Transcript God's Workmanship

Sunday December 31st 2006
By Bro. Eric L. Frazier
God's Workmanship
Text: Eph. 2:1- 10
Key verse 10
God's Workmanship
Purpose: To examine what it means to
be a workmanship of God.
Objective: To understand that we have
been created so perfectly, that there is
nothing we do to improve upon it.
God's Workmanship
 (Eph 2:1-10 NIV) "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.
God's Workmanship
 (Eph 2:1-10 NIV) {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."
God's Workmanship
 We are Gentiles and are the beneficiaries of
God's work on Calvary.
The work that God accomplished produced salvation for
the gentile world and freedom from the law of Moses for
the Children of Israel.
 The word workmanship in the Webster's
Dictionary means:
 The craftsmanship of a workman or the quality of a
craftsman's work . The word "workmanship" in the
Greek language is poiema, poy'-ay-mah and means a
product, i.e. fabric (lit. or fig.) a thing that is made. This is
also where the English word poem comes from.
God's Workmanship
 Our texts indicates that there was clearly some work that
needed to be done as it relates to the gentile world:
 We were dead in our transgressions and sins,
 We followed the ways of this world and
 We followed the ways of the ruler of the kingdom of the air
(Satan)
 We were the children of wrath (both by nature and choice) Vs.
11, 12
 We were godless and unclean Vs. 11, 12
 We were separated from Christ Vs. 11, 12
 We were excluded from the commonwealth of Israel Vs. 11, 12
 We were strangers to the covenant of God's promise to
Abraham
 We had no hope
 We were without God in the present world.
God's Workmanship
What did he do?
 In verse 4 of our text:
 He loved us because of his mercy and kindness.
 {4} But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
 Man has never had the capacity to love and show mercy to man.
 The love that you have in your heart is a gift from God. You and I wouldn't
know anything about love and mercy if it were not for God. Notice the
adjectives that describe his love and mercy.
 The apostle Paul describes it as Great Love and Rich in mercy.
 1. Great Love:
 There is nothing that is greater than God's love because God is love.

 St. John 15:17 Greater love has no man than this than a man who will lay
down his life for his friend.
God's Workmanship
Consider the pain and the agony
that Jesus went through to save us
at Calvary:
The magnitude of his suffering, the degree of
degradation and shame.
How they mock him and beat him, and made
him carry and old heavy rugged cross.
 What man in history has ever demonstrated that
kind of love even for his own family; forget
about undeserving strangers in world of
darkness and sin.
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 There are no riches anywhere that can compare
to the Riches of God mercy.
 God had mercy on us. Mercy is compassion and
forgiveness.
 When we were worthy of death Jesus said “Father forgive
them for they know not what they do."
 Many people think that God’s forgiveness of our
sins and trespasses covers us from our birth into
this world unto the day of our baptism and/or
confession of faith.
After our day of salvation, if we get back into sinful
situations again, we are again in need of
forgiveness/salvation.
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 Going in and out of sin is a form of legalism.
 Those that believe and practice this doctrine deny
power of the blood of Jesus to cleanse of us of all
of our sins
 Our victory over sin and death and our destiny
with immortality with God has been accomplished
through the death, burial and resurrection of
Jesus Christ.
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2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
This false concept of God’s forgiveness
and salvation exist because many are
unable to accept the forgiveness and
grace of God for themselves.
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 2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 Many people try to place a carnal mindset on God that
doesn’t exist and see God as they see themselves.
 For example, here is how many people think:
 “God has gone to the cross in the person of Jesus to
suffer and die in such and cruel and painful way and you
think that he is going to let you off the hook if you mess
up again? No way!”
 “In view of his sacrifice and suffering, the least you could
be is be perfect.”
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 Now this might be how God would think if he
thought like us.
 If he had our small, finite and limited
comprehension, but He does not!
If I were Jesus and you sinned again after I have
paid a price like that for you I would be upset.
I would have the angel of death following you
around and just waiting for the right time to take
you out on the spot.
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2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 But God is rich in mercy. He is not like
you or I. Thank God.
