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It is sued for various terms of art like: poetry, paintings, sculptures…etc. Boasting excluded, pride I abase-- If you're in a crucible of testing right now, don't be discouraged. We are saved for good works. Those "feelings" are all lies. Yet he can say I believe that medicine. ILLUSTRATION – Kent Hughes – “In Christ we are of untold worth. Most NT uses are figurative referring to the daily conduct of one's life or how they order their behavior or pass their life. God spent 25 years working in Abraham before He gave him the promised son Isaac. Of course not; the clay has nothing to do with the process. And they can be done only by those who are justified by faith. They are the fruit, not the root of salvation. Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well.” (, If we are marvelously wrought upon even before we are born, what shall we say of the Lord’s dealings with us after we quit His secret workshop, and He directs our pathway through the pilgrimage of life? The evolution of man is foolishness! Imagine what that means. This verb is used twice in the Septuagint (Wis 9:8, Isa 28:24), When is "beforehand?" Your time in the ball of the dance of your days GOD'S WORKS OF ART! This doesn’t look like a perfect person. Think of poiēma in the context of a potter. (Ephesians 2:10 Commentary), Nothing without Christ Jesus, you see. What a challenging thought it is to know we are each God's work of art!" It has its faults, but its excellences are many. But what we really are, are products of God. With the rhythm and rhyme of the poem of your life, POIEMA – GREEK WORD STUDY The apostle Paul often compared the Christian life to a long race, as did the author of the book of Hebrews." James {10} For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." Life Application: Before we step out from home, we usually think about how we look. God's own workmanship are we. Jude The pro- describes the preparation as prior to the creation… (Good works) are the goal to which God’s new creation of us looked; they are also in God’s eternal plan. Eph 2:10 is a great example of this, in Greek the text begins with the word "of him"(His) It's especially odd that this word is placed even in front of the connecting word "for". The lives of believers should continually demonstrate the reality of the spiritual regeneration and transformation they have received through faith in Jesus Christ. noun. Open your ear lids to hear the sweet song  The fact that we are His workmanship serves to prove that salvation is not a result of our works. 31:3-5). Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Every good work is down in God’s design, it has its place, and it will exercise its influence. grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored (kopiao = to the point of exhaustion) even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me. After a few weeks, the detective was able to report to the man that Dr. Houghton’s life matched his preaching. It also involves being newly created in Christ. I will turn you into something splendid, magnificent. At the new creation, He experiences even a deeper emotion of joy. Such is God's great design; For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Does the pot say to the potter, "Well, you know that I had a little something to do with what I have become?" The aorist tense points to a specific action that has taken place. Ps 143:5-note I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Thy doings; I muse on the work (Lxx = poiema) of Thy hands. Amazing, miraculous grace!) C H Spurgeon says it this way – “You have seen a painter with his palette on his finger and he has ugly little daubs of paint on the palette. righteous in the sight of God, walking (peripateo) blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord (Lk 1:6). Listen to Michael Card's song as you ponder the works prepared before time began which you are to live out the rest of your days on earth…, The Poem Of Your Life Matthew The quality of the instrument was secondary to the skill of the violinist. God’s Great Poetry (Ephesians 2:10) God is an artist and a poet. It is good to meditate on what God has made and rest in the confidence that “He Who began a good work in you will complete it in the day of Christ Jesus.” (Php 1:6-note). In Rom. Man is not getting better. He too has spoken through His work "with particular directness and intimacy." Ephesians 4:1-16 - The church is the Body of Christ. You are writing a Gospel, A Christian’s walk is no less than a Christian’s life. God steps in with grace and power! The apostle Paul said that "God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise" (1 Cor. Michelangelo was once asked what he was doing as he chipped away at a shapeless rock. Do not be frightened by talking about mysticism. Is your life different now that you are in Christ? Workmanship. The organist had almost prevented the song's creator from playing his own music! ( Log Out /  Every saint's walk and talk should be twins going along on the same trail. And God never expects anything from us without first enabling us. True saving faith can never be by itself for it always brings life, and life produces good works. How many disappointments we should have been spared in life if we had always acted on this conviction. But we must not confuse personal lifestyle with the life God planned when he created us. In Ps 143:5 David prays “I remember the days of old. 2. We reach after holiness by the constraining love of Jesus. 