“We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, unto good works which God has before ordained that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).

Workmanship (Def): (Gr.): Poiema from Poieo: A product, i.e. fabric (literally or figuratively) something made

God (Elohim) is the Creator (cf. Genesis 1:1). In His capacity as Creator He has chosen to make all things through His Son:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.  All things were made by Him (the Word/the Son) and without Him was not anything made that was made” (John 1:1-3.)

There were two creations: The Genesis 1:1 Creation and the Ephesians 2:10 Creation. In the first Creation, God made Man and gave him dominion over the Genesis 1:1 Creation. In the New Creation, the Ephesians 2:10 Creation, Christ Jesus, the Son was given dominion over all things:

“For by Him (the Word/the Son) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible, and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were created by Him and for Him” (Colossians 1:16).

Christ Jesus, the Second Adam, the Son of God now has “all authority. . . in heaven and earth“ (Matthew 28:18). We, as born again, born from above, born of God (John 3:3; John 1:13) saints of God have by the Ephesian 2:10 and the Colossians 1:16 Creation in the Son become a workmanship of God. This workmanship was created not to be dormant or idle, but unto good works which God has before ordained that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10b).

The Works of the Son now become evident in and through the saints of God, as we were created in Him for this very purpose, to manifest His works unto His eternal glory. These works of the Son are the expressions of His Being, His Nature and His Person.These works are not our works to His glory, but His works through us to the Glory of the Father.

The Person of the Son is a vast study and revelation that is beyond our knowing in this dispensation of mortality. The Apostle John expressed this thought in his First Epistle:

“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is” (1 John 3:2).

In the age to come, after we have been changed from “mortal to immortal” (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:50-53); then we shall behold Him and see Him as He is in Glory. The Apostle Paul writes of this in his First Epistle to the Corinthians:

“For now we see though a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known” (I Corinthians 13:12).

To the extent we see Him now, we see Him by faith and not by sight. We see Him by revelation and in manifestation of His Glory through His Body by His Spirit working in us to reveal more of the Son to us, to the extent we are able to see and receive.

In this present age we are the workmanship, the product, the fabric of the Son as His Mystical Body. We were created in Him to show forth the works of the Son to the world to draw all men to the Son to the glory of the Father. These works of the Son are good works just as the Beloved Luke wrote in the Book of Acts:

“That word you know which was published throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; how that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil for God was with Him” (Acts 10:37-38).

Though our passage illustrates but one manifestation of the works of the Son, the Scriptures are replete with others, whether offices (cf. Ephesians 4:11-12), ministries, operations and administrations (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:1, 4-6), and gifts (cf. 1 Corinthians 12:7-11).

Based on all the foregoing we may succinctly say, out of the Person of the Son flow forth the works of the Son through His Body, His Workmanship, that “we should walk in them.” This is glorious. This is a marvellous expression of the Son through His Body that “men may see your (His) good works and glorify your Father which is in Heaven” (Matthew 5:16; cf. 1 Peter 2:12).

Jesus proclaimed:

“I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day, the night comes when no man can work” (John 9:4).

Beloved, let us walk in the Day, in the Light of Christ. Let the works of the Son be manifest through us while it is Day. Let us look upon His Person and walk in His Light until that glorious day when we shall see Him face to face and know Him fully even as we are fully known to the glory of God.

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