Let me show you how by
Letting the scriptures do the talking!
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 (2 Cor 5:17-21 NIV) "Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the
new has come! {18} All this is from God, who
reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us
the ministry of reconciliation: {19} that God was
reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not
counting men's sins against them. And he has
committed to us the message of reconciliation. {20}
We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though
God were making his appeal through us. We
implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to
God. {21} God made him who had no sin to be
sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God."
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 (Rom 4:4-8 NIV) "Now when a man works,
his wages are not credited to him as a gift,
but as an obligation. {5} However, to the
man who does not work but trusts God who
justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as
righteousness. {6} David says the same
thing when he speaks of the blessedness of
the man to whom God credits righteousness
apart from works: {7} "Blessed are they
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered. {8} Blessed is
the man whose sin the Lord will never
count against him.""
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 (Heb 8:8-13 NIV) "But God found fault with the people and
said : "The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will
make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with
the house of Judah. {9} It will not be like the covenant I
made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain
faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them,
declares the Lord. {10} This is the covenant I will make with
the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will
put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I
will be their God, and they will be my people. {11} No
longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother,
saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest. {12} For I will
forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins
no more." {13} By calling this covenant "new," he has
made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and
aging will soon disappear."
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 (Heb 9:21-28 NIV) "In the same way, he sprinkled with the
blood both the tabernacle and everything used in its
ceremonies. {22} In fact, the law requires that nearly
everything be cleansed with blood, and without the
shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. {23} It was
necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly things to be
purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things
themselves with better sacrifices than these. {24} For Christ
did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of
the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in
God's presence. {25} Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself
again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy
Place every year with blood that is not his own. {26} Then
Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation
of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end
of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. {27}
Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face
judgment, {28} so Christ was sacrificed once to take away
the sins of many people; and he will appear a second
time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who
are waiting for him."
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 (Heb 10:9-13 NIV) "Then he said, "Here I am, I
have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to
establish the second. {10} And by that will, we
have been made holy through the sacrifice of
the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
 {11} Day after day every priest stands and
performs his religious duties; again and again
he offers the same sacrifices, which can never
take away sins.
 {12} But when this priest had offered for all time
one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right
hand of God. {13} Since that time he waits for
his enemies to be made his footstool,"
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2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 (Heb 10:13-23 NIV) "Since that time he waits for his enemies
to be made his footstool,
 {14} because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever
those who are being made holy.
 {15} The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he
says: {16} "This is the covenant I will make with them after that
time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will
write them on their minds."
 {17} Then he adds: "Their sins and lawless acts I will
remember no more." {18} And where these have been
forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.
 {19} Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter
the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, {20} by a new and
living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,
{21} and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
{22} let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full
assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us
from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with
pure water. {23} Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we
profess, for he who promised is faithful."
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 He made us alive in Christ
 Eph. 2: {5} made us alive with Christ even when we
were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you
have been saved.
 The condemnation of Jews was because of there
inability to keep the law. As gentiles, we were
condemn already just because he declared it so.
He chose Israel - not us. The law was given to
Israel - not us. We were simply dead in our
transgression by nature and by choice.
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 For the Jews all of their doings, sufferings, and
sacrifices, could never atone for one of sin, nor heal
a single breach of the divine commands.
 Even repentance and confession, although
essential as a means of forgiveness for the victim,
was in no way a covering or wiping out of sin cause
by the law. Repentance or confession cannot undo
what has already done.
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 The effect of repentance and confession is
rather prospective, than retrospective. It
says that I won’t do it again in the future but
it does nothing for the pass.
 That is why repentance and confession
were not a requirement of the law –
because repentance and confession doesn’t
satisfy the Law’s requirements.
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 The law of God demands innocence and
obedience, or death; not repentance or confession.
 Man is not obedient or innocent and is incapable of
obedience and innocence in and of himself.
 Something other than man must provide the
atonement through which guilty man can be
honorably released from the death penalty of the
law.
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 For Gentiles it didn't even matter what they
did because they were outside of his
covenant and condemn by choice.
