WELCOME TO THE JACKSON STREET CHURCH OF

CHRIST

PLEASE TURN OFF CELL PHONES

Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace you have been saved through

faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

(9) not of works, lest anyone should boast. (10) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,

which God prepared beforehand that we should walk

in them.

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I. GOOD WORKS

Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for

good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

II. ANSWERED PRAYER

1 John 5:14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask

anything according to His will, He hears us.

III. COMPLETENESS

A.Colossians 2:9-10 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; (10) and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

B.PERFECTION - Colossians 1:28 Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.

IV. STABALIZATION

A.2 Corinthians 1:21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,

B.Colossians 2:7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

V. TRIUMPH

2 Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of

His knowledge in every place.

VI. LIBERTY

Galatians 2:4 And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they

might bring us into bondage),

VII. OBEDIENCE

1 John 3:24 Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given

us.

VIII. HIS SPIRIT

1 John 4:13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He

has given us of His Spirit.

IX. LOVE OF GOD

Romans 8:37-39 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through

Him who loved us. (38) For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, (39)

nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate

us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

BLESSINGS IN CHRIST

A. Spiritual blessings are available only in Christ.

B. The only way the bible says we can get into Christ is through baptism.

C. Have you been baptized into Christ?

TONIGHT’S SERMONCHRIST-LIKE COMPASSION