversion to creation, to s...
(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...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
_GOD’S WORKMANSHIP_ ‘For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ...
Grace That Unifies I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week in our study of Chapter one of Ephesians, Paul told us in verse 6 that Jesus has "made us accepted in the beloved." 1. And we talked about the Greek...
10._For we are his work. _By setting aside the contrary supposition, he proves his statement, that _by grace we are saved, _— that we have no remaining works by which we can merit salvation; for all t...
In Chapter 2 [4] the operation of the power of God on earth, for the purpose of bringing souls into the enjoyment of their heavenly privileges, and thus of forming the assembly here below, is presente...
FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP,.... Not as men only, but as Christians; not as creatures merely, but as new creatures; the work of grace upon the soul seems chiefly designed, which like a poem, as the wor...
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Ver. 10. _For we are his workmanship_] ποιημα, his artificial facture,...
_For we are his workmanship_ As if he had said, And it appears that it is not by any works or ability of our own that we are saved, or possess the faith whereby salvation is received, because all the...
HIS WORKMANSHIP; of our spiritual life, God is the author. BEFORE ORDAINED; it was ever the purpose and will of God, that those to whom he gives spiritual life should be holy and abound in good works....
God's grace manifested toward the sinners:...
FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS UNTO GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD HATH BEFORE ORDAINED THAT WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM. Paul now introduces the subject of the sentence begun in v. 1. His thou...
BELIEVERS CHANGED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH (vs.1-10) The first three verse of chapter 2 go back to consider the state and circumstances from which the Ephesians had been brought, the same sad state to...
CHAPTER 2 Before we can fully understand the _________ we have in Christ, we must understand our condition of our __________ without Christ. God has ____________ us. This word means that God has mad...
ORDAINED: Or, prepared...
“FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP, CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS FOR GOOD WORKS, WHICH GOD AFORE PREPARED THAT WE SHOULD WALK IN THEM” “We”: Those in Christ Jesus. “HIS WORKMANSHIP”: “His handiwork” (Alf). “For H...
1-10 Sin is the death of the soul. A man dead in trespasses and sins has no desire for spiritual pleasures. When we look upon a corpse, it gives an awful feeling. A never-dying spirit is now fled, an...
FOR WE, we believers, both Jews and Gentiles, are his workmanship; not only as men, but especially as saints, which is the proper meaning here. The Israelitish people formerly were God's work, Deutero...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V which he has already infected with the implanted germ of sin. "We," says he, "are His workmanship, created in Christ."[791] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V "),[80...
Ephesians 2:10 For G1063 are G2070 (G5748) His G846 workmanship G4161 created G2936 (G5685) in G1722 Christ...
‘For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God beforehand prepared that we should walk in them.' ‘We are His workmanship.' The word poiema means ‘creation, what is wro...
Ephesians 2:10. FOR HIS HANDIWORK ARE WE. This is the reason there should be no human glorying. The rendering we adopt brines out the emphasis which the original places on the word ‘His,' and brings t...
1. _Redemption in Christ as Deliverance from Death through a New Creation._ The Apostle applies to his readers the great truths set forth in chap. 1, having in mind ‘the mighty working of the Father,...
WORKMANSHIP (ποιημα). Old word from ποιεω with the ending -ματ meaning result. In N.T. only here and Revelation 1:20.CREATED (κτισθεντες). First aorist passive participle of κτιζω, not the origina...
CREATED (_ See Scofield) - (Ephesians 4:24). _...
Ephesians 2:10 Christian Men God's Workmanship. I. The special infirmities of men vary. The fault of our nature assumes a thousand forms, but no one is free from it. I look back to the ancient morali...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins:_ These were your grave clothes. You were wrapped up in them. Nay, this was your sarcophagus. You were shut up in it, a...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you he hath quickened._ Is it so? Could the apostle say that to you, and to me? Ephesians 2:1. _Who were dead in trespasses and sins;_ Look back to what you used to be, to the h...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened,_ You, who were by nature dead are now made alive unto God by the holy Spirit. If you had nothing else to think of, all day long, but just these five words,...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened,_ Is it so? Can anyone lay his hand on your shoulder, and say right into your ear, «You hath he quickened»? If so, why this deadness of spirit? Why this worl...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;_ Then you owe your very life to him. You were dead, you were like a corrupt carcass, but his life has been breathed in...
Ephesians 2:1. _And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;_ What a great change, then, has taken place in the people of God! It is described as being similar to the resurrection...
CONTENTS: Method of Gentile salvation. Jew and Gentile made one body in Christ, a habitation of God through the Spirit. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: A state of sin apart from Christ, is a sta...
Ephesians 2:1. _You hath he quickened._ The word quickened is not in the Greek, but the old Latin version repeats it here from the fifth verse, presuming it to be implied. It reads well without it, th...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:9 Salvation is not by WORKS. If it were, then those who are saved would get the glory. CREATED... FOR GOOD WORKS. Salvation is not based on works, but the good works Chri...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:1 Salvation by Grace through Faith. This section, like Ephesians 1:3 and...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 2:10. FOR WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP.—We get our word “poem” from that which we here translate workmanship, lit. “something made.” Every Christian belongs to tho...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 2:1 SPIRITUAL HISTORY OF THE EPHESIANS. This passage corresponds to Genesis 1:1. It is a history of creation, and we note the same great stages. 1. C
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Ephesians, the second chapter. Paul is going to talk about someone tonight...very interesting. You! Well, at least you are interested in the subject. For many of you...
1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:6; 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Timothy 2:10
For we are His workmanship. A reason why no man should glory. If we are God's workmanship, our salvation cannot be of ourselves. His is emphatic. His workmanship are we. Created [κ τ ι σ θ ε ν τ ε ς]....
GRACE IN OPERATION Ephesians 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We know of no Scripture which more beautifully sets forth God's grace than Ephesians, chapter 2. The chapter begins with what we were in our sins....
A GOD-PLANNED LIFE Ephesians 2:8; _Romans 12:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We read of Epaphras that he prayed for the saints that they might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. The will of G...
For we are his workmanship — Which proves both that salvation is by faith, and that faith is the gift of God. Created unto good works — That afterwards we might give ourselves to them. Which God had b...
Our apostle having in the foregoing verses asserted the whole of our salvation to be of grace, and not of works, lest by magnifying of grace he should seem wholly to set aside good works, and the nece...