3. Take an estimate of the love of Christ from His sufferings. That Christ might be like them, He took human nature; that they might be like Him, He communicates the Divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). Barrow, D. D.)Christ's loveD. THAT THIS SELF-SACRIFICING LOVE OF CHRIST WAS NOT INTENDED TO PRODUCE ANY CHANGE IN GOD, BUT RATHER TO AFFECT THE RELATIONS AND THE DESTINIES OF OUR HUMANITY. It is a desperate thing to refuse this sacrifice, which is so sweet to God. ... Ephesians is the writer's attempt to lead us into a deeper understanding of the length and breadth and height and depth of the Christian faith. His sufferings, though voluntary, were, in this sense, necessary to accomplish the end He had in view.III. why did the Conqueror go up? It magnifies His love because we were unworthy of its exercise.5. It is a duty coherent with charity, to maintain concord and peace; to abstain from contention and strife, together with the sources of them, pride, envy, emulation, malice.4. But from no part of creation, even although retaining its original purity and loveliness, does there arise so sweet and grateful a fragrance to Him as from the altar of the Saviour's sacrifice. (2) The things offered were to beef God's appointment, otherwise it had been not a true and acceptable sacrifice, but will-worship. The text intimates that this offering and sacrifice was acceptable to the Father to whom it was presented, for it is said to be "a sweet smelling savour" to Him.III. 2. Christ's sacrifice was VICARIOUS. Regardless of its physical beauty, a home "shows" better when it is furnished. (2) His humility (Philippians 2:8). So that there is a great difference betwixt these offerings: the former were offered so as to be preserved, the latter were offered so as to be killed or consumed. We read, indeed, of the practice, before we read of the precept enjoining it; but from the former, we may fairly infer the latter. Scripture: Ephesians 4:31–5:2. But this flame, where it is, cannot be confined to the breast and thoughts, but will break forth into action. Yes, of all forces love is the most powerful as a force to act upon others. We are to love as Jesus loved. More than 1,800 years have passed away since it was offered. Nor could He be overruled to anything against His own consent.2. This love of Christ is our refuge. Christ offered Himself a sacrifice of expiation for His people.To give you distinctly the evidence which the Scripture affords for this great and fundamental truth, take it in these severals.1. 1. The other sort of offerings were sacrifices, such as were offered so as to be consumed and destroyed, and to be deprived of life, if they were things that had life. Bible Verse; Newest; Oldest; Most Viewed; Most Shared; Sermon. Click here to stream or download the sermon audio. Look at the faith that never gave way; look at the patience that never was exhausted; look at the courage that never flinched; look at the love that never wasted; look at the zeal for God that was always on fire; look at the tenderness for poor, perishing, lost and ruined sinners.3. It was in the room and place of others — of us all. His love was a constant love; is yours to be changeable and varying? Nor could He be overruled to anything against His own consent. 2. To them this would have been a cold, cheerless place. Not a tittle of His nature which was to be made known to the sons of men, but is unveiled in this sacrifice to their view in a greater glory than the creatures were able to exhibit Him.3. )The love of ChristA. (1) He suffered. (5) In regard of the glory Christ by His sacrifice brought to God. Not a tittle of His nature which was to be made known to the sons of men, but is unveiled in this sacrifice to their view in a greater glory than the creatures were able to exhibit Him.3. My brethren, ye know the sublime explanation! why was it, on the Day of Pentecost, that the timid became brave, that blasphemers stood forth as real penitents before God? (5) What enmity! The small dust of the balance is as nothing to the universe, and the universe is as nothing compared with the Son of God.3. (5) Here is a full ground of expectation of all necessary blessings. Sometimes the path descends into the darker regions of trial and temptation, when the believer himself needs sympathy; and I know nothing more sweet, nothing more soothing, than in such an hour of one's own sorrow to experience the sympathy which Christ shows in the tenderness of His insight into all our need, and to feel that the world is better than we thought it to be when some brother man comes in the warmth of his own regenerated heart and testifies that all is not cold, all is not barren. It is unchangeable (John 13:1). He was infinitely glorious before the foundation of the world, and nothing can be added to that