Brought Near
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Brought Near: Ephesians 2:11-22
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God's Great Power Toward Us
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Though we willingly walked in the way of this ungodly world doing what the devil and we ourselves wanted, God extends His mercy toward us because He loves us and knows we are helplessly entrapped in our own snare.
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Lord, Help Us See
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We, too, like Elisha’s servant and the believers of Ephesus struggle to see spiritual realities. Like Elisha, Paul prays God the Father open the eyes of the Ephesians that they may see, understand and be transformed by the spiritual realities of which they are now part. So, also, ought we to pray for ourselves and one another.
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God Did All This For Us?!
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Contrary to the impulsive, unpredictable and self-serving ways of the gods, the Ephesians are coming to know that the true God is loving, gracious and centered on His human family to reconcile and restore them through Jesus to the warm, loving, personal relationship for which He created them in the beginning.
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Ephesians - Introduction
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The Apostle Paul wrote this letter to Jewish and Gentile believers who were members of house churches located in and around the ancient city of Ephesus.
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Marriage Vows?
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Love does not insist on its own way. Love is not irritable or resentful. Love bears, believes, hopes, and endures all things.
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Not The End
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Not The End
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The Response to the Death of Jesus the Messiah
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The response of: Judas, deep regret leading to death. The Religious Leaders, Hostile rejection. Pilate, Indifference. The Centurian, Profound Confession. Nature, Cosmic Protest. God, Wrath applied. Jesus, Sacrificial Obedience. What is your response to the death of Jesus the Messiah?
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Lies, Lies, and More Lies
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These religious leaders have determined to condemn Jesus at any cost, clearly violating the very LAW that they pretend to hold so preeminent. They had a conviction and were in search of a crime.
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The Battle Within
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Facing the darkest hours of His human existence, Jesus masters His flesh and brings it into submission to His spirit which is committed to doing His Father's will. In contrast, the flesh has the upper hand and undermines the desire of the disciples to be loyal to Jesus.
info_outlineThe Apostle Paul explicitly forbids his readers from paying attention to any Pseudepigraphal myths. Therefore neither Jesus nor the Apostles, even if they were aware of them, would ever use the Valley of Hinnom as a metaphor for hell even if there was an example of that equivalence in these fantasies.