New You Resolution Part 2 Sunday School

Intro

Paul wrote Ephesians on his 3rd Missionary where he was imprisoned.

Paul wrote the prison epistles while imprisoned at Rome:

Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon, and Philippians

Written around A.D. 59-61 to Ephesus

Purposes

The Calling, The Conduct, and

The Conflict

The Calling 1:1-3:21

Ephesians 1:9 NKJV

having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself,

Ephesians 1:10 NKJV

that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him.

The Conduct 4:1-6:9

Ephesians 4:1 NKJV

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

Ephesians 4:2 NKJV

with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,

Ephesians 4:3 NKJV

endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

The Conflict 6:10-24

Ephesians 6:11 NKJV

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Ephesians 6:12 NKJV

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

The Conduct:

New You Resolution

The Calling

Faith Comes By Hearing:

Romans 10:17 NKJV

So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Ephesians 1:13 NKJV

In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

Ephesians 1:14 NKJV

who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

They had heard the truth

The Gospel truth had united both Jew and Gentile in the body of Christ.

Ephesians 2:1 NKJV

And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,

Ephesians 2:2 NKJV

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

Ephesians 2:3 NKJV

among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

Ephesians 2:4 NKJV

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

Ephesians 2:5 NKJV

even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

Ephesians 2:6 NKJV

and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 2:7 NKJV

that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:8 NKJV

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 2:9 NKJV

not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Ephesians 2:10 NKJV

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

We are his workmanship:

poiēma - (object) something brought into existence.

created: kitīzō (created)

to become or be brought into existence

The Conduct

Ephesians 4:1 NKJV

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,

Ephesians 4:2 NKJV

with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,

Ephesians 4:3 NKJV

endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.