Paul prays that the Ephesians would have spiritual wisdom and revelation so they can better know God. Specifically, Paul wants them to know:
1) God's person - He is the Father of glory
2) God's calling on their lives
3) The riches of God's inheritance that belong to believers
4) God's immense power that works to strengthen those who believe
Paul's goal is for believers to understand the full extent of the spiritual wealth they possess through their relationship with God in Christ.
8. That we might know God -
His Person (Ephesians 1:17),
His calling (Ephesians 1:18a),
His riches (Ephesians 1:18b) and
His power (Ephesians 1:19-23).
9. Ephesians 1:15-23 NKJV
Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom
15Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in
the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
16 do not cease to give thanks for you, making
mention of you in my prayers: 17 that the God of
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation
in the knowledge of Him,
10. 18 the eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that you may know what is the
hope of His calling, what are the riches of the
glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and
what is the exceeding greatness of His power
toward us who believe, according to the
working of His mighty power
11. 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised
Him from the dead and seated Him at His right
hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all
principality and power and might and
dominion, and every name that is named, not
only in this age but also in that which is to
come.
12. 22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave
Him to be head over all things to the church,
23 which is His body, the fullness of HimWho fills
all in all.
Ephesians 1:15-23 NKJV
13.
14.
15. Ephesians 2:1-2TLB
1 Once you were under God’s curse, doomed
forever for your sins. 2You went along with the
crowd and were just like all the others, full of
sin, obeying Satan, the mighty prince of the
power of the air, who is at work right now in the
hearts of those who are against the Lord.
Ephesians 2:1-2TLB
16. Ephesians 2:4-7TLB
4 But God is so rich in mercy; He loved us so
much 5 that even though we were spiritually
dead and doomed by our sins, He gave us back
our lives again when He raised Christ from the
dead—only by His undeserved favor have we
ever been saved—
17. 6 and lifted us up from the grave into glory
along with Christ, where we sit with Him in the
heavenly realms—all because of what Christ
Jesus did. 7 And now God can always point to us
as examples of how very, very rich His kindness
is, as shown in all He has done for us through
Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 2:4-7TLB
18. Ephesians 3:10-12TLB
10 And His reason?To show to all the rulers in
Heaven how perfectly wise He is when all of His
family—Jews and Gentiles alike—are seen to be
joined together in His Church 11 in just the way
He had always planned it through Jesus Christ
our Lord.
19. 12 Now we can come fearlessly right into God’s
presence, assured of His glad welcome when
we come with Christ and trust in Him.
Ephesians 3:10-12TLB
22. Ephesians 1:15-23
READTHE BANKBOOK
On January 6, 1822, the wife of a poor German
pastor had a son, never dreaming that he would
one day achieve world renown and great
wealth.
23. When Heinrich Schliemann was seven years old,
a picture of ancientTroy in flames captured his
imagination.
24. Contrary to what many people believed,
Heinrich argued that Homer's great poems, the
Iliad and the Odyssey, were based on historic
facts and he set out to prove it.
In 1873, he uncovered the ancient site ofTroy
VII, along with some fabulous treasure which he
smuggled out of the country, much to the anger
of theTurkish government.
25. Schliemann became a famous, wealthy man
because he dared to believe an ancient record
and act on his faith.
26. We discovered that we were "born rich" when
we trusted Christ.
But this is not enough, for we must grow in our
understanding of our riches if we are ever going
to use them to the glory of God.
The message here is that you need to know just
how wealthy you are!
27. Too many Christians have never "read the bank
book" to find out the vast spiritual wealth that
God has put to their account through Jesus
Christ.
28. They are like the late newspaper publisher,
William Randolph Hearst, who invested a
fortune collecting art treasures from around the
world.
29. One day Mr. Hearst found a description of some
valuable items that he felt he must own, so he
sent his agent abroad to find them.
After months of searching, the agent reported
that he had finally found the treasures.
30. They were in Mr. Hearst's warehouse!
Hearst had been searching frantically for
treasures he already owned and had he read
the catalog of his treasures, he would have
saved himself a lot of money and trouble.
