Illustrate this in a young convert passing through various connections in life to old age. ", "Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Nor, again, can it be taken in the intrans. By making the tree good he makes the fruit good ( Matthew 12:33). John Trapp Complete Commentary. For we are His workmanship.—We get our word "poem" from that which we here translate workmanship, lit. They are inspirations of God, they are beams from the central light, they are streams from the uncreated fountain. God is the almighty Artist. For assuredly we shall “work” there.
There are vague instincts within us which are at war with the moral limitations which are born with us. 23 Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. BibliographyNicoll, William R. "Commentary on Ephesians 2:10". https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bnb/ephesians-2.html. A Christian may stumble, nay, he may fall, but he gets up and walks on in the way of God’s commandments; the bent of his heart is right, and the scope of his life is straight, and thence he is deemed sincere. Here note, That as good works are antecedently necessary to salvation, so renewing grace is absolutely necessary to good works; therefore before there can be a good work, there must be a good workman, and that good workman must be God's workmanship, created anew through the power of God.
This does, of course, refer back to what Paul has described. They will die out through disappointment; they will be pronounced impossible unless we discover that they come from the fountains of a Divine inspiration, unless we have the faith and patience of the saints of old who waited, with an invincible confidence in the goodness and power of God, until the words of ancient prophecy were fulfilled, and more than fulfilled, in Christ. Observe, 2. Most of us, I suppose, who have any moral earnestness, are at times very dissatisfied with ourselves; yes, with ourselves. 1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. ‘Faith’ by which we simply mean the act of the mind in accepting and of the will and heart in casting one’s self upon Christ as the Saviour-that act is the condition of this new life. All those acts of love and affection, of kindness, sympathy, and liberality towards the Lord"s people; all those instances of self-denial and willingness rather to suffer than to do wrong; all those proofs of unselfish desire to do all the good we can according to our means, position, and circumstances of life; all that striving after and maintaining integrity and uprightness of conduct in all matters of business and trust; all that strict and scrupulous adherence to our word, even to our own injury; all that Christian fulfillment of our relative duties, and the social relationships of husband and father, wife and mother, which the Scripture has enjoined—in a word, all those works which by almost unanimous consent are called "good" by men, are only really and truly good as wrought in the heart, lip, and life by the power of God. Whoever, then, makes the very smallest claim for man, apart from the grace of God, allows him, to that extent, ability to procure salvation. BibliographyConstable, Thomas. Calovius. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfb/ephesians-2.html. How many of us are to be made perfect by suffering! Only when the faculties of the soul are rightly adjusted in relation to each other, and the will brought into coincidence with God’s will. The disputes on this point at the period of the Reformation were truly lamentable; Solifidians and Synergists battled with mischievous fury: Major arguing that salvation was dependent on good works, and Amsdorf reprobating them as prejudicial to it; while Agricola maintained the Antinomian absurdity, that the law itself was abolished, and no longer claimed obedience from believers. That we may understand what is meant by good works, we must know that there are habits of grace, and there are acts and exertments of grace; and these two are different from one another, because these acts flow from those habits. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/dun/ephesians-2.html. . They are the results He designed in a plan of salvation by grace, not of works.
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