Giving Yourself to Something Great
February 09, 2020      |     By: Jonathan Brickley      |      Category: Sermons      |      Location: El Dorado
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The Mind-Bending, World-Shaping, Culture-Changing, Authoritative, Unlimited Power of the Church

Genesis 2:18-23 (NIV)
18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh.
22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”

Ephesians 5:30, 32 (NIV)
30 for we are members of his body.
32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.

First Adam: Adam
Second Adam (Last Adam): Jesus

Christ’s Bride
Revelation 21:9 (NIV)
9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

Raised up with Him
Ephesians 2:5-6 (NIV)
5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

Co-Heirs with Him
Romans 8:17 (NIV)
17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

Seated on the Throne
Revelation 3:21 (NIV)
21 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne.

On the Job Training for Reigning!

We are tempted to forget who we are.

How do we Learn to Overcome?
Prayer & Praise

1 Corinthians 6:2-3 (NIV)
2 Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!

2 Timothy 2:11-12 (NIV)
11 Here is a trustworthy saying: If we died with him, we will also live with him;
12 if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us;

“History is the handmaiden of the Church” - P. Billheimer

So - we must CONSTANTLY remind ourselves of the truth!