At a Glance
Series: Made for More
Scripture: Ephesians 2:13, 15-22, 2 Corinthians 3:17
Summary: Made for More Than Doing Life Alone is a sermon outline centered on Ephesians 2:13, 15-22. Made for More, Week Six You’ll never experience ALL that God has for you by yourself. You were always meant to be part of his family. He made you for more than just doing life alone. Review flags: dated-context.
Source: Adapted from Brandon Cox sermon outline notes from 2019. Transcript, audio, and video files were not used for this draft.
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Sermon Notes
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Extracted Outline
Made for More Than Doing Life Alone
Made for More, Week Six
You’ll never experience ALL that God has for you by yourself. You were always meant to be part of his family. He made you for more than just doing life alone.
And that’s why Jesus started this thing we call the church. The church is a family. It’s a household. And you have a place here.
You’ll never experience all that God
wants for you by yourself.
Ephesians 2:13, 15-22 NIV
[13] Now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ… [15] His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.
[17] He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. [18] For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. [19] Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household,
[20] built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. [21] In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. [22] And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
The Apostle Paul is a changed man. He used to believe…
What God has done, is doing, and will be doing forever… forming a family for himself made up of people from every kind of background.
Picture of the church is a house. A household. A family.
God wants to dwell closely with his people, so he puts his “house” among us…
• The tabernacle was God’s way of manifesting his presence among his people, meeting with them for worship and direction, but the tabernacle was also God’s way of demonstrating that he didn’t fit in the physical space of a tent.
• The temple was man’s idea. While God did show up there as well and manifest his presence, he also used it to differentiate between the Jewish people and the rest of the world. While every other culture had a temple with an idol in the middle of it, Israel’s temple was an empty box.
• Then Jesus ‘tabernacled’ among us, showing us the very fullness of God’s truth and grace, embodied in the Son of God. But Jesus also made it clear that his time on earth was temporary (the first time he came) and that he would send the Comforter who would change everything.
• The church is God’s house today. NOT the building, but the people, indwelt and collectively experiencing, both when we gather and as we scatter, the manifest presence and supernatural power of God.
Here’s the point…
If you want to experience the fullness of God’s presence and power, you need to plug into his house – his church.
The church is the called out assembly of the people whom he has saved and called by his own name.
“Coming to God’s house” isn’t about showing up at a building or an event. It’s about gathering as God’s family.
• We come to God’s house to offer up our praise.
• We come to God’s house to hear from God together.
• We come to God’s house to watch God work powerfully.
• We come to God’s house to use our gifts to serve others.
• We come to God’s house to be reminded of the mission.
• We come to God’s house to include more people in the family.
• We come to God’s house to experience freedom together.
2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
So how do you commit to being a son or daughter of the house?
How do you show your heart for the house?
• I’m going to show up.
• I’m going to grow up.
• I’m going to get connected.
• I’m going to give my best.
What is God calling you to do next? Get into his family? Get involved? Get committed?