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    Adult Enlightener: 2nd Quarter 2014
    Adult Enlightener: 2nd Quarter 2014
    Adult Enlightener: 2nd Quarter 2014
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    Adult Enlightener: 2nd Quarter 2014

    By R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp.

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    Adult Enlightener (ages 26-45).This book is designed for the career-oriented adult, ages 25-45. It uses language and ideas meaningful to the adult learner who is primarily handling work and family responsibilities.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation
    Release dateJan 23, 2014
    ISBN9781589427778
    Adult Enlightener: 2nd Quarter 2014

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      Adult Enlightener - R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp.

      A Study of Christian Doctrine

      SAVED BY GRACE

      QUARTERLY THEME:

      WHAT IT MEANS TO BE SAVED!

      KEY VERSE: But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved. (Ephesians 2:4-5, NRSV)

      LEARNING SESSION

      Welcome to another quarter of study with Contemporary Training for the Church. Each lesson in this quarter’s study has been carefully designed to help you grow in your love for God and for His Church. Specifically, you will receive in-depth understanding of biblical content that will challenge your thinking and your lifestyle. The result of these lessons is an ever-growing closeness to Christ.

      In this quarter, we will delve more deeply into the wonder and the mystery of salvation. How often do we stop to consider what a blessing God’s salvation truly is? The joy we feel when we are saved is akin to the joy of the prophet Simeon who, when he saw the child Jesus, "praised God, saying, ‘Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel’" (Luke 2:28-32, NRSV; emphasis added). May this quarter’s study help you likewise to experience anew the joy and peace you felt when you were first saved.

      Selected

      Scripture:

      Ephesians

      2:1-10

      BIBLICAL TEACHING EMPHASES:

      RESOURCES:

      Philip Yancey. What’s So Amazing About Grace? Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002.

      I. WE WERE DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS

      As we begin our study this quarter, it is essential that we understand that salvation is a gift. Indeed, everything is a gift for us: our lives, our bodies, and everything we possess in this life. All of it comes from God, the Creator of the universe. In the same way that our lives here on earth are a gift, so too is our eternal salvation. There is nothing that we can do on our own to reverse the results of the Fall. There is nothing we can do of ourselves to restore our broken relationship with the Father. Left to ourselves, Paul writes, we are dead through the trespasses and sins in which [we live], following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among those who are disobedient (Eph. 2:1-2, NRSV). In other words, apart from God, we are enslaved to sin and under the power of Satan. In that condition, we live in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses … by nature children of wrath (v. 3, NRSV).

      This is a hopeless situation. We cannot extricate ourselves from the coils of sin and death. Who can do it? Who can save us? Paul’s answer is emphatic: "But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us … made us alive together with Christ" (vv. 4-5, NRSV; emphasis added). Only God could do this. Only His love for His creation and His mercy toward our desperate condition could save us. Our salvation is entirely the gift of our merciful Creator.

      ACTIVITY

      MAKING IT RELEVANT:

      This week take some time to think back to the time when you were saved. What can you remember about that time in your lite?

      II. WE ARE SAVED BY GOD’S GRACE

      The church in Ephesus to which Paul wrote was made up of both Jews and Gentiles. Its Gentile members had lived completely outside of the covenant community. They had lived according to the predominant notions of morality in the Greco-Roman world. In other words, they gave themselves over to every sort of pleasure available to them. Now that they had come into the Kingdom of God, they were called to a new life of communion with God and fellowship with others.

      This is what God’s grace does for us as well. It restores us to fellowship with Him. But it is about more than that. God’s grace also empowers us to live a life of holiness and purity. Grace, in other words, is not just about a free gift we carelessly receive from God without any further obligation on our part. Grace is empowerment for the discipline that the Christian life entails. When we struggle with temptation, discouragement, suffering, or pain, God’s grace is given to us to help us carry on. When we are tired of withstanding the sins that constantly beset us, God’s grace gives us strength.

      But how does this work? How is it that God, through grace, does these things? In one sense, this is a great mystery, beyond our ability to fully explain or comprehend—at least

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