Let Us Never Forget Ephesians 2:1-10

In verse four, but God, the sweetest invitation in scripture is those two words, who is rich in mercy because of his great love for us. God never runs out of mercy. He is rich in it. He will never go bankrupt on his compassion for you. The resurrection of Jesus, the cross of Christ, both illustrate the wealth God has in compassion for you and me. He is rich in mercy, and he's especially rich in mercy when he doesn't give me what I deserve. He is he is especially rich in mercy when he doesn't give me what I deserve. [00:50:17] (53 seconds)  #RichInMercy

In this world, day after day, moment after moment, Jesus will settle you in these truths. Truth number one, you used to be dead. Just for for listen, if you're new here, when I say you, I'm talking about me too. Okay? And oftentimes, I won't talk about you, I'll talk about me, but let's just for the sake of understanding, when I say you, I mean we. Right? So you you used to be dead. That's truth number one. He shows it in the text. You used to be dead. Notice how he describes this. Number one, death would mean you are far from god. [00:42:26] (42 seconds)  #RememberYouWereDead

Your sins has led you far from God. You've been chasing a remedy for your soul to defend the to to to to heal the sin sickness in your soul, and you're chasing all kind of remedies for it all over the world and all over ideas and all over emotion. You're chasing everything to fix your sin sick soul. And now you find yourself more dead than you've ever been before because now you've wandered far from God, like we said Friday night, and you don't understand him, you don't know him, you don't see him. You like, to you, God doesn't exist. You are far from God. [00:43:27] (39 seconds)  #FarFromGod

It's a huge difference because several of us today is not good news, and we have forgotten, man, we have forgotten what Christ has done for us because we are investing our lives in trying to get something from God. And so we're doing goodness after goodness and right thing after right thing and good thing after good thing, and we're trying to do it in hopes that, man, God would cover me somehow. And I'm telling you, Jesus did all the work for you. Jesus did all the work for you, and he's left you in a spot to believe and obey. That's it. [00:54:10] (42 seconds)  #JesusDidItAll

and what we are so enamored with, even in the moments where we do become forgetful, is that, man, I'm resurrected by Jesus. Is it because he is alive that I'm resurrected. And so, man, may the resurrection of the Lord Jesus take us and fill up our memories so the next time we get deluded and persuaded and pushed by something, we are quick to remember with a grin on our face, a joy in our hearts. I'm alive because Jesus is alive. I'm not dead anymore. [01:02:16] (35 seconds)  #AliveBecauseJesus

And so because Jesus is making people alive all over the place, let us learn to forget their deadness, and help them and encourage them to pursue new life. That's what a godly friend does. The grave that Jesus laid in is empty today of Jesus. He is not in the grave. If he was still in the grave, then death still has a hold on us. Then our guilt still stays. Then our shame will endure. Our humiliation will rule. But Jesus is not in the grave. But the grave does have something in it. The grave does have something in it. [00:57:57] (66 seconds)  #ShareNewLife

The text says you were dead in your trespasses. That meant that when God came to find you, you had wandered so far from him that he found you in another land that you weren't supposed to be in, and he found you dead, lifeless, hopeless, ruined in pieces, battered, dead, and your dead presence in that land indicates your guilt like blood on a murderer's hands. You are dead. You are far from God. You used to be dead. He says you were you were far from God, and then he says you were dominated, verses two to three, by evil spirits. [00:44:05] (47 seconds)  #DeadInTrespasses

So, check me church, man. Some of us are believers, man, and we we need to repent today because some of us are finding other believers who are still struggling or or or they have walked out of sin and they are walking in new life, and we are quick to hold their old sin over their head. Can can I can I just get a little inappropriate? Ain't nobody like that. Ain't nobody in the world who likes that. And it's not right because if I follow Jesus, I used to be dead, but now I'm resurrected. Because Jesus rose from the grave, I get to live too. [00:57:11] (46 seconds)  #StopHoldingPastSin