The Way to a Whole New World

  • Pastor Dwain Tissell
  • Apr 12, 2009
  • Series: Canvas

THE WAY TO A WHOLE NEW WORLD
"Canvas" - Part 1
Easter Sunday 2009
Ephesians 2:1-10
Dwain Tissell


15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16

1. EVERYTHING GOD DOES IS FOR HIS OWN GLORY.

"Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man."
Albert Einstein


1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. Ephesians 2:1-3

 


2. WE LIVE "DEAD LIVES" WHEN WE TRY TO MAKE OURSELVES THE CENTER OF ALL THINGS.


4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:4-9

3. FOR HIS GLORY GOD DID WHAT NO ONE ELSE WOULD DO; HE DECIDED TO RESURRECT US.


10 For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10


4. ONLY GOOD OUTCOMES BRING HIM GLORY BUT HE STILL RISKS HANDING US THE BRUSH.