EPHESIANS: Great Grace has Come
EPHESIANS Number 42
Great Grace has Come
As we continue to consider the way our walk, our manner of living, flows from our restful seated position in the heavenly realm with Christ Jesus, our focus is called to the dynamo energizing our lifestyle. We sit, yet we walk. It is so because it is His Life being lived in and through us that is the dynamo energizing our earthly conduct.
Ephesians 4:7 (KJV) tells us that “unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.”
Every one of us is given grace. This grace is given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. This is the Lord Christ in whom dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. In other words, we are each given grace according to the measure of God, the great I AM whose vastness cannot be measured. We are given infinite grace, and it is out of this never-ending never-diminishing supply that our manner of living flows.
Titus 2:11–14 personifies this grace that comes from God. In that passage, we read “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar (special, or chosen, not “odd”) people, zealous of good works.”
The grace of God appeared to everyone, and He brought salvation with Him. The Lord Jesus is the gift of God revealing God and teaching us how knowing Him should, and will, be reflected in our manner of living in this life. As He told the Samaritan woman who drew Him water, like a stream of living water, this grace, this giving of Himself, is never ending. He is our supply and though He supplies everyone, He is never diminished at all.
By this graceful energizing Source, we are taught to deny ungodliness and to live upright and godly lives in this world. He makes us zealous for good and godly works, and it is no surprise since back in Ephesians 2:10 we learned that He had prepared in advance for good and godly works to characterize our lives. We were designed to walk in them. We were designed such that our manner of life should be characterized by them. This is what we are naturally drawn to do while we wait for His coming.
