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Pastor Paul Lundberg

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“Dream House” (Ephesians 2:11-22)
Sunday, February 17, 2008 

Review: Chapter One

►Assets and Liabilities
►Deposits and withdrawals (HS as comforter, witness, judge, guide, intercessor. Our actions to ignore, quench, grieve, and resist)
►Goals and Objectives (Know Jesus, Know hope, know rich community
►One simple problem: we don’t recognize the power
►We were dead; our life style was characterized by disobedience; We’ve been “made alive” like Christ, and “raised to the heavenly realms” with Christ (the future is stated as though it has already happened!)

 6. We are God’s workmanship/masterpiece, “created in Christ Jesus TO DO GOOD WORKS, which God has foreordained for us to do.”

Acts 26: “I am sending you to them to open their eyes (REVEAL), turn them from darkness to light (APPLY/EXTEND), so they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified (set apart/”marked”) by me (REPRODUCE/RECONCILE) 

Note: Open their eyes (MAKE GOD FAMOUS) turn from darkness to light (EXTEND KINGDOM) forgiveness and a place among the sanctified (RECONCILE)

Vss 11-18:

Old Testament Jews	Old Testament Gentiles
“marked” as belonging to God	“Aliens” from God’s community
Given a “covenant relationship” with    God	Could only see God as reflected by    the Jews (e.g., Rahab)
Had the promise of Messiah	Without Christ   ♦ no need for a “mediator”   ♦ no interest in the promises   ♦ no hope
New Testament “saints” (Church) ♦ brought from “afar off” ♦ ”made nigh” (by the blood of Christ) ♦ “Reconciled to each other        Jews to Gentiles ;      God to sinners

 

Eph 2:19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. 

►THREE PICTURES 

►1. God has made me part of a new kingdom ►(“no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people”

      a. Ariday citizenship classes (value to participants)

      b. privileges and responsibilities (require participation)

           i. voting ii. Protected by and obey the law iii. Taxes

           ii. ”we are the government/kingdom” (Plan A)

     

2.   God has made me part of a new family

   ►a. “members of God's household”

      b. 1 John 3:1 – …God’s children…that is what we are.

      c. FOY: “I never knew my kids felt that way…”

           i. 50% grow up in a single parent home, parents both work

           ii. 70% of incarcerated - no Dad

           iii. CICS – dysfunctional families/impact on kids

           iv. PACT

           v. relationship of our 4 kids to each other

           DYSFUNCTION IN THE CHURCH FAMILY

      d. 2:18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. 

3.   God has made me part of a new building ►(In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord)
►a. based on God’s word (built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets) Doctrine  Biblical
►b. guided by the Holy Spirit (a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit) Spirit led
►c. joined together and governed by Christ (built together to become a dwelling) Consensus

      d. GOD DOESN’T CREATE ORPHANS 

NOTE: ►Our church’s operating strategy  

CONCLUSION:

      Part of a kingdom (benefits and responsibilities),  

      Part of a family (Our common bond in Jesus Christ is a far stronger force than anything else that might connect us with each other  

      Part of a temple (singular) in which He dwells by His Spirit

Green: Mission and Vision
Blue: Illustrations and quotes
Red: Scripture

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