1 Chronicles Titus 2:14-note. Consider the fruit tree. Song of Solomon He came to us with a light on his face and said, “I'm going back to my field completely revolutionized in my approach. But now in Christ Jesus you who used to be far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ (Ephesians 2:13). Unfortunately, we can frustrate His “workmanship” and wind up one of The Bible teaches that God’s goal for His people is that they “become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13). F B Meyer - Let us ask Him to work in us to will those good works, so that our will, without being impaired in its free operation, may be permeated and molded by His will, just as light suffuses the atmosphere without displacing it. Created in God’s image (Ge 2:7), yet born in sin, we are redeemed and re-created in the image of His Son. Romans Ephesians 2:10. Go in and see the picture. “And you go about alone, like a hangman,” Raphael sniped in reply. I expect to pass through life but once. Ephesians 2:10. And the words that you say. Vessels of mercy prepared beforehand What of suffering, then? For by grace you have been saved through faith. What splendid painting! 1 Peter Empty spaces that long to be filled; It is something a great deal more than that, and when once a man’s eye is opened to look for it in the New Testament it is wonderful how it flashes out from every page and underlies the whole teaching. Your canvas of colors of moments ablaze ‘If any power we have, it is to ill, His tools are Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, His Word, and the preaching of the Word.” And often God’s Spirit uses difficult circumstances or difficult people to sculpt our character into His “masterpieces” conformed to the image of His Son (Ro 8:29-note).“In Christ” we are of untold worth. I pause to say that this is the sort of question that would never occur to most people—it certainly hadn’t occurred to me—and when you first hear it, no quick answer comes to mind.....If God had wanted to, He could have taken you directly to heaven the moment you trusted Christ as Savior. This is the state of true divine happiness or blessedness. When He does, that will be eternal ecstasy. More like the Master I long to ever be. Like the underside of grandmother’s cross-stitch, the everyday of our lives may look to be knotted and hopelessly tangled. It is neither the brush nor the paint He uses, but it is the skill of His own hand which does it all.” PTL! But there was an older creation than that. WHICH GOD PREPARED BEFOREHAND: ois proetoimasen (PPPMPN) o theos: The church at Antioch (Acts 13:1) gives us a clue as to how we might discern the good works which God prepared beforehand…, Acts 13:2 And while they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. (5) Our humble walk: “And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour” (Ep 5:2-note). Do you have any idea how many good works God has prepared for you? See importance of pausing to ponder and query terms of purpose or result like so that. A lyric that rhymes either heaven or hell! What should our response be to our God's infinite love and grace? In Ephesians 2:10, God created us in Christ “for good [agathois] works.” Romans 8:28 promises, “We know that all things work together for good [agathon] for those who love God.” All the paths begin and end at the same points; but how different their character! Now if any man builds upon the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire; and the fire itself will test the quality of each man's work. What splendid painting! I muse (meditate) on the WORK (LXX = POIEMA) of Your hands. Dead works without faith are useless, and “faith without works is dead” also, getting you nowhere. Before the foundation of the world it was ordained that whoever should be saved by grace should walk in good works. Am I to tell Him which tools He can use and which tools He can’t use in the lifelong task of perfecting me and molding me into the beautiful image of Jesus? Reprinted by permission. And that would include faith. And minds every minute as the universe waits by, CHORUS: 1 Corinthians Ephesians 2:8-10 - 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. Hughes explains the believer's work noting that…, Each of us has an eternally-designed job description which includes the task, the ability, and the place to serve. (Mt 5:16-note), and the entire Bible echoes this truth (cp 1Co 6:20-note, Ps 115:1-note). -- Author unknown, When doing good works, also remember that the following question is irrelevant. But when we turn the fabric over, we see design and beauty that was there all along but that we never foresaw.” (Gage) Perhaps you don’t feel much like a work of divine poetry, but regardless of how you feel, the truth about you as God’s workmanship, is that you are His “MASTERPIECE” (NLT), His “HANDIWORK” (NAB), His “WORK OF ART” (NJB), in fact, a work of art that is one of a kind! Help me renew my mind to the truth about who You have made me to be, and help me guard the words of my mouth so that instead of speaking evil of myself I affirm the truth about who I am in Christ. You are saved that you may be good, and do good continually; and unless you are so doing you may be steeped to the eyebrows in the correctest of creeds, and it will only drown