Are you satisfied with God’s love?
We are sealed
Ephesians 1: 12-14
That we [Paul’s Jewish team] should be to the praise of
his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
12
In whom ye also [the new Ephesian believers] trusted,
after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your
salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were
sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,
13
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the
redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of
his glory.
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Are you satisfied with God’s love?
The Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation
Ephesians 1: 15-18a
Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord
Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 16 Cease not to give
thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in
the knowledge of him:
15
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened that ye
may know…
18
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge
of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways
past finding out! (Rom 11:33)
Are you satisfied with God’s love?
How hungry are you?
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Cor 4: 6)
If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell
in you, … [he] shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his
Spirit that dwelleth in you. (Rom 8: 11)
Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength
(Mark 12: 30)
Are you satisfied with God’s love?
Our Inheritance in Christ
Ephesians 1: 18b
… what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the
glory of his inheritance in the saints
Are you satisfied with God’s love?
Our Inheritance in Christ
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name
which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phil 2: 9-11)
God … hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he
hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
(Hebrews 1: 1,2)
Thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name. (Psalm
61: 5)
… an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not
away, reserved in heaven for you. (1 Pet 1: 4)
Are you satisfied with God’s love?
Power
Ephesians 1: 19, 20
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward
who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the
dead…
19
I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it
from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it
down, and I have power to take it again. (John 10: 17, 18)
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for
evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death’.
(Rev 1: 18)
Are you satisfied with God’s love?
Christ is exalted
Ephesians 1: 20, 21
… and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and
dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this
world, but also in that which is to come:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but
have everlasting life. (John 3: 16)
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he
was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through
his poverty might be rich. (2 Cor 8: 9)
Are you satisfied with God’s love?
Christ is exalted
Ephesians 1: 20, 21
… and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and
dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this
world, but also in that which is to come:
[He] made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And
being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a
name which is above every name … (Phil 2: 7-9)
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Are you satisfied with God’s love?
Christ is exalted
Ephesians 1: 22
And hath put all things under his feet and gave him to be
the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the
fulness of him that filleth all in all.
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Are you satisfied with God’s love?