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Joke - We’ve been talking about prayer and I came across a humerous prayer...
A wife prayed this… Lord, I pray for wisdom to understand my man.
Lord, I pray for Love to forgive him.
O Lord, I pray for patience… to deal with his moods.
But O Lord, I do not pray for strength, for if you give me strength, I will beat Him to death...
Who are You?
After you give me your name, who are you… really?
At this point most of you are going OK… you have no idea how to answer that question.
Some will identify yourself by the work that you do … nurse, banker, mom, (John Samanie… I didn’t know you were a doctor…)
Some of us identify ourselves by the sports teams that we watch… I’m a Who Dat… or
Religion is another way we identify ourselves.
What Do You Mean When You Say, I am a Christian!
Our media thinks you are a republican… closed minded if you say that… that you are prejudiced, etc. Young people think you are irrelevant…
Is claiming to be a Christian an accurate statement for you today? or is it just a cultural statement?…
like being a good person in the US makes you are good person?
The Book of Ephesians is Paul’s attempt to help us figure out who we are in Christ.
He is not saying that holding these beliefs is what will get you into heaven.
But he is describing who a Christian is and how they think and live.
Paul is teaching us that Jesus should affect everything about how we see ourselves and how we see others.
Paul uses the term “IN CHRIST” as if Christ were the country we are citizens of.
“IN CHRIST”
He is teaching us how different our Home in Heaven is from this place where unbelievers live.
Paul’s goal is not to make us feel better about ourselves so that we think we are better than non-Christians.
He wants to rekindle the joy and hope that comes when we get our minds around what God has done in our lives.
God Wants to Motivate Us to live in the Radical, costly way that makes sense for someone who is “IN Christ.”
He wants us to experience the POG in our lives as we otherwise couldn’t.
Paul was a Jew, who was educated, who came to believe that Jesus was the Messiah.
He also came to believe that the benefits of allegiance to Christ were available to everyone, not just to the Jews.
Paul spent decades traveling through what is now Tureky, Greece and the Balkens… telling people about Jesus.
He did Prison time in various cities and during one of those prison times, He wrote the book of Ephesians.
Does anyone Like Receiving Good News?
Congratulations… it s beautiful baby…Yes, I’ll Marry you… You just won the Publishers Clearing House… You are healed...
Those things are good news, but the Book of Ephesians is good news too, it’s God’s good news.
It’s full of Good News.
It’s God’s Love Letter to us.
Ephesians shows God’s wonderful Master Plan for you and for me.
The story of the paddle boat and the young boy.
Mister, I knew this bot would stop for me - the captain is my father.
How many of you know that when your dad is the captain of the boat, you ARE going to get special treatment.
The God of the universe is our FATHER and He has noticed us… and has blessed us by placing us IN CHRIST.
It’s important to not take our position for granted.
Paul introduces the letter by celebrating the relationship we have with Jesus.
7 Reasons to Rejoice in Christ
1. IN CHRIST, WE HAVE BEEN CHOSEN
The only way we can be holy and without fault in the Father’s eyes, is to be IN CHRIST.
Paul uses the phrase IN CHRIST numerous times to express the relationship that a believer has with God.
When God, the Father, sees us, He sees Jesus and his righteousness because we are in Christ and He sees Christ.
The reason we are IN CHRIST is because we were chosen and we responded to the Lord.
He chooses us, but we have to respond.
ILL - talk about when as a kid you always feared being chosen last.
Thankfully, God doesn’t work that way.
God Doesn’t Call Those Who Fit, He Fits Those Who Are Called
God calls our name, letting us know He wants you or me on His Team, and IF we respond and come to Him, then He places us IN CHRIST and makes us fit to be a valuable part of His Team.
Anything we ever accomplish, or anything we ever have, is from the One Who Called us and has chosen us.
It’s all about Jesus, not us.
God Chose Us IN CHRIST to be Holy and Blameless in His Eyes
That’s how God sees us.
When we are in Christ, God looks at us with the same kind of Love and favor as when He looks at his son - Jesus.
2. IN CHRIST, WE HAVE A DESTINY
God’s desire and our Destiny is to be a member of His Family.
If we are in Christ, we are in God’s Family.
Salvation, and all of the benefits that come with it, are a result of God’s Grace.
When a person comes to faith in Jesus, he or she is adopted into God’s Family.
Adoption is a wonderful thing.
It’s when someone who is not part of a biological family is welcomed into a family and given the same rights and privileges as the other family members.
There are NO Step Sons or Step Daughters in God’s Family.
If you are IN CHRIST, you are a full fledged family member.
God set this in place giving all of us a hope and a future - - a destiny as one of His own.
Our destiny is certain as long as we are IN CHRIST … in a right relationship with Him.
3. IN CHRIST WE HAVE FORGIVENESS
Jesus died for your sins and my sins… the sins of the whole world.
He died for our forgiveness.
Why?
We had a sin problem that we could not fix.
But Jesus paid the price for us with His own life, and that fixed our sin problem.
He laid down His Life for us… you and me.
Verse 7 says that Jesus purchased our freedom.
Other Translations say redeem.
It means that he bought our freedom but the price he paid was his own life.
IN CHRIST, we are forgiven … NOT GUILTY before God… all because of what Jesus did on the Cross.
In Christ, we have forgiveness.
4. IN CHRIST WE KNOW WHO IS REALLY IN CONTROL
Assumptions can be quite dangerous.
For example, the photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fire.
Smoke at the scene hampered him and he asked his home office to hire a plane.
Arrangements were made and he was told to go at once to a nearby airport, where the plane would be waiting.
When he arrived at the airport, a plane was warming up near the runway.
He jumped in with his equipment and yelled, “Let’s go !
Let’s go !”
The pilot swung the plane into the wind and they soon were in the air.
“Fly over the north side of the fire,” yelled the photographer, “and make three or four low level passes.”
Why?
Asked the pilot.
“Because I’m going to take pictures,” cried the photographer.
“I’m a photographer and photographers take pictures.”
After a pause the pilot replied, “You mean you’re NOT the instructor?”
We have to be careful about making assumptions… they are usually bad assumptions.
No matter how bad tings look around us, we must always remember that God is in Control… don’t make bad assumptions.
Remember,
Everything & Everyone in Heaven and On Earth WILL BOW before Jesus.
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