For the Apostle Paul, the death of a path to certain success and acclaim was a necessary step in leaving behind his upwardly mobile lifestyle in exchange for a life of downward mobility. The beyond-words blessings of forgiveness and better-late-than-never adoption as a child of God spilled over onto the lives of those around him. What he had wholeheartedly intended to stamp out from the earth, he subsequently, and ever wholeheartedly, desired to build up and strengthen and encourage. We owe much to his faithfulness (and he would say he owes it all to Jesus - lest he should boast).

Ephesians 3:14-21

1. vv. 14 -16 –____________________________riches

2. v. 17-19- ______________________________love

3. v. 20 -_________________________________power

4. v. 21-__________________________________praise