For
we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
And
you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once
walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the
power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among
whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
just as the others.
But
God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace
you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in
the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the
exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by
grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the
gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
For
He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle
wall of separation, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law
of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man
from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God
in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. And He came
and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For
through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
As we
said yesterday our Lord’s sacrifice we remember daily.
Through
His sacrifice we are reconciled to our source; our Father.
It is
through the Father’s mercy and grace which the Father prepared beforehand through
our Lord Jesus that we can be called His workmanship.
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