Sermons About Inheritance
Leaving a Legacy - Sustainable Marriages #3
What do you want for your marriage? Want some peace? Want to feel closer? We all want a marriage that works, but let's face it, things don't always go as smoothly as we'd like. When spouses aren't in synch, things can get crazy. How do you break the conflict cycle when it gets rolling? Studies show that communication is enormously significant in developing marital stability, so how do we grow in our talks with one another? We want to experience sexuality that is beautiful and God-designed for our enjoyment. We want to love more deeply at the end than we did at the beginning. We want to pass along a family heritage of love and respect to our children. Join us as we explore what God's Word says about making marriage last. [Note: Some material taken from Dr. Emerson Eggerichs's book Love and Respect.]
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Sermon for Week 10-09
The first effect of knowing God is the hope to which God has called us. This seems to define well the objective substance of this hope; that is, we are God’s children, will be holy, and not held accountable for our sins. The second benefit derived from knowing God is having the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints. This is in reference to the riches beyond imagination, which God has reserved for His people. In all things, the evidence of God’s incomparable great power is there. The greatness of His power is demonstrated in raising Jesus from the grave as He promised. Jesus was dead and buried in a tomb. God’s power is so mighty that it burst the bonds of death. Jesus is now the King who reigns in absolute power. One day that reign will result in the bringing together of all things under Him.
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The Spirit Guarantees our Inheritance
Jesus promises His followers an inheritance that is so precious that it empowers devoted obedience, frees us for love, and strengthens us in suffering. But what is this inheritance, and how can we know it's really there -- and that it will really satisfy us? That's what Paul explains in Ephesians 1:13-14.
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Sermon for Week 8-09
Paul is stressing that there is no such thing as excessive prayer. Paul understood that to be at one with Christ was to be at one with others who are at one with Christ.
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The Doctrine of Adoption (Galatians 4:1-7)
Adoption gives us the deepest insight into what it means to be a Christian, and into the greatness of God's love for us. We cannot understand our salvation any better than we understand adoption. While justification is the most important and foundational aspect of Christianity, adoption is the greatest and highest experience of the Christian life. In our adoption, we experience God's closeness, affection and generosity. We are challenged to grow in our awareness of God's real love for us as an adoptive Father.
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God's Greater Purposes
Our Redemption or “being set free†comes from the payment a ransom that in this case is the death of Jesus in place sinners. The child of God is not only given freedom from the penalty of sin, but the sin itself is forgotten. Redemption and forgiveness go together. The “seal†for Christians is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not only promised, but is the mark whereby the Christian is marked out as belonging to God and the “guarantee†of that Christian future inheritance. The Holy Spirit is a down payment that guarantees ultimate ownership by God.
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Our Glorious Hope
Paul prays for the Ephesians to have their eyes opened to the glorious hope, the rich inheritance, and the greatness of God’s power in those who believe. An uplifting word that reminds us that our hope isn’t in this world but our hope is in Christ.
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Abiding Along the Way
Like our spiritual father Abraham we are called to follow God by faith as sojourners in this day and age and look forward to heaven and the jaw-dropping inheritance that He has promised to us. If our true home is in heaven and not here, how do we create community in a place where we don’t belong? Jesus taught us that while we are in the place that He has called us to now we should not try to hop from place to place in search of something better but instead to remain there and invest in the people around us by sacrificially loving them and sharing the truth of the Gospel with them so that they could receive new spiritual life in Christ.
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