Saving Grace We are saved from sin by His love for a glorious life through faith for good
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Text: 1 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 sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects 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 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 workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:1-10
Topic: Saving Grace Thesis: How I have been saved. Points:
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins v. 1-2 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, Rm. 3:23 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." Gn. 2:15-17 . . .we were by nature objects of wrath. v.3 o For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rm. 6:23 o So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, "Cursed are you above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel." To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you." To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return." Gn. 3:14-19 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions. . . v. 4-7 o For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Jn. 3:16 o and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. Rm. 3:24 o For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rm. 6:23
Conclusion:
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. v. 8-9 o For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Jn. 3:16 Application: for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." Rm. 10:13 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 Jn. 1:9
Prayer of acceptance: Prayer of salvation: Ending:
For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. v. 10
o o We are Gods masterpiece, lived in Christ to do good works. God had works in mind for us before we were even born.
We are saved from sin by His love for a glorious life through faith for good works. You are Gods Workmanship!!! To God be the glory. Amen.
