The theme of this last part of chapter one (beginning in v.19), is the POWER OF GOD… Why do you and I need to know the ‘exceeding greatness’ of God’s power? – because:
1st – God’s power is focused on those of us who believe – think about it for a minute… God’s great power and might is concentrated and directed—not just toward us—but for us… and in us… (Gk preposition – εἰς eis)
2nd – Left to ourselves, you and I are spiritual weaklings! – if it were not for God’s grace and God’s Spirit—we could never do anything that pleases God… Left to ourselves we are faithless, faulty, foolish, fickle, unstable, vulnerable, and helpless.
So, you and I desperately need ‘the eyes of our understanding to be enlightened’ so that we might know what this great, great power of God for us—is all about…
Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
