March 21st, 2021 - His Handiwork Created to Do Work
Part of Sermon Notes
March 21, 2021
HIS HANDIWORK CREATED TO DO WORK
Pastor Matt Lewandowski
March 21st, 2021
EPHESIANS 2:10
ESV: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
NIV: For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
NLT: For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.
1: WE ARE HIS HANDIWORK
We are His
- Genesis 1:27 - So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
**We are
- Psalm 139:13-18 - 13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand — when I awake, I am still with you.
IF, as the Scriptures say, you are His handiwork, then…
2: HE CONSIDERS US SIGNIFICANT // VALUABLE // OF WORTH
He made us
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
The high
- Acts 20:28, 1 Corinthians 6:20, 1 Peter 18:18-19
- He bought us with the
His Spirit dwells within us!
- We are
- We are
- We can be
- We are
3: HE HAS GIVEN US PURPOSE
In creating us for
- So what are the works given us to do?
- That which
- Those