GOD WANTS TO RENOVATE US SO HE CAN RESIDE IN US (5 OF 9)
by Craig Smith
Scripture: Ephesians 3:14-21
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God Wants to Renovate Us So He Can Reside in Us (5 of 9)
Series: Identity Theft
Craig Smith
Ephesians 3:14-21
I. Introduction
So I've been working on my basement and I reached a pivotal point this week: I poured the concrete pan for this enormous walk-in shower. Actually, I'm carefully following the building codes, so there's actually two layers of concrete...and if you don't know, concrete is heavy! Which is why I found myself thinking this week: I sure hope the builders built this floor to code, because I'm about to put something really heavy on it!
Well, so far, so good...it looks like the floor was put together properly, which I know because the shower pan is still on top of it rather than having gone through it. And that's the thing: when something has been built out of the right materials and they've come together in the right way, they can hold a lot of weight.
Which is exactly what the section of Ephesians we've been looking at for the last few weeks is all about: coming together in the right way as the church so that we can bear the weight of something very heavy in our midst...
II. Main Body
A. Catchup,
14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, (Eph 3:14)
Now, I said last week that the passage we were looking at then was a tangent. Paul actually started to say something in verse 1 but then interrupted himself to say what we looked at last week. But in the passage we're looking at this week, he comes back to his original thought. You can tell that because he begins verse 14 in exactly the same way he began verse 1 of chapter 3.
And again, ''the reason'' is this idea that God wants to bring us together so that He can show up through us in power.
But Paul understands that coming together is not our natural trajectory. He understands that, left to our own devices, we will fragment and divide. So what he does now is ask God to step in and accomplish what we could not accomplish on our own.
Now what the NIV translat ...
Series: Identity Theft
Craig Smith
Ephesians 3:14-21
I. Introduction
So I've been working on my basement and I reached a pivotal point this week: I poured the concrete pan for this enormous walk-in shower. Actually, I'm carefully following the building codes, so there's actually two layers of concrete...and if you don't know, concrete is heavy! Which is why I found myself thinking this week: I sure hope the builders built this floor to code, because I'm about to put something really heavy on it!
Well, so far, so good...it looks like the floor was put together properly, which I know because the shower pan is still on top of it rather than having gone through it. And that's the thing: when something has been built out of the right materials and they've come together in the right way, they can hold a lot of weight.
Which is exactly what the section of Ephesians we've been looking at for the last few weeks is all about: coming together in the right way as the church so that we can bear the weight of something very heavy in our midst...
II. Main Body
A. Catchup,
14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, (Eph 3:14)
Now, I said last week that the passage we were looking at then was a tangent. Paul actually started to say something in verse 1 but then interrupted himself to say what we looked at last week. But in the passage we're looking at this week, he comes back to his original thought. You can tell that because he begins verse 14 in exactly the same way he began verse 1 of chapter 3.
And again, ''the reason'' is this idea that God wants to bring us together so that He can show up through us in power.
But Paul understands that coming together is not our natural trajectory. He understands that, left to our own devices, we will fragment and divide. So what he does now is ask God to step in and accomplish what we could not accomplish on our own.
Now what the NIV translat ...
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