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Presented by: Tempered Steel Ministries

Changing Our Hearts, Our Habits, and Our Holiness

Chapter 2:11-22


The Way We Were We were dead and deserved God’s Wrath

God has made us alive – by His Grace

The Way We Are We sit – present tense – with Him in Heavenly realms – by His

Grace

Faith for salvation was given – by His Grace

Not by any works we have done – but by His Grace

The Way We Are To Be Willing clay in the hands of a Master Potter – we are His

Workmanship

Willingly doing the good works He prepared for us – to bring Him Glory


We were Outsiders

We were pagans and ‘unclean’ Idol worshipers Anti-religious (infidels)

We had no access to God – outside of Judaism No share in the promises No hope for a future No purpose for our lives


Death and Resurrection of Jesus brought us near A wall separated us, but Jesus destroyed that wall

Laws of the flesh were abolished Transformed by Laws of the Spirit

New Math: 1 + 1 = 1 Through Jesus, God the Father has made a new ‘one’

out of Jew and Gentile.

Hostility replaced by Peace Change is Never easy.


Reconciliation of Jew and Gentile in Christ Jesus extends to us today Reconciliation of God-fearing denominations, men and women to

each other and with each other

God loves doing New Things Singing New Songs – not that the old are bad. Adding to the

repertoire, not replacing it. New Mysteries Revealed – there are things in God that we have

never seen and are being revealed to us bit by bit New heaven and New earth New creations in Christ Jesus – the old is dead and gone.

If the new things are of God, you and I can’t stop them


God makes us His Family members – His household No longer separated by race, history, upbringing, or past

Became fellow citizens We have the same laws and the same values We have the same King and the same Kingdom

Becoming a Holy Temple Built on the corner stone of Jesus, and the foundation of

the apostles and prophets. To show His Glory by the indwelling of His Spirit.


We were far off Gentiles, apart from God, with no access to His

promises, and no hope.

We were brought near By the death and resurrection of Jesus, the wall was

broken We are now able to share in His Hope, and His promises

and His Life.

God is doing a new thing in us and through us.

We are being built into His Holy Temple

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