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Week of September 4, 2022

I went through officer candidate basic training at Fort Lewis Washington. If you don’t know, a drill sergeant has complete control over your life for 10 weeks. When you eat, when you sleep, when you shower, when you train, when you go to class, etc. I’m sure every troop in basic training feels like the drill sergeant picks on him, but after doing 20 push-ups on many occasions I felt my paranoia was justified. But everything changed after I graduated from the officers’ candidate boot camp and received my Lieutenant status. Suddenly this drill sergeant was under my command. He immediately saluted me. Now any second lieutenant knows a drill sergeant knows a lot more about the military than he does and, so, the lieutenant is simply the person that negotiates the commands received from headquarters to the troops in the field. A smart second lieutenant always asks the sergeant what he thinks the best plan is for the battle ahead. But my point is that in a moment the drill sergeant who was over me suddenly became a sergeant who was accountable to me. Likewise, the moment you become a Christian, you are changed in relationship to the world, the flesh, or the devil. They had control over you up until that moment of faith. Once you’re in Christ, you have been given the power over the world, the flesh and the devil. In a moment your position in life and eternity changed, before you had little choice but to obey your old sergeant, the WFD, but now that you are “in Christ” and by faith in Him and the word of God, the world, the flesh and the devil are under Christ’s control. They do not have control over you but are subject to you by the power of the Holy Spirit. Being “in Christ” transformed you from death living to life living “in Christ”. If you abide in Him and He abides in you, ask what you will, and it shall be done. Your new position in life takes you out from under the control of the WFD, as you surrender to the control of Christ. Don’t let the devil convince you he is still under his control. Since you are “in Christ” you are no longer under the devil’s command to having authority over him.

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God Works Through You

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Ephesians 2:1-10

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God Works Through You

September 4, 2022 / Pastor Dennis Beatty / Ephesians 2:1-10

Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter by it. For the gate is small, and the way is narrow that leads to life, and few are those who find it. Matthew 7:13-14

But she (he) who gives herself to wanton pleasure is dead even while she (he) lives. 1 Timothy 5:6

Don’t be a sinful mess, but by grace become God’s masterpiece.

The first road sign: “You are dead.”

The world is against you.

You were dead in your sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world. Ephesians 2:1-2a

The devil hinders you.

According to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience. Ephesians 2:2b

The second road sign: “You are determined to sin.”

Among them we formerly lived in lust indulging the desires of the flesh and were by nature children of wrath. Ephesians 2:3

The exit road sign: “Christ makes you alive.”

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love even when we were dead in our sins, made us alive together with Christ. Ephesians 2:4-6

The new road sign: “You are a debtor to God’s grace.”

In order that the ages to come He might show the riches of His grace toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith; not of yourselves, it is the gift of God not as a result of works, that no one should boast. Ephesians 2:7-9

The final road sign: “You are to magnify God’s grace.”

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

So What?

To earn heaven: wrong strategy.
Honor God while being “in Christ”.

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