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*Responsibility: Our Response His Ability* No 4
Eph 1:15-23
*Having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, *
*Eph 1:12 to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory.
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*Why on earth would God call us to Himself?
Why on earth would He send His Son and be so gracious?*
* We as humans are incredibly self-centered.
When one points out to his or her partner that they don’t meet their needs, they are, on one hand, telling them they are selfish but on the other hand they are declaring their own selfishness.*
*We now want to live for His Glory.
We want to praise Him for his gracious Gift of Grace.
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*Does than mean we are un-fulfilled?
Actually the opposite is true.
We rather become more fulfilled when we give our life to God and live for His glory.*
*Those who are living for their own pleasure miss real pleasure.
What a paradox!
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* We give up what we cannot keep to gain what we cannot lose.*
*Will we find satisfaction in living for God’s glory?*
John Piper said
*“God created us so that he is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.*
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The Westminster shorter catechism says
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What is the chief end of man?* Or what is our chief or most important purpose?
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Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.*
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*Hymn 413.
Jesus, priceless Treasure*
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Jesus, priceless Treasure, \\ Source of purest pleasure, \\ Truest Friend to me.
\\ Ah, how long in anguish \\ Shall my spirit languish, \\ Yearning, Lord, for Thee? \\ Thou art mine, O Lamb divine!
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*That what we are seeking for aren’t we?
We are looking for priceless treasure in riches.
But it is found there.*
*We are looking for priceless treasure in friendship and friends fail us.*
*We are looking for priceless treasure in self worth.*
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*Our problem is that it takes us forever to realize that real joy and pleasure comes from knowing God and living a life in agreement with His will.*
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*We think that pleasure and money and status is what we really want.
They really only bring us problems.*
*Real joy is getting God His proper place in our lives.
Yet the author still knows there is more to know of Him.
Be careful not new truth but a deeper understand of what we already know.*
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*Then whatever comes our way can be handled and some of it even enjoyed.
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*Eph 1:15 For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which /exists/ among you and your love for all the saints, *
I wish we could be noted for just two things; faith and love.
If I am to walk the Christian walk, I must be grounded in the Faith.
The faith which is about all we have been talking about these weeks.
How God sent His Son to be a substitution for my sin.
The one who redeemed me, forgave me, gave me an inheritance, one who adopted me into His family with people from every nation tribe and tongue, show me this great mystery.
Not just to be people who have the faith, but people who love because God first loved us.
And Paul is not going to ask anything of them until the 4th chapter.
Because there are things they need to know and that knowing and that understanding will give them all that they need to know in their walk.
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*What is it that Paul prays for?
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*Eph 1:16 do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention /of you/ in my prayers; *
*Paul’s prayer has purpose: That God would give, not that they would strive to get but that God would give His chose children these things.*
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*Eph 1:17* that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the (epi) knowledge of Him.
We started out with Paul blessing God then now he prays that we may grasp the fullness of this blessing not some new doctrine or special knowledge for the spiritually privileged but to us.
That is Gnosticism.
We are really good at asking God for specially blessing but not very good at coming into a deeper understanding of these blessing we have been talking about.
We must balance prayer and praise if we are to keep from getting off balance in our walk.
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Spirit of Wisdom* Vs.17 Does this wisdom come from outside of the scripture, from a revelation direct from God?
Is this a revelation to the heart?
I think that God will speak to your heart through the Spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit, He has given to us.
But this age old question must be must be must be kept in mind.
Am I hearing my mind speak; are the thought coming from my enlighten mind or through a direct revelation from God?
There is no reason why cannot take the Word of God and with the aid of our changed mind and heart come up with some great ideas and thoughts.
*Just make sure you test these thoughts from the scripture.
It would be unwise to claim that everything from that inner voice is direct from God.*
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Revelation in the knowledge of Him*.
Does this wisdom come from outside of the scripture, from a revelation direct from God?
Is this a revelation to the heart?
Be careful here.
This can be a source of error.
Well God told me thus and such.
God led to do this?
These so called revelations must be carefully scrutinized.
*This wisdom and revelation are not new truth but they are a deeper insight into God and His Word*
Growth in knowledge is indispensible for our growth in holiness.
This knowledge is more than facts but is it not without them either.
We need God to enlighten us.
But we need more than just enlightenment, we need knowledge as well.
We are not asking God to give the Holy Sprit to those who already received Him and have been filled but that He should enlighten us from His Word.
*Even Paul recognized the need to be careful.
You got some preachers in the early church be brought under scrutiny of other.
This is very wise.
Other wise some men of God can run rampant with their flock and even destroy them buy their claiming everything from their mouth is from God.*
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1Co 14:29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others pass judgment.
1Co 14:30 But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent.
Picture this, the first godly man is speaking and first one must shut up and sit down.
1Co 14:31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted;
1Co 14:32 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets;
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Open spiritual eyes Vs.18 *Eph 1:18 /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, *
2Ki 6:11 Now the heart of the king of Aram was enraged over this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you tell me which of us is for the king of Israel?"
2Ki 6:12 One of his servants said, "No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom."
2Ki 6:13 So he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and take him."
And it was told him, saying, "Behold, he is in Dothan."
2Ki 6:14 He sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city.
2Ki 6:15 Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city.
And his servant said to him, "Alas, my master!
What shall we do?"
2Ki 6:16 So he answered, "Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."
2Ki 6:17 Then Elisha prayed and said, "O LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see."
And the LORD opened the servant's eyes and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
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