The Church — The Power of God

 Revelation of His truth

 … through the Spirit

 Not just to know about Him

 Scripture, inspired by the Holy Spirit, is the revelation of God's truth, but true personal knowledge of God himself comes through the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in our inner person

 … but to know Him better

 Knowing Christ is one of the New Testament's ways of describing saving faith.

 Jesus himself said in his High Priestly prayer, "Now this is eternal life: that they might know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent" (John 17:3)

 Realisation of Our State

 … of who we are

 … God's people

 learn to appreciate the value which God places on us as His people

 … of what we have

 … the hope to which God has called us

 … the riches of the glorious inheritance

 Heaven

 God's Resurrection Power

 Raised Christ

 "To raise us from spiritual death is an exercise of the same power that raised Christ from natural death.

 What we must see is that the power that raised Jesus from the dead can bear directly on our lives now and at his appearing

 Life-giving power

 brought us from death to life

 … having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. (Colossians 2:12, NIV)

 Life-changing power

 makes us like Jesus

 Ephesians believed Christ would take care of them through thick and thin

 Death-defying power

 will raise us …

 … to glory

 … in glory

 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade–kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. (1 Peter 1:3-5, NIV)