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How did they survive? Ephesians 4:2-3 Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. . Simple Power. Ephesians 4:11-16.

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  1. How did they survive? Ephesians 4:2-3 Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. Simple Power Ephesians 4:11-16

  2. The Return of the King "The idea of a crucified god really did not make sense in the first century," says Ben Witherington, a scholar of the New Testament, in Jennings' report. "It's not a message you make up if you're going to start a religion in the first century A.D." • His Ambitious Plan • Christ descended to our lowly world…so that he might fill the entire universe with himself. 4:9-10 • His Opening Move: • “When he ascended to the heights, he led a crowd of captives and gave gifts to his people.” 4:8 • His Eternal Plan: • So that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. 3:10 • Peter Jennings, ABC News: When Jesus died on the cross, he left behind a small and frightened group of followers struggling to make sense of his humiliating end. Most Jews either rejected his message or ignored it. “Yet within a few decades, against all odds, the tiny Jesus movement began to spread, and in spite of ridicule, suspicion and persecution it would ultimately displace the Caesars and remains the dominant religion of the West over 2000 years later…” Thus, Nietzsche observes: What is happiness? The feeling that power increases—that resistance is overcome. What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy for the botched and the weak—Christianity!

  3. The Return of the King • His Ambitious Plan • Christ descended to our lowly world…so that he might fill the entire universe with himself. 4:9-10 • His Opening Move: • “When he ascended to the heights, he led a crowd of captives and gave gifts to his people.” 4:8 • His Eternal Plan: • So that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. 3:10 Everywhere Christianity Spreads: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor . He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives , And recovery of sight to the blind, To set free those who are oppressed, To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord.“ Luke 4:18-19 Thus, Nietzsche observes: What is happiness? The feeling that power increases—that resistance is overcome. What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy for the botched and the weak—Christianity!

  4. How Can God Use Us? 4:2-3 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love…the unity of the Spirit 4:12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry…

  5. How Can God Use Us? Simple: 4:2-3 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love…the unity of the Spirit 4:12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry…

  6. How Can God Use Us? (you & I) 4:12 And He gave some as apostles / prophets / evangelists / pastors-teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry…

  7. How Can God Use Us? “we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ…” v.15 4:12 And He gave some as apostles / prophets / evangelists / pastors-teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry for the building up of the Body until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.

  8. How Can God Use Us? • Brings Us Into Maturity • Not weak children • Not Flakey • NOT Manipulated • NOT Easily Hurt • NOT Wounded • NOT Unstable Ephesians 4:14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

  9. How Can God Use Us? • Bringing Us Into Maturity • Not weak children • Rather: be Like Christ Ephesians 4:15 …we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,

  10. How Can God Use Us? • Bringing Us Into Maturity • Not weak children • Rather: be Like Christ • Rather: WithChrist Ephesians 4:15 …we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, Ephesians 4:16 from whom the whole body…

  11. How Can God Use Us? • Bringing Us Into Maturity • Not weak children • Rather: be Like Christ • Rather: WithChrist • ABLE TO LOVE! Ephesians 4:15 …we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, The power of Love Ephesians 4:16 from whom the whole body… causes growth…in love.

  12. How Can God Use Us? All our problems arise from our immature ability to love… • Bringing Us Into Maturity • Not weak children • Rather: be Like Christ • Rather: WithChrist • ABLE TO LOVE! Ephesians 4:15 …we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, The power of Love Ephesians 4:16 from whom the whole body… causes growth…in love.

  13. What Do We Do? • Speaking the Truth In Love • Truth changes lives! (So do lies!) • When combined with love. • Love changes lives! • When combined with truth!

  14. What Do We Do? • Speaking the Truth in Love • “Love neverfails” 1 Cor. 13:8 DADS! HUSBANDS!

  15. What Do We Do? • Speaking the Truth in Love • Growing the Body of Christ • Qualitative 4:15 …we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,

  16. What Do We Do? • Speaking the Truth in Love • Growing the Body of Christ • Qualitative • Quantitative Hebrews 13:1-2 Let love of the brethren continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, 4:15 …we are to grow up in all aspectsinto Him who is the head, even Christ,

  17. What Do We Do? • Speaking the Truth in Love • Growing the Body of Christ • “Fitting Together Perfectly” 4:16 the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

  18. What Do We Do? Discipleship: Colossians 1:28-29 We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ. • Speaking the Truth in Love • Growing the Body of Christ • “Fitting Together Perfectly” • With each other: every part! 4:16 the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

  19. What Do We Do? Discipleship AIN’T EASY: Colossians 1:28-29 We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ. For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me. • Speaking the Truth in Love • Growing the Body of Christ • “Fitting Together Perfectly” • With each other: every part! 4:16 the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

  20. What Do We Do? 4:16 …CHRIST, FROM WHOM the whole body, being fitted and held together…. causes the growth of the body Discipleship : Colossians 1:28-29 We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching…so that we may present every man complete in Christ…. • Speaking the Truth in Love • Growing the Body of Christ • “Fitting Together Perfectly” • With each other: every part! • With Christ: every part!

  21. What Do We Do? • Speaking the Truth in Love • Growing the Body of Christ • “Fitting Together Perfectly” • With each other: every part! • With Christ: every part!

  22. It’s So Simple!

  23. It’s So Simple! ABLE TO LOVE WHY KILL CHRISTIANS? Nietzsche Explains: What is good?--Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man. What is evil?--Whatever springs from weakness. What is more harmful than any vice?--Practical sympathy for the botched and the weak--Christianity.

  24. It’s So COOL! ABLE TO LOVE

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