which is infinite. Ye know that it was to prefigure the offering up, in the fulness of time, by Jesus Christ.2. (3) This is the highest expression of love to friends, but Christ did it for enemies, for the ungodly sinful world (Romans 5:7, 8). Such is a man's state, married to sin, in league with Satan, and brings forth fruit, not unto God, but unto them. The glory of God was that which He aimed at, and that which He perfected. If we only wanted leading, He would have given Himself to us as a leader. Read His love songs and see how affectionately He sets out the beauty of His beloved (Song of Solomon 4:1, 3, etc.).2. Why was all this? (3) Hence, then, there can be no condemnation to them that are in Christ. It was to the Ephesians. Ephesians 5:2. God is necessarily yet voluntarily holy.II. Correspondently, love of our neighbour doth imply condolency and commiseration of the evils befalling him: for what we love, we cannot without displeasure behold lying in a bad condition, sinking into decay, or in danger to perish; so, to a charitable mind, the bad state of any man is a most unpleasant and painful sight. But, beloved, perhaps now the savour of it has passed away. Ephesians 5:2, NIV: "and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God." Christ, I say, in giving Himself, gave a sacrifice that was perfectly suitable. He that truly loveth is a voluntary servant, and gladly will stoop to any employment for which the need or considerable benefit of him whom he loveth doth call. All popish doctrines of satisfaction, and all resting upon our own righteousness and inherent graces, are to be abandoned.3. "If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another." The necessity of His death impeacheth not the voluntariness of it. Thus was Christ sacrificed; His dying and bleeding on the cross answered the killing and bloodshed of the Levitical sacrifices, and His sufferings were correspondent to the burnings of the sacrifices (Hebrews 13:12, 13); His sufferings without the gate are held forth here as answering the burning of the sacrifices without the camp. The Son of God had lost nothing if He had wanted this; this did not add any degree of glory to that which He enjoyed from eternity. It is your privilege, let it be your joy. He gave Himself, nothing less than Himself; and that is more, incomparably more, than if He had given all the angels in heaven, all the treasures on earth for us; more than if He had given all the works of His hands. Who would love him whom none loves, who has no friends, who can meet with none in the world but enemies? Who would love him whom none loves, who has no friends, who can meet with none in the world but enemies? VII. Nor could He be overruled to anything against His own consent.2. (2) How poor! God cannot be deceived in His estimations, nor change His value of it, nor can the sacrifice ever become noisome. "Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us. "He gave Himself a sacrifice for us." Ephesians 4:25-5:2. (3) Hence, then, there can be no condemnation to them that are in Christ. He gave Himself for us — what to be? The glory of God was that which He aimed at, and that which He perfected. If we only wanted leading, He would have given Himself to us as a leader. But observe THE MANY PROOFS THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN AND ARE STILL GIVEN, THAT THIS SACRIFICE IS "A SWEET-SMELLING SAVOUR " BEFORE GOD. He did not give Himself as we are wont to give, nor did He give Himself as He gives other things. Correspondently, love of our neighbour doth imply condolency and commiseration of the evils befalling him: for what we love, we cannot without displeasure behold lying in a bad condition, sinking into decay, or in danger to perish; so, to a charitable mind, the bad state of any man is a most unpleasant and painful sight. 1. God has blessed us with spiritual blessings, and has made us his adopted children. So charity doth enlarge our minds beyond private considerations, conferring on them an universal interest, and reducing all the world within the verge of their affectionate care; so that a man's self is a very small and inconsiderable portion of his regard.VI. 4. His engagement was an act of choice, liberty, and affection.2. (4) The person to whom they were offered was God, and Him only.3. why did the Spirit descend? What a wonder that Christ will love that which all hate! Call us at 888-634-2038. Our text intimates that it was the person of Christ which rendered His sacrifice efficacious, and that because "He gave Himself for us." His will stood right to this point of the compass all His life. It was not simply His blood, or His life, or abstractly His human nature, but Himself that He gave an offering and a sacrifice for us. How willingly then should we part with our sins for Christ, and do our duty to Him!