Proof of God

  • Jul 29, 2007
  • Series: This Is So You

    PROOF OF GOD
    "This Is So You - New Community" - Part 6
    July 29th, 2007
    Ephesians 3:14-21
    Dwain Tissell

    22And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. Ephesians 2:22 (NIV)

    10His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms... Ephesians 3:10 (NIV)

    HOW GOD PROVES HE EXISTS

    1.GOD ENTRUSTS YOU WITH HIS REALITY SHAPING POWER.

    14For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being...Ephesians 3:14-16 (NIV)

    18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, Ephesians 3:18 (NIV)

    * GOD'S POWER: STRENGTH IN INNERSPACE & INFLUENCE ON MACROSPACE.

    2.GOD INFUSES YOU WITH HIS IRRESISTIBLE TRANSFORMING LOVE.

    17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3: 17-19 (NIV)

    * GOD'S LOVE: A WAY OF RELATING THAT TOUCHES EVERY NEED & SURPASSES HUMAN UNDERSTANDING.


    HOW OUR TRANSFORMATION PROVES GOD LIVES

    How Jesus told us it would happen

    8But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." Acts 1:8 (NIV)

    God tells how he will do it through his people in hard places
    Jeremiah 29:4-13
    7Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper." v. 7 (NIV)

    20Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV)

    "And the name of the city from that time on will be:
    THE LORD IS THERE." Ezekiel 48:35 (NIV)