This is the audio version of Episode 29 of the Sound Mind Series - Ephesians 3:1-21
If you are not able to watch the video that was uploaded on YouTube, you can listen here. Please bear with me as this process of audio to video is new and can be a bit shaky to figure out. This is all for the Lord and His glory. I hope you enjoy reading chapter 3 of Ephesians.
Hi everyone.
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:Welcome back to I Can, he Can.
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:My name is Sarai and we
are finally face to face.
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:You guys.
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:Finally face to face.
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:I'm honestly a little
afraid of the camera.
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:I did not do my hair.
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:I didn't do makeup.
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:I am in the same clothes I've
been in all day, and I just said.
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:You know what?
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:I'm just gonna go for it.
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:I don't know.
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:I can't promise that I will do
every single video because it's
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:usually just been an audio podcast.
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:So if you guys are here wherever you
can see the actual video, I'm very glad
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:that you're here and I am just thrilled
that I have even gotten this far.
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:And I can only say that it is because
of the grace of God and his will being
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:done just through me to get you guys
whatever it is that I have to share.
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:Today we're going to continue on part
three of the Sound Mind series, and we are
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:actually reading Ephesians chapter three.
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:yes, I have my Bible here with me.
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:I truly love Ephesians so much, and
I'm pretty sure that I will say that
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:about every single book that I read.
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:Um, it's just, it's just the word.
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:The word is just amazing.
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:And when you have an open mind, when
you sit down and you are intentional
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:about what you are going to do, and
diving into the word with purpose.
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:It will actually speak to
you completely different.
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:And when I first started walking with
Christ, yes, I started reading the
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:word, but I started from front to back.
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:And personally, I don't think
it matters where you start.
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:I didn't know everything that
there is to know about Jesus.
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:I didn't know how he even died.
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:I didn't, I didn't know any of that.
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:I'm going to be very honest.
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:But I said to myself, I wanna read the
Bible and I wanna start from the beginning
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:because I'm a very like OCD person.
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:I have to start from A to Z.
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:Um, so it just bothered me if I
would've been skipping around.
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:So I read through Genesis all the way
to Numbers, which was the one that
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:took me the longest, and it felt good.
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:Did I understand every single thing?
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:No.
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:I am actually doing a Bible study
now with my new church, Livng
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:UpWord, which I absolutely love,
and they're doing a chapter by
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:chapter verse by verse on Exodus.
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:And let me tell you, I came in to
chapter 28, which is actually pretty
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:funny that that's where they were when I
started, since this is also episode 28.
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:But anyway, um, going
back to that, so I don't.
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:You know, squirrel brain here on camera.
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:Um, they started on Exodus 28.
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:and let me tell you, I thought I
knew and understood what I read
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:from Exodus, and that is not case.
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:And I say that all to say that when
I was reading, I was reading more.
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:To say that I was reading the Bible, but I
was also reading to learn more of like the
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:theology stuff and who's who and when did
this happen and did I learn all of that?
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:I possibly remembered
like four or five names.
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:Did I remember every single thing?
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:Absolutely not.
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:Did I read between the lines?
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:Absolutely not.
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:Now, now that I have more knowledge
and have read some other books and have
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:gone to church a lot more and watched.
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:in different sermons and how
people talk about different things.
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:I can read between the lines
more and things definitely just
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:come across a lot more clear.
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:Um, so what I learned recently from my
new pastor, and I really saw it as I was
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:reading more during church on Sundays,
is that everything, even in the Old
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:Testament, everything is about Jesus.
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:Even in Genesis, when you don't
think that Adam and Eve have
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:anything to do with Jesus.
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:Everything has to do with Jesus.
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:And I'm not gonna get too into that
today, but I just wanted to say that I
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:just wanted to say that reading the word
just gives me so much joy, and I'm so
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:happy, so, so happy that I am here, that
I'm doing this, and that I'm able to
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:just share what I have learned and what I
continue to learn as I continue to read.
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:But before I start reading I also wanted
to briefly talk about discernment.
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:I had a conversation the
other day with David and man,
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:when you start walking with Christ.
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:Your discernment starts to
improve, to broaden, you start
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:feeling things a lot deeper.
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:And I always thought that I had
that gut feeling about things
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:and that I could sense, you know,
people's vibes or whatever it was.
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:Um, I wouldn't necessarily use vibes,
but that's the only word that I
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:could really think of at the moment.
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:however.
