Ephesians 3:20 Resurrection Reset

This includes the factory reset, knowledge reset, purpose reset, and the covenant reset.

20 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, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21

Ephesians 3:20 (ESV) 20 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,

is able - can , to be able to

all - every kind of, all sorts of

to do - to cause to be, to make, to result in, to bring upon, to bring about

exceedingly abundantly - very great, excessive, extremely, emphatic, surpassing, all the more, much greater

we ask - to ask for, to demand, to plead for

think - to think carefully about, to consider well, imagine

power - meaning, what is intended, supernatural power, resurrection power, ability,

works - to cause to be, to make to be, to result in, to bring upon, to bring about, function, cause to function

the Hinge Phrase - according to the power at work within us

What does that qualifying phrase mean?

I. Your Factory Reset

A. Reset Through Knowledge

1. 2 Peter 1:2-3, 5 (ESV) 2 May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence…5 (HCSB) For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge…

We need to have our knowlege reset. Paul prayed in Ephesians 1:17 “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,”

He who called us to his own glory and excellence, how” through the knowledge of Him.

Is the knowledge that we have transforming us?

Is the relationship that I have with God skyrocketing?

Do I know how to walk with Jesus?

Knowledge is an important term in this letter. The strengthened form of the Greek word (epignosis) indicates religious or moral insight, as used in NT.

Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains: Greek (New Testament) 2106 ἐπίγνωσις

2106 ἐπίγνωσις (epignōsis), εως (eōs), ἡ (hē): n.fem.; ≡ Str 1922; TDNT 1.689—1. LN 28.2 knowledge, to possess information (Ro 1:28), for another interp, see last; 2. LN 28.18 knowledge, the content of what is known (Ro 10:2); 3. LN 27.4 εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἔρχομαι (eis epignōsin erchomai), learn about, formally, come into knowledge (1Ti 2:4+); 4. LN 32.17 εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἔρχομαι (eis epignōsin erchomai), come to understand (2Ti 3:7+), for another interp, see prior; 5. LN 31.28 ἔχω ἐν ἐπιγνώσει (echō en epignōsei), acknowledge (Ro 1:28+), for another interp, see first

For other uses of “knowledge” (gnosis), 1194 γνῶσις (gnōsis), acquaintance with, knowledge of (Lk 1:77); 2. LN 28.17 knowledge, the content of what is known (Ro 2:20; 1Co 8:1); 3. LN 28.19 esoteric knowledge, religious or philosophical knowledge (1Ti 6:20), for another interp, see prior; 4. LN 32.16 understanding, perception, comprehension (Lk 11:52)

2. Ephesians 1:17 (ESV) 17 …that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

Paul is praying for the church of Ephesus to have the Spirit of wisdom and revelation knowledge of God. he is talking about experiental knowledge, it is something that goes beyond something that is just in your head. It is something that changes you, it is something that you know, and it changes you. This is what we are called to. This is not about a natural knowledge.

3. James 1:21 …the implanted Word which is able to save you.

So Jesus teaches us and writes His word Himself on our hearts and starts to change the way that we think, so that we live the way that He wants us to live. This is a process that goes a lots deeper. As believers, we are not only just suppose to believe different than the world, we are suppose to know different, and more importantly we are suppose to be different. The bible say that they are suppose to know that we are His disciples by the love we have for one another. We are suppose to be different, not just know different.

4. Romans 12:2 (ESV) 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

He was speaking to the Church in Rome, saying you need to be able to discern the will of God, you need to be able to be transformed by the renewal of your mind. So he is talking about getting in the Word of God and experiencing a transformation that comes from mind renewal and really understanding, and having a spirit of wisdom and understanding in the knowledge of Him

5. Renewal” (g0342). ἀνακαίνωσις anakainōsis; from 341; renovation: — renewing. A renewal, renovation, complete change for the better.

6. A RESET! Changing the way you think, to the way He thinks!

When we renew our minds and are taught by Him, we get to think like Him, and our minds are changed, not just our behavior.

