Part 6 | “Finding the Power to Fulfill Your Purpose”
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 3:14-21
Ephesians 1-3 is about we .
Ephesians 4-6 is about we .
📖 Acts 1:8 (ESV) But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
📖 Romans 15:13 (ESV) May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
📖 1 Corinthians 4:20 (ESV) For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.
📖 James 5:16 (ESV) The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
📖 2 Peters 1:3 (ESV) His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him…
📖 2 Timothy 1:7 (ESV) for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
📖 Ephesians 3:20 (ESV) Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us.
are designed to in the .
The Christian’s POWER is:
1. through sincere .
📖 Ephesians 3:14 (ESV) For this reason I bow my knees before the Father.
📖 James 4:8-10 (ESV) Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
The Christian’s POWER is:
2. before .
📖 Ephesians 3:16 (ESV) that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—
When God’s is working you whatever working you does not you.
📖 2 Corinthians 4:8-9 (NLT) We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.
📖 Romans 8:35-37 (ESV) Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
The Christian’s POWER is:
3. by God’s for me.
📖 Ephesians 3:17b-19 (ESV) that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
The and the ground me in the of God.
The Christian’s POWER is:
4. our and our .
📖 Ephesians 3:20-21 (ESV) Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
The Christian’s POWER is:
5. Is for the of .
📖 Ephesians 3:21 (ESV) to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Sermon in a Sentence:
There’s to be experienced in me through the , and God has for me so that I, no matter where I am, can His .
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