 We needed life through Christ grace, the
Jews needed grace through Christ for
freedom from the law.
 St. John 1:17 - for law came by Moses but
grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 By his grace you have been saved
 Eph. 2{5} made us alive with Christ even when we were dead
in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved.
 (1 John 4:9-10 KJV) In this was manifested the love of God
toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the
world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that
we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the
propitiation for our sins.
 John tells us that:
 Life would have been impossible without the begotten Son of
God.
 The Son was the proper and adequate victim that would
maintain the honor of the Law and grant the Gentiles eternal
life by faith in him.
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2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 No creature could or would have done this for
man.
 No creature can lay God under any obligation.
 No creature can, strictly speaking, merit anything
from God.
 No creature can perform works of righteousness.
 No creature could bear, in a limited time and
capacity, the inflictions of infinite justice.
 No creature ever would (even if it were possible)
make atonement for man.
 Jesus Christ is in every way perfect to become
our propitiation (covering for sin) because he is
God:
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2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 He raised us up and seated us in
heavenly places
 Eph:2:{6} And God raised us up with Christ
and seated us with him in the heavenly realms
in Christ Jesus,
 Notice this is in the past tense. We have
been seated already in heavenly places.
 This is not a future event this is a past event.
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 The mansions Jesus speaks about in St. John
14:1-7, have already purchased by the blood of
Jesus.
 Immortality has already been granted by the blood
of Jesus.
 The work of Jesus at Calvary made it all possible.
 Notice he said you have been raised up. Well, you
say, how is that possible. I'm still here?
 The Apostle Paul tells us how it is possible:
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2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 (2 Cor 5:1-7 NIV) "Now we know that if the earthly tent we
live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an
eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
 {2} Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our
heavenly dwelling,
 {3} because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.
{4} For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened,
because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed
with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be
swallowed up by life.
 {5} Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose
and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing
what is to come. {
 6} Therefore we are always confident and know that as
long as we are at home in the body we are away from the
Lord. {7} We live by faith, not by sight."
God's Workmanship
2: The Riches of God’s mercy:
 (Eph 1:11-14 NIV) "In him we were also chosen, having been
predestined according to the plan of him who works out
everything in conformity with the purpose of his will,
 {12} in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ,
might be for the praise of his glory.
 {13} And you also were included in Christ when you
heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation.
Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the
promised Holy Spirit,
 {14} who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until
the redemption of those who are God's possession--to
the praise of his glory."
God's Workmanship
To be continued
Sunday March 14, 2004
By Bro. Eric L. Frazier
God's Workmanship
Why did He do it?
Text: Eph. 2:1- 10
Key verse 10
Part Two
God's Workmanship
Purpose: To examine what it means to
be a workmanship of God.
Objective: To understand that we have
been created so perfectly, that there is
nothing we do to improve upon it.
God's Workmanship
 (Eph 2:1-10 NIV) "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.
God's Workmanship
 (Eph 2:1-10 NIV) {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."
God's Workmanship
 We are Gentiles and are the beneficiaries of
God's work on Calvary.
The work that God accomplished produced salvation for
the gentile world and freedom from the law of Moses for
the Children of Israel.
 The word workmanship in the Webster's
Dictionary means:
 the craftsmanship of a workman or the quality of a
craftsman's work . The word "workmanship" in the
Greek language is poiema, poy'-ay-mah and means a
product, i.e. fabric (lit. or fig.) a thing that is made. This is
also where the English word poem comes from. I will talk
about the poem a little later.
God's Workmanship
 Our texts indicates that there was clearly some work that
needed to be done as it relates to the gentile world:
 We were dead in our transgressions and sins,
 We followed the ways of this world and
 We followed the ways of the ruler of the kingdom of the air
(Satan)
 We were the children of wrath (both by nature and choice) Vs.
11, 12
 We were godless and unclean Vs. 11, 12
 We were separated from Christ Vs. 11, 12
 We were excluded from the commonwealth of Israel Vs. 11, 12
 We were strangers to the covenant of God's promise to
Abraham
 We had no hope
 We were without God in the present world.
