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But. But God. My present condition in Christ is not one of death but of deliverance. I’ve been delivered from death and destruction. Eph. 2:4-7 shows us our present condition of being alive by grace while awaiting glory. These verses declare that the dead don’t have to stay dead. The depraved don’t have to stay
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Do you remember every Christian family’s obsession with Duck Dynasty? Everyone loved to watch their antics and appreciated their conservative views. They were real. They were relatable. But, like all trends they faded out. You will rarely hear them talked about anymore. I remember the next show that took the Christian world by storm. Fixer
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Paul’s prayer shifts from rejoicing to making request to God for a very specific need. He prays, as we should as well, that there would be a fuller knowledge of the wisdom and revelation of God. It should be our deepest desire to grow in knowing Christ. The believer wants to know the depth of
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Perspective matters. How you view yourself and the world around you matters. However, how your view of God matters more. When it comes to life, we know how important perspective is. Have you ever realized that you often look at things the wrong way? I do it all the time it seems. God graciously opens
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Devotions for the Head the Heart and the Home Eph. 1:15-16 Read: As we read and study Ephesians, especially Eph. 1:1-14, we are met with the depth, height, and width of what it means to be in Christ. The wealth of the riches of His grace are infinite in Christ. Paul begins in the next
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Continuing to look at the “Receipt of the Redeemed” by the witness of the Spirit that we have been eternally saved and are now eternally sealed. Our eternal salvation and sealing are both found in Eph. 1:13 which says, “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of
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Coming into the final leg of the grand doctrinal, doxological, and devotional sentence that opens the door to the book of Ephesians we will see that all our riches in Christ are safe and secure. As a pastor I have the privilege of shepherding God’s people in the local church. I get to study the
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In “The Riches of His Grace Pt.1” we covered Christ’s Redeeming and Revealing Grace. If you haven’t read Pt. 1 go check it out before you go into the rest of this study on Ephesians 1:7-12. The third jewel of these riches is found in Christ’s restoring grace. Eph. 1:10 says, “That in the dispensation
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The believer’s life is found in the riches of the grace of God in Jesus Christ. Who I am, what I possess (both physically and spiritually), and how I behave is built on the foundation of the riches of His grace. The riches of His grace give us our wealth and guide our walk. His
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We now move on to Eph. 1:4-5 which says, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his
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