EPHESIANS 1: YOUR IDENTITY IN CHRIST

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

SESSION 4

è Ephesians 1:1-10

Review: In Christ I am….

• Blessed with every spiritual blessing

• Chosen; holy and blameless; loved and predestined to adoption; accepted in Christ; redeemed; forgiven

è Ephesians 1:11: we have an inheritance (not earned by self-righteousness, striving) (See Romans 8:16, 17)

è Our pre-set destination in Christ is to be conformed and transformed into His image and likeness! (See Romans 8:29; Romans 12:1, 2; 2 Corinthians 3:18)

è “IN DUE TIME” (At the right, God-appointed time)

• God exists outside of time, but intervenes in time and space!

• Our lives have “due times”…. “appointed times”,

• See Ecclesiastes 3:1; Galatians 4:4, 1 Peter 5:6, 7; Galatians 6:7-9

è Ephesians 1:12: In Christ, God is working all things according to the counsel of His will! (See Romans 8:28)

✸Not immediately, but always ultimately for those in Christ!

è God grants us direction through:

• The inner voice of the Holy Spirit (Philippians 2:13)

• His Word

• His ordering and overseeing of our life circumstances and events

• Other people (get confirmation)