God's Workmanship
What did he do?
 In verse 4 of our text:
 He loved us because of his mercy and kindness.
 {4} But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
 Man has never had the capacity to love and show mercy to man.
 The love that we have in our heart is a gift from God. You and I wouldn't
know anything about love and mercy if it were not for God. Notice the
adjectives that describe his love and mercy.
 The apostle Paul describes it as Great Love and Rich in mercy.
 There is nothing that is greater than God's love and mercy.
 God is love – 1st. John 4:8
 St. John 15:17 Greater love has no man than this than a man who will lay
down his life for his friend.
Sunday March 14, 2004
By Bro. Eric L. Frazier
God's Workmanship
Why did He do it?
Text: Eph. 2:1-10
Key verse 7
Part Two
God's Workmanship
Why did he do it?
 He did it to demonstrate his grace and kindness so that the
world would see the extent of his love for us.
 (Eph 2:7 NIV) "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.“
 God wanted to show us what grace and kindness looked like when under -threat,
persecution, suffering, beatings, shame and death.
 God wanted to show us what grace and kindness looked liked when given to
someone who didn’t merit it and could never do anything to merit on their own.
 Our nature is not show grace or kindness when we are persecuted or made to
suffer. Our nature is to retaliate and to be mean about it.
 Our nature is not show grace or kindness to strangers, or to people who we think
are beneath us, but to show indifference and even dislike.
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Why did he do it?
This was the questioned asked by the Jews
concerning the salvation of the Gentiles. The
answer is:
(Eph 2:7 NIV) "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.“
 This was a spectacle for the Jews. We Gentiles,
who once so greatly deserved his wrath will now
throughout all eternity, display his grace and
kindness.
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Why did he do it?
This is the question of the Jew’s.
 How can evil, unclean people who did not know
Jehovah God but in fact worshiped Idol God’s now
be able to become followers of God?
It was more of a complaint than a question:
 When the Gospel was first preached to the Gentiles
by Peter, it causes great controversy. Peter in a
dream was told to go down among the Gentiles to
Cornelius and his family and preach the Gospel.
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 (Acts 10:44-48 NIV) "While Peter was still
speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on
all who heard the message. {45} The
circumcised believers who had come with
Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy
Spirit had been poured out even on the
Gentiles. {46} For they heard them speaking in
tongues and praising God. Then Peter said,
{47} "Can anyone keep these people from
being baptized with water? They have received
the Holy Spirit just as we have." {48} So he
ordered that they be baptized in the name of
Jesus Christ. Then they asked Peter to stay with
them for a few days."
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 When he return home there was trouble:
 (Acts 11:1-4 NIV) "The apostles and the
brothers throughout Judea heard that the
Gentiles also had received the word of God. {2}
So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the
circumcised believers criticized him {3} and
said, "You went into the house of
uncircumcised men and ate with them." {4}
Peter began and explained everything to them
precisely as it had happened:"
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 His explanation silenced them for now:
 (Acts 11:17-18 NIV) "So if God gave them the
same gift as he gave us, who believed in the
Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think that I could
oppose God?" {18} When they heard this, they
had no further objections and praised God,
saying, "So then, God has granted even the
Gentiles repentance unto life."“
 If you keep reading to the 15th chapter of Acts
you will see more controversy over the Gentiles
conversion into Christianity.
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How did God do it?
By his grace and through their faith.
(Eph 2:8-9 NIV) "For it is by grace you
have been saved, through faith--
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Totally apart from any human effort
or merit.
(Eph 2:8-9 NIV) and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God-- {9}
not by works, so that no one can
boast."
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 Only through the blood of Jesus Christ
(Eph 2:13-16 NIV) "But now in Christ Jesus
you who once were far away have been
brought near through the blood of Christ.
 Our path to salvation is the blood of Christ
– not our effort or work.
 What puts us on the path is faith. Our path
leads to heaven.
 Nothing can take you off the path but
unbelief.
 Not even sin unless it is the sin of unbelief.