you. We must keep before us the clear truth that we are saved by grace and grace alone. Job Paul says that God has prepared these works beforehand. In Eph 2:10 the emphasis of the verse is placed on Gods as the owner and the producer of us as his work… signifies every kind of activity undertaken for the name of Christ; everything so undertaken is a means of fruitfulness, and the operating power is the indwelling Holy Spirit, upon Whom the believer is entirely dependent. There is not a thought of our heart, word of our lips, or work of our hands, which is truly holy and heavenly, simple and sincere, glorifying to God or profitable to man, of which He is not by His Spirit and grace the divine and immediate Author! Legend has it that Michelangelo painted with a brush in one hand and a candle in the other to prevent his shadow from covering his masterpiece in progress. Just as thunder does not generate lightning, our good deeds will not generate salvation. A lyric that rhymes either heaven or hell! Found inside – Page 497EPHESIANS 2:10 NKJV cripture calls the church a poem. “We are His workmanship” (Eph. 2:10). Workmanship descends from the Greek word poeo or poetry. One Sunday he went to a nearby church to seek the minister and ask for instruction in the way of salvation. The first phrase of Ephesians 2:10 reads, "For we are God's handiwork" (NIV). (Hayford's Bible Handbook), Jon Courson - God is saying, “You are My poetry. In contrast, Paul refers in Ep 2:2 (note) to the lifestyle of unbelievers and later in this same letter counseled the Ephesian believers to. Let’s dig even deeper. We were following the course of this world. 5:17 ; Gal. Micah As a result of Houghton's faithful life as God's "Poiema", that man became a Christian. Malachi In the figurative sense, peripateo refers to one's habitual way or direction of life, and so to their life-style. Works never produce salvation, but salvation always produces good works. Why not all agree, as you can all read the Book? They (the church in this case) was ministering to the Lord and fasting and the Spirit made clear the "good work" which He had prepared beforehand! Your Father wants you set apart. (6) Our changed walk: “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light” (Ep 5:8-note). Joel Like derelict castles restored far beyond their former glory, our transformed lives point others to God, who is rich in mercy, grace, and love. One sees it over and over again. "But God, … even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ" (Ep 2:4, 5-note). They’re just a little bit dark.” Do I, the poem, the thing being written, know more than the poet? That is all. You are His work of art. And God has planned ahead so that we would do good works. You are my poem. "Works are to salvation, what thunder is to lightning, an inevitable result. And so it is with God. 508. All rights reserved). Genuine faith is always evident by what follows—a life of good works. With the rhythm and rhyme of the poem of your life  He takes us, poor smudges of paint, and He makes the blessed pictures of His grace out of us. Nashville: Thomas Nelson). Let not the music that is in us die! PLAY MICHAEL CARD’S “POEM OF YOUR LIFE” with lyrics below, Life is a song we must sing with our days He previously introduced the role of faith in salvation in Ephesians 1:13, 15, 19. All rights reserved, Ephesians 2:10 Commentary - God's Amazing Word - Partial preview, McGee, J V: Thru the Bible Commentary: Nashville: Thomas Nelson, You Will Be My Witnesses: God's Job Description for Every Christian, Hurley, V. Speaker's Sourcebook of New Illustrations Dallas: Word Publishers, Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. What of disability? There are times when we too try to play the chords of our lives and prevent our Creator from making beautiful music. Each of our lives is the canvas on which the Master is producing a work of art that will fill the everlasting ages with His praise. He will make it good. Walk (4043) (peripateo [word study] from peri = about, around + pateo = walk, tread) means literally to go here and there or to tread all around. No natural process can accomplish or explain either miracle. 1 Kings The Greek word might be literally rendered his poem. What’s the point of this word? Eph 2:10 - For G1063 we are G2070 his G846 workmanship, G4161 created G2936 in G1722 Christ G5547 Jesus G2424 unto G1909 good G18 works, G2041 which G3739 God G2316 hath before ordained G4282 that G2443 we should walk G4043 in G1722 them. This great truth may be hard to actually take hold of as we exist in frail human bodies carried along in the rush of modern-day busyness. And minds every minute as the universe waits by, CHORUS: An ape can cleverly imitate the actions of humans. He has made us Christians. We are the ryhthm, the meter of His heartbeat. It is my prayer you will find encouragement, hope, peace, and joy while reading this book of poetry, for I am His workmanship, His poem. If Christians have caste differences also, I might as well remain a Hindu. “profess to know God, but by their deeds they (continually) deny Him, being detestable (root word = "to stink"!) But when you think about it, there is one main thing you can do on earth that you will never do in heaven: You can tell a lost sinner about Jesus Christ. This hymn text by Thomas Chisholm is one of his more than 1,200 fine poems, many of which have been set to music and have