Did you know that discipleship in the 1st century was a metaphor that God used? Discipleship in that time was that the Rabbi chose their disciples and what they did was to left what they were doing, and they were with their master teacher 24/7, and learned everything from him. They way that it worked was they were suppose to learn from him and the whole idea was to teach exactly what He taught so that the Jewish people, generation after generation, would have the Word of God taught to them the right way and it wouldn’t get perverted. That was the way they designed it., so thinking that would work. So the idea was that they would be with their master 24/7. From the history, they would watch the way he dressed, the wait he ate, they did everything the way that he did it. They did it so they could take over when it came time for that master to retire or he died. They would take over and taught exactly as he taught. That was a picture because when Jesus was going away, He told His disciples, I am not going anywhere, I am not leave you as orphans, and what He meant as orphans. was what the masters used as disciples. He was saying I am not leaving you, I am not going anywhere, and He went to the cross and they were confused, and they knew what he said.

Jesus came back into them through the Holy Spirit and now we are with the Lord and Master 24/7 through the Holy Spirit, hearing from Him and becoming just like Him. We have His mind, we think His thoughts. In the old system, it was like glueing something on the outside, behaviour modification, this is a full change, Jesus wants to walk with you, and take you to another level. Jesus wants to walk with you day by day, minute by minute, and write on your heart, and lovingly teach you, and train you, and transform you by taking His words, by teaching you and changing you from the inside out. He is right here with us.

B. Your Purpose Reset (The ultimate Reset)

What is God’s purpose for you? Our specific purpose comes out of this main purpose.

1. What did Paul mean, “…transformed by the renewal of your mind…”

2. What did Peter mean: “…through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,”

To be called to Jesus own glory and excellence!

3. Understanding our PURPOSE is key to our RESET!

4. 1 Peter 1:20 (HCSB) 20 He (Jesus) was chosen before the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the times for you…

There are more than five (5) clear verses in the New Testament that explains to us that Jesus was God’s plan before He said, Let there be light!. This is one of them. There is no Plan “B”, there never was. Jesus knew that we would mess up , that what would happen in the garden would happen, and that He would have to send His Son to bring us back eternally to be part and to be with Him. He always knew that. So that is important that we understand that so that reading the bible, every part of it. The bible is God inspired Word. So if God knew that Jesus was His plan before He said revealed in the plan, we should see Jesus all throughout the bible.

5. Genesis 1:26 (HCSB) 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…

What was God talking about? He had to be talking about Jesus.

6. Philippians 2:7 (HCSB) 7 Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men.…

So Jesus took on our likeness,

7. Colossians 1:15 (HCSB) 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

So we see image and likeness used in the new testament.

Jesus said, “I came in your likeness, so that you can be made in My image”., disciples! becoming exactly like Him. Being made in the image and likeness of God. It was always God’s plan. When He said, “Let us make man in our image and likeness, He was preaching the Gospel.

8. Romans 8:29 (HCSB) 29 For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers

Having Him inside of us, being with Him 24/7, changing us from the inside out, teaching us, training us, walking with us, and transforming us into His image.

Right from the beginning, predestined us to be conforming to His image. He came in our likeness so that we could be conformed into His image, transformed into the very image of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. This is so life changing.

9. 2 Corinthians 3:18 (HCSB) 18 We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.

10. “Being Transformed into His image…”, this is YOUR PURPOSE RESET” Reset to Father’s original purpose for you!

C. The Covenant Reset – How do we get there? Trying harder doesn’t work!

1. Ezekiel 36:25 (HCSB) 25 I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

2. Ezekiel 36:26-27 (HCSB) 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will place My Spirit within you and cause you to follow My statutes and carefully observe My ordinances

3. Hebrews 13:20-21 (HCSB) 20 …with the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 equip you with all that is good to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to Him forever and ever. Amen.

4. “Equip:” completely and thoroughly repair and restore, make perfect.

5. Philippians 2:12-13 12 (HCSB) …work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 (NLT) For God i s working in you, giving you the desire and the POWER to do what pleases him.

6. HE WILL DO IT

7. 2 Peter 1:3 (ESV) 3 His divine POWER has GRANTED to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

8. COMPLETE PURPOSE RESET with a GUARANTEE!

9. The Ephesians 3:20 hinge phrase…

10. Ephesians 3:20-21 (ESV) 20 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, 21 to him be glory...

11. It’s in walking in your PURPOSE and being transformed into His image that He does above what you can ask and think!

II. Your Reset In Christ

A. The New Creation Reset

1. Yes, I am a new creation, I got born again. NO! There’s so much more!

2. 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 (HCSB) 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. 18 Every[1]thing is from God…who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;

3. Galatians 6:14-15 (ESV) 14 But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

4. What is the New Creation? YOUR RESET IN CHRIST.

5. Colossians 3:3-4 (HCSB) 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with the Messiah in God. 4 When the Messiah, who is your life, is revealed...

