The document discusses how believers in Christ have been spiritually blessed and chosen. It warns that believers must not ignore or drift from their salvation through ignorance, negligence, or disobedience. It also describes the potential that believers have to know God more deeply, understand their hope, and experience His great power by having the Spirit of wisdom and revelation and having their hearts enlightened. An example is given of Daniel and his friends who remained steadfast in their identity, theology, and destiny despite pressures to change, trusting that God would rescue them as He ultimately did.

3. I AM IN CHRIST

4. I. THE POSITION

5. A. BLESSED US WITH
ALL SPIRITUAL
BLESSINGS

6. EPHESIANS 1:3
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.

7. B. CHOSEN US TO BE
HOLY

8. EPHESIANS 1:4
4 For He chose us in Him before
the creation of the world to be
holy and blameless in His sight.
In love

9. C. PREDESTINED US
TO BE SONS

10. EPHESIANS 1:5
5 He predestined us to be
adopted as His sons through
Jesus Christ, in accordance with
His pleasure and will—

11. D. MADE US
ACCEPTED IN GOD

12. EPHESIANS 1:6 (KJV)
6 To the praise of the glory of His
grace, wherein He hath made us
accepted in the beloved.

13. E. REDEEMED US BY
HIS BLOOD

14. EPHESIANS 1:7
7 In Him we have redemption
through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins, in accordance
with the riches of God's grace.

15. F. ABOUNDED
TOWARD US IN ALL
WISDOM AND
UNDERSTANDING

16. EPHESIANS 1:8
8 He lavished on us with all
wisdom and understanding.

17. G. MADE KNOWN
UNTO HIS WILL

18. EPHESIANS 1:9
9 And He made known to us the
mystery of His will according to
His good pleasure, which He
purposed in Christ.

19. H. HE GAVE US AN
INHERITANCE

20. EPHESIANS 1:11
11 In whom also we have
obtained an inheritance, being
predestinated according to the
purpose of Him who works all
things after the counsel of His
own will.

21. I. SEALED US WITH
THE SPIRIT

22. EPHESIANS 1:13
13 In whom ye also trusted, after
that ye heard the Word of truth,
the Gospel of your salvation: in
whom also after that ye
believed, ye were sealed with
that holy Spirit of promise.

23. II. THE PROBLEM

24. HEBREWS 2:1-3
1 We must pay more careful
attention, therefore, to what we
have heard, so that we do not drift
away. 2 For if the message spoken
by angels was binding, and every
violation and disobedience received
its just punishment,

25. HEBREWS 2:1-3
3 how shall we escape if we
ignore such a great salvation?
This salvation, which was first
announced by the Lord, was
confirmed to us by those who
heard Him.

26. A. IGNORANCE
Lacking knowledge
or information

27. HEBREWS 2:3
3 How shall we escape if we
ignore such a great salvation?
This salvation, which was first
announced by the Lord, was
confirmed to us by those who
heard Him.

28. LEVITICUS 18:1-4
1 The LORD said to Moses, 2
"Speak to the Israelites and say
to them: 'I am the LORD your
God. 3 You must not do as they do
in Egypt, where you used to live,
and you must not do as they do in
the land of Canaan,

29. LEVITICUS 18:1-4
where I am bringing you. Do not
follow their practices. 4 You must
obey My laws and be careful to
follow My decrees. I am the
LORD your God.

30. B. NEGLIGENCE

31. HEBREWS 2:1
1 We must pay more careful
attention, therefore, to what we
have heard, so that we do not
drift away.

32. 1 TIMOTHY 4:14
14 Do not neglect your gift, which
was given you through a
prophetic message when the
body of elders laid their hands
on you.

33. 1 TIMOTHY 4:15
15 Be diligent in these matters;
give yourself wholly to them, so
that everyone may see your
progress.

34. C. DISOBEDIENCE

35. HEBREWS 2:2
2 For if the message spoken by
angels was binding, and every
violation and disobedience
received its just punishment

36. 2 KINGS 17:15
15 They rejected His decrees and
the covenant He had made with
their fathers and the warnings He
had given them. They followed
worthless idols and themselves
became worthless.

37. 2 KINGS 17:15
They imitated the nations around
them although the LORD had
ordered them, "Do not do as they
do," and they did the things the
LORD had forbidden them to do.