become enduring hymns of the church. We don't perform good works in order to be saved. We are a masterpiece only because we are His masterpiece totally unrelated to any effort or merit of our own. Likewise, the "Divine Potter" molds us into vessels He can use. Apr202001. Lamentations We are the branches; He is the Vine out of which we grow. Some of us have had things happen which make us doubt our worth. God designed. God has prepared the path for each of us, according to His infinite wisdom and love. But when we turn the fabric over, we see design and beauty that was there all along but that we never foresaw.” (Gage) Perhaps you don’t feel much like a work of divine poetry, but regardless of how you feel, the truth about you as God’s workmanship, is that you are God's "COMPOSITION" His “MASTERPIECE” (NLT), His “HANDIWORK” (NAB), His “WORK OF ART” (NJB), in fact, a work of art that is one of a kind! Thus, day by day, our life will be a manifestation of those holy volitions and lovely deeds which shall attest the indwelling and inworking of God. The apostle's language is very clear. Rather, He is your all-knowing, yet all-powerful Father in heaven who can envision what you will be when it is all said and done. Amos You see, when Jesus gave Himself on the Cross, He didn’t say, “I’m going to die just so you know I love you.” He said, “I’m going to die, I’m going to bleed, for your splendor. Open your ear lids to hear the sweet song "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, {9} not of works, lest anyone should boast. Philemon II. In case you are wondering, the word “poema” is the Greek word for the English word “workmanship,” or “handiwork.” The word is used in Ephesians 2:10, which helped me decide the name for my blog. in a world where men forget beauty, and are careless of moral symmetry and spiritual grace. But when he entered the sanctuary, the ushers refused to give him a seat and suggested that he go worship with his own people. Servants, be obedient to them that are [your] masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; οι. ], Biographers of Wordsworth have marked the exact period when his genius reached its height, and after that the glory came only at intervals, and the real poems were rare. Now we shiver amid the snows of the mountains; and again we are enervated by the scorching heat of the plains. Instead of working upwards from works to salvation, take your stand at the received salvation, and understand what it is for, and work downwards from it. When we look at ourselves this way, we begin to understand our incredible value in Christ. Each, then, can take a loving interest in the life-plan of another, sure that nothing can interfere with the evolution of his own, save his indolence or sin. Lamentations This word is used 2 times: Romans 1:20 : "are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal" Ephesians 2:10 : "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus" The Ephesian believers confessed, brought their books of magic and burned them before all the people, thereby proving that they had experienced a change of heart (~repentance) (Acts 19:18-20). - For we are his workmanship. The partiality showed by those ushers proved to have a devastating effect on India and the world. For example, in a good sense, Luke describes Zacharias and Elizabeth, the parents of John the Baptist, as being. He won’t put “square pegs into round holes…” If we would be useful in Christ’s service our wisdom is “to have no plan except to enter into His plan for us,” and say with Paul, “Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?” - E. W. MOORE. While Milton's epic poems Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained are true masterpieces, they pale in comparison to the masterpiece of the true child of God. That this should be the nature of our walk is implied in our being His handiwork, made anew by Him in Christ; that the good works which are the divine aim of our life shall be realized, is implied in their being designed and made ready for us in God’s decree; and that they are of God’s originating, and not of our action and merit, is implied in the fact that we had ourselves to be made a new creation in Christ with a view to them. We are the Bibles the world is reading. Why will it be “that in the coming ages [God will] show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:7, ESV). He wishes us not only to produce good works, but to abound in them; and to abound in the highest order of them. It was unto good works. M. E. Every morning presents us with another opportunity to fulfill our potential and produce (by the Spirit, not under law) good works. He doesn't lose his headache. We depend upon Him to keep us holy. full of compassion, loving, forgiving, tender and kind; But when we turn the fabric over, we see design and beauty that was there all along but that we never foresaw.” (Gage) Perhaps you don’t feel much like a work of divine poetry, but regardless of how you feel, the truth about you as God’s workmanship, is that you are His “Masterpiece” (NLT), His “Handiwork”(NAB), His “Work of Art” (NJB), in fact, a work of art that is one of a kind! In Our Daily Homily F B Meyer writes the following…. Found inside – Page 62Read Ephesians 2:4-10 "Sometimes when I get home from school, all I want is food that's cool. ... "The word workmanship comes from the Greek word poetna. So no matter how you "feel", the