We have a restless, relentless and ruthless Adversary, the Devil. We must wake up to the reality that he is still doing his worst through his fallen apprentices on planet earth. Although he has been defeated and his doom is sure, he does not give up in trying to destroy the people of God. But greater is He that is in us than he that is in the World.

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This week we consider the reality of the spiritual war being fought in our world and in the heavenly realm. We have an Enemy - an Adversary, Satan, the Evil One, the Devil - whose main goal is to persuade people away from the truth. In this session we place the Spiritual War in its larger context in order to understand the role we play in this War.

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We finish our discussion of Paul's prayer in Ephesians 1 by considering the last two things he wants us to know: the riches of God's inheritance in us and the incomparable greatness of His power given to us. God not only loves us and considers us and appropriate and worthy eternal inheritance for His one unique Son Jesus, He has also granted us the power of Jesus' own resurrection to live an entirely new kind of life.

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This week, we get back into the swing of things by doing a little review and summary. In Ephesians 1, after Paul tells us all the ways that God our Father is blessed in His blessing us, he prays that we might know three things: 1) the hope of God's calling, 2) the wealth of His inheritance in the Saints, and 3) the incomparable greatness of His power toward us who believe. As we know these things fully, we become equipped and encouraged to be the people that God our Father desires for us to be.

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