Text Messages: Revelation • 8.14.22

Sermon Notes: Ephesians 1:15-23
Series: Text Messages
Title: Revelation
Date: 8.14.22
Location: Perris Valley Church

2 Timothy 3:16 (NIV)
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

Ephesians 1:15-16 (NLT)
Ever since I first heard of your strong faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for God’s people everywhere, 16 I have not stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly,

Romans 1:8 (NLT)
Let me say first that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith in him is being talked about all over the world.

Point number 1 in your notes:
When a church is dedicated to Jesus, other people know about it.

 
Ephesians 1:17 (NLT)
asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God.

 
Ephesians 1:17 (NIV)
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.

 
Colossians 1:9 (NASB)
For this reason we also, since the day we heard about it, have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Point number 2 in your notes:
Revelation is the activity of God, not the ability of man.

 
1 Corinthians 14:6 (NLT)
Dear brothers and sisters, if I should come to you speaking in an unknown language, how would that help you? But if I bring you a revelation or some special knowledge or prophecy or teaching, that will be helpful.

 
Revelation 1:1 (NASB)
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John,

 
Galatians 1:12 (NASB)
For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

 
Ephesians 1:18 (NIV)
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,

 
Jeremiah 17:9 (NLT)
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?

Point number 3 in your notes:
Something that has been enlightened, was formally darker than it is now.

 
Hebrews 11:1 (NIV)
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

 
Romans 8:24-25 (NIV)
For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

 
1 John 3:2 (NASB)
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.

 
Ephesians 1:19-22 (NLT)
I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God’s power for us who believe him. This is the same mighty power 20 that raised Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God’s right hand in the heavenly realms. 21 Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else—not only in this world but also in the world to come. 22 God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church.

Ephesians 1:23 (NLT)
And the church is his body; it is made full and complete by Christ, who fills all things everywhere with himself.

 
Point number 4 in your notes:
It is the parts of the body that are to complete the desires of the head.  

 

2 Timothy 4:3 (NIV)
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.