(S. It administers matter of comfort to the believer. It is a desperate thing to refuse this sacrifice, which is so sweet to God. But the text intimates that Jesus Christ did interpose on our behalf, and "hath given Himself for us."3. That which cannot be known perfectly may be known preeminently.1. We should wish him prosperous success in all his designs, and a comfortable satisfaction of his desires; we should wish him with alacrity of mind to reap the fruits of his industry; and to enjoy the best accommodation of his life.III. Ferguson, LL. "Loving our neighbour" doth imply that we should value and esteem him: this is necessary, for affection doth follow opinion; that is not amiable, which is wholly contemptible; or so far as it is such.II. EPHESIANS 4:25-32 – THE GOSPEL RESPONSE. "He gave Himself an offering for us." Walk in love as an apparel. He gave Himself.IV. Barrow, D. D.I. It is an act of charity to abstain from offending, or scandalizing our brethren.(I. why did the Spirit descend? The same natures. The Father is said to deliver Him, because the first motion of redemption is supposed to arise from the will and motion of the Father; yet the love of Christ was the spring of all mediatory actions, and His taking our nature on Him; and therefore He is no less said to give Himself, than the Father is said to give Him to us and for us. XII. They are talking about some things that they are intending to … Here we are informed that "Noah builded an altar unto the Lord," and offered sacrifices; "and the Lord smelled a sweet savour: and the Lord said, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake." Not one of the fallen angels have, or ever shall taste of His love; but innumerable companies of men are restored to His favour. Why was all this? )Christ's sacrifice, a sweet-smelling savourJ. There was no external compulsion brought to bear upon Christ which He could not have successfully resisted; but with an entire concurrence of His will, He gave Himself up.II. The necessity of His death impeacheth not the voluntariness of it. A. "Loving our neighbour" doth imply that we should value and esteem him: this is necessary, for affection doth follow opinion; that is not amiable, which is wholly contemptible; or so far as it is such.II. Consider the dignity of His Person.2. As the dignity of the person, so the purity of the sacrifice renders it fragrant to God, and efficacious for us.3. I do not wonder at people saying this is impossible. Duncan.Let us consider —I. It must be ardent. It is magnified in the greatness of His sufferings.3. Go back to the time of the flood. This resolution of trust He brought with Him, and this resolution He kept — "I will put my trust in Him" (Hebrews 2:13), cited out of Psalm 18:2. For Sundays In Advent, Christmas, And Epiphany. I do not wonder at people saying this is impossible. It is an incomprehensible love (Ephesians 3:19).1. The death of Christ for us was most just on the part of God. 3. What is enjoined? "Walk in love." He cannot meet any creature, but harbours a secret hatred, and would be ready to manifest it at God's command. D.I. It is a comfort to a diseased hospital that a physician is chosen and accepted by the governors that is able to cure every disease; it is no less a comfort to a guilty soul that there is a sacrifice sufficient to expiate every sin. He is lofty; he swaggers as he walks; he answers those beneath him roughly. That Christ might be like them, He took human nature; that they might be like Him, He communicates the Divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). (2) It will end into a great misery.4. The necessity of His death impeacheth not the voluntariness of it. THE PRINCIPLES THAT ACTUATED HIM. By His thoughts. Charnock, B. D.)LinksEphesians 5:2 NIVEphesians 5:2 NLTEphesians 5:2 ESVEphesians 5:2 NASBEphesians 5:2 KJVEphesians 5:2 Bible AppsEphesians 5:2 ParallelEphesians 5:2 Biblia ParalelaEphesians 5:2 Chinese BibleEphesians 5:2 French BibleEphesians 5:2 German BibleEphesians 5:2 CommentariesBible Hub. It has not lost one iota of its acceptance before a holy God. Clarkson, B. D.1. "Herein is love"; not complacent love, the love of delight in another because that being is delightsome, but benevolent love. Hence also charity disposeth to please our neighbour, not only by inoffensive but by obliging demeanour; by a ready complacence and compliance with his fashion, with his humour, with his desire in matters lawful, or in a way consistent with duty and discretion. Such were the persons and things which were devoted or dedicated unto God for the service of the tabernacle and of the temple. (2)This love makes Him willing to suffer with us. Charity hath a good eye, which is not offended or dazzled with the lustre of its neighbour's virtue, or with the splendour of his fortune, but