31. Paul desired the Ephesian Christians (and us) to
understand what great wealth they had in
Christ.
Paul knew of their faith and love, and in this he
rejoiced.
32. The Christian life has two dimensions: faith
toward God and love toward men, and you
cannot separate the two, but Paul knew that
faith and love were just the beginning.
33. The Ephesians needed to know much more and
that is why Paul prayed for them, and for us.
34. In the prison prayers of Paul (Ephesians 1:15-23;
3:14-21; Philippians 1:9-11; Colossians 1:9-12),
we discover the blessings he wanted his
converts to enjoy.
In none of these prayers does Paul request
material things.
35. His emphasis is on spiritual perception and real
Christian character.
He does not ask God to give them what they do
not have, but rather prays that God will reveal
to them what they already have.
36. Before we study Paul's four requests in this
"prayer for enlightenment," we must notice two
facts.
First, enlightenment comes from the Holy Spirit
and He is the "Spirit of wisdom and revelation"
(Isaiah 11:2; John 14:25-26; 16:12-14).
37. With his natural mind, man cannot understand
the things of God. He needs the Spirit to
enlighten him (1 Corinthians 2:9-16).
The Holy Spirit reveals truth to us from the
Word, and then gives us the wisdom to
understand and apply it.
38. He also gives us the power - the enablement -
to practice the truth (Ephesians 3:14-21).
39. Second, this enlightenment comes to the heart
of the believer (Ephesians 1:18).
Literally this verse reads, "The eyes of your
heart being enlightened."
40. We think of the heart as the emotional part of man,
but in the Bible, the heart means the inner man, and
includes the mind, the will and the emotions.
41.
42.
43. The inner man, the heart, has spiritual faculties
that parallel the physical senses.
44. The Spiritual Senses
By Henry M. Morris, Ph.D.
"O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed
is the man that trusteth in Him" (Psalm 34:8).
45. Frequently, Scripture uses our five physical senses in
a figurative way to help us comprehend our
interaction with the heavenly realm of God's
presence and power.
46. We can "see" with spiritual eyes once Jesus
opens them for us.
47. Paul prayed thus for the believer: “The eyes of
your understanding being enlightened; that ye
may know what is the hope of His calling, and
what are the riches of the glory of His
inheritance in the saints.” (Ephesians 1:18)
48. Similarly, we are privileged to hear the voice of
the Lord with spiritual ears. "My sheep hear My
voice, and I know them, and they follow Me"
(John 10:27). "A stranger will they not follow,
but will flee from him: for they know not the
voice of strangers" (John 10:5).
49. The sense of touch is the sense of feeling, and
God can both touch and be touched.
We read of "a band of men, whose hearts God
had touched" (I Samuel 10:26).
50. Of Jesus Christ, it is said that He is not a remote
deity "which cannot be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities" (Hebrews 4:16).
51. Hebrews 4:15 AMPC
15 For we do not have a High PriestWho is
unable to understand and sympathize and have
a shared feeling with our weaknesses and
infirmities and liability to the assaults of
temptation, but OneWho has been tempted in
every respect as we are, yet without sinning.
52.
53. Luke 24:39-40 NIV
39 “Look at My hands and My feet. It is I Myself!
Touch Me and see; a ghost does not have flesh
and bones, as you see I have.”
40When He had said this, He showed them His
hands and feet.
54.
55. Even people who never knew Him can perhaps
"feel after Him, and find Him" if they truly
desire His great salvation.
Acts 17:27TLB
27 His purpose in all of this is that they should
seek after God, and perhaps feel their way
toward Him and find Him—though He is not far
from any one of us.
56. We can even become "unto God a sweet savor
of Christ" (II Corinthians 2:15).
To the world, the faithful Christian life and
testimony can either be "the savor of death
unto death" to those who refuse it, or "the
savor of life unto life" (II Corinthians 2:16).
