November 23, 2025

Passage:  Ephesians 3:14-21
Speaker:  Pastor Josh Holland
Main Idea:  God is glorified when Christ’s love is experienced in the church.

I. We have reason to praise and pray. (14-15)
            A. Together, we are a dwelling place for God. (cf. 2:18)
            B. Believers are one in Christ, not separated by race, space or eternity.
            C. We have personal access to a kind, holy, all-powerful Father.

II. Salvation is not information, it is transformation. (16-19)
            A. The inner man is my thinker, my feeler and my core desires. (cf. Matt. 15:19; 22:37)
            B. We are to experience God’s unending love in and with His family.
            C. The goal is that we love one other as Christ loved us.

III. Respond to God’s glorious grace in awe and gratitude. (20-21)
            A. Retrain the brain to ask God for help.
            B. Every saved life is proof of God’s death defeating power.
            C. God loved us in Christ, and now we love one another through Him.