Ephesians-Our battle Manual 1

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We are nothing without Christ.

  • 2 Corinthians 5:14–21 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

  • We are nothing without Christ.

“In Him” we live and move

  • Acts 17:28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

“In Him” we have redemption

  • Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

“In Him” we have an inheritance

  • Ephesians 1:11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,

“In Him” you were sealed

  • Ephesians 1:13 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,

“In Him” you are built together

  • Ephesians 2:22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

“In Him” we have boldness

  • Ephesians 3:12 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him.

We are nothing without Christ.

Forty D’s from Ephesians

  1. Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called.
  • Ephesians 4:1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,
  1. No longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles
  • Ephesians 4:17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
  1. Come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
  • Ephesians 4:11–16 11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.
  • Galatians 4:19 19 My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,
  1. Put off the old man: former conduct, deceitful lusts.
  • Ephesians 4:22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
  1. Put on the new man: renewed in the spirit of your mind.
  • Ephesians 4:23–24 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
  1. Put away
  • Ephesians 4:25 Therefore, putting away lying, “Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another.
  1. Do not let the sun go down on your wrath.
  • Ephesians 4:26 “Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath,
  1. Do not give place to the devil.
  • Ephesians 4:27 27 nor give place to the devil.
  1. Do not steal.
  • Ephesians 4:28 28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.
  1. Work: to give and not to live.
  • Ephesians 4:28 28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.

We are nothing without Christ.

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