Apr 30, 2017 |Seated

Seated in the Heavenlies

04.30.17 | Seated

Seated in the Heavenlies

Noel Heikkinen

Ephesians 1-2

The Gospel of Jesus Christ includes His perfect sinless life, death on the cross, burial, resurrection, and ascension to the right hand of God in heaven. The ascension is something that tends to get overlooked. How does the ascension of Christ affect our lives? Pastor Noel Jesse Heikkinen unpacks the critical meaning of Christ’s ascension in our lives by explaining how we are spiritually in a new position. It is from this new position in Christ that we can live and view our lives differently than before.

Ephesians 1:18-2:10; Colossians 3:1-3

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I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what is the wealth of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the mighty working of his strength.

Ephesians 1:18–19, CSB

[According to the mighty working of his strength]…that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Ephesians 1:20–23

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Ephesians 2:1–3

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:4–6

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Colossians 3:1–3

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Ephesians 2:8–9

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 2:10