1. Chapter 10

3. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

4. Character Calling

5. Character Calling

6. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them... Romans 12:6

7. Character Calling - Providence ↳ God working supernaturally...naturally ↳ Divine coincidence

8. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10

9. Character Calling - Providence - Personal - Peaceable (sign) ↳ Shows God cares about ↳ Shows Trustworthy

10. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Colossians 3:15

11. Character Calling - Providence - Personal - Peaceable (sign) - Provision (sign) ↳ where God guides, God provides

12. "God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply" Hudson Taylor Missionary Missionary to China (1832-1905) (1832-1905)

13. Character Calling - Providence - Personal - Peaceable (sign) - Provision (sign) - Power (sign)

14. I don’t get verse 12 Saul, a prophet? Their father? Not from a prophet Not from a prophet family, or a godly family.... family, or a godly family.... Not from a prophet Not from a prophet family, or a godly family.... family, or a godly family.... so unlike him...

15. Saul’s uncle? Why? Ner, father of Abner? Response? Humble... perceptive, influential...manipulative Saul’s response v.16v.16

16. Character Calling - Providence - Personal - Peaceable (sign) - Provision (sign) - Power (sign) - Perception (others)

17. “When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,’ Deuteronomy 17:14

18. you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. Deuteronomy 17:15

19. But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall not return that way again.’ Deuteronomy 17:16

20. Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself. Deuteronomy 17:17

21. “Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the one before the priests, the Levites. Deuteronomy 17:18

22. And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, Deuteronomy 17:19

23. that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment to the right hand or to the left, and that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel. Deuteronomy 17:20

24. Character Calling - Providence - Personal - Peaceable (sign) - Provision (sign) - Power (sign) - Perception (others) - Partners

25. Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel. 1 Samuel 13:1-2

26. Character Calling - Providence - Personal - Peaceable (sign) - Provision (sign) - Power (sign) - Perception (others) - Partners

27. But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.” Ephesians 4:7-8

28. (Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) Ephesians 4:9-10

29. And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, Ephesians 4:11

30. for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, Ephesians 4:12

31. till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; Ephesians 4:13

32. that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, Ephesians 4:14

33. but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— Ephesians 4:15

34. from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. Ephesians 4:16

35. But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.” Ephesians 4:7-8

36. (Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) Ephesians 4:9-10