57. 2 Corinthians 2:15-16aTLB
15 As far as God is concerned there is a sweet,
wholesome fragrance in our lives. It is the
fragrance of Christ within us, an aroma to both
the saved and the unsaved all around us. 16aTo
those who are not being saved, we seem a
fearful smell of death and doom, while to those
who know Christ we are a life-giving perfume.
58. Finally, we are exhorted actually to taste the
Lord, and see that He is good!
59. HisWord will be, according to our needs, either:
"sincere milk" (I Peter 2:2), "strong meat"
(Hebrews 5:14), or "sweeter also than honey
and the honeycomb" (Psalm 19:10).
60. The inner man can -
see (Psalm 119:18; John 3:3),
hear (Matthew 13:9; Hebrews 5:11),
taste (Psalm 34:8; 1 Peter 2:3),
smell (Philippians 4:18; 2 Corinthians 2:14), and
touch (Acts 17:27).
61. This is what Jesus meant when He said of the
people: "They seeing see not, and hearing they
hear not, neither do they understand."
(Matthew 13:13).
The inability to see and understand spiritual
things is not the fault of the intelligence but of
the heart.
62. The eyes of the heart must be opened by the
Spirit of God.
63. That we might know God -
His Person (Ephesians 1:17),
His calling (Ephesians 1:18a),
His riches (Ephesians 1:18b) and
His power (Ephesians 1:19-23).
64. 1) That we might know God.
Ephesians 1:17 NKJV
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of
wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of
Him,
65. This, of course is the highest knowledge
possible.
The atheist claims there is no God for us to
know, and the agnostic states that if there is a
God, we cannot know Him.
66. Paul (Saul) has met God in the Person of Jesus
Christ, and he knows that a man really cannot
understand much of anything else without a
knowledge of God.
68. Acts 17:30-31TLB
30 God tolerated man’s past ignorance about
these things, but now He commands everyone
to put away idols and worship only Him. 31 For
He has set a day for justly judging the world by
the Man He has appointed, and has pointed
Him out by bringing Him back to life again.”
69. In Romans 1:18 ff, Paul describes the stages in
man's devolution: from willful ignorance of God
to idolatry (substituting a lie for the truth) to
immorality and indecency.
Where does it begin?
70. It begins with an unwillingness to know God as
Creator, Sustainer, Governor, Savior, and Judge.
The believer must grow in his knowledge of
God - to know God personally is salvation (John
17:3).
71. To know God:
1) Personally, is salvation (John
17:3).
2) Increasingly is sanctification
(Philippians 3:10).
3) Perfectly is glorification (1
Corinthians 13:9-12).
72. John 17:3TLB
3 “And this is the way to have eternal life—by
knowingYou, the only true God, and Jesus
Christ, the OneYou sent to Earth!”
73. To know God:
1) Personally, is salvation (John
17:3).
2) Increasingly is sanctification
(Philippians 3:10).
3) Perfectly is glorification (1
Corinthians 13:9-12).
74. Philippians 3:10 NKJV
10 that I may know Him (personally) and the
power of His resurrection (powerfully),
and the fellowship of His sufferings
(passionately), being conformed to His death,
75. To know God:
1) Personally, is salvation (John
17:3).
2) Increasingly is sanctification
(Philippians 3:10).
3) Perfectly is glorification (1
Corinthians 13:9-12).
76. 1 Corinthians 13:9-12 NKJV
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But
when that which is perfect has come, then that which is
in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a
child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put
away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly,
but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall
know (Him) just as I also am known.
77. Since we are made in the image of God (Genesis
1:26-28), the better we know God, the better
we know ourselves and each other.
It is not enough to know God only as Savior.
78. We must get to know Him as Father, Friend,
Guide, and the better we know Him, the more
satisfying our spiritual lives will be.
An art connoisseur appreciates art more than a
novice, and has an increased capacity to enjoy
art.
79. 1Timothy 4:8 NIV
8 For physical training is of some value, but
godliness has value for all things, holding
promise for both the present life and the life to
come.
Increase your capacity to enjoy God.
