Dr. McKellar’s Lesson for September 15, 2019

Gripped by Grace

Ephesians 2:1-10

-The undeserved character of what God has done for you in Christ should compel you to be a living testimony of His grace.

1. Grasp the depiction of your condition without Christ (1-3)

• dead in trespasses and sins
• enslaved by the world, the devil and the flesh
• condemned as children of wrath

2. Grasp the design of God’s rescue through Christ (4-7)

• the mighty adversative
• the main verb (5)
• marked by mercy
• meant to demonstrate

3. Grasp the description of God’s creation in Christ (8-10)

• saved by grace through faith
• recipients of God’s gift
• workmanship created in Christ Jesus (identity)
• for good works (activity) (Eph. 4:1)

4. So What?

• “What do you and I boast about? What subject of conversation most arouses us and fills our hearts? Do we consider knowing God to be the greatest treasure in the world, and by far our greatest privilege? If not, we are but pygmies in the world of the Spirit…We have sold our Christian birthright for a mess of pottage and our true Christian experience will be superficial, inadequate and tragically out of focus.” (S. Ferguson)
• “Nothing sets a man so outside the devil’s reach as humility.” (J. Edwards)
• “We are saved by grace. We grow by grace. We get home by grace.” (J. MacGorman)