As Paul Encouraged the Ephesians in their faith, so are we to encourage each other in our faith. Download this and other PowerPoint presentations from Ephesians at BibleGuy.org

1. Encourage The Heart
Ephesians 6:21-24

2. The Heart
“In the heart dwell feelings and emotions,
desires and passions.”
“The heart is the seat of understanding, the
source of thought and reflection.”
“The heart is the seat of the will, the source of
resolves.”
“Thus the heart is supremely the one centre in
man to which God turns, in which the
religious life is rooted, which determines
moral conduct.”
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament

3. Encourage
parakaléō [to exhort, comfort]
Jesus uses the noun paráklētos [advocate,
helper] to refer to the Holy Spirit, who
would come after him to comfort the
apostles heart.
John 14:26 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name, he
will teach you all things and bring to your
remembrance all that I have said to you.

4. Ephesians 6:21–24 (ESV)
21 So that you also may know how I am and
what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved
brother and faithful minister in the Lord will
tell you everything. 22 I have sent him to you
for this very purpose, that you may know
how we are, and that he may encourage your
hearts.
23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with
faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ. 24 Grace be with all who love our Lord
Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.

5. Paul Cares About The Heart
Paul spent three years in Ephesus. He knows
them and they know him well.
Between Paul and Apollos, Ephesus was one
of the best taught of all the churches.
Paul is now in Prison, yet his thoughts are to
encourage the hearts of those in Ephesus.

6. About Tychicus
Mentioned five times in NT (Acts 20:4; Eph.
6:21; Col. 4:7; 2 Tim. 4:12; Tit. 3:12)
He was with Paul as he left Ephesus and
during some of his time in prison.
Colossians 4:7–8 7 Tychicus will tell you all about
my activities. He is a beloved brother and
faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord.
8 I have sent him to you for this very purpose,
that you may know how we are and that he
may encourage your hearts,

7. About Tychicus
He is beloved brother
“Tychicus the beloved brother” (close to Paul’s
heart)
He is a faithful minister and an encourager
of the heart
“and faithful minister in the Lord”
Do we encourage the hearts of others?

8. About Tychicus
He is a reliable messenger
delivered this letter,
the letter to the Colossians
and possibly the letter to Titus and Philemon
He can verbally communicate Paul’s heart and
situation.
22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose,
that you may know how we are, ….
Can we be trusted to follow through on
tasks?

9. About Tychicus
Above all, He is a comforter/encourager of
the heart.
22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose,
that you may know how we are, and that he
may encourage your hearts.
Are we an encouragers/comforters of the
heart?

10. Salutations
23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from
God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace
be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love
incorruptible.
Peace with God through the forgiveness of sins.
Peace between Jews and Gentiles
Ephesians 2:14–17 (ESV) 14 For he himself is our peace,
who has made us both one and has broken down in his
flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the
law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he
might create in himself one new man in place of the two,
so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God
in one body through the cross, thereby killing the
hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who
were far off and peace to those who were near.
Peace received by the indwelling of the Spirit

11. 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God
the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all
who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
Ephesians 3:14–19
14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is
named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he
may grant you to be strengthened with power through
his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may
dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being
rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to
comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth
and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the
love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may
be filled with all the fullness of God.

12. 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God
the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all
who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
Ephesians 2:4–9
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great
love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were
dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us
up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly
places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he
might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in
kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you
have been saved through faith. And this is not your
own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works,
so that no one may boast.

13. 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God
the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all
who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
Romans 8:35–39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For
your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are
regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these
things we are more than conquerors through him who
loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life,
nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to
come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor
anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us
from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

14. 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God
the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all
who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
Where do find Comfort for the heart : Real Peace,
Love combined with Faith, and Grace?
Do we seek it in:
Things?
Self?
Pleasure?
Human Relationships?

15. There is a hole in our soul
“Lord, you have made us for Yourself, and
our hearts are restless until they find rest in
you.”
Augustine (354-430) Confessions 1.1.1.

16. “What else does this craving, and this
helplessness, proclaim but that there was once
in man a true happiness, of which all that now
remains is the empty print and trace? This he
tries in vain to fill with everything around him,
seeking in things that are not there the help he
cannot find in those that are, though none can
help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only
with an infinite and unchangeable object; in
other words by God himself.”
Blaise Pascal (1623-62) Pensees 10.148

17. "When people cease to believe in God, they
do not believe in nothing; they believe in
anything!“
G.K. Chesterton

18. Our Only Source of Comfort
Peace, love with faith incorruptible, are only
obtained through Jesus Christ.
Paul, the Apostles and Tychicus had hearts
encouraged by Christ, and were willing to
risk all to bring this Christ’s comfort to the
heart of others.
Is your heart so filled with Christ’s love,
peace, and faith that you are compelled to
share this comfort with others?

19. Benediction
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies
and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us
in all our affliction, so that we may be able
to comfort those who are in any affliction,
with the comfort with which we ourselves
are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:3–4