• 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?