"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.

Sermon Outline
God fashions broken people into a masterpiece displaying His wisdom through Jesus.
1. Glorious Up-Cycle: Although we were dead in our sins, God made us alive with Christ and the believer in Jesus is a new creation—an original masterpiece.
2. Glorious Purpose: God is shaping the believer into the image of Christ to do good works.
3. Glorious Church: God’s reveals His grand masterpiece, the church, by uniting believers in Christ.
Take-Home Applications
• Read Ephesians and underline every time you see the phrase “In Christ” or “In Him”
• Confess your selfishness: How do you disregard the purpose for which you were created and live for yourself?
• Confess your pride: How do you try to do the work God prepared for you while attempting to maintain control of your own plans?
• Spend time with the Lord allowing Him to chisel away selfish, prideful thinking and shape you into the image of His Son—Jesus. (Rom 12:2)
• Confess your worth
• Ask God to reveal His glorious purpose for you
○ Use the spiritual gift survey to find the ways God has prepared for you.
○ What are God’s commands for you?
○ What has God made you passionate about?
○ Write a personal purpose/vision statement: How would you want people to think of you in 3-5 years?
• Fill in the blanks with the words from the Bible references (download a printable version on our website: emmauslutheran.org/sermons)
○ I have been _________with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms (Eph 1:3)
○ He __________me in Christ to be holy and blameless (Eph 1:4)
○ I am _________with His glorious grace (Eph 1:6)
○ I have _________through His blood (Eph 1:7)
○ In Him all things will be _________(Eph 1:10)
○ I have obtained an _________in Christ(1:11)
○ I have been _________with the promised Holy Spirit (Eph 1:13)
○ I am _________up with Christ and _________with Him in the heavenly places (Eph 2:6)
○ He shows the immeasurable _________of his grace in kindness toward me (Eph 2:7)
○ I can be _________ in the Lord (Eph 6:10)
○ I have been made _________in Christ (Eph 2:5)
○ I am created for good _________(Eph 2:10)
○ I who once was far off have been brought __________ (Eph 2:13)
○ I have _________through Jesus in one Spirit to the Father (Eph 2:18)
○ I am joined _________with the church to grow into a holy temple in the Lord (Eph 2:21)
○ I am being built _________with the church into a dwelling place for God (Eph 2:22)
○ I can have _________and access with confidence (Eph 3:12)
Scripture References
• Genesis 1:27
• 1 Corinthians 13:6
• 2 Corinthians 5:17-18
• Ephesians 2:1-10
• Ephesians 3:6; 9-10
• Ephesians 4:29
• Romans 3:23
• Romans 12:2
• 2 Corinthians 5:17-18

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