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:I never imagined myself
being good at reading people.
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:I always said like, oh,
I can't read this person.
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:I just give everyone the
Benefit of the doubt.
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:However, I love the word,
however I say it often anyway.
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:I see I'm like veering off.
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:but I never thought I was
good at reading people.
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:And then now that I'm walking with
Christ, I realized that I was selling
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:myself short years ago, and I was saying
that I'm not good at reading people,
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:but I always had those gut feelings.
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:And those gut feelings was my discernment.
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:I believe personally that I
have always had the Holy Spirit
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:within me to a certain extent.
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:Did I accept Jesus from early
on, like when I was young?
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:No, because I didn't even know
who Jesus was, but I did love God.
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:I did believe in God.
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:I always prayed.
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:When I had to pray, was it
a different kind of prayer?
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:Like now?
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:Yeah, because I usually prayed when
something was going on and, but I
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:always believed in God and I always
respected God and, and all of that.
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:So I do believe that I had to some extent
the protection of the Holy Spirit in me
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:that was guiding me towards understanding
and feeling, oh, is this a good person?
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:Is this a bad person?
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:I say all of this to say that.
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:As we are growing in Christ and we
are walking with Jesus and we are
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:just learning more and more about
Jesus, we need to also understand
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:ourselves as we are growing.
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:We can't underestimate the
things that we are feeling.
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:We can't underestimate the things
that we are understanding from the
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:Bible because this is a living word.
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:This is going to talk to you
differently This is going to unravel
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:itself in a different way than it
will ever unravel itself to me.
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:And maybe if you start in the
beginning, maybe you will understand
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:all the things that I missed when
I was reading Genesis, Exodus,
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:Leviticus, numbers, all of those books.
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:You guys need to trust yourselves and
listen to yourselves, and when I say
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:listen to yourselves, I say that lightly.
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:I say that lightly because
it's actually listening to the
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:Holy Spirit that's inside you.
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:Listening to the Holy
Spirit is so important.
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:It's listening to Jesus.
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:It's listening to God's Guidance and that
is what I have been lacking in the most.
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:And I had an experience a few months
ago with a particular person that
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:I told them, oh, you remind me of
this person who did not do me very
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:good for the time that I knew them.
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:And I ignored everything that I felt.
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:I told them.
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:And I said, oh, you don't
seem to be like that.
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:But I ignored everything that I
felt was I right about the person?
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:Absolutely.
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:So that's why I say that you can't sell
yourself short because I knew from the
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:very beginning, and that isn't just
going to help you with a friendship.
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:It's going to help you with work.
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:It's going to help you with your children
to discern if your children are feeling
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:something, if they're doing something.
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:It's going to help you and
relationships and with everything.
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:Your discernment is
going to be another guide
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:That you can use at your disposal.
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:So you guys need to be careful.
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:be quiet, pray on it.
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:think about what you are feeling
and really just try and understand
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:because these things can truly
be God's guidance and we need
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:to learn how to hear his voice.
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:I just had to rant about that for a
little bit because man, I am actually
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:pretty good at reading people.
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:I just, I'm really bad
at listening to myself.
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:So I just wanted to give
you guys that advice because
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:I'm not even a new Christian anymore.
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:and I feel like I've been running with
Christ, not even walking because at
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:this point, doing a podcast for more
than six months already and reading the
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:Bible and just feeling growth and seeing
different things of myself and surrounding
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:myself with completely different people
than I thought I ever would like.
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:I'm not walking.
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:I'm running, so I'm running with Christ.
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:But anyway.
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:I already lost my train of thought.
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:Obviously this is not scripted.
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:I usually try to have an outline but
these were just the things that I had
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:in my heart, and being the first video
podcast ever, I'm just a little nervous.
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:So guys, Um.
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:Without further ado, we're gonna
start Ephesians chapter three, as
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:always, please have your bibles.
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:This is the new King James version that
I absolutely love I'm not an expert.
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:I'm not a theologist.
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:I'm just reading the chapter to you guys
and then I'm going back and I am sharing
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:what it is that I have outlined in.
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:The scriptures that stuck out
to me and giving you guys my
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:take about what I am reading.
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:So I hope this blesses you, and I
hope that you open up your Bible
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:and you can read it for yourself.
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:All righty.
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:So chapter three of Ephesians, the
mystery revealed for this reason, I
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:Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus.
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:For you Gentiles, if indeed you have
heard of the dispensation of the
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:grace of God, which was given to
me for you, how that by revelation,
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:he made known to me the mystery.