vieweth either of them steadily with pleasure, as a very delightful spectacle.IV. Many enter the lists with difficulties out of ignorance, but the willingness of our Saviour cannot be ascribed either to ignorance or forgetfulness.III. He did not give Himself as we are wont to give, nor did He give Himself as He gives other things. (2)This love makes Him willing to suffer with us. The sense of this love should work in us certainly a great fervour of love to God, that may level and direct all our actions to His glory, and make us study to please Him. He was a man of sorrows and sufferings; His whole life was a state of humiliation, and His humiliation was a continued suffering. Because the sacrifice went up as a "sweet-smelling savour," and a descending Spirit was the mark of God's infinite and eternal approval of it. Not a tittle of His nature which was to be made known to the sons of men, but is unveiled in this sacrifice to their view in a greater glory than the creatures were able to exhibit Him.3. Love renders any work delightful.I. The things that God hates he can delight in.2. THAT THIS SACRIFICE IS ACCEPTABLE TO GOD AND EFFICACIOUS FOR US WILL APPEAR IN SEVERAL PROPOSITIONS.1. Sermon Message "(1) As the model of our love. A great asset that gets shared and shared! It is evident in that distinction His love has made betwixt both fallen by sin. 1. We should wish him prosperous success in all his designs, and a comfortable satisfaction of his desires; we should wish him with alacrity of mind to reap the fruits of his industry; and to enjoy the best accommodation of his life.III. We judge of love by the quality or value of the gift. Christ offered Himself a sacrifice of expiation for His people.To give you distinctly the evidence which the Scripture affords for this great and fundamental truth, take it in these severals. And such an offering was Christ, such an offering as was a sacrifice, as the text shows. The Father's appointing Him to be a sacrifice, doth not impair His own willingness in undertaking. Alexander, D. D.)The voluntariness of Christ's deathS. Ephesians 4:25--5:2. (1) It is a great sin. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. (3) That which was offered for a sacrifice was to be destroyed. charity doth hear it with an unwilling ear and a sad heart, although not particularly concerned in it. (5) Here is a full ground of expectation of all necessary blessings. WHY THIS VOLUNTARINESS WAS NECESSARY.1. Now, what did Christ give?2. How unfit, unworthy, unlovely. Scripture: Ephesians 4:32–5:2. H. Evans, M. But a starving man wants something more than instruction about food, or information about digestion, or instruction as to the laws of life and death; and a criminal who is under a capital sentence wants something more than discussions about rewards and punishments, or about human governments and human laws; and if anything is to be done for sinning man, you must do something more than present to him a teacher. To whom is this enjoined? Finally, the love of Christ to His disciples is tender, condescending love. This indeed is a property of charity, to make a man deny himself, to neglect his own interest, yea to despise all selfish regards for the benefit of his neighbour. The sacrificial dedication of Christ for man was PERFECTLY PLEASING TO THE FATHER.(Dr. By this motive be led to present your bodies "a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service."(W. Paul says, "I urge you to walk in a way that's worthy of the calling you have received." So charity doth enlarge our minds beyond private considerations, conferring on them an universal interest, and reducing all the world within the verge of their affectionate care; so that a man's self is a very small and inconsiderable portion of his regard.VI. Charnock, B. D.)The love of Christ seen in His best giftS. The heart of Christ is the refuge we need.2. why did the body ascend? The effects of this sacrifice show the acceptableness of it to God. He willingly offered Himself in the first counsel about redemption to stand in our stead.2. Being independent, His life was entirely at His own disposal; being a partaker of flesh and blood, He was allied to His people, and was thus qualified to make satisfaction in the same nature that had offended; and, being at the same time supernaturally conceived and born of the Virgin, He was exempt from the penalty which Divine justice had attached to the violation of the first covenant, and immaculately pure — and was thus altogether fitted for being a true and proper sacrifice in the room of His people. To walk in love signifieth not one act or two, but the perpetual tenor of our lives; our whole life should be an exercise of love. So, part of what it is to be the reflection of God is to live in community. We are to love as Jesus loved. Clarkson, B. D.)Christ's sacrificeDr. What a wonder that Christ will love that which all hate! The love of Christ is more than self-love in man; therefore it is wonderful. The love of Christ appears by what He has given us; His love tokens. He had given us many things before. Whence that cry of victory — "It is finished"? We have now to DRAW SOME INFERENCES FROM THIS SUBJECT.1. 