6. No one comes to the Father… REUNITED!

7. Isaiah 43:3-4 (HCSB) 3 For I Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior, give Egypt as a ransom for you, Cush and Seba in your place. 4 Because you are precious in My sight and honored, and I love you, I will give people in exchange for you and nations instead of your life.

8. Colossians 1:27 (ESV) 27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 2 Peter 1 …share in His glory and excellence 2 Corinthians 3:18 … glory to glory …from one level of glory to another…

9. Galatians 2:20 (ESV) 20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

10. Galatians 4:19 …until Christ is formed in you:

11. Romans 13:14 …But put on the Lord Jesus Christ..

12. HIS EVERYTHING IS OUR RESET

a. Peace and Joy

(1) John 14:27 (ESV) 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you…

(2) John 15:11 (ESV) 11 These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

b. Glory and Excellence, and Nature

(1) 2 Peter 1:3-4 (ESV) 3 …who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4 …you may become partakers of the divine nature,..

c. His Love

(1) 1 John 3:1 (HCSB) 1 Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children...

d. His Mind

(1) 1 Corinthians 2:16 (ESV) 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

e. Righteousness

(1) 2 Corinthians 5:21 (ESV) 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

f. His Wisdom

(1) 1 Corinthians 1:30 (ESV) - 30 And because of him[a] you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

g. Abiding Prayer

(1) John 15:7-8 (ESV) 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

h. Pray from Your IN HIM Reset!

(1) Deuteronomy 30:6, 8-9 (HCSB) 6 The LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and all your soul so that you will live… 8 Then you will again obey Him and follow all His commands I am giving you today. 9 The LORD your God will make you prosper abundantly in all the work of your hands with children, the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce. Indeed, the LORD will again delight in your prosperity, as He delighted in that of your fathers,

(2) Ephesians 3:20 (ESV) 20 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,

III. The Knowing Him Reset

A. DISCIPLESHIP RESET

1. Discipleship Transition

a. John 14:18-23 (ESV) 18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while and the world will see me no more, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

b. John 15:15 (ESV) 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made (make) known to you.

c. Exodus 33:11 (ESV) 11 Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend…

d. John 16:25 (ESV) 25 “I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.

e. Numbers 12:6-8 (HCSB) 6 …If there is a prophet among you from the LORD, I make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream. 7 Not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My household. 8 I speak with him directly, openly, and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD…

f. Matthew 23:8 (ESV) 8 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.

B. KNOWING HIM RESET

1. John 14:6-7 (ESV) 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

2. Jeremiah 31:31 (ESV) 31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,

3. Jeremiah 31:32-34 (ESV) 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD, ’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

4. John 10:14-15 (ESV) 14 … I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father...

5. Ezekiel 39:29 (ESV) 29 And I will not hide my face anymore from them, when I pour out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”

C. RESET IN HIS LOVE

1. His Love

a. Romans 5:5 (HCSB) 5 This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

b. 1 John 3:1 (HCSB) 1 Look at how great a love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know Him.

2. Experiencing Father’s Love

a. Experiencing Father’s Love Ephesians 3:17-21 (HCSB) 17 …and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, 19 and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us — 21 to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

b. Colossians 2:6-7 (ESV) 6 …as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him…

c. 1 John 4:16 (HCSB) 16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. (Know - experiential “perceive, feel”)

IV. The Blessing Reset

A. Let’s read what we call “The Blessing.”

1. Numbers 6:24-26 (ESV) 24 The LORD bless you and keep you; 25 the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; 26 the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

a. Let’s back up a bit…..Plan A

2. 1 Peter 1:20 (ESV) 20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you (see also Revelation 13:8, Acts 2:23; Ephesians 1:4)

3. Plan A, Image and Likeness

4. Genesis 1:26 (ESV) 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…

5. The Gospel preached!

6. Romans 8:29 (ESV) 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

7. Returned to His image in Christ!

8. Plan A, The Blessing

9. Genesis 1:28 (HCSB) 28 God BLESSED them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it…

10. Wrong Tree!! Good AND Evil… NEW DEAL!

11. A RETURN PROMISED

12. Genesis 12:2-3 (ESV) 2 And I will make of you a great nation (fruitful), and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing (multiply). 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse (subdue), and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed (fill the earth).”

