GOD'S GUARANTEE FOR ME (5 OF 5)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Ephesians 1:3-14
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God's Guarantee for Me (5 of 5)
Series: I'm Blessed: Ephesians
Scott Maze
Ephesians 1:3-14
Today is Super Bowl Sunday. Who are you pulling for this evening in the Super Bowl? Tampa Bay? The Chiefs? Or you don't care?
I'll be making some excellent points in today's message, you might even call them touchdowns but nobody needs to think about dumping me with Gatorade after church later.
New Car Window Sticker
Have you ever looked carefully at one of those window stickers of a new car as it details everything that comes with the car. The listing details all the features your new car has because it's not obvious to the immediate eye. You have your model information, your standard equipment, your optional equipment, and your warranty information. Ephesians 1:3-14 is really one long sentence in the original language of the New Testament. The sentence operates like one of those listings you see on the window of a new car. The Bible also has a sticker window because God really wants you all the equipment that comes for you as His child. So the Bible puts together this really long sentence to communicate all the blessings God is piling up for His children who are in Christ.
Now, no English translation attempts to make it just one sentence because the sentence is so complicated. The version we are looking at together makes it five sentences. This one long sentence is detailing for you the ways God has blessed you if you are in Christ. He's just piled them up with one blessing upon another upon another. But my fear is you don't feel this. This is a nose bleed sort of text if you will. We are way up high in the clouds. But we don't sense how high up we are when we read this. It's like you've been transported to the top of the Rockies but somehow you cannot sense it.
There is a time when you recognize you are obviously way high up but there's times when it's hidden from you just how high up you are.
Deep Sea Fishing
If you follow me on social medi ...
Series: I'm Blessed: Ephesians
Scott Maze
Ephesians 1:3-14
Today is Super Bowl Sunday. Who are you pulling for this evening in the Super Bowl? Tampa Bay? The Chiefs? Or you don't care?
I'll be making some excellent points in today's message, you might even call them touchdowns but nobody needs to think about dumping me with Gatorade after church later.
New Car Window Sticker
Have you ever looked carefully at one of those window stickers of a new car as it details everything that comes with the car. The listing details all the features your new car has because it's not obvious to the immediate eye. You have your model information, your standard equipment, your optional equipment, and your warranty information. Ephesians 1:3-14 is really one long sentence in the original language of the New Testament. The sentence operates like one of those listings you see on the window of a new car. The Bible also has a sticker window because God really wants you all the equipment that comes for you as His child. So the Bible puts together this really long sentence to communicate all the blessings God is piling up for His children who are in Christ.
Now, no English translation attempts to make it just one sentence because the sentence is so complicated. The version we are looking at together makes it five sentences. This one long sentence is detailing for you the ways God has blessed you if you are in Christ. He's just piled them up with one blessing upon another upon another. But my fear is you don't feel this. This is a nose bleed sort of text if you will. We are way up high in the clouds. But we don't sense how high up we are when we read this. It's like you've been transported to the top of the Rockies but somehow you cannot sense it.
There is a time when you recognize you are obviously way high up but there's times when it's hidden from you just how high up you are.
Deep Sea Fishing
If you follow me on social medi ...
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