September 5th - Labours of Love

 Scripture Passage: Ephesians 2:10

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Labour of Love
Labour Day
grace, works, work 

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Basics can be so familiar we miss their power.

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We have a habit of starting with sin
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

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But the context is always God and his good creation plan
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world...

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Repugnant Rot Resurrected
Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions

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A Worthy Refrain
—it is by grace you have been saved.

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IDiC (identity in Christ)
6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

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Refrain repeated and expanded
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God

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The danger of what we do
9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

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The delight of what we do
10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, 
which God prepared in advance for us to do.

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You express the artist who made you
  10 For we are God’s handiwork, and will guard you with a hedge of protection,

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Pottery picture

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Your creation and recreation are the source of your purpose
created in Christ Jesus to do good works,

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Table pic

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We enter into God's lesson plan
   which God prepared in advance for us to do.

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What are the good works God has prepared you for, 
and prepared for you?