Enlightened to Further Glory

1
Enlightened to Further Glory

• Ephesians 115-19 and the Illuminating Power of
  the Holy Spirit

2
Thanksgiving for the Faithful

• 15 For this reason, ever since I heard about
  your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for
  all the saints, 16 I have not stopped giving
  thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.

3
A Telling Petition

• 17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the
  Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may
  know him better.

4
Further Enlightenment

• 18 I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be
  enlightened so that that you may know what is the
  hope of His calling,

5
The Golden Chain

• Romans 828 And we know that in all things God
  works for the good of those who love him,who have
  been called according to his purpose. 29 For
  those God foreknew He also predestined to be
  conformed to the likeness of his Son, that He
  might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30
  And those He predestined, He also called those
  He called, He also justified those He justified,
  He also glorified.

6
Knowing the Riches of Being Gods Possession

• 18b what are the riches of the glory of His
  inheritance in the saints

7
The Privilege of Being Gods Own Possession

• Romans 831 What, then, shall we say in response
  to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
  32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave Him
  up for us allhow will He not also, along with
  him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will
  bring any charge against those whom God has
  chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is He
  that condemns? Christ Jesus, who diedmore than
  that, who was raised to lifeis at the right hand
  of God and is also interceding for us.

8
Knowing His Power in Believers

• 19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His
  power towards us who believe.

9
Forever in Christs Love

• 35Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
  Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
  famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
•  36Just as it is written,
•          FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE BEING PUT TO DEATH
  ALL DAY LONG         WE WERE CONSIDERED AS
  SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.
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10
Sovereignly Secured

• 37But in all these things we overwhelmingly
  conquer through Him who loved us.
•  38For I am convinced that neither death, nor
  life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things
  present, nor things to come, nor powers,
•  39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created
  thing, will be able to separate us from the love
  of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

11
Entering the Spirits Spheres of
Illumination and Spiritual Growth

• sphere -n- a particular place or walk of life
• Remember the work of the Spirit

12
The Word of God Grow to take in Solid Food

• Hebrews 512 For though by this time you ought to
  be teachers, you have need again for someone to
  teach you the elementary principles of the
  oracles of God, and you have come to need milk
  and not solid food.
•  13For everyone who partakes only of milk is not
  accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he
  is an infant.
•  14But solid food is for the mature, who because
  of practice have their senses trained to discern
  good and evil.

13
PrayerAsk for Illuminating Wisdom!

• James 15
• But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of
  God, who gives to all generously and without
  reproach, and it will be given to him.

14
FellowshipGrow Together in the Knowledge of
Christ

• Ephesians 411 It was he who gave some to be
  apostles, some to be prophets, some to be
  evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
  12 to prepare God's people for works of service,
  so that the body of Christ may be built up 13
  until we all reach unity in the faith and in the
  knowledge of the Son of God and become mature,
  attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of
  Christ.

15
A Most Important Task

• Philippians 37 But whatever things were gain to
  me, those things I have counted as loss for the
  sake of Christ.
•  8 More than that, I count all things to be loss
  in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ
  Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss
  of all things, and count them but rubbish so that
  I may gain Christ