Living Beyond Yourself

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Living Beyond Yourself
Power-fullLiving
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3 Blessings

• Adoption
• Redemption
• Sealed with the Holy Spirit

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Paul prayed they would know Him with their minds

• 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the
  Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may
  know him better.

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Paul prayed they would know Him with their hearts

• 18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be
  enlightened in order that you may know the hope
  to which he has called you, the riches of his
  glorious inheritance in the saints

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Paul prayed they may feel Him at work in their
lives

• 19 his incomparably great power for us who
  believe.

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• If you could have any type of power what would
  it be?

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• Paul wanted his people most of all to know the
  incomparable great power of God

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• The Christian life is not just hard, its
  impossible.

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Colossians 19-14

• we have not stopped praying for you and asking
  God to fill you with the knowledge of his will
  through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.

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Colossians 110

• 10 And we pray this in order that you may live a
  life worthy of the Lord and may please him in
  every way bearing fruit in every good work,
  growing in the knowledge of God

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Colossians 111-12

• 11 being strengthened with all power according to
  his glorious power so that you may have great
  endurance and patience, and joyfully 12 giving
  thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to
  share in the inheritance of the saints in the
  kingdom of light.

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Colossians 113-14

• 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of
  darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the
  Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the
  forgiveness of sins.

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• God has not just rescued us positionally but
  gives us the power to be rescued practically as
  well.

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Colossians 129

• To this end I labor, struggling with all his
  energy, which so powerfully works in me.

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Supernatural Power Forged the Church

• Acts 17-8 - But you will receive power when the
  Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my
  wit-nesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
  Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

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• The most common way people give up their power
  is by thinking they don't have any

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The Extent of Gods Power (Exaltation)

• The Sharing of
• Gods Power

The Greatest Demonstration of Gods Power (The
Resurrection)
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The Greatest Demonstration of Gods Power the
Resurrection

• 19, 20 - That power is like the working of his
  mighty strength, 20 which he exerted in Christ
  when he raised him from the dead

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The Extent of Gods Power Exaltation

• Ephesians 120-22 - which he exerted in Christ
  when he raised him from the dead and seated him
  at his right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far
  above all rule and authority, power and dominion,
  and every title that can be given, not only in
  the present age but also in the one to come. 22
  And God placed all things under his feet

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The Sharing of Gods Power

• Ephesians 122-23 - And God placed all things
  under his feet and appointed him to be head over
  everything for the church, 23 which is his body,
  the fullness of him who fills everything in every
  way.

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• Power for Us

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• The feebleness of the church is being criticized
  today, and the criticism is justified. One reason
  for the feebleness is that there has not been
  this focus on the true center of spiritual power.
  We have not dwelt enough on the tragedy of
  Calvary or on the meaning of redemption.
• Oswald Chambers

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Ephesians 610

• Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty
  power.