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GRACE to YOU

GRACE to YOU. KIF Spring 2011 Sermon Series - Ephesians. A Living Death vs. A Dying Life. KIF Spring 2011 Sermon Series - Ephesians. Ephesians The Body of Christ. Incarnation I. Incarnation II. Jesus: God Incarnate. Church: God Incarnate. Romans 12:6-21. Romans 12:6-21.

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GRACE to YOU

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  1. GRACE to YOU KIF Spring 2011 Sermon Series - Ephesians

  2. A Living Death vs. A Dying Life KIF Spring 2011 Sermon Series - Ephesians

  3. EphesiansThe Body of Christ Incarnation I Incarnation II Jesus: God Incarnate Church: God Incarnate Romans 12:6-21 Romans 12:6-21

  4. EphesiansThe Body of Christ Chapter 4-6 Chapter 1a Chapter 2 Our Position in Christ Our Position in Christ Practice of the Body Chapter 3 Chapter 1b Prayer for our Understanding Prayer for our Understanding

  5. Living Death Ephesians 2 1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

  6. Dying Life Ephesians 2 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

  7. Living Death Ephesians 2 1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.

  8. LivingDead Ephesians 2 1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our fleshand following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. Sin World Satan Disobedient Cravings Wrath

  9. Living Dead you were dead in your transgressions and sins Sin (hamartia) To shoot something and miss it. To fail to hit the target "Be holy as I am holy“ (1Pet. 1:16) "All have sinned and come short of the Glory of God“ (Rm 3:23) Sin is not about what we do, but what we can't do: be perfect and holy. we are born dead, in a condition of deadness Sin World Satan Disobedient Cravings Wrath

  10. Spirit Of God Body Sin World Satan Disobedient Cravings Wrath you were dead in your transgressions and sins Soul Spirit ME

  11. Body Sin World Satan Disobedient Cravings Wrath you were dead in your transgressions and sins Soul Spirit Dead: an inability to respond to stimulus Spirit Of God ME

  12. Living Dead in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world Cosmos: order the system of life on earth apart from God while man is dead to God, he is alive to the world's system Alive: an ability to respond to stimulus Sin World Satan Disobedient Cravings Wrath

  13. Living Dead the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work the world system around us and all its values, which is being totally controlled by the primary anti-God supernatural being in the universe, namely Satan, and is carried out through all of his millions of demons who do his bidding. Sin World Satan Disobedient Cravings Wrath

  14. Living Dead who is now at work in those who are disobedient a life characterized by disobedience Satan works to get men to defy God Without God, you then become god in your universe people buy into what the world is selling: God-hating, anti-God, anti-Christ activity Sin World Satan Disobedient Cravings Wrath

  15. Living Dead All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. To do whatever your body or mind desires To fulfill itself utterly apart from God CRAVINGS OF THE: FLESH MIND Sin World Satan Disobedient Cravings Wrath

  16. Living Dead Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. It is their nature to be destroyed They are born to be damned. Eternal death = permanent separation from the life of God. “Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” (John 3:18 ) Sin World Satan Disobedient Cravings Wrath

  17. Dying Life Ephesians 2 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2 4But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. But God

  18. DyingLife Ephesians 2 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Mercy Love Grace Resurrected Christ Heavenlies

  19. DyingLife being rich in mercy Mercy: not giving sinners what they deserve "He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our inequities. “(Psalm103:10) Plucias (Rich): Limitless. Exhaustless. Boundless. God is: of pure eyes, He can't look on iniquity. • God hates sin, • God hates the sinner, • God is angry with the sinner every day. • God will not have sin in his presence, • God despises iniquity. Mercy Love Grace Resurrected Christ Heavenlies

  20. DyingLife because of His great love, made us alive “but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8) dead people can come to life Human love: based on an attraction of some kind. God’s love: loved those who were opposite everything that was attractive to him. Mercy Love Grace Resurrected Christ Heavenlies

  21. DyingLife it is by grace you have been saved Mercy pities and holds back, Grace pardons and releases. Mercy withholds God's judgment, Grace releases God's forgiveness. Mercy doesn't give us what we deserve, Grace gives us what we don't deserve. Mercy withholds the judgment, Grace releases the forgiveness Mercy Love Grace Resurrected Christ Heavenlies

  22. DyingLife And God raised us up He made us alive. There's only one thing a dead man needs; LIFE spiritual death: we were insensitive to God, spiritual resurrection: we became sensitive to God We receive an ability to • comprehend God, • to know God, • to fellowship with God, • to hear God, • to serve God, • to be blessed by God Mercy Love Grace Resurrected Christ Heavenlies

  23. DyingLife with Christ "Because I live, you shall live also. Whoever lives and believes in me, will never die", (John 11:25) Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, (Rm6:3-5) Mercy Love Grace Resurrected Christ Heavenlies

  24. DyingLife seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus Heavenlies: the sphere in which God lives We are citizens of Heaven We have a new option: • a new power, • a new will, • a new life, • a new disposition • a new direction. Mercy Love Grace Resurrected Christ Heavenlies

  25. Living Dead Dying Life Body Soul Spirit Sensitivity to God World

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