Aim: To understand, enjoy, and practice the church's privileges.
Doctrine: The church's privileges all flow from God's rich grace, which come to her through gospel preaching, and which invest her with great purpose.
Exegesis: The essentials of the church's privileges: we have the honor of revealing God's ways to all beings everywhere (v. 10); we have the distinction of enjoying strong assurance in Christ (vv. 11-12); we have the advantage of benefiting from our collective struggles (v. 13).
Further application: How to more fully participate in the church's privileges: learn to live by faith (''seeing'' the invisible world), and find in Christ alone God's completed accomplishments.
Key verse: v. 10 ''To the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places...''
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Rev. Mark Henninger received his Masters of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he has been Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Peoria, Illinois for more than 30 years.