13. Bless, fruitful, multiply, subdue and fill the earth

14. Galatians 3:8 (ESV) 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be BLESSED.”.

15. “Blessed” Genesis 1;28

16. Romans 4:13 (ESV) 13 For the promise to Abraham and his off[1]spring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.

17. Galatians 3:16, 29 (ESV) 16 Now the promises were made to Abra[1]ham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.

18. 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

19. Now let’s look at the The Blessing again.

20. Numbers 6:22-27 (ESV) 22 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 23 “Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, Thus you shall BLESS the people of Israel: you shall say to them, 24 The LORD BLESS you and keep you; 25 the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; 26 the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. 27 “So shall they put my name upon the people of Israel, and I will BLESS them.”

21. John 17:6 (ESV) “ I have manifested your name to the people…

22. 2 Corinthians 4:6 (ESV) 6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

23. ALL THE PROMISES 2 Corinthians 1:20 (ESV) 20 For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.

24. Jeremiah 32:40-42 (ESV) 40 I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me. 41 I will rejoice in doing them good,.. 42 …I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them. I Will Be Their God

25. Jeremiah 7:23 (ESV) 23 But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

26. Hebrews 8:10 (ESV) 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

27. Psalms 67:1-2 (ESV) 1 May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah 2 that your WAY may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. (Luke 2:30; Titus 2:11)

28. Ephesians 3:20 (ESV) 20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think…

V. Your Personal Revival Reset

WALKING OUT YOUR RESET

Isaiah 59:21 (ESV) 21 “And as for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD: “My Spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, or out of the mouth of your offspring, or out of the mouth of your children's offspring,” says the LORD, “from this time forth and forevermore.” TRANSFORMATION

Romans 8:29 (ESV) 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son... Conformed: joined together with Him in companionship and shaped, adjusted and formed to match His image. New Creations! We’re already in Him, but He’s “conforming” us.

2 Corinthians 3:18 (HCSB) 18 We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit. Why a mirror? We’re to be looking at His image NOT ours!

THE PROCESS

Greatest Revival — Hall of Tyrannus

Acts 19:10 …all the residents of Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. What was Paul was teaching???

Ephesians 4:20-24 (HCSB) 20 But that is not how you learned about the Messiah, 21 assuming you heard about Him and were taught by Him, because the truth is in Jesus. 22 You took off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires; 23 you are being renewed in the spirit of your minds; 24 (NKJV) and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Learn About Him—Knowledge RESET

Taught By Him—Relationship RESET

Put Off, Put On—New Creation RESET

Put On the New Man

2 Corinthians 5:17-18 (HCSB) 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. 18 Everything is from God…

Putting off the ECHO

Colossians 3:8-10 (NKJV) 8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 (ESV) and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

The Word

James 1:21 (ESV) 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls (you). Presenting Prayer

Romans 12:2 (HCSB) 2 Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Put it all together…

Romans 12:1-2 (HCSB) 1 Therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, I urge you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Romans 6:13 (ESV) 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life… ABOVE WHAT WE CAN ASK OR THINK

Matthew 11:11 (ESV) 11 Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Zechariah 12:8 (ESV) 8 On that day the LORD will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD, going before them.

Psalms 45:16-17 (ESV) 16 In place of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth. 17 I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore nations will praise you forever and ever.

Ephesians 1:4 (ESV) 4 …he chose us in him before the foundation of the world

Genesis 1:26 Image and likeness!

EPHESIANS 3:16-21 UNPACKED

Ephesians 3:16-21 (HCSB) 16 I pray that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory (Knowledge Reset), to be strengthened with power in the inner man through His Spirit (New Creation Reset), 17 and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith (In Him Reset). I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, 19 and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge (Relationship Reset), so you may be filled with all the fullness of God (Purpose Reset). 20 Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us — 21 to Him be glory... (New Covenant Reset)

Everything in your life was RESET in Christ

VI. The Healing Reset

THE SEVEN THINGS JESUS TAUGHT US ABOUT HEALING!

ONE: Follow My Example

First Century Discipleship

Matthew 14:28 (ESV) 28 And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.”

Healing The Sick

Matthew 17:14-20 (ESV) 14 And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, 15 said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he has seizures and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. 16 And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” 17 And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly. 19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 20 He said to them, “Because of your little faith…

Proclaim and Heal (do as the Master did)

Matthew 4:23 (ESV) 23 And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.

