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Paul is praying.
He never prays for material things.
He is praying that his hearers would have spiritual perception… Christian character.
He is not praying that God would give them something they don’t have, but rather reveal to them what is already theirs.
And so, Paul is praying that the Ephesian believers would have their eyes opened.
Notice 2 things… Paul believes that the opening of the eyes of their minds, or the enlightenment they needed, was something that came from the Holy Spirit.
We cannot, without the help of the Holy Spirit, understand the things of God.
We need the spirit to enlighten us or open our eyes.
Secondly, this enlightenment comes to the heart of the Christian- vs. 18
The inner man, the heart, has spiritual faculties that parallel the physical senses.
The inner man can see (Ps.
119:18; John 3:3), hear (Matt.
13:9; Heb.
5:11), taste (Ps.
34:8; 1 Peter 2:3), smell (Phil.
4:18; 2 Cor.
2:14), and touch (Acts 17:27).
This is what Jesus meant when He said of the people: “They seeing see not, and hearing they hear not” (Matt.
13:13).
The inability to see and understand spiritual things is not the fault of the intelligence but of the heart.
The eyes of the heart must be opened by the Spirit of God.
So what is Paul’s prayer for the Ephesian church, and for us?
A Relationship with Christ
You can’t know Christ without a relationship.
To Know Christ is salvation.
To Know Christ is sanctification
To Know the glory of Christ
We need to know God as savior, creator, redeemer, sustainer, forgiver, lover, Friend, Guide, whatever.
The more we know him, the better our spiritual lives will be.
He also wants us to know His Calling on our lives.
A Calling From Christ
Paul wants us to understand the hope that is ours because of Christ’s calling on our lives.
This hope is not “I hope so”… rather it carries with it the assurance of the future.
Before Christ, we were without hope in this world.
And so, Paul prays that we will have a relationship with Christ, that we will know his call upon our lives and the hope that it gives.
But also, that we might know the Riches of God.
To Know the Riches of Christ
We have an inheritance in Christ that Paul mentioned earlier in eph 1.11
But that is not what Paul means here.
Rather, His inheritance is in us.
God sees us as part of his great wealth!
Think about what Christ prayed for us...
Finally, Paul prays that we would know God’s power.
The Power of God
God’s power is seen in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
In the OT, there were many ways that God’s power was seen...
in the creation Is. 40.12-27
His Miracle at the Red Sea
The power of God is seen in his resurrection, and
What does this meant for us today?
As believers, we are Christ’s body.
There is a living connection between us and Christ.
We share in everything of Christ.
Paul’s prayer for the Church:
A Relationship with Christ
A Calling from Christ (hope)
To know the Riches of Christ
To Know the Power of His Resurrection
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