September 2018 - December 2024
How should we live as believers? Ephesians will inform us of our riches, our spiritual assets, in Christ and how we are to live. Ephesians is the most significant book for understanding our roles and responsibilities as Church Age believers. Listen to the series to put your spiritual growth into hyperdrive.
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To view all video Bible studies in the Ephesians series, click here (Vimeo) or here (YouTube). Both platforms now include closed captioning. VIdeos on VImeo include the entire worship service, while those on YouTube only include the Bible teaching from the service.
Sunday, August 07, 2022
by Robert Dean
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-21
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 58 mins 18 secs
Buckle up your seat belts and get ready for a lightning-speed ride through the Church Age. Find out how the 11 apostles, Paul, and a few believers began to spread the gospel in the pagan world. Understand the gradual transformation that took place as the New Testament Books were written and distributed and how it began to influence how people understood marriage, family, and government. See that the culture changed as Christianity spread through areas of the world and reached its pinnacle and the philosophies that dominated during those years. Be ready next week to hear how it began to decline and slide toward paganism again.
Sunday, August 14, 2022
by Robert Dean
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-21
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 49 mins 5 secs
After Christianity reached its pinnacle in the mid-1600s, dominant philosophies began to influence thinking into a gradual decline. Today we see the results as pagan worldviews are accelerating. Hear about six men who influenced thinking negatively during the last five hundred years resulting in the chaotic culture of today. See how the authority for knowledge was shifted from the revealed Word of God to the unstable minds of humans and understand that all of us have been affected by this.
Sunday, August 21, 2022
by Robert Dean
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-21
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 1 hr 53 mins 43 secs
How does a new believer learn how to live the spiritual life? Listen to this message to learn that once a person has trusted in Christ as their Savior their old man man has been put off and they can conduct their life in a new way. See that they are a part of the body of Christ, the Church, and learn what this involves. Find out the importance of understanding who you are in Christ and what the spiritual life is.
Sunday, August 28, 2022
by Robert Dean
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-21 & Colossians 3
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 53 mins 31 secs
What are the phrases “old man” and “new man” referring to? And how are they put off and put on? Listen to this lesson to learn that these are not commands but rather, they occur instantly at the moment anyone trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. See that they refer to leaving our position in Adam and joining with others in the Church, or body of Christ. Rejoice that all believers are in Christ and as such, have the power to obey the many commands given to us that refer to our new spiritual life.
Sunday, September 04, 2022
by Robert Dean
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-21
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 1 hr 58 mins 9 secs
Are you a part of Team Adam or Team Church? Listen to this lesson to learn that when anyone trusts Christ as their Savior they switch from being in Adam to being in the Church, which is the body of Christ. Hear what we were like when we were born and see that the corruption was getting worse. Then when we trusted in Christ, we were born again and are now part of the Church. Everything is new. In order to grow to spiritual maturity we need to have our thinking renewed and that can only happen as we walk by means of the Holy Spirit and learn what the Scriptures reveal about our new life.
Sunday, September 11, 2022
by Robert Dean
Passage: Ephesians 4:17-21
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 45 mins 23 secs
After salvation, then what? Listen to this lesson to hear a blueprint for two paths you can take. One is to continue as you did as an unbeliever, living by the dictates of the sin nature. It leads to spiritual death in this life and at the Judgment Seat of Christ you receive no rewards. The best choice is to choose to live by means of the Holy Spirit. This involves reading the Word of God, studying, internalizing, memorizing, and applying it to decisions you make. It includes confession of sin on a regular basis and results in spiritual maturity and rewards. Each day you have this decision to make so choose wisely.
Sunday, October 02, 2022
by Robert Dean
Passage: Ephesians 4:25
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 48 mins 37 secs
Do you know the Code of Conduct believers should follow? Listen to this message to learn that this code is found in the New Testament Scriptures and its first tenet is that we should begin to grow in our spiritual lives. Find out the three groups of people on Earth today and what a believer’s vocation is. See the four factors our spiritual life must be based on.
Sunday, October 16, 2022
by Robert Dean
Passage: Ephesians 4:25
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 56 mins 17 secs
What is the truth we are to speak to other believers? Listen to this message to see that ultimate truth is found in Jesus Christ and is revealed in the Scriptures. Find out that it is eternal and immutable. In contrast, the lie is Satan’s worldview which brings chaos. It denies the Creator/creature distinction and says we are independent of God. Our goal should be to continue to grow to spiritual maturity by learning God’s Word and walking by means of the Holy Spirit.
Sunday, October 23, 2022
by Robert Dean
Passage: Ephesians 4:25
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 57 mins 29 secs
The Truth or the Lie. Which do you believe? Listen to this lesson to learn the origins of God’s ultimate truth and of Satan’s lie. See how you can recognize the Lie when you hear it. Find out how Modernism and Postmodernism have influenced our thinking. See the importance of saturating your thinking with the Word of God so your thinking will be renewed in the Truth. Understand how believing the Lie leads to chaos and disorder.
Sunday, October 30, 2022
by Robert Dean
Passage: Ephesians 4:25
Series: Ephesians (2018)
Duration: 53 mins 52 secs
Are you aware you’re living in a war zone? A war zone of competing worldviews? Listen to this message to learn about two prominent worldviews that may be influencing you more than you know. The first of these is called Modernism, which stresses that reason and logic are all that were necessary to live a good life. This view was discredited by the devastation of the first World War. The worldview that followed it and is current today is called Postmodernism. Learn how its goal is to bring utopia to this world through social change. In contrast to these false worldviews is the biblical view that man is helpless to save himself, but God’s plan for mankind is to redeem him through Christ’s death on the Cross when we trust in Him. Finish this lesson with a study of who the “one another” in Ephesians refers to and the importance of the body of Christ called the Church.
During this message Dr. Dean referenced the book The Death of Truth by David McCallum.
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