Love and The Church - God's Expression on Earth
July 24, 2022      |     By: Jonathan Brickley      |      Category: Sermons      |      Location: El Dorado
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Ephesians: “The Queen of the Epistles”
“The Epistle of the Ascension”

Power of God
Rule of Christ
Spiritual Warfare

Main Focus = The Church

Ephesians 1:3-6 (NIV)
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.
4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.

Ephesians 1:18-23 (NIV)
18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,
19 and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength
20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms,
21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
22 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,
23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.

Psalm 114:1-6 (NIV)
1 When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
2 Judah became God’s sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
3 The sea looked and fled, the Jordan turned back;
4 the mountains leaped like rams, the hills like lambs.
5 Why was it, sea, that you fled? Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
6 Why, mountains, did you leap like rams, you hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble, earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.

Fourfold Power Operating IN Christ (The Head) Transmitted TO the Church (Body)
1) Resurrection (20)
2) Ascending (20)
3) Subjection (22)
4) Headship (22)

Power FOR / Transmitted TO the Church (v 19, v 22)

All that Christ Passed Through WE passed through in Him

The Body Expresses The Head

For His Complete Expression on the Earth

….Where “His Kingdom Rules Over All” (Psalm 103:19)

Psalm 103:19 (NIV)
19 The Lord has established his throne in heaven, and his kingdom rules over all.

The Earth - He has Granted / Bestowed / Entrusted - to Mankind (Psalm 115:16)

Psalm 115:16 (NIV)
16 The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth he has given to mankind.

(RULE & REIGN)

“Keys” - Matthew 16:18-19, Matthew 18:15-19

Matthew 16:18-19 (NIV)
18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.
19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Matthew 18:15-19 (NIV)
15 “If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’
17 If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
18 “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
19 “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

Given to Peter - And Given to the entire Church

The Kingdom of Heaven Rules ON the earth THROUGH the Church

Kingdom Demonstrated / Jesus Expressed In the Church First, In the Earth Second
(Jews then Gentiles)

Righteousness - Peace - Joy