1. If you inquire on what grounds that sacrifice is so peculiarly and supremely delightful to God, the following considerations may serve to illustrate the subject: It is a sacrifice of God's own appointment; it is in itself a sacrifice of transcendent worth and efficacy; and it is in consequence of these things the means of eternal salvation and happiness to countless thousands of His immortal creatures, and the source of glory to Himself in the highest.(W. If we only wanted leading, He would have given Himself to us as a leader. His sufferings, though voluntary, were, in this sense, necessary to accomplish the end He had in view.III. charity crieth out alas, as if it were itself defeated; is any man afflicted with pain or sickness? Ephesians 4:25-5:2. Clarkson, B. D.)Christ's sacrificeD. (1) How impotent! The heart of Christ is the refuge we need.2. The highest perfections of God's nature had a peculiar glory from this sacrifice. It is a property of love not to stand on distinctions and nice respects; but to be condescensive, and willing to perform the meanest offices, needful or useful for the good of its friend. These unspeakable, inconceivable, unsearchable favours are but streams or drops of love; Christ has given us the fountain, the ocean: these are but sparks and beams; He has given us the sun, the element of love. But, especially, the love of Christ toward His chosen people is evinced by the gift of His Spirit, the Comforter, to abide with them forever.6. 5, 6, 10). It is a great bright world that is yet known to few. Unity & Diversity: To Maturity from Ephesians 4:13–16. The love of Christ to His people is manifested by the revelation which He has made for their instruction; by all the institutions of His Church for their edification; and by all the dispensations of His providence, whether afflictive or prosperous. He hath all things under His feet, all things that are in heaven and on earth. Be Careful: Wives & Husbands from Ephesians 5:22–33 "In all our afflictions He is afflicted. THE PRINCIPLES THAT ACTUATED HIM. For whom is this enjoined? The offering of sacrifices, unquestionably had its origin in the earliest ages of the world. | Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB) | Download The Bible App Now And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a … Many things are voluntary which yet are necessary; there are voluntary necessities. THE PRINCIPLES THAT ACTUATED HIM. It magnifies His love because He did not wait to be asked. (5) Christ loves man as Himself, in some respects more. (7) That, with respect to the end, God and Christ took such pleasure in it (Isaiah 53:10). Let us walk in love to Christians.3. 3. The word love appears in Scripture more than 500 times. (1) Christ loves men more than the best of men love one another. Sermon on Ephesians 4.25-5.2 Ephesians 4:25 - 5:2 So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another. I find here something to REGULATE LIFE. And here I shall show you that it is both a motive and a pattern. Thus, his death on our behalf has massive implications for how we live after we’re saved because if we truly understand what he has done for us, we will share his love in word and deed with others. Many things are voluntary which yet are necessary; there are voluntary necessities. why did the body ascend? When the magnificent work of creation was finished, Jehovah is represented as resting from all His work which He had made, and surveying it with delight. Love supplies the motive-power to all right relations with our fellow-men. USE.1. It was to the Ephesians. 1. What is enjoined? The whole course of His life manifests this willingness. But a starving man wants something more than instruction about food, or information about digestion, or instruction as to the laws of life and death; and a criminal who is under a capital sentence wants something more than discussions about rewards and punishments, or about human governments and human laws; and if anything is to be done for sinning man, you must do something more than present to him a teacher. Not that it is altogether the same, but that it most resembles it. The Upside-Down Kingdom. Did not Christ get much glory by the work of redemption? "Let the same mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 2:5). Necessary on the part of justice.3. He hath all things under His feet, all things that are in heaven and on earth. ... 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