Title: Full of Grace / Ephesians 3:14-21
Content Introduction:
Meaning of fullness - meaning to be full, to fill, to be complete, to be abundant, to achieve, to be complete, etc.
1. Let the church be filled with grace
1) A church filled with the Holy Spirit
(Ephesians 5:17) Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
(Ephesians 5:18) Do not get drunk with wine, for this is debauchery, but be filled with the Holy Spirit.
① Zeal for assembly (Ephesians 4:3) Do your best to keep the unity of the Holy Spirit in the bond of peace.
②Repent of sins
③ The fullness of prayer
2) A church full of love
(Ephesians 3:18) able to know the love of Christ, which surpasses knowledge, with all the saints
(Ephesians 3:19) I pray that you may realize what is the breadth and length and height and depth, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
① Like my family
②I am the master
③ First greeting, first love
3) A church full of the Word
(Ephesians 6:17) Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
4) A church full of prayer
(Ephesians 6:18) With all prayers and supplications, praying in the Holy Spirit at all times, being alert and asking for this with all strength, always begging for the sake of the saints
2. Let the family be full of grace
(Ephesians 5:22) Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
(Ephesians 5:23) For the husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, who himself is the Savior of the body.
(Ephesians 5:24) But as the church is to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
(Ephesians 5:25) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it.
(Ephesians 5:26) which was washed with water, and sanctified by cleansing with the word
(Ephesians 5:27) That he might set before him a glorious church, without speck or wrinkle or such, holy and without blemish.
(Ephesians 5:28) In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
(Ephesians 5:29) No one at any time hates his own body, but nourishes and protects it, just as Christ nourishes the church.
(Ephesians 5:30) For we are members of that body.
(Ephesians 5:31) For this reason a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and the two become one flesh.
(Ephesians 5:32) This mystery is great, I speak of Christ and of the church.
(Ephesians 5:33) But each of you must love his wife as himself, and let the wife fear her husband.
3. Become a Christian full of grace
① inner person
(Ephesians 3:16) Strengthen the man within you with power through his Spirit according to the riches of his glory.
② our hearts
(Ephesians 3:17) Let Christ dwell in your hearts through faith, that you may be rooted and grounded in love.
③Based on the spirit of Christ's love
(Ephesians 3:18) able to know the love of Christ, which surpasses knowledge, with all the saints
(Ephesians 3:19) I pray that you may realize what is the breadth and length and height and depth, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
conclusion:
Let's become full saints armed with a Christian spirit