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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_
_...
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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...
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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 (Eph...
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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...
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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...
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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 Romans 1:25.
UNT...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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.
Ye were sinful y...
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Divine Means; Secondly, for Service...
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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,'
'handiwo...
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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...
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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....
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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 bec...
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(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...
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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 an...
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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...
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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 de...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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(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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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_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...
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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...
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God's grace manifested toward the sinners:...
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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...
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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...
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ORDAINED:
Or, prepared...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ephesians 2:10 For G1063 are G2070 (G5748) His G846 workmanship G4161
created G2936 (G5685) in G1722 Christ G5547 Jesus G2424 for G1909 good
G18 works G2041 which G3739 God G2316 beforehand G4282 (G56...
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‘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
wr...
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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,...
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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 origin...
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CREATED
(_ See Scofield) - (Ephesians 4:24). _...
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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 moral...
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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...
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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 st...
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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...
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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 w...
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EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 2:1 Salvation by Grace through Faith.
This section, like Ephesians 1:3 and Ephesians 1:15, is a single
sentence in the original Greek. The main theme is that God gives his...
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_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 th...
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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. Chaos (Genesis 1:1).
2. Th...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 John 1:7; 1 John 2:6; 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Timothy
2:10; 1 Timothy 5:10; 1 Timothy 5:25; 1 Timothy 6:18; 2 Corinthians
5:17;...
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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]...
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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...
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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...
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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...