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We live in a physically focused world. We tend to focus on what is in front of us, the things that we can see, feel, taste, touch and hear. Very few of us ponder spiritual things or the spiritual significance of mundane earthly activity. Most Christians, like the lost world, spend more time thinking about
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The second section that we must see in this passage is the priority of the unsearchable riches. We have seen the preaching of the riches but now we see the priority of not only the riches of Christ but the preaching of those riches. Eph. 3:10-11 says, “10 To the intent that now unto the principalities
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In our study of the book of Ephesians, we have seen the repeated message of the believer’s wealth and walk in Christ. The believer’s wealth in Christ is their position in Christ. Our positional identity of belonging to Christ then enables our behavior practically living out who we are in Christ. The walk of the
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Devotions for the Head, the Heart, and the Home Col. 1:22-23 Read: In Col.1, Paul is powerfully demonstrating the reconciling work of Christ. Jesus, through His sacrificial substitutionary and sufficient atoning death for us has reconciled His former enemies and embraced them as friends. We have been reconciled to Christ, by Christ, and together in
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Secondly, let’s look at the management of the mystery. Eph. 3:2-5 says, “ 2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: 3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, 4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may
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Do you want to know a secret? Of course you do, and so does everyone else. We love secrets. We love to keep secrets, be told secrets, and we even love to tell them. Here’s my family secret that I want to share with you. The secret begins with my love of my mom’s homemade
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Not only must we remember and rejoice in our acceptance in Christ, armistice in Christ, but thirdly, our access in Christ. Eph. 2:18 tells us, “18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.” There is no access to heaven or relationship with God outside of Jesus Christ. The Bible makes
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Have you ever forgotten something important only to remember it later? Let’s take losing your keys for example. That in-between time of forgetfulness and remembrance is a vast wilderness. We are making circles. We are lost. We have no direction. Our spouse may ask the ever-helpful questions, “Well where did you have them last?” Of
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The second nutshell truth of life in Christ is that we are saved through faith. Eph. 2:8-9 shows the relationship of grace and faith. You may be asking, “Which is it? Are we saved by grace or faith?” Yes. Both. Always. C.H. Spurgeon rightly declares, “It is not thy hold on Christ that saves thee;
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We live in a day that consumes bite sized media. The days of book, newspaper, or magazine reading have all but gone. In today’s world, both in the church and in the world, attention spans are far shorter. The average consumer of media or information of any kind has lost an appetite for the whole
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