80. There are times when we use God'sWord as a sword
to defeat the enemy, but that is not the primary
purpose behind the writing of the Bible.
81. As the familiar hymn puts it:
Beyond the sacred page,
I seekThee, Lord,
My spirit pants forThee,
O living Word.
82. Psalm 42:1-2TLB
1 As the deer pants for water, so I long for you,
O God. 2 I thirst for God, the living God.Where
can I find him to come and stand before him?
83. That we might know God -
His Person (Ephesians 1:17),
His calling (Ephesians 1:18a),
His riches (Ephesians 1:18b) and
His power (Ephesians 1:19-23).
84. 2) That we might know God’s calling.
Ephesians 1:18a NKJV
18a the eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that you may know what is the
hope of His calling,
85. The word called is an important word in the
Christian's vocabulary.
The word church is a combination of two Greek
words that mean "called out."
86. Paul never tired of testifying that God called
him "by His grace" (Galatians 1:15); and he
remindedTimothy that the believer has a "holy
calling" (2Timothy 1:9).
87. 2Timothy 1:9 NKJV
9Who has saved us and called us with a holy
calling, not according to our works, but
according to His own purpose and grace which
was given to us in Christ Jesus before time
began,
88. We have been “called out of darkness into His
marvelous light” (1 Peter 2:9) and have even
been “called to glory” (1 Peter 5:10).
89. God calls us by His grace and not because of
any merit that we may possess.
Paul wants us to understand the hope that is
ours because of this calling (Ephesians 4:4).
90. Some callings offer no hope, but the calling we
have in Christ assures us of a delightful future.
Keep in mind that the word hope in the Bible
does not mean "hope so," like a child hoping for
a doll or a bike at Christmas.
91. The word carries with it "assurance for the
future."
The believer's hope is, of course, the return of
Jesus Christ for His church (1Thessalonians
4:14-18; 1 John 3:1-3).
92. When we were lost, we were "without hope"
(Ephesians 2:12); but in Jesus Christ, we have a
"living hope" (1 Peter 1:3) that encourages us
day by day.
94. It boasted the temple of Diana, one of the
wonders of the ancient world.
Today, Ephesus is an archeologist's paradise,
but all of its wealth and splendor are gone.
95. But the Christians who once lived there are
today in Heaven, enjoying the glory of God!
Spiritual wealth!
96. The hope that belongs to our calling should be a
dynamic force in our lives, encouraging us to be
pure (1 John 2:28-3:3), obedient (Hebrews
13:17), and faithful (Luke 12:42-48).
97. The fact that we shall one day see Christ and be like
Him should motivate us to live like Christ today.
98.
99. That we might know God -
His Person (Ephesians 1:17),
His calling (Ephesians 1:18a),
His riches (Ephesians 1:18b) and
His power (Ephesians 1:19-23).
100. 3) ThatWe Might Know God's Riches.
Ephesians 1:18b
18b that you may know what is the hope of
His calling, what are the riches of the glory
of His inheritance in the saints,
This phrase does not refer to our inheritance in
Christ (Ephesians 1:11), but His inheritance in
us.
101. This is an amazing truth - that God would look
on us as a part of His great wealth! (He paid a
high price.)
Just as a man's wealth brings glory to his name,
so God will get glory from the church because
of what He has invested in us.
102. When Jesus Christ returns, we shall be "to the
praise of the glory of His grace" (Ephesians 1:6).
103. God deals with us on the basis of our future, not
our past.
104. He said to cowardly Gideon, "The Lord is with
thee, thou mighty man of valor" (Judges 6:12).
Jesus said to Andrew's brother, "Thou art Simon
the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas,"
which is by interpretation, A stone. (John 1:42).
105. Gideon did become a mighty man of valor, and
Simon did become Peter, a rock.
We Christians live in the future tense, our lives
controlled by what we shall be when Christ
returns.
106. Because we are God's inheritance, we live to
please and glorify Him.
This truth suggests to us that Christ will not
enter into His promised glory until the church is
there to share it with Him.
107. He prayed for this before He died, and His
prayer will be answered (John 17:24).