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What we now are?
We are the workmanship of God.
It is in Christ that we have our
identity.
He took our sin away:
We now are saints not sinners,
Spiritually alive not spiritual dead,
Save by him not by ourselves.
God's Workmanship
 This why our text says in (2 Cor 5:18-19 NIV):
 {18} "All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself
through Christ and gave us the ministry of
reconciliation:
 {19} that God was reconciling the world to himself in
Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he
has committed to us the message of reconciliation."
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 How is that possible?
 What do I have to do?
Nothing but to receive it with gratitude and
thanksgiving by faith and be born again.
Have faith in His work not yours.
Get your identity from him not the world.
Stand in agreement with the Apostle’s of the church
who declare your righteous by faith: The Apostle Paul
said:
 (2 Cor 5:21 NIV) "God made him who had no sin to be
sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God.”
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 The Apostle Peter said:
 (1 Pet 2:22-25 KJV)
 {22} "Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his
mouth:
 {23} Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when
he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to
him that judgeth righteously:
 {24} Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on
the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto
righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
 {25} For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now
returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your
souls."
God's Workmanship
What are we now?
 1. We are new creations in Christ.
 (2 Cor 5:17 NIV) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new
creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"
2. We have been reconciled to Christ by
God.
We have a ministry of reconciliation.
 (2 Cor 5:18 NIV) "All this is from God, who reconciled us to
himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of
reconciliation:"
 3. Our sins are not being counted against us.
 (2 Cor 5:19 NIV) "that God was reconciling the world to himself
in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has
committed to us the message of reconciliation."
God's Workmanship
What are we now?
 4. We are an ambassador for Christ.
(2 Cor 5:20 NIV) "We are therefore Christ's
ambassadors, as though God were making his
appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's
behalf: Be reconciled to God.“
 5. We are righteous because God made you
righteous, in spite of our sins.
 (2 Cor 5:21 NIV) "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us,
so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."
God's Workmanship
 The benefits of being God’s workmanship
 We stand justified before God because of
Christ. Not of yourself.
 (Rom 3:24 KJV) "Being justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:"
 We are holy, un blameable, and unreprovable
in his sight as long as we continue to believe
the Jesus is the Son of God.
 (Col 1:22 KJV) "In the body of his flesh through death,
to present you holy and un-blameable and un-reprove
able in his sight:"
 We have God’s eternal mercy as a provision
for our unrighteous acts.
God's Workmanship
The benefits of being God’s workmanship
 You have God eternal promise that he will not
remember your iniquities (sins).
 (Heb 8:12 KJV) "For I will be merciful to their
unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I
remember no more.“
 You are sanctified – not of yourself but by Christ body.
 (Heb 10:10 KJV) "By the which will we are sanctified through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.“
 You are perfect forever by the offering of his body. Not
of yourself.
 (Heb 10:14 KJV) "For by one offering he hath perfected for
ever them that are sanctified."
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 The benefits of being God’s workmanship
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13. You are a Chosen, a royal priest, and a part of a holy nation and peculiar people. All because of Christ’s call
to faith in him and your response to that call. – It is not your works but Christ work.
(1 Pet 2:9 KJV) "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye
should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:"
You are blessing with all spiritual blessing. All not some. Not because of your righteousness but because of
Christ’s righteousness.
(Eph 1:3 KJV) "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ:"
You are adopted by Christian and have the full privileges of sonship.
You are totally accepted in his love. It covers a multitude of sins.
(Eph 1:5-6 KJV) "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the
good pleasure of his will, {6} To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the
beloved."
You are redeem through his blood. Totally forgiven – past, present and future.
His blood is great and better than that of bulls, and lambs that took care of pass sins only.
(Eph 1:7 NIV) "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches
of God's grace" - Totally forgiven.
You are sealed with the Holy Spirit because of your faith and baptism.
You are guaranteed your inheritance – a home with God because of your faith.
(Eph 1:13-14 NIV) "And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation.
Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, {14} who is a deposit guaranteeing
our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession--to the praise of his glory."
