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Ephesians 2 The Incredible Doers - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: December 6, 2015

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (Ephesians 2)

Every morning we choose who is sitting on the throne of our hearts.

Life Lesson (Ephesians 2)

You cannot choose life and speak death. Our mind is being renewed and our mouths are being retrained.

Life Lesson (Ephesians 2)

God gives us the power to choose to be freed from sin and death.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

Deut 30:15 NKJV

"See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,"

Deut 30:19 NKJV

I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;

Rom 7:21-24 NLT

21 I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. 22 I love God's law with all my heart. 23 But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?

Rom 7:25 NLT

Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God's law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

Rom 8:2 NKJV

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

Rom 8:5 NKJV

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

Rom 8:6 NKJV

For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

2 Cor 10:3-5 KJV

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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