“Secret Power to Love the Unbearable”

Feb.13, 2011 Eph.3:14-4:2  Play AUDIO (24 kbps mp3)  Play VIDEO (320x240 wmv, 218 kbps)

NO VALENTINES FOR THE UNBEARABLE

•    annoying people can get on your nerves
•    industry hero’s gracious favour shunned

FOUNDED ON BLESSING: ROOTED AND ESTABLISHED

1.    PICKED: 1:4
2.    PARENTED: 1:5
3.    PLEASING to God: 1:5
4.    POURED-OUT KINDNESS: 1:6
5.    PURCHASED TO BE FREE: 1:7
6.    PARDONED: 1:7
7.    PART OF GOD’S PLAN: 1:9f
8.    POSSESS AN INHERITANCE: 1:11,14,18
9.    PIETY: 1:12f, 2:8, 3:17
10.    PARACLETE AS PROMISED: 1:13, 3:16
11.    PRAYERS OF OTHERS: 1:16, 3:14
12.    PROGRESS IN KNOWING GOD: 1:17
13.    PROSPECT OF A GOOD FUTURE: 1:18, 2:7
14.    POWER: 1:19f, , 3:16, 18, 20
15.    PRE-EMINENT PRESIDENT: 1:20ff
16.    PRESENCE OF CHRIST: 1:23, 3:17
17.    PRECIOUS TO GOD: 2:4
18.    POST-MORTAL EXISTENCE: 2:1/5
19.    POSITION IN THE HEAVENLIES IN CHRIST: 2:6
20.    POINTED TO AS EXAMPLES OF GRACE: 2:7,10
21.    PROXIMITY TO GOD: 2:13,18, 3:12
22.    PEACE WITH OTHERS: 2:14ff
23.    PARTNERSHIP IN ALL GOD PREVIOUSLY PROMISED: 2:12, 3:6
24.    PRIZES UNENDING: 3:8
25.    PERCEIVE HOW MASSIVE CHRIST’S LOVE IS: 3:18f,

THE LOVE-BATTERY

•    empowered to live worthily when rooted in God’s love and rich grace

LIVE IT OUT: THINKING BEYOND YOURSELF

•    humble, gentle, patient, loving – possible only with God’s help
•    selfishness makes relationships painful
•    NHLer’s advice: let her talk; compliment her; be a gentleman