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Today's Music

Made Alive - Citizens

Great I Am - LaRue Howard

Son Of Suffering - Maverick City Music

Your Spirit - Tasha Cobbs Leonard

The Blood Will Never Loose It's Power - Andre Crouch

Today's Liturgy

Call to Worship

See how very much our Father God loves us:

He calls us his beloved children, and that is what we are!

And this is real love:

Not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

And this is what God has testified:

He has brought us from death into eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

–From 1 John 3:1, 4:10, 5:11-12

Confession

When God came to me, I was dead because of my sins, because my sinful nature was not yet cut away.

I couldn’t respond to God. [pause] from Colossians 2:13a

It was God who made me alive with Christ, for he forgave all my sins. It was God who canceled the record

of the charges against me and took it away by nailing it to the cross. [pause] from Colossians 2:13b-14

In Christ lives all the fullness of God in a human body. I am also made complete through my union with

Christ, I have been filled with his fullness. There is nothing I lack, I am whole. [pause] from Colossians

2:9-10

Nothing I do can change the reality of God’s love for me. The works of the law are a shadow of the things

to come, but the substance belongs to Christ, and I belong to Christ eternally. [pause] from Colossians 2:17

Assurance

O Lord, Everything You do will remain forever.
Nothing can be added to it, and nothing can be taken away.
O Lord, You have made me whole and complete by enfolding me with Christ.
Nothing can be added to this wholeness, and none of this wholeness can be taken away.

–From Ecclesiastes 3:14, Colossians 2:10

Resurrected by God’s Grace

Jamaal Williams

1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins
2 in which you previously walked according to the ways of this world, according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit now working in the disobedient.
3 We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love that he had for us,
5 made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!
6 He also raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus,
7 so that in the coming ages he might display the immeasurable riches of his grace through his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
8 For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—
9 not from works, so that no one can boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time for us to do.

–Ephesians 2:1–10

Grace raised you from the dead, and sends you walking in good works.

1. Dead in Sin (vv. 1–3)

Dead in the World – Living according to the ways of this world, where sin looks normal and holiness looks strange.
Dead under the Devil – Bound by the ruler of the power of the air, enslaved by lies that distort identity and truth.
Dead in the Flesh – Controlled by self-centered desires that curve the heart inward and keep God off the throne.

2. Delivered by God’s Grace (vv. 4–7)

Made Alive – God breathes life into us though we were spiritually dead.
Raised and Seated – United with Christ in His resurrection and exaltation.
Purpose of Grace – To display the immeasurable riches of His kindness for all eternity.

3. Designed for Good Works (vv. 8–10)

Salvation as Gift – Not earned by works, but received freely by grace through faith.
God’s Workmanship – We are His masterpiece, a new creation in Christ.
Walking in Good Works – Spirit-empowered obedience and mission flowing out of union with Christ.

4. Application — Walking in Grace-Filled Good Works

Pray Daily – “Lord, open my eyes to the good work you prepared for me today.”
Practice Reconciliation – Live out the unity of the body of Christ by forgiving, listening, and embracing others across dividing lines.
Receive Christ (for non-believers) – Reject substitutes (money, religion, self-help) and testify that only Jesus raises the dead. (ABC - Admit that you are a sinner, Believe that Jesus died for your sins and rose from the grave, Confess Him as Lord).