Strengthened by Sovereign Grace

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Strengthened by Sovereign Grace

• Ephesians 314-21
• April 29th 2007
• Ryan Habbena Twin City Fellowship

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Ephesians Thus Far

• The Sovereign Grace of God

• Jew and Gentile are Co-heirs in Christ

• Ephesians 111
• We have obtained an inheritance, having been
  predestined according to His purpose who works
  all things after the counsel of His will

• Ephesians 219
• So then you are no longer strangers and aliens,
  but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and
  are of God's household

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The Father of the Promise

• Ephesians 314 -15 For this reason I bow my knees
  before the Father, from whom every family in
  heaven and on earth derives its name,

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Strengthened Through the Power of the Spirit

• Ephesians 3 16 that He would grant you,
  according to the riches of His glory, to be
  strengthened with power through His Spirit in the
  inner man

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Faith, Love, and Comprehending the Love of Christ

• Ephesians 317-19 so that Christ may dwell in
  your hearts through faith and that you, being
  rooted and grounded in love, may be able to
  comprehend with all the saints what is the
  breadth and length and height and depth
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Knowing the Love of Christ

• Ephesians 319
• and to know the love of Christ which surpasses
  knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the
  fullness of God.

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The Love of Christ which Surpasses Knowledge

• Romans 8 31-34
• What then shall we say to these things? If God is
  for us, who is against us? He who did not spare
  His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all,
  how will He not also with Him freely give us all
  things? Who will bring a charge against God's
  elect? God is the one who justifies who is the
  one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died,
  yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right
  hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

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Glory to the God of All Grace

• Ephesians 320-21 Now to Him who is able to do
  far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or
  think, according to the power that works within
  us, to Him be the glory in the church and in
  Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever.
  Amen.

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The Prayers of PaulGetting our Priorities
Straight

• Ephesians 118-19
• I pray that the eyes of your heart may be
  enlightened, so that you will know what is the
  hope of His calling, what are the riches of the
  glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what
  is the surpassing greatness of His power toward
  us who believe. These are in accordance with the
  working of the strength of His might.

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Recognizing the Significance of the Sovereign
Power of God

• Philippians 16
• For I am confident of this very thing, that He
  who began a good work in you will perfect it
  until the day of Christ Jesus.

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Why We Need Strength from Above

• Ephesians 610 -13
• Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the
  strength of His might. Put on the full armor of
  God, so that you will be able to stand firm
  against the schemes of the devil. For our
  struggle is not against flesh and blood, but
  against the rulers, against the powers, against
  the world forces of this darkness, against the
  spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly
  places. Therefore, take up the full armor of
  God, so that you will be able to resist in the
  evil day, and having done everything, to stand
  firm.

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Be Nourished by The Word of God

• 1 Peter 22
• Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of
  the word, so that by it you may grow in respect
  to salvation.

• Hebrews 513-14
• For everyone who partakes only of milk is not
  accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he
  is an infant. But solid food is for the mature,
  who because of practice have their senses trained
  to discern good and evil.

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Take Up the Sword of the Spirit

• Ephesians 517
• And take . . . The sword of the Spirit, which is
  the word of God