HEAD, HEART, HANDS: EPHESIANS—LIVING LOVED
Message Date: 5/18/25
Speaker: Pastor Rod Hidalgo

Week 1: Ephesians 1:1-14
Every spiritual blessing is available to us.

Week 2: Ephesians 1:15-23
It’s one thing to be loved, it’s another thing to live as if you are loved.

Ephesians 1—3:
Orthodoxy: Having the right

Ephesians 4–6:
Orthopraxy: Having the right

You are saved by grace.

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you do good works.

Jesus didn’t just save you

something—
He saved you

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something:
To belong to His family.

Have you ever felt like an o_utsider_?
 Moved to a new place
 Sat alone at lunch
 Awkward conversation
 Didn’t belong

We are more connected than ever… yet…

WHAT IF?
The church was meant to be the one place every wall came down?

Ephesians 2:1-3
As for you, you were

in your transgressions and sins, in which you
used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of
the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are
disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the
cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the
rest, we were by nature

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of wrath.

 We were dead in sin
 We followed the world
 We all lived for ourselves

Sin separates us from God and each other.

Ephesians 2:4-7

because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us

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with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by

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you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and
seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that
in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace,
expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

You are not just forgiven—you are made alive!

Ephesians 2:8-10
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not
from yourselves, it is the

of God— not by works, so that no one can
boast. For we are God’s handiwork,

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in Christ Jesus to do good
works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

You are saved by grace… for a purpose!

 Not by works
 God prepared good works in advance
 You have a role in the family

Ephesians 2:11-13
Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and
called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the
circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— remember

that at that time you were

from Christ,

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from
citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise,
without hope and

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God in the world.

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now in Christ Jesus you
who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

Ephesians 2:19-20
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow

with God’s people and also

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of his household, built on
the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as
the chief

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.

 He Himself is our peace
 He broke down the wall of hostility

APPLICATION
• Have you truly believed that God’s grace makes you alive?

• Do you see yourself as just “saved from hell,” or “saved for
family”?

• Are there walls in your heart—biases, pride, fear—that
Christ wants to tear down?

Jesus didn’t just save you

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something—

He saved you

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something:

To belong to His family.

What if our church became known as the most unified, welcoming
place in our city?

What if people walked in here and said, ‘I don’t know what it is, but
these people love like family’?

That will require taking personal responsibility.

YOU BELONG!

Would you read the Bible Plan, KNOW Ephesians, with us?

https://bible.com/p/74236874/5483615d7aac156a194a63c16f824448