Life is Tough, but Live Enthusiastically Everyday for the LORD

Ephesians 2: 1-10,19-22
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 
in which you formerly walked according to the 
course of this world, according to the prince of 
the power of the air, of the spirit that is now 
working in the sons of disobedience.

Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts 
of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and 
of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, 
even as the rest.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love 
with which He loved us, even when we were dead in 
our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ 
(by grace you have been saved), and raised us up 
with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places 
in Christ Jesus, so that in the ages to come He might 
show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness 
toward us in Christ Jesus.

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and 
that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a 
result of works, so that no one may boast.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus 
for good works, which God prepared beforehand so 
that we would walk in them...

...So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, 
but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are 
of God’s household, having been built on the foundation 
of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being 
the corner stone, in whom the whole building, being 
fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord,
in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling
 of God in the Spirit."
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