38. III. THE POTENTIAL

39. EPHESIANS 1:15-19
15 For this reason, ever since I
heard about your faith in the Lord
Jesus and your love for all the
saints, 16 I have not stopped giving
thanks for you, remembering you
in my prayers.

40. EPHESIANS 1:15-19
17 I keep asking that the God of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious
Father, (1) may give you the Spirit of
wisdom and revelation, (2) so that
you may know Him better. 18 I pray
also that (3) the eyes of your heart
may be enlightened in order that

41. EPHESIANS 1:15-19
(4) you may know the hope to which
He has called you, the riches of His
glorious inheritance in the saints, 19
and (5) His incomparably great
power for us who believe. That
power is like the working of His
mighty strength.

42. EPHESIANS 3:20
20 Now to Him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all we
ask or imagine, according to His
power that is at work within us,

43. EPHESIANS 3:21
21 to Him be glory in the church
and in Christ Jesus throughout all
generations, for ever and ever!
Amen.

44. A. THEY KNOW THEIR
IDENTITY.

45. THE PRESSURE TO CHANGE
THEIR IDENTITY

46. DANIEL 1:6-7
6Now from among those of the sons
of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah,
Mishael, and Azariah. 7 To them the
chief of the eunuchs gave names: he
gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar;
to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael,
Meshach; and to Azariah, Abed-Nego.

47. Daniel – “My judge is God.”
Beltashazzar – “May Baal protect my
life.”
Hananiah – “Yahweh has shown
grace.”

48. Shadrach – “The command of Aku,
the moon god”
Mishael – “Who is what God is”

49. Meshach – “Who is what Marduk is”
Azariah – ”Yahweh has helped.”
Abednego – “Servant of the shining
one”

50. B. THEY KNOW THEIR
THEOLOGY.

51. THE PRESSURE TO CHANGE
THEIR THEOLOGY

52. DANIEL 1:3-4
3 Then the king ordered
Ashpenaz, chief of his court
officials, to bring in some of the
Israelites from the royal family
and the nobility--

53. DANIEL 1:3-4
4 young men without any physical
defect, handsome, showing aptitude
for every kind of learning, well
informed, quick to understand, and
qualified to serve in the king's palace.
He was to teach them the language
and literature of the Babylonians.

54. C. THEY KNOW THEIR
DESTINY.

55. THE PRESSURE TO CHANGE
THEIR DESTINY

56. DANIEL 1:5
5 The king appointed for them a
daily provision of the king’s
delicacies and of the wine which
he drank, and three years of
training for them, so that at the
end of that time they might serve
before the king.

57. DANIEL 3:17-25
17 “If we are thrown into the
blazing furnace, the God we serve
is able to save us from it, and He
will rescue us from your hand, O
king.

58. DANIEL 3:17-25
18 But even if He does not, we
want you to know, O king, that we
will not serve your gods or
worship the image of gold you
have set up."

59. DANIEL 3:17-25
19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was
furious with Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego, and his attitude
toward them changed. He ordered
the furnace heated seven times
hotter than usual

60. DANIEL 3:17-25
20 and commanded some of the
strongest soldiers in his army to
tie up Shadrach, Meshach and
Abednego and throw them into
the blazing furnace.

61. DANIEL 3:17-25
21 So these men, wearing their
robes, trousers, turbans and other
clothes, were bound and thrown
into the blazing furnace.

62. DANIEL 3:17-25
22 The king's command was so
urgent and the furnace so hot that
the flames of the fire killed the
soldiers who took up Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego, 23 and
these three men, firmly tied, fell
into the blazing furnace

63. DANIEL 3:17-25
24 Then King Nebuchadnezzar
leaped to his feet in amazement
and asked his advisers. "Weren't
there three men that we tied up
and threw into the fire?" They
replied, "Certainly, O king.”

64. DANIEL 3:17-25
25 He said, "Look! I see four men
walking around in the fire,
unbound and unharmed, and the
fourth looks like a son of the
gods."

65. DANIEL 4:37
37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise
and exalt and glorify the King of
heaven, because everything He
does is right and all His ways are
just. And those who walk in pride
He is able to humble.

66. DANIEL 11:32b (KJV)
32b but the people that do know
their God shall be strong, and do
exploits.