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Ephesians 5:14-6:4 Your Eternal Destiny and the Destiny of the Church - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: March 5, 2017

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson

"Grace and peace" is in the Bible 55 times, and in life, grace always comes before peace.

Life Lesson

The Bible points out if you want to be forgiven, you must forgive.

Life Lesson

Punishing someone else through un-forgiveness, is like drinking poison and hoping the other person will get sick.

Selected Notes/Illustrations

The Bridge, (the church), believes that we are each created, called, and gifted by God to a high calling. This calling includes reaching and teaching; walking and growing in love, (the fruit of the Spirit), using our gifts to bless each other, and using our gifts to encourage each other. We do this by serving (with our gifts), by giving (with our resources), and by being rooted and grounded in love, and forgiveness for one another.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

1 Cor 13:1 NKJV

1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

1 Cor 13:13 NKJV

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Cor 14:1 NKJV

Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

Gal 5:22-23 NKJV

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

Ephesians 3:17 NKJV

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Eph 4:11-13 NKJV

11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

Eph 5:25-27 NKJV

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

Rev 21:3-4 NKJV

3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. 4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."

Rom 3:10 NKJV

As it is written:
"There is none righteous, no, not one;

Rom 3:23 NKJV

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Rom 5:8 NKJV

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Rom 5:12 NKJV

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned —

Rom 6:23 NKJV

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Rom 10:9-10 NKJV

9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Rom 10:13 NKJV

13 For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved."

1 Cor 11:23-26 NKJV

23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; 24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me." 25 In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me." 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes.

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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