fact is that in God's eyes, beloved in Christ you are eternally God's own Personal Poiema!. Then in Ephesians 2:8-10, Paul summarized God's scheme of redemption. .] He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. Even as the “heavens are telling of the glory of God and their expanse is declaring the work of His hands” (Ps 19:1-note), we too as God’s MASTER CREATIONS should never be ashamed to let others see His WORKMANSHIP in us by our Spirit enabled obedience to Jesus’ command to “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they see your GOOD WORKS, and glorify (give a proper opinion of) your Father Who is in heaven.” (Mt 5:16-note) As new creatures in Christ, we need to remember that we were created for God’s glory, and created for good deeds, because it is by our good deeds that our Father gets all the glory (cf Ps 115:1-note). workmanship.” This word “workmanship” is found only twice in the NT—here and Romans 1:20. Writing to the Galatians who were being tempted to add works (such as circumcision) to faith in Christ Paul declared that…, may it never be that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Strong's. Go in and see the picture. It is all prepared, and we have but to walk in it, with God, one step at a time. 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 word may be rendered, is a very curious work; the king's daughter is all glorious within, for this is an internal work, and is a good and excellent one; it is not indeed perfected at … Ephesians 2:10 NASB Prepared beforehand – Please, no “predestination” theology here. Our old walk is finished. “We are His poem!” Each Christian age has been a canto of it; each Christian life and death a word. I'm only a sinner saved by grace! Living Up To The Name - A new Christian was reading through the Gospels. Ephesians 2:10. And those changes are a gradual process called sanctification, that can be likened to an endurance race. The free verse of the poem of life, So look in the mirror and pray for the grace  d. d. The pr in ce of the power of the air: This unique title for Satan speaks of his authority (pr in ce) and his realm (the air, a way of referr in g to Satan’s “environment”). Hosea Your life, and all your fruit-producing power lie in your union to Christ. Ephesians 2:10 is About God’s Creativity. ‘Created in Christ Jesus unto good works.’ That is what life is given to you for. Thus shall we become thy workmanship. Galatians "If any man is in Christ, there is a new creation; the old things are passed away, behold they are become new" (2Corinthians 5:17). (see note 2 Timothy 3:16-17). Read full chapter. How does grace deal with this problem? Of course not; the clay has nothing to do with the process. When we look at ourselves this way, we begin to understand our incredible value in Christ. Paul reminded the Galatian believers that. If we would be useful in Christ’s service our wisdom is “to have no plan except to enter into His plan for us and imitate Paul who said “Lord, what do you want me to do? There are numerous beautiful aspects about this word. We overcome sin by the blood of the Lamb. Today 's passage is from the Book of Ephesians 2:1-10. Mama Said, Mama Said - Donna K Woolam, Living In Light Of Christmas | Intersections, You Are A Masterpiece | The Extra-Ordinary Life of Ramblin Rose. In nature, lightning and thunder present a striking illustration of the relationship between faith and works. The exchange brought home to him a profound yet simple fact: To know that you are cared for by someone is one of life's greatest gifts. The believers at Thessalonica proved their salvation by turning to GOD from idols, to serve GOD (Ed: Excellent illustration of repentance!) On the other hand, we can recall with grief some lost persons who rejected the Word because of the inconsistent lives of "professed" believers. (1Cor 4:5), In sum, Paul is referring to a genuine, sincere, loving, Spirit empowered, God glorifying eagerness to serve others. —Horatius Bonar. At the first creation, God saw all that He had made, and it was good. Moreover, that love moves us to patient imitation of Christ. Some of us have had things happen which make us doubt our worth. Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, equip you in every good thing (Stop right there - Who's part has been described? As the meter varies in the poems of a laureate, so does the course of one life differ from another; but God has a thought, a plan, a purpose for each. They are the automatic convulsive movements of a corpse. Our faith is not of ourselves. 2 Samuel One morning the teacher asked him: ‘Why do you act like that? Poiema means “something made” and in context is something made by God Himself. It is not only by words that we give testimony to the greatness of God, but also by our works. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”. Ephesians 2 is the second chapter of the Epistle to the Ephesians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.Traditionally, it is believed to have been written by Apostle Paul while he was in prison in Rome (around AD 62), but more recently it has been suggested that it was written between AD 80 and 100 by another writer using Paul's name and style.. Then, picking up the expensive instrument, completely demolishing it. )... S hand language learning our “ talk ” must agree as far back as possible but. 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