A WHOLE NEW YOU Becoming the person God saved you to be.
A study in the book of Ephesians. Session 1: “I’ve Got the Power”
Ephesians 1:17-23 Sardis Smyrna Philadelphia
Laodicea Lystra
Aegean Miletus Derbe Sea Perga Tarsus
Myra
Crete
Mediterranean Sea
Jerusalem
The world is waiting to see the person God saved you to be. Ephesians 1:17-23 CEB
17 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, will give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation that makes God known to you. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart will have enough light to see what is the hope of God’s call, what is the richness of God’s glorious inheritance among believers, Ephesians 1:17-23 CEB
19 and what is the overwhelming greatness of God’s power that is working among us believers. This power is conferred by the energy of God’s powerful strength. 20 God’s power was at work in Christ when God raised him from the dead and sat him at God’s right side in the heavens, Ephesians 1:17-23 CEB
21 far above every ruler and authority and power and angelic power, any power that might be named not only now but in the future. 22 God put everything under Christ’s feet and made him head of everything in the church, 23 which is his body. His body, the church, is the fullness of Christ, who fills everything in every way. We live in a world where the power to do good is unrealized and the power to do evil is overemphasized. Paul wanted them to know the power they possessed because of the person they confessed.
“This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honour at God's right hand in the heavenly realms.” Eph 1:19-20 We don’t earn the power, we inherit it.
“God destined us to be his adopted children through Jesus Christ because of his love." Ephesians 1:5 Child of the King - Harriet E. Buell
My Father is rich in houses and lands He holdeth the wealth of the world in His hands! Of rubies and diamonds, of silver and gold, His coffers are full, He has riches untold. My Father’s own Son, the Saviour of men, Once wandered on earth as the poorest of them; Child of the King - Harriet E. Buell But now He is reigning forever on high, And will give me a home in heaven by and by. I once was an outcast, stranger on earth, A sinner by choice, and an alien by birth; But I’ve been adopted, my name’s written down, An heir to a mansion, a robe and a crown. I’m a child of the King, a child of the King; With Jesus my Saviour, I’m a child of the King. Everything we do can bring glory to God if we do it in the power of God's love.
“We are called to be an honor to God’s glory" Ephesians 1:12 "Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted”
Luke 14:11 You're perfectly loved in the power of Jesus.
“we have forgiveness for our failures based on his overflowing grace.” Ephesians 1:7 You've got the power to pull on the resources of heaven and make God visible in this world. God is not interested in what you used to do, because He's giving you the power to become A WHOLE NEW YOU.