You were dead now are spiritual alive.
You are saved by his grace. Not by works.
You are sitting now by faith in heavenly places with Christ. When he returns we will see what we believe now by
faith. We walk by faith not by sight – 2 Cor. 5:7.
God's Workmanship
 The benefits of being -
God’s workmanship
 You are a Chosen, a royal priest, and a part of a holy nation
and peculiar people. All because of Christ’s call to faith in him
and your response to that call. – It is not your works but
Christ work.
 (1 Pet 2:9 KJV) "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye
should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of
darkness into his marvelous light:“
 You are blessing with all spiritual blessing. All not some. Not
because of your righteousness but because of Christ’s
righteousness.
 (Eph 1:3 KJV) "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ:“
God's Workmanship
The benefits of being God’s workmanship
 We are adopted by Christian and have the full privileges
of sonship. We are totally accepted in his love. IHis
love covers a multitude of sins.
 (Eph 1:5-6 KJV) "Having predestinated us unto the adoption
of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good
pleasure of his will, {6} To the praise of the glory of his grace,
wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.“
 We are redeem through his blood. Totally forgiven –
past, present and future. His blood is great and better
than that of bulls, and lambs that took care of pass sins
only.
 (Eph 1:7 NIV) "In him we have redemption through his
blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches
of God's grace" - Totally forgiven.
God's Workmanship
 The benefits of being -
God’s workmanship
 We are sealed with the Holy Spirit because of your faith
and baptism. We are guaranteed your inheritance – a
home with God because of our faith.
(Eph 1:13-14 NIV) "And you also were included in
Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of
your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in
him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, {14} who
is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the
redemption of those who are God's possession-to the praise of his glory."
God's Workmanship
The benefits of being -
God’s workmanship
 We were dead now are spiritual alive.
 We are saved by his grace. Not by works.
 We are sitting now by faith in heavenly places
with Christ.
 When he returns we will see what we believe
now by faith. We walk by faith not by sight – 2
Cor. 5:7.
God's Workmanship
 The benefits of being -
God’s workmanship
 (Eph 2:5-6 KJV) "Even when we were dead in sins, hath
quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are
saved;) {6} And hath raised us up together, and made
us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:"
 We will judge angels. Do you believe the scriptures? I
do!
(1 Cor 6:2 KJV) "Do ye not know that
the saints shall judge the world? And if
the world shall be judged by you, are
ye unworthy to judge the smallest
matters?"
God's Workmanship
 How can any believer who understands the scriptures live in fear of
the judgment. If they do it is because of the enemy who has already
been defeated. Do not let him have the victory in your life. If you sin,
thank God for his forgiven and strive not to do it again.
 If you sin again, thank God for his forgiveness and strive not to do it
again. Remember what Jesus said to Peter in Luke 7. He told Peter
that he should forgive seven times seventy. In other words, he
should forgive the person continually until he needs no more
forgiveness.
 God knows who we are and all of are weaknesses. He is not willing
that any of us should perish this is why his Son dealt with Sin once
for all who believe and are baptized in him.
 We should be living godly lives that bring glory to God because of
our faith in what he has done for us. We should be living godly lives
that bring glory to God because he loved us first and hearts are full of
gratitude.
God's Workmanship
 The Greek word for workmanship (2:10) is poema,
from whence our English word "poem" comes.
 God has two treasured poem in this universe
 The poem of Creation - Rom. 1:20, Rev. 4:11
 (Rom 1:20 NIV) "For since the creation of the world God's
invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have
been clearly seen, being understood from what has been
made, so that men are without excuse.“
 (Rev 4:11 NIV) ""You are worthy, our Lord and God, to
receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things,
and by your will they were created and have their being.""
God's Workmanship
 The Poem of Salvation
(Eph 2:10 NIV) "For we are God's workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in
advance for us to do."
(Rev 5:9 NIV) "And they sang a new song: "You are
worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because
you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men
for God from every tribe and language and people and
nation."
 We are saved to be sure.
(Eph 2:8-10 NIV) "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."