An Epistle of Effectual Grace

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An Epistle of Effectual Grace

• Concluding the
• Book of Ephesians
• Twin City Fellowship Ryan Habbena
• January 6, 2008

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A Plea for Prayer

• Ephesians 619-20
• And pray on my behalf, that utterance may be
  given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make
  known with boldness the mystery of the Gospel,
  for which I am an ambassador in chains that in
  proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to
  speak.

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Answered Prayer

• 2 Timothy 417-18
• But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me,
  so that through me the proclamation might be
  fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles
  might hear and I was rescued out of the lion's
  mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil
  deed, and will bring me safely to His heavenly
  kingdom to Him be the glory forever and ever.
  Amen.

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Comfort from Tychicus

• Ephesians 621-22
• But that you also may know about my
  circumstances, how I am doing, Tychicus, the
  beloved brother and faithful minister in the
  Lord, will make everything known to you. I have
  sent him to you for this purpose, so that you may
  know about us, and that he may comfort your
  hearts.

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A Fitting Benediction

• Ephesians 623-24
• Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith,
  from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus
  Christ with incorruptible love.

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An Epistle of Effectual Grace

• Ephesians 118-19
• I pray that the eyes of your heart may be
  enlightened, so that you will know what is the
  hope of His calling, what are the riches of the
  glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what
  is the surpassing greatness of His power toward
  us who believe.

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Understanding the Power of Effectual Grace

• Point 1
• God, in his grace, loved you and chose you before
  the foundation of the world.
• Ephesians 13-4 Blessed be the God and Father of
  our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with
  every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places
  in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the
  foundation of the world, that we would be holy
  and blameless before Him In love He predestined
  us . . .

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Understanding the Power of Effectual Grace

• Point 2
• God has given you spiritual life by grace,
  through faith.
• Ephesians 24-5
• But God, being rich in mercy, because of His
  great love with which He loved us, even when we
  were dead in our transgressions, made us alive
  together with Christ (by grace you have been
  saved)

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Understanding the Power of Effectual Grace

• Point 3
• God has made you a co-heir of the Kingdom through
  the cross.
• Ephesians 219 So then you are no longer
  strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens
  with the saints, and are of God's household.

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Understanding the Power of Effectual Grace

• Point 4
• Gods grace compels us to walk worthy of our
  calling.
• Ephesians 41 I . . . implore you to walk in a
  manner worthy of the calling with which you have
  been called.
• Ephesians 210 For we are His workmanship,
  created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
  prepared beforehand so that we would walk in
  them.

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Understanding thePower of Effectual Grace

• Point 5
• Gods grace compels us to pray and preach the
  Gospel.
• Ephesians 618-19
• With all prayer and petition pray at all times
  in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the
  alert with all perseverance and petition for all
  the saints, and pray on my behalf, that utterance
  may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to
  make known with boldness the mystery of the
  gospel.

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Remember Who You Wereand Who You Are

• Ephesians 212-13
• Remember that you were at that time separate
  from Christ, excluded from the commonwealth of
  Israel, and strangers to the covenants of
  promise, having no hope and without God in the
  world. But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly
  were far off have been brought near by the blood
  of Christ.

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Remember Why You AreIn Christ

• Ephesians 21-4
• And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
   in which you formerly walked according to the
  course of this world, according to the prince of
  the power of the air, of the spirit that is now
  working in the sons of disobedience. Among them
  we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our
  flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of
  the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
  even as the rest. But God . . .
• 1 Corinthians 1510
• But by the grace of God I am what I am

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Remember the Promise of Gods Eternal Kindness

• Ephesians 26-7
• He raised us up with Him, and seated us with
  Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so
  that in the ages to come He might show the
  surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward
  us in Christ Jesus.