Memorial Day is an important day in our country. It is the day we honor the sacrifices of men and women who serve our country. Unfortunately, Sacrifice has become a dirty word in our society. We need to talk back he battle for this word. We need to learn to appreciate what others do for us, and express that by saying, “Thank you, for your service!” In S2 Corinthians 12:15 Paul writes to the church at Corinth, “I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.” we need to understand that a sacrifice is something we do willingly. The motivation may not be country, the motivation may not be the service entity, but the motivation is always seen in the men and women whoa re sacrificing beside you. The motivation is our love for the faces that we see in our minds that cannot do this work themselves., but need us to provide this service for them. You never serve to get, but you serve to give. the amazing reality is that when we sacrifice out of love, we gain some amazing benefits, which we often … READ MORE

To encourage believers who doubt the power of Christ in their lives, Paul, In Ephesians 2:1-10, reminds them that if God was powerful and loving enough to give them spiritual life “together with Christ,” He is certainly able to sustain that life. When we become Christians we are no longer alienated from the life of God. For the firs time we can understand spiritual truth and desire spiritual things. Not only are we dead to sin and alive to righteousness through His resurrection, but we also enjoy His exaltation and share in His preeminent glory. The purpose for this position, is “in order that the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:7). When we accept the finished work of Christ on our behalf, we act by the faith supplied by God’s grace. Human effort has nothing to do with it, and thus, no one should boast, as if they had any part in that salvation. Although good works have no part in gaining our salvation, they have a great deal to do with living out our salvation. God saves us to serve, not to sit!!!! (James … READ MORE

Ephesians 2:1-3 characterizes a life that does not have Christ. Man does not BECOME spiritually dead because he sins, he is spiritually dead because by nature he is sinful. Our condition has nothing to do with the way we live, but it has everything to do with the fact that we are dead spiritually even while we are alive physically. A person who is spiritually dead has no life by which they can respond to spiritual things. In other words committing sinful acts does not make us sinners: we commit sinful acts because we are sinners. While we may vary greatly in our levels of human goodness and wickedness, we still fall short of God’s holiness, (Romans 2:23). Paul’s purpose in verses 1-3 is not to show how unsaved people live, but to remind believers how they themselves “formerly walked and formerly lived.” Because of Christ’s past work salvation in us \, we are presently and eternally under His love and delivered from the natural human condition of death, sin, lust and divine judgment. Remember my friends, Salvation is FROM sin and BY love. God’s mercy and love provide a way for believers to participate in the righteousness of His … READ MORE