3. I AM IN CHRIST

4. EPHESIANS 1:1-14
1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus
by the will of God, to God’s holy
people in Ephesus, the faithful in
Christ Jesus: 2 Grace and peace to
you from God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ.

5. EPHESIANS 1:1-14
3 Praise be to the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us in the heavenly
realms with every spiritual blessing
in Christ. 4 For He chose us in Him
before the creation of the world to
be holy and blameless in His sight.

6. EPHESIANS 1:1-14
In love 5He predestined us for
adoption to sonshipthrough Jesus
Christ, in accordance with His
pleasure and will—6 to the praise
of His glorious grace, which He
has freely given us in the One He
loves.

7. EPHESIANS 1:1-14
7 In Him we have redemption
through His blood, the forgiveness
of sins, in accordance with the
riches of God’s grace 8 that He
lavished on us. With all wisdom
and understanding,

8. EPHESIANS 1:1-14
9 He made known to us the
mystery of His will according to His
good pleasure, which He purposed in
Christ, 10 to be put into effect when
the times reach their fulfillment—
to bring unity to all things in heaven
and on earth under Christ.

9. EPHESIANS 1:1-14
11 In Him we were also chosen,
having been predestined according
to the plan of Him who works out
everything in conformity with the
purpose of His will, 12 in order that
we, who were the first to put our
hope in Christ, might be for the
praise of His glory.

10. EPHESIANS 1:1-14
13 And you also were included in
Christ when you heard the
message of truth, the gospel of
your salvation. When you believed,
you were marked in Him with a
seal, the promised Holy Spirit,

11. EPHESIANS 1:1-14
14 who is a deposit guaranteeing
our inheritance until the
redemption of those who are
God’s possession — to the praise
of His glory.

12. THE FIRST ADAM
AND
THE LAST ADAM

13. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:45
45 Thus it is written, "The first
man Adam became a living
being"; the last Adam became a
life-giving spirit.”

14. ARE YOU IN ADAM
OR IN CHRIST?

15. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:21-22
21 For as by a man came death,
by a man has come also the
resurrection of the dead. 22 For
as in Adam all die, so also in
Christ shall all be made alive.

16. Death LIFE

17. WHAT DOES IT MEAN
TO BE IN CHRIST?

18. WHAT DOES IT MEAN
TO BE IN CHRIST
ACCORDING TO THE
BOOK OF EPHESIANS?

19. NINE THINGS THAT
YOU ARE IN CHRIST:

21. EPHESIANS 1:1
1 “Paul, an apostle of Jesus
Christ by the will of God, to the
saints who are in Ephesus, and
faithful in Christ Jesus.”

22. “Saint” : in Greek, “Hagios”
means “blameless, consecrated,
holy”

23. JUDE 1:24
24 Now unto Him that is able to
keep you from falling, and to
present you faultless before the
presence of His glory with
exceeding joy.

25. EPHESIANS 1:3
3 “Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who has blessed us in Christ
with every spiritual blessing.”

26. EPHESIANS 1:6
6 “To the praise of His glorious
grace, with which He has blessed
us in the Beloved.”

28. EPHESIANS 1:4-5
4 “Even as He chose us in Him
before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and
blameless before Him in love 5 He
predestined us for adoption as sons
through Jesus Christ, according to
the purpose of His will.”

29. GOD’S WAY OF
CHOOSING

30. ROMANS 8:29-30
29 For whom He foreknew, He
also predestinated to be
conformed to the image of His
Son, for Him to be the First-born
among many brothers.

31. ROMANS 8:29-30
30 But whom He predestinated,
these He also called; and whom He
called, those He also justified. And
whom He justified, these He also
glorified.

33. EPHESIANS 1:7
7 In Him we have redemption
through His blood, the forgiveness
of our trespasses, according to the
riches of His grace.

35. EPHESIANS 1:9
9 “Making known to us the
mystery of His will, according to
His purpose, which He set forth in
Christ.”

36. 1 CORINTHIANS 2:12-13
12 Now we have received not the
spirit of the world, but the Spirit
who is from God, that we might
understand the things freely
given us by God.

37. 1 CORINTHIANS 2:12-13
13 And we impart this in words
not taught by human wisdom but
taught by the Spirit, interpreting
spiritual truths to those who are
spiritual.

39. EPHESIANS 1:10
10 “ As a plan for the fullness of
time, to unite all things in Him,
things in heaven and things on
earth.”

40. COLOSSIANS 1:20
20 And, having made peace
through the blood of His cross, by
Him to reconcile all things unto
Himself; by Him, I say, whether
they be things in earth, or things
in heaven.

42. EPHESIANS 1:11
11 In Him we have obtained an
inheritance, having been
predestined according to the
purpose of Him who works all
things according to the counsel of
His will.

43. REVELATION 3:21
21 To him who overcomes I will
grant to sit with Me in My
throne, even as I also overcame
and have sat down with My
Father in His throne.

44. ISAIAH 9:7
7 “Of the increase of His
government and of peace there
will be no end ….”

45. REVELATION 20:4
4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on
them were those to whom the
authority to judge was committed.
Also I saw the souls of those who
had been beheaded for the
testimony of Jesus and for the
Word of God,

46. REVELATION 20:4
and those who had not worshiped
the beast or its image and had not
received its mark on their
foreheads or their hands. They
came to life and reigned with
Christ for a thousand years.

48. EPHESIANS 1:12
12 “That we who were the first to
hope in Christ might be to the
praise of His glory.”

50. EPHESIANS 1:13-14
13 In Him you also, when you
heard the Word of truth, the
Gospel of your salvation, and
believed in Him, were sealed
with the promised Holy Spirit,

51. EPHESIANS 1:13-14
14 who is the guarantee of our
inheritance until we acquire
possession of it, to the praise of
His glory.

52. ACT 1:8
8 But you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit has come
upon you, and you will be My
witnesses in Jerusalem and in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the
end of the earth.