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:As I have briefly written already by which
when you read, you may understand, and
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:my knowledge in the mystery of Christ.
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:Which in other ages was not made known
to the sons of men, as it has now
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:been revealed by the spirit to his
holy apostles and prophets, that the
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:Gentiles should be fellow heirs of the
same body and partakers of his promise
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:in Christ through the gospel of which
I became a minister according to the
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:gift of the grace of God given to me
by the effective working of his power.
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:Purpose of the mystery to me, who
I'm less than the least of all the
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:saints, this grace was given, that I
should preach among the Gentiles, the
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:unsearchable riches of Christ, and to
make all see what is the fellowship of
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:the mystery, which from the beginning
of the ages has been hidden in God, who
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:created all things through Jesus Christ.
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:To the intent that now the manifold
wisdom of God might be made known by
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:the church to the principalities and
powers in the heavenly places according
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:to the eternal purpose which he
accomplished in Christ Jesus, our Lord,
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:in whom we have boldness and access
with confidence through faith in him.
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:Therefore, I ask that you do not
lose heart at my tribulations
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:for you, which is your glory.
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:this is actually a very short chapter,
so I'll go back and break it down.
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:Appreciation of the mystery.
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:For this reason, I bow my knees to the
father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from
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:whom the whole family in heaven and
earth is named, that he would grant you
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:according to the riches of his glory.
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:To be strengthened with might through his
spirit in the inner man, that Christ may
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:dwell in your hearts through faith that
you being rooted and grounded in love may
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:be able to comprehend with all the saints
what is the width and length and depth
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:and height to know the love of Christ,
which passes knowledge that you may be
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:filled with all the fullness of God.
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:Now to him who is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above all that we ask or
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:think according to the power of the
works in us, to him be the glory
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:in the church by Christ Jesus to
all generations, forever and ever.
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:Amen.
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:While there's not a lot to go over,
because it is a short chapter,
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:there's still a lot to go over.
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:So,
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:Starting in chapter
three again, verse one.
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:It says, for this reason, I Paul, the
prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles.
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:Verse two.
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:If indeed you have heard of
the dispensation of the grace
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:of God, which was given to me.
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:I have given circles on
there given to me for you.
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:I'm gonna stop there for a second.
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:So Paul is explaining to the Gentiles
that he had the gift of God given to him.
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:So it wasn't something that he chose.
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:It wasn't something that he
was just like, oh God, please.
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:He didn't seek God out.
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:And if you are familiar with the
story, Paul had an encounter.
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:With Jesus.
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:And that's why he says it was given
to me because again, he met Jesus.
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:They had a conversation.
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:No one really knows what
transpired in there.
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:And he then became a follower.
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:He became an apostle, which is insane.
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:Like wouldn't you wanna just become
like a disciple or an apostle of Jesus?
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:Of course.
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:Who wouldn't?
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:Like, that's the whole point in having
a relationship with Jesus, right?
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:Anyway, I digress.
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:Um, going back to verse two, if indeed
you have heard of the dispensation of
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:the grace of God, which was given to
me, so that dispensation, that giving
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:out of the grace of God was also given
to him for you, given to me for you.
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:So I take given to me for you.
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:As Paul's saying this, grace
of God, this gift that I have
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:now was given to me for you.
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:The purpose of me is to bring you guys
the Gentiles closer to Jesus and to
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:let you know that he loves you and
that you guys as well can be like the
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:Jews can be part of the family of God.
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:And that is essentially
what I am taking from that.
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:There's a lot in that, and I know
it's only verse one and two, but.
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:I'm just trying to put two and two
together here from what I already read,
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:from what I've read in the past, and
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:Paul was used the same way that God is
using me right now to do this podcast, to
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:bring someone a little moment of peace and
bring someone the word and bring someone
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:something that they can resonate with.
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:I feel the same way Paul was used
for the Gentiles I'm being used.
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:For you guys and all.
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:Glory to God, because I never
thought I would be here.
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:Something like this, like this.
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:This whole camera podcast situation.
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:This is all God.
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:I never thought I would
do something like this,
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:and now
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:It's all for God.
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:Anyway.
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:Verse three, how that by Revelation,
he made known to me the mystery,
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:as I have briefly written
already, which when you read,
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:I have so many notes in here.
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:I keep getting sidetracked because
of all the lines and circles by which
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:when you read, you may understand my
knowledge in the mystery of Christ.
