Grace Nuggets - Ephesians 2 v 19

Ephesians 2 v 19 - So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family.

Because of Christ’s reconciling work of the cross, I have a new position in Christ. I am a fellow citizen of heaven with all of God’s children. I am part of the same household of God and I am now part of God’s building. This is because I am united by new birth into Christ I am now inseparably part of God.

Jesus was raised was back to life and made perfect by his very own blood. The bible says he is the first fruit and the first born among many brothers. That means that just as he was raised and made perfect, so too am I when I believed in Him I was “raised and made perfect. Perfectly righteous, perfectly born-again, perfectly set apart unto him, perfectly right with God, perfectly permanently and eternally saved.

God never intended for me to be righteous of myself but, by faith, to enter into the rest of being made his righteousness. That is why when Jesus walked the earth he fulfilled the six day covenant on my behalf. He fulfilled the law for me. He did the work. And once fulfilled he said, “It is finished.” And then laid his head to rest.

He sweated drops of blood from his brow to break the curse. His body was lashed open for my healing and bled for my forgiveness. The punishment that was on him was for my peace. He became sin so I could become his righteousness. He took my poverty so I could receive his riches. His death was my victory. He is my perfect and complete salvation. I cannot add anything to it but simply believe it and rest in it.

From A Park Bench - A Member of God's Family

Ephesians 2 v 19 -

So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family.

Because of Christ’s reconciling work of the cross, I have a new position in Christ. I am a fellow citizen of heaven with all of God’s children. I am part of the same household of God and I am now part of God’s building. I am united by new birth into Christ and I am now inseparably part of God.

Jesus was raised back to life and made perfect by his very own blood. The bible says he is the first fruit and the first born among many brothers. That means that just as he was raised and made perfect, so too am I when I believed in Him I was “raised and made perfect. Perfectly righteous, perfectly born-again, perfectly set apart unto him, perfectly right with God, perfectly permanently and eternally saved.

God never intended for me to be righteous of myself but, by faith, to enter into the rest of being made his righteousness. That is why when Jesus walked the earth he fulfilled the six day covenant on my behalf. He fulfilled the law for me. He did the work. And once fulfilled he said, “It is finished.” And then laid his head to rest.

He sweated drops of blood from his brow to break the curse. His body was lashed open for my healing and bled for my forgiveness. The punishment that was on him was for my peace. He became sin so I could become his righteousness. He took my poverty so I could receive his riches. His death was my victory. He is my perfect and complete salvation. I cannot add anything to it but simply believe it and rest in it.

Friday's Five - Christ Our Cornerstone

Ephesians 2:19-22

"Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit."

Friday’s five this week contains five truths of our new creation spirit.

Through the cross and the shedding of Jesus blood, Jesus paid the admission for us into the family if God.

We have access into the throne room of God; his presence is eternally with us,

All the time

Every moment

Every heartbeat

Every breath

Every thought

Every blink

Every touch

We are the temple of the Holy Spirit,

1. We are NO longer strangers and aliens – I am not estranged from God. I am not a victim of my sin, my race, my nationality, or my birth. By Christ’s blood I am now a citizen of heaven, my old man has been crucified and I am a new man.

2. We are fellow citizens with the saints – I am a citizen of heaven, every saint that has gone before me is my fellow citizen.

3. We are the household of God – I am a child of God, an inheritor of all God’s riches he has provided for me by grace. I do not have to earn it or work for it; it is all there, unmerited favor, graciously given to me as a gift.

4. We are built on Jesus Christ – I am built on the rock of Christ. When the storms of life batter me, he is my rock, my stronghold, my refuge and my shelter. I need fear no one and my life is hid with Christ in God.

5. We are the habitation of God – I am alive with Christ living inside of me. Christ works through me as I let the same power that raised him from the dead dominate my all. God is not distant, he is not aloof. He lives, reigns and is united with me. His life, flows through my veins, enlivens my heart and directs my thoughts. I am his vessel created for him to work through me.

This short passage in Ephesians gives us amazing truths of all that Christ has accomplished for us.

I am one with Christ, now and forever more.

10 Blessings from Ephesians

“In Christ" we have been blessed with all spiritual blessings.

Our Spirits are alive and our old man is dead and has been buried with Christ.

Jesus died as me.

The spiritual reality is that I am a new creation.

As we believe, mediate in all he has done and respond positively to His grace, these spiritual blessings slowly become physical realities in our lives.

The first two chapters of Ephesians give us 10 blessings we can mediate and revel in:

1. We have been adopted as God's children (Eph. 1:5);

2. We have redemption through Jesus' blood (Eph. 1:7);

3. We have the forgiveness of our sins (Eph. 1:7);

4. We have obtained an inheritance (Eph. 1:11);

5. We have been sealed with the Holy Spirit (Eph. 1:13);

6. We have been given the same power that raised Christ from the dead (Eph. 1:19-20)

7. We have been made the one new man (Eph. 2:15);

8. We have been made fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God (Eph. 2:19);

9. We have become a holy temple in the Lord (Eph. 2:21),

10. We have become a habitation of God (Eph. 2:22);