ephesians-2:10

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-10

What Grace Has Done Ephesians 2:1-10 Evidently dead men may walk; that is, they may be dead to the eternal world but alive to this world, which is moving past like the films of a moving picture. The death of the spirit is compatible with much active interest in the course of this world. Behind the shifting scenes of the material is the great enemy of souls. As the Spirit of God works in the obedient, so does the evil spirit work in the disobedient. Note this trinity of evil-the course of... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ephesians 2:1-22

The next subject is the edification or building of the Church. The materials of the building are found amid things which are absolutely opposed to the will and purpose of God. From this material God, who is rich in mercy, finds the material for His building. The process is that in Christ Jesus those found are made alive, are raised up, and made to sit with Him. The purpose for which the building is created is then distinctly told in the words, "That in the ages to come He might show the... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Ephesians 2:1-12

Grace in Operation Ephesians 2:1-12 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We know of no Scripture which more beautifully sets forth God's grace than Ephesians, chapter 2. The chapter begins with what we were in our sins. Six things are stated. The chapter follows with a threefold consideration of what grace does for us, when it quickens, raises, and causes us to sit with Christ in the Heavenly places. The third thing is the revealing of God's mercy, love and grace, as it becomes effective toward us in Christ... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Ephesians 2:8-12

A God-Planned Life Ephesians 2:8-12 ; Romans 12:1-3 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We read of Epaphras that he prayed for the saints that they might stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. The will of God toward us should ever be the chief quest of our lives. What does God want me to do, and what does He want me to be? that is the supreme question for each of us. On one occasion certain ones told Christ that His mother and His brethren sought Him. The Lord said, "Who is My mother? and who are... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Ephesians 2:8-10

GOD’S WORKMANSHIP‘For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works.’ Ephesians 2:8-2 Samuel : Life in Christ enters as an invasion to which you have to surrender absolutely, without reserve. Die to yourself! Let Him have you! You are to become His—His workmanship—to be recreated in the energy of His Manhood. Yield, yield then. Let your will... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:1-10

Paul Prays That Their Eyes May Be Opened to the Richness of What Christ Has Brought Them and Has Done For Them (1:15-2:10). Having declared what God has done for us in the overall plan of redemption Paul now reveals in more depth the work He has done within us and for us through His activity in Christ. He begins by praying that we may be given understanding so that we may grasp it, then he outlines the full glory of the resurrection and exaltation of Jesus Christ, and then he shows how those... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:10

‘For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God beforehand prepared that we should walk in them.’ ‘We are His workmanship.’ The word poiema means ‘creation, what is wrought’. In the New Testament it is only used of God’s activity. Thus we are His creation, His workmanship. We are made exactly as He wants us to be. This does, of course, refer back to what Paul has described. Our being made alive, and raised, and seated with Christ in Heavenly places, results from... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ephesians 2:1-10

Ephesians 2:1-2 Samuel : . Christians are Raised and Exalted in the Risen and Exalted Christ by God’ s Free Grace and Gift.— The recipients of the letter, like other people, had been (spiritually) dead by reason of the sins and trespasses in which they formerly “ walked” in accordance with the course of the existing world-order, as subjects of the ruler who has power over the air and over the spirit operating in disobedient hearts ( Ephesians 2:1 f.); the writer in like manner, and those for... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ephesians 2:10

For we, we believers, both Jews and Gentiles, are his workmanship; not only as men, but especially as saints, which is the proper meaning here. The Israelitish people formerly were God’s work, Deuteronomy 32:6; Isaiah 43:21; Isaiah 44:21; so are believers under the gospel, being new creatures, Galatians 6:15. The apostle confirms what he said before, that by grace we are saved, and not of works, in that we are God’s workmanship, and are formed by him ere we can do any good work; and his forming... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ephesians 2:10

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTESEphesians 2:10. For we are His workmanship.—We get our word “poem” from that which we here translate workmanship, lit. “something made.” Every Christian belongs to those of whom God says, “This people have I formed for Myself, that they should show forth My praise” (Isaiah 43:21). The archetype of all our goodness lies in the divine thought, as the slow uprising of a stately cathedral is the embodiment of the conception of the architect’s brain.MAIN HOMILETICS OF... read more