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:Verse five, which in other ages was
not made known to the sons of men As
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:it has now been revealed by the spirit
to his holy apostles and prophets.
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:So he is saying that he had a
revelation, obviously that's when he,
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:um, had that encounter with Jesus and
he received the mystery of Christ.
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:So whatever happened in
that encounter, he knows.
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:the point of what he is supposed
to do, and obviously in a nutshell,
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:like I said, he's supposed to bring
the gentiles, the gospel so that
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:they can come closer to Christ
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:Verse six, that the Gentiles
should be fellow heirs.
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:See, I just said that the Gentiles
are going to be fellow heirs like
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:we are, be of God's riches, that the
Gentiles should be fellow heirs of
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:the same body and partakers of his
promise in Christ through the gospel.
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:I should have just kept reading
'cause I just said that.
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:Of which I became a minister according
to the gift of the grace of God given to
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:me by the effective working of his power.
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:I literally just explained that
I should have just kept reading.
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:Anyway, moving on to verse eight.
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:Now, this little paragraph is
called Purpose of the Mystery.
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:So let's see what Paul says.
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:The purpose of the mystery is verse eight.
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:To me, who I'm less than
the least of all the saints.
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:I'm gonna pause right there.
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:I love that because Paul, it's not that
he's selling himself short, I feel like
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:he knows his place after he had that
encounter with Jesus, he calls himself,
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:I believe it was in chapter four.
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:It wasn't chapter four.
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:He calls himself, I therefore
the prisoner of the Lord.
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:When I read that the first time, that's
in chapter four, we're not there yet,
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:but when I read that the first time,
I could just sense through his words
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:how much love, how much reverence,
how much respect he has for Jesus and
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:for that sacrifice that he did, that
he is taking this gift, this mystery.
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:He is an heir now of the gift of
God and he's just running with it
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:and he is not taking it lightly.
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:And I feel that us as Christians, we take
this, especially our manual, the Bible,
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:we take it so lightly and we shouldn't.
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:We should be like Paul.
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:We should be like Paul and understand
that yes, we have our place because.
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:We're not a saint.
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:We're not an angel.
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:We're not Jesus.
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:But we are here.
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:We are here, and we have had the grace
of God and we have the Holy Spirit.
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:We are so loved that we have
this amazing manual to life,
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:and we also have the spirit.
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:We have that gift from God by his grace.
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:So.
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:Paul here in verse eight says to me,
who I'm less than the least of all
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:the saints, this grace was given.
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:Yes, even though he is less than the
saints, that grace was given to him.
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:I hope I made my point that
I should preach among the
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:Gentiles, the unsearchable
riches of Christ, unsearchable.
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:I have that underline, uns,
searchable riches of Christ.
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:The Holy Spirit is not something
that you can just search for.
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:No.
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:It's something that you
receive and you receive it.
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:When you accept Christ truly in
your heart, it's something that
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:is gifted like the grace of God.
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:It's gifted to you.
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:Can you have that protection
like I did when I was younger?
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:That discernment, that gut
feeling, yes, absolutely.
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:Why?
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:Because we are all children of God.
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:And even though if we haven't accepted
Christ, I'm pretty sure that God is
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:looking out for us and he's protecting us.
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:So that's how I know that
I still had that within me.
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:But when you truly have that unsearchable
riches of Christ is when you accept him.
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:And when you say you are Lord, you
are my Lord and I love you, and
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:I thank you for that sacrifice.
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:So
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:To me, who I'm less than the least of all
the saints, this grace was given, that
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:I should preach among the Gentiles, the
unsearchable riches of Christ, verse nine,
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:and to make all see what is the fellowship
of the mystery, which from the beginning
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:of the ages has been hidden in God, who
created all things through Jesus Christ.
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:Okay, I'm gonna stop there because
again, that made my point that from
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:the beginning, beginning, beginning
of the ages, kind of like in Genesis,
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:all things were made through Christ.
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:So everything that transpired
in the beginning in those
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:times has to do with Christ.
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:Verse 10 to the intent.
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:Now, the manifold wisdom of God
might be made known by the church
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:to the principalities and powers
in the heavenly places according
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:to the eternal purpose which he
accomplished in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
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:I have a little side note here.
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:Oh yeah.
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:Riches of God.
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:I actually put the gospel and the
Spirit, so that's the riches of Christ.
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:It's the gospