- What is Paul thinking of?
- Is it important?
- Eph 3:1 Eph 3:14 Repeated thought! Important?
- We are blessed with every spiritual blessing Eph 1:3
- Because we are united with Christ.
- God Chose us to be holy and without fault in His eyes ( We are innocent) 1:4
- God has adopted us 1:5
- Through Christ Jesus
- It gave Him pleasure
- He is rich in kindness and grace
- He purchased our freedom with the blood of Christ
- forgave our sins
- Showered His kindness on us
- along with wisdom
- and understanding
- We are under the authority of Christ 1:10
- We received an inheritance 1:11
- God makes everything work according to HIs plan.
- We are identified as His own 1:13
- He has given us His Spirit
- We are guaranteed this inheritance.
- He purchase us so that we can praise and glorify Him.
- This is our identity.
- Understand the power of this
- Paul is praying that we understand this
- That we understand the implications of who we are because of who’s we are.
- Christ is now the authority of everything
- Both in this world
- and in the one to come.
- We are made compete in Christ
- Chapter 2
- We are alive with Christ
- We are free from sin
- We used to be under the power of sin
- now we are free
- We used to obey Satan
- Now we can obey Christ
- We are seated in the heavenly realms with Christ 2:6
- Because we are united with Christ
- We are an eternal testimony of God’s great mercy and kindness
- We are saved totally by God’s gracious gift. We can not save ourselves
- We are citizens with the people of Israel (True Jews, sons of Abraham)
- We have been brought near to God
- We believers, globally are one with each other and with Christ
- The Law is done away with. 2:15
- We are reconciled to God with all believers 2:16
- We are members of God’s family 2:19
- We are God’s house 2:20
3:14-21
- Paul is praying that we would truly understand and receive all of this
- That we would be empowered by the Spirit of God
- From His unlimited resources
- Through His Spirit
- That we would understand the Love of God for us
- How great it is
- That we would experience it
- Then we would be made complete
- With the fullness of life
- and the power that comes from God
- God wants us to understand who we are
- God wants us to understand Who’s we are
- God gets all the glory for what He does in and through us
- If we don’t understand who we are we can’t bring glory to God
- If we understand who we are and walk that:
- What would we do
- How would we behave
- what would life be like?