SERMON NOTES

Watch Your Step

Walk in Power

Text: Ephesians 5:15-21   (p.978)

Maybe we're not finding what we truly desire in life, we're not finding joy and peace, because we keep seeking   of the wrong thing. (Mt. 5:6)

Do I want a   of God's  

Paul uses the analogy of drunkenness because people throughout the ages have sought to   reality to find some   in life.

But we know drunkenness is a foolish   and temporary joy at best. (Acts 4:31; 13:52)

God says there is another way -  a wise way to have   a non-foolish means to find   a means that helps us make the best use of our time, to walk the way He designed us to live.

The Christian faith is about me submitting to and relying on the Spirit of God for the   to be and do everything God wants. (Acts 1:8)

It is regularly asking Him to completely     It is a desire to draw near and live daily in His presence. (Ps. 16:11)

Paul lists four continual things we need in our life to keep getting   with God's  

Our response to the evil of our day isn't to escape it but   it with the power of the gospel.

The Spirit leads us - we step in obedience in engagement - He then fills us with His Spirit to empower us for the  

Learn more about walking in the power of God's Spirit with these sermons: beltway.org/sermon/god-still-speaks/ AND beltway.org/sermon/better/