Christ will be glorified in us (2Thessalonians
1:10), and we will be glorified in Him (Colossians
3).
108. 2Thessalonians 1:10 NKJV
10 when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in
His saints and to be admired among all those
who believe, because our testimony among you
was believed.
109. Colossians 3:1-10 NKJV
1 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those
things which are above, where Christ is, sitting
at the right hand of God (know Him, His calling
on your life and His riches). 2 Set your mind on
things above, not on things on the Earth. 3 For
you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in
God. 4When ChristWho is our life appears, then
you also will appear with Him in glory.
110. 5Therefore put to death your members which
are on the Earth: fornication, uncleanness,
passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is
idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of
God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,
7 in which you yourselves once walked when you
lived in them.
111. 8 But now you yourselves are to put off all these:
anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
language out of your mouth. 9 Do not lie to one
another, since you have put off the old man
with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man
who is renewed in knowledge according to the
image of HimWho created him,
Colossians 3:1-10 NKJV
112. Knowing this should lead the believer into a life
of dedication and devotion to the Lord.
113. That we might know God -
His Person (Ephesians 1:17),
His calling (Ephesians 1:18a),
His riches (Ephesians 1:18b) and
His power (Ephesians 1:19-23).
114. 4) ThatWe Might Know God's Power.
Ephesians 1:19-23 NKJV
19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power
toward us who believe, according to the working of
His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when
He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His
right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all
principality and power and might and dominion, and
every name that is named, not only in this age but
also in that which is to come.
115. 4) ThatWe Might Know God's Power.
22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him
to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His
body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 1:19-23 NKJV
116. So tremendous is this truth that Paul enlisted
many different words from the Greek
vocabulary to get his point across:
Dunamis - "power" as in dynamo and dynamite;
117. “according to the working of His mighty power”
Energeia – “working” as in energy.
Kratos – “mighty”, “strength”.
Ischus – “power”, “force”.
He is talking about divine dynamic, eternal energy,
available to us!
118. After all, what good is it to have wealth if you
are too weak to use it?
Or if you are so afraid of robbers that you
cannot really enjoy it?
John D. Rockefeller was the world's first
billionaire.
119. It is said that for many years, he lived on
crackers and milk because of stomach troubles
caused by worrying about his wealth.
He rarely had a good night's sleep, and guards
stood constantly at his door.
120. Wealthy - but miserable!
When he began to share his wealth with others
in great philanthropic endeavors, his health
improved considerably, and he lived to be an
old man.
121. We Christians need power for several reasons.
To begin with, by nature we are too weak to
appreciate and appropriate this wealth, and to
use it as it as God desires - "The spirit indeed is
willing, but the flesh is weak" (Matthew 26:41).
122. To turn this vast spiritual wealth over to a mere
human being, living by human wisdom and
strength, would be like handing a chimpanzee a
loaded machine gun.
123. God's power enables us to use God's wealth
appropriately!
But there is a second reason why we need God's
power.
124. There are enemies who want to rob us of our
wealth (Ephesians 1:21; 6:11-12).
We could never defeat these spiritual foes in
our own power, but we can through the Spirit's
power.
125. Paul wants us to know the greatness of God's
power so that we will not fail to use our wealth,
and so that the enemy will not deprive us of our
spiritual wealth.
126. The power is seen in the resurrection of Jesus
Christ.
In the OldTestament people measured God's
power by His creation (Isaiah 40:12-27) or by His
miracles at the Exodus of Israel from Egypt
(Jeremiah 16:14).
127. But today we measure God's power by the
miracle of Christ's resurrection!
128. Much more was involved than merely raising
Him from the dead, for Christ also ascended to
Heaven and sat down in the place of authority
at the right hand of God.
He is not only Savior; He is also Sovereign (Acts
2:25-36).
129. No authority or power, human or in the spirit
world, is greater than that of Jesus Christ, the
exalted Son of God.
He is "far above all," and no future enemy can
overcome Him, because He has been exalted "far
above all" powers.
