Hope, Inheritance, Power
The Lord's Day Morning September 18, 2005 Ephesians 1:18-19 “Hope, Inheritance, Power” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians, chapter one, as we continue to work our way through this great letter of the Apostle Paul to the church at Ephesus, and ultimately of course, to all of God's children, because this book is the book of the people of God, and it is God's gift to His people that we might learn who He is and what He has done for us and how we are to live in this world. Now, we've said many, many times in our study of Ephesians 1 so far that almost the whole of this first chapter is prayer. Verses 3-14 is a prayer of adoration, or a doxology; verses 15-23 is a prayer of petition or request, and we've…