5. Potential Series Titles:

6. Identity in Action

7. Potential Series Titles: Identity in Action Becoming Who You Are In Christ

8. Potential Series Titles: Identity in Action Becoming Who You Are In Christ Mirror and Mission

9. Potential Series Titles: Identity in Action Becoming Who You Are In Christ Mirror and Mission Who Are You?

10. Potential Series Titles: Identity in Action Becoming Who You Are In Christ Mirror and Mission Who Are You? Church Beyond the Building

11. Potential Series Titles: Identity in Action Becoming Who You Are In Christ Mirror and Mission Who Are You? Church Beyond the Building Discovery Our Identity and Purpose

12. Potential Series Titles: Identity in Action Becoming Who You Are In Christ Mirror and Mission Who Are You? Church Beyond the Building Discovery Our Identity and Purpose Holy cow – are we seriously still in the book of Ephesians?

13. Your identify is RECEIVED not ACHIEVED

14. From your IDENTITY flows your ACTIVITY

15. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

16. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

17. 11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. Ephesians 1:3-14

18. “When God gets his glory – we get our joy.“

19. “So if God loves us enough to make our joy full, he must not only give us himself; he must also win from us the praise of our hearts — not because he needs to shore up some weakness in himself or compensate for some deficiency, but because he loves us and seeks the fullness of our joy that can be found only in knowing and praising him, the most magnificent of all beings… God is the one Being in all the universe for whom seeking his own praise is the ultimately loving act. For him, self-exaltation is the highest virtue. When he does all things “for the praise of his glory,” he preserves for us and offers to us the only thing in all the world that can satisfy our longings.” - John Piper

20. Westminster Shorter Catechism: Q1. What is the chief end of man? A1. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever.

21. V. 3 – (The Message) How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him.

22. “The entire prayer, all 11 verses of it, is woven through and through with the story of what God has done through Jesus the messiah. God has blessed us in the king, chose us in him, foreordained us through him, poured grace on us in him, gave us redemption in him, set out his plan in him, intending to sum up everything in him. We have obtained our inheritance in him because we have set our hope in him, and have been sealed in him with the Spirit as the guarantee of what is to come.” – NT Wright

23. THE BLESSING OF HOLINESS (v. 4)

24. THE BLESSING OF ADOPTION (v. 4-5)

25. v. 4-5 (The Message) Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ.

26. THE BLESSING OF HOLINESS (v. 4) THE BLESSING OF ADOPTION (v. 4-5) THE BLESSING OF REDEMPTION (v. 7)

27. THE BLESSING OF HOLINESS (v. 4) THE BLESSING OF ADOPTION (v. 4-5) THE BLESSING OF REDEMPTION (v. 7) THE BLESSING OF FORGIVENESS (v. 7)

28. THE BLESSING OF HOLINESS (v. 4) THE BLESSING OF ADOPTION (v. 4-5) THE BLESSING OF REDEMPTION (v. 7) THE BLESSING OF FORGIVENESS (v. 7) THE BLESSING OF GRACE (v. 7-10)

29. THE BLESSING OF HOLINESS (v. 4) THE BLESSING OF ADOPTION (v. 4-5) THE BLESSING OF REDEMPTION (v. 7) THE BLESSING OF FORGIVENESS (v. 7) THE BLESSING OF GRACE (v. 7-10) THE BLESSING OF BEING SEALED (v. 11-14)

30. v. 11 (The Message) It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for

31. THE BLESSING OF HOLINESS (v. 4) THE BLESSING OF ADOPTION (v. 4-5) THE BLESSING OF REDEMPTION (v. 7) THE BLESSING OF FORGIVENESS (v. 7) THE BLESSING OF GRACE (v. 7-10) THE BLESSING OF BEING SEALED (v. 11-14) TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY (v. 6, 12, 14)