But how does this apply to you and me today?
130. In Ephesians 1:22-23, Paul explains the practical
application.
Because we are believers, we are in the church,
which is Christ's body - and He is the Head.
This means that there is a living connection
between you and Christ.
131. Ephesians 1:22-23 NKJV
22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave
Him to be head over all things to the church,
23 which is His body, the fullness of HimWho fills
all in all.
132. Physically speaking, the head controls the body
and keeps the body functioning properly.
Injure certain parts of the brain and you
handicap or paralyze corresponding parts of the
body.
Christ is our spiritual Head.
133. Through the Spirit, we are united to Him as the
members of His body.
This means that we share His resurrection,
ascension, and exaltation.
134. We too are seated, in the heavenlies (Ephesians
2:6), and all things are under our feet as well.
No wonder Paul wants us to know "the
exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward"!
135. Apart from this power, we cannot draw on our
great wealth in Christ.
136. WarrenWiersbe recalls going to the hospital
with a lady from his church to try to get her
husband to sign a paper that would authorize
her to draw on their checking account so she
could pay his bills.
The man was so weak he could not sign the
paper.
137. She finally had to get witnesses to verify his "X"
on the document.
His weakness nearly deprived them of their
wealth.
138. The power of the Holy Spirit, through the
resurrected, ascended Christ, is available to all
Christians - by faith.
His power is to "us-ward who believe"
(Ephesians 1:19).
139. It is grace that supplies the wealth, but it is faith
that lays hold of the wealth.
We are saved "by grace, through faith"
(Ephesians 2:8-9), and we live "by grace,"
through faith (1 Corinthians 15:10).
140. 1 Corinthians 15:10TLB
10 But whatever I am now it is all because God
poured out such kindness and grace upon me—
and not without results: for I have worked
harder than all the other apostles, yet actually I
wasn’t doing it, but God working in me, to bless
me.
141. Ephesians 2:8-10 AMPC
8 For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor)
that you are saved (delivered from judgment
and made partakers of Christ’s salvation)
through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not
of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not
through your own striving], but it is the gift of
God;
142. 9 Not because of works [not the fulfillment of
the Law’s demands], lest any man should boast.
[It is not the result of what anyone can possibly
do, so no one can pride himself in it or take
glory to himself.]
143. 10 For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His
workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born
anew] that we may do those good works which
God predestined (planned beforehand) for us
[taking paths which He prepared ahead of time],
that we should walk in them [living the good life
which He prearranged and made ready for us to
live].
Ephesians 2:8-10 AMPC
144. We inherit the wealth by grace,
we invest the wealth by works.
145. In the four Gospels, we see God's power at work
in the ministry of Jesus Christ, but in the Book
of Acts, we see that same power at work in
ordinary men and women, members of the
body of Christ.
146. What a transformation took place in Peter's life
between the end of the Gospels and the
beginning of Acts.
What made the difference?
The resurrection power of Jesus Christ (Acts
1:8).
147. The greatest power shortage today is not in our
generators or our gas tanks.
It is in our personal lives.
Will Paul's prayer be answered in your life?
148. Will you, starting today, begin to know by
experience: God's calling, God's riches and
God's power?
149. The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NKJV
16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not
perish but have everlasting life.”
John 14:6 NKJV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
150. Romans 3:23 NKJV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NKJV
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death,
died in this life to pay the penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second
death explained in Revelation 21:8.
151. Revelation 21:8 NKJV
8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually
immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the
lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
• Anyone who’s lifestyle is one or more of the sins listed in Revelation
21:8, will experience the “second death” if they do not repent.
• To Repent means to turn around, to go in the opposite direction,
to turn away from sin and to come to Jesus.
Romans 6:23b NKJV
23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
152. Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Revelation 21:7 NKJV
7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be
his God and he shall be My son.”
• Romans 10:9-10 explain to us how to be overcomers.
153. Romans 10:9-10 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and
believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the
dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes
unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation.
Romans 10:13 NKJV
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be
saved.”
154. Have questions?
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