As we look at Ephesians 2
today, we are reminded of two important things. One is God’s great unmerited
grace towards us. The Father loved us and called us to Himself through Jesus. This
grace is monergistic. We didn’t have anything to do with it. God did it because
He wanted to. Our response is simply faith, gladness and thanksgiving.
The Second thing is that God saved us to faithful living not just from
disobedience and wrath. We are saved to
walking in His grace and He expects that a certain number of our sins are now fully
behind us. I do not say all of our
sins for we continue to be tempted, struggle against sin and sometimes fall,
until we are Resurrected.
But
he says that some sins are not even to be named among Christians. Christians
should be done sinning in this way. Among them, he names fornication, pornography,
talking like a sexual moron, course sexual jesting, covetousness-especially
related to someone else’s husband or wife, and such things. These things need
to be confessed, repented of and done with in the life of the Christian. So,
let us live in the Spirit and be done with these deeds of the dead.
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