Cedar Hills Community Church

We Are Loved. (Love. Belong Serve)

April 26, 2020 Pastor Kent Landhuis
Cedar Hills Community Church
We Are Loved. (Love. Belong Serve)
Show Notes

We Are Loved!
Ephesians 1:1-23

What does enough love look like?
1. We are the kind of people who God chooses. (Ephesians 1:5,9)

2. We are the kind of people who God sets free. (Ephesians 1:6,12,14)

3. We are the kind of people who God grows. (Ephesians 1:8, 17-18)

Next Steps: Reflect on these truths.
1. When Paul prays for the Ephesian church, he does not pray for an improvement in the external circumstances. Rather, Paul prays for a profound internal knowledge of the depths of God's love. ~Timothy Keller
2. God loves you!

Ephesians 1:1-14
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To God’s holy people in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus: 
2 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Praise for Spiritual Blessings in Christ
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 
5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 
6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 
7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the rich-es of God’s grace 
8 that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, 
9 he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 
10 to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 
12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. 
13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 
14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.

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