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Encourage The Heart

Encourage The Heart. Ephesians 6:21-24. By David Turner www.Biblestudies-online.com. The Heart. “In the heart dwell feelings and emotions, desires and passions.” “The heart is the seat of understanding, the source of thought and reflection.”

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Encourage The Heart

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  1. Encourage The Heart Ephesians 6:21-24 By David Turner www.Biblestudies-online.com

  2. The Heart • “In the heart dwell feelings and emotions, desires and passions.” • “The heart is the seat of understanding, the source of thought and reflection.” • “The heart is the seat of the will, the source of resolves.” • “Thus the heart is supremely the one centre in man to which God turns, in which the religious life is rooted, which determines moral conduct.” Theological Dictionary of the New Testament

  3. Encourage • parakaléō [to exhort, comfort] • Jesus uses the noun paráklētos [advocate, helper] to refer to the Holy Spirit, who would come after him to comfort the apostles heart. • John 14:26 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

  4. Ephesians 6:21–24 (ESV) 21 So that you also may know how I am and what I am doing, Tychicus the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will tell you everything. 22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts. 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.

  5. Paul Cares About The Heart • Paul spent three years in Ephesus. He knows them and they know him well. • Between Paul and Apollos, Ephesus was one of the best taught of all the churches. • Paul is now in Prison, yet his thoughts are to encourage the hearts of those in Ephesus.

  6. About Tychicus • Mentioned five times in NT (Acts 20:4; Eph. 6:21; Col. 4:7; 2 Tim. 4:12; Tit. 3:12) • He was with Paul as he left Ephesus and during some of his time in prison. Colossians 4:7–8 7Tychicus will tell you all about my activities. He is a beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. 8 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts,

  7. About Tychicus • He is beloved brother “Tychicus the beloved brother” (close to Paul’s heart) • He is a faithful minister and an encourager of the heart “and faithful minister in the Lord” Do we encourage the hearts of others?

  8. About Tychicus • He is a reliable messenger • delivered this letter, • the letter to the Colossians • and possibly the letter to Titus and Philemon • He can verbally communicate Paul’s heart and situation. 22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, …. Can we be trusted to follow through on tasks?

  9. About Tychicus • Above all, He is a comforter/encourager of the heart. 22 I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts. Are we an encouragers/comforters of the heart?

  10. Salutations 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible. • Peace with God through the forgiveness of sins. • Peace between Jews and Gentiles Ephesians 2:14–17 (ESV) 14For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. 17 And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. • Peace received by the indwelling of the Spirit

  11. Ephesians 3:14–19 14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.

  12. Ephesians 2:4–9 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.

  13. Romans 8:35–39 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ withlove incorruptible.

  14. 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible. • Where do find Comfort for the heart : Real Peace, Love combined with Faith, and Grace? • Do we seek it in: • Things? • Self? • Pleasure? • Human Relationships?

  15. There is a hole in our soul “Lord, you have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they find rest in you.” Augustine (354-430) Confessions 1.1.1.

  16. “What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace?  This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and unchangeable object; in other words by God himself.” Blaise Pascal (1623-62) Pensees10.148

  17. "When people cease to believe in God, they do not believe in nothing; theybelieve in anything!“ G.K. Chesterton

  18. Our Only Source of Comfort Peace, love with faith incorruptible, are only obtained through Jesus Christ. Paul, the Apostles and Tychicus had hearts encouraged by Christ, and were willing to risk all to bring this Christ’s comfort to the heart of others. Is your heart so filled with Christ’s love, peace, and faith that you are compelled to share this comfort with others?

  19. Benediction 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 2 Corinthians 1:3–4

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