Ephesians: Faith Under Pressure

Allen Jackson Ministries

Dillon Matheny

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Is it possible to experience a significant move of God without disruption, difficulty, and determination? In this sermon, Pastor Allen Jackson discusses the history of the church in Ephesus, illustrating the reality of spiritual opposition in the world, both then and now. He draws from Acts and the Apostle Paul’s letters to show how spiritual forces are influencing our culture—and how God can help us fight back. Our communities, cities, and nations are divided, but with the Holy Spirit’s help, we can have the courage to speak the truth in love.

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0:00.0	The threat to you is so real, the spiritual threat is so real to you.
0:09.0	You need to know not how to use some symbolic means of defense, you need something powerful to
0:14.6	turn back the adversary. Is it safe to say that we live in a generation where we need
0:20.1	to understand the power of God so that we can turn back the adversary.
0:24.6	Clearly, Ephesion 6 is not about physical violence, but is equally graphic
0:29.7	that the spiritual conflict is a matter of life and death,
0:33.1	not some polite prayer lifted up with no emotion
0:35.9	or no real intent of outcome.
0:37.6	You're listening to Alan Jackson Ministries. You can get the outlines for this
0:46.9	episode at Alan Jackson.com slash podcast. If these messages help build you up
0:52.3	or encourage you to be a more fully devoted Christ follower,
0:56.0	leave us a five-star rating and review.
0:59.0	Hopefully, that will help others find out about them as well.
1:02.0	Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.
1:07.0	I want to begin a new talk. I really wanted to take some time with you and look at some of the spiritual
1:15.4	principles that are given to us in the book of Ephesians. But as I began to work
1:19.8	through that it occurred to me it would be beneficial if we understood a little bit of
1:24.1	the backstory how that church at Ephesus came to be and the things that they had to face.
1:29.2	Before Paul wrote the letter is a part of our new testament.
1:33.0	So that's our goal today.
1:35.0	Ephesians is a church that emerged from great pressure.
1:38.0	And I think that is meaningful for what we're doing these days.
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