Part 2| “The Antidote to Spiritual Amnesia”
The book of Ephesians is the Christians’ roadmap for life in a world that’s not our home. We are strange to this world. We are not of this world. This book repeatedly calls us to think of ourselves as different. For that is what we are. And we rejoice in that fact because HE has made us that way. Christian, instead of focusing on how the world may not welcome you, rejoice that heaven embraces you. You are blessed in the heavenly places with every spiritual blessing in Christ. You are “Blessed Strangers.”
From Ephesians 1:15-23
Ephesians 1-3 Who we .
Ephesians 4-6 What we .
We can about … but can cause us to .
📖 Ephesians 1:16 (ESV) I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers
is our to in the of Christ.
📖 Ephesians 1:17-18 (ESV) that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know…
The of Paul’s prayer: that might and His available to them.
PRAY to KNOW and UNDERSTAND:
1.The of .
📖 Ephesians 1:18 (ESV) having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you
God’s call on your life is and .
📖 Psalm 139:1-3 (ESV) O LORD, you have searched me and known me! 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3 You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.
📖 Psalm 139:7-8 (ESV) Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
📖 Psalm 139:13-14 (ESV) For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
📖 Psalm 139:16 (NLT) You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
TRUTH: My is God’s , in God’s , and will be for God’s .
PRAY to KNOW and UNDERSTAND:
2. My to God and His to me.
📖 Ephesians 1:18 (ESV) …what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints
A. I BELONG to GOD – THEREFORE: He never .
📖 John 10:27-29 (ESV) My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
📖 John 6:37 (ESV) All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and whoever comes to Me I will never cast out.
B. I BELONG to GOD – THEREFORE: He in .
📖 Colossians 2:10 (ESV) and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.
📖 2 Timothy 1:14 (ESV) By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.
C. God BELONGS to ME – THEREFORE: I’m for in .
📖 Philippians 4:19 (ESV) And MY God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
D. God BELONGS to ME- THEREFORE: I’m not for .
📖 Psalm 23:1 (ESV) The LORD is MY shepherd; I shall not want.
PRAY to KNOW and UNDERSTAND:
3. The of God to .
📖 Ephesians 1:19 (ESV) and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might…
TRUTH: God’s is in my life in ways I may not presently .
📖 Ephesians 1:20-21 (ESV) that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
📖 2 Corinthians 12:9 (ESV) “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Sermon in a Sentence:
Prayer is the that opens my to God’s on my , of my , and in every .
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