Fight the Good Fight of Faith, English Edition

L ESSON 3 T HE E NTRANCE W E G ET Linking Our Life with the Life of God in Christ

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

~ Ephesians 2.19-22

By the end of this session, you should embrace the Entrance We Get by: • Believing we are joined to Jesus by faith (i.e., we are now “in Christ”), we receive and experience all that he is, provides, and does. • Believing that through the Spirit’s working, we now possess membership in the household of God, whose cornerstone is Jesus Christ, and whose foundation is the apostles and prophets. • Believing that each local church is an embassy of the Kingdom of God, representing the interests and intentions of heaven itself, with believers serving as ambassadors and agents of that Kingdom. Eternal God, my Father, you say in your Word that you are the source of all knowledge and wisdom. I acknowledge this as the truth, dear Father, and I ask that you impart into me divine wisdom, that I may be able to rightly divide the Word of truth (2 Timothy 2.15). Please instruct and teach me in the way I should go (Psalm 32.8), and direct my steps. Incline my ear to hear your voice, and correct me now in the way I think and speak, and lead me when I have gone astray. Father, grant me the gift of discernment, and enable me as I study to know the difference between godly and ungodly teachings, spirits, and gifts. Show me by the Holy Spirit what your will is, and give me insight into how I can carry out your intentions with my whole heart.

Objectives

Opening Prayer for Wisdom

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