Luke 9:1-2 (ESV) 1 And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, 2 and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. Sent out the 12 then the 70 Whoever Believes

John 14:12 (ESV) 12 “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

Mark 16:15-18 (ESV) 15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons…18 … they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

So, what we see in the Gospels, in Jesus’ ministry and what He taught, is what we need to know about healing!

The Disciples Learned and Followed!

TWO: Speak in His Name and Believe

Jesus never prayed for anyone’s healing!

Acts 3:6-7 (ESV) 6 But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” 7 And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong

Acts 3:12 (ESV) 12 And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?

Acts 3:16 (ESV) 16 And his name—by faith in his name— has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health…

Matthew 28:18-19 (ESV) 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…

THREE: He Healed Them All

He never qualified or disqualified anyone.

Matthew 4:23 (ESV) 23 And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people. What about Jesus’ hometown?

Mark 6:4-5 (ESV) 4 And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” 5 And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.

If they’re not throwing you off a cliff, get them healed

Matthew 12:15 (ESV) 15 Jesus, aware of this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them all

Luke 4:40 (ESV) 40 Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.

Luke 9:11 (ESV) 11 When the crowds learned it, they followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them of the kingdom of God and cured those who had need of healing. Jesus healed ALL who came to Him; no one turned down for any reason! Just like the Master!

Matthew 17:19 (ESV) 19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”

They knew it was on them. Why? Because they knew everyone was healed!

Acts 5:16 (ESV) 16 The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

HEALING RESET SESSION 2

FOUR: Jesus Knew He Was Paying The Bill

Matthew 8:16-17 (ESV) 16 That evening they brought to him many who were oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits with a word and healed ALL who were sick. 17 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took OUR illnesses and bore OUR diseases.”

Isaiah 53:4-6 (HCSB) 4 Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses, and He carried our pains; but we in turn regarded Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was pierced BECAUSE OF our transgressions, crushed BECAUSE OF our iniquities; PUNISHMENT for our peace was on Him, and we are healed BY HIS WOUNDS. 6 We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the LORD has PUNISHED Him FOR THE iniquity of us all.

He bore the penalty of our sin, ALL it’s results and affects, and gave us His life.

Luke 5:23-24 (ESV) 23 Which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you, ’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? 24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the man who was paralyzed—“I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home.”

Luke 5:25 (ESV) 25 And immediately he rose up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went home, glorifying God. Again, The Disciples Understood 1 Peter 2:24 (ESV) 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. Past tense! If we’re dead to sin and alive to righteousness, we were healed 2000 years ago! The price has been paid. You can’t earn it, so you don’t have to qualify, and you can’t be disqualified

New Creation — the old is gone, the new has come! FIVE: Jesus Knew it Was Promised Small Exception: Jews First

Luke 13:16 (ESV) 16 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?”

Mark 7:27 (ESV) 27 And he said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Mark 7:28-29 (ESV) 28 But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.” 29 And he said to her, “For this statement you may go your way; the demon has left your daughter.”

Ephesians 2:12-13 (ESV) 12 …remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

“The blood” because He bore the penalty.

2 Corinthians 1:20 (HCSB) 20 For every one of God’s promises is “Yes” in Him... Was healing and health part of the promises?

Psalms 103:3-4 (HCSB) 3 He forgives all your sin; He heals all your diseases. 4 He redeems your life from the Pit; He crowns you with faithful love and compassion

Both an Old and New Covenant Promise!

Jeremiah 33:6 (ESV) 6 Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

Jeremiah 33:8 (ESV) 8 I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.

SIX: Jesus and Father Always Work Together

John 14:8-11 (ESV) 8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.

Matthew 11:27 (ESV) 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father...

Accused of not lining up with Father.

Matthew 12:25-26 (ESV) 25 Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand. 26 And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?

1 Corinthians 15:24 (ESV) 24 Then comes the end, when he (Jesus) delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.

Colossians 1:15 (HCSB) 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

SEVEN: The Timing is NOW!

Jesus never told anyone (in Covenant) that it wasn’t their time!

Luke 13:16 (ESV) 16 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?”

Acts 10:38 (ESV) 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing ALL who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him (not working against Him).

Colossians 1:13-14 (ESV) 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

“Proclaim the Kingdom, heal the sick!”

1 Peter 2:24 (ESV) 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

“What’s easier to say…?”

Zephaniah 3:15 (ESV) 15 The LORD has taken away the judgments against you; he has cleared away your enemies. The King of Israel, the LORD, is in your midst; YOU shall never again fear evil.

YOU ARE HEALED! Let’s get the evil off you