An Uncovered Mystery • Ephesians Chapter 3

An Uncovered MysteryOctober 24 2021 • Ephesians • Week 3Teacher: Adam Barnett---Ephesians 3:6 NIVThis mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.Galatians 3:28 NIVThere is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 3:14-19 NIVFor this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 1. Strength in the Inner Man2 Corinthians 4:11 NIVTherefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 2. The Indwelling ChristRobert Munger"The Christian life is like a house through which Jesus goes from room to room. In the library, which is the mind, Jesus finds trash and all sorts of worthless things, which he throws out and replaces with His word. In the dining room of the appetite, he finds many sinful desires listed on a worldly menu. In the place of such things as prestige, lust, and materialism, he puts humility, meekness, love, and all other virtues for which believers are to hunger and thirst. He goes into the closet, where hidden sins are kept, and so on through the entire house. Only when he had cleaned every room, closet, and corner of sin and foolishness could Christ settle down and be at home. To have Christ dwell in our hearts through faith means he is at home in every corner of our lives." 3. The Boundless Dimensions of Christ's Love 4. The Fullness of GodEphesians 3:20-21 NIVNow to him who is able to do immeasurably more that all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.