denise knight

1.) We are fellow citizens with Jewish believers in God's kingdom. The New Testament Church is the Body of Christ; therfore, we are citizens in the church 2.) We are holy and sanctified through the blood of Jesus. God has consecrated us and made us holy through His Son

1.) access to the Father is important for peace and reconciliation with God 2.) having access to the Father is similar to diplomatic relations in that because of sin and separation from God we are now foreigners, and through the reconciliation brought about by the cross we are now citizens in the Father's kingdom 3.) we obtain access to God when we accept the salvation through the cross of Christ 4.) It is only through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that we can fulfuill the two great commandments and find and live out God's purpose for our lives. The indwelling of the HOly Spirit is for believers in Christ

1. according to verse 20, God's power works withing the believers 2.) the amount of power God works through us with is immeasurable 3.) God's power isn't more evident in our lives for several reasons: 1. we don't read our Bible and pray enough to tap into the resources God has given us. 2. the church sometimes prevents people from allowing God to work out their spiritual gifts by placing them in a box and setting standards that should be set by God. 3. we have too much junk clogging up our lives, and we need to do some spiritual house cleaning 4.) exercising God's power through us brings glory to Christ because an unbelieving world will be drawn to Him. Also it reminds believers of who we are in Christ. It shows the world how awesome and powerful our Lord is.

1.) Christ is over the church. We are His body, the church. That means we are his hands and feet. We are ministers reaching and teaching a hurting dying world. We operate and minister with the full authority and power of our Savior. It also means that if we try to minister in our own power or according to our own agenda, then we operate outside the will of God, and we operate in our own authority, and then that will cause us to fail, lead others astray, and possibly worse. We must act in accordance to the Head.

1.) Ephesians 1:6 gives hope to the believer. It gives purpose to the believer's life and and reason for being. It gives power to undeserving, powerless people. It gives us a place of authority with Christ. Through the finished work of Christ in the life of those who have accepted Him as Savior, we too have authority and power over the spirits and principalities of the world.

1.) Paul is letting the Gentiles know, by using the term "heavenly realms", that God dwells and rules supremely in spiritual places or the spirit realm. 2.) The phrase "under His feet" is to show complete submission. Paul is letting the church know that God is in complete control and is supreme ruler. He is letting them know that through the death and ressurrection of Christ, that all other powers and evil spirits will have to bown down and worship at Jesus' feet. It summarizes that God is the greater power and all others are lesser and subject to Him.

1.) Paul prays for God to open the Ephesians eyes so that they will better recognize God at work in their lives and so they will be more aware of the hope and power that God has equipped them with. 2.) the problem with their eyes may be that they are seeing only through the flesh and not through the Spirit 3.) this power operates within the Christian 4.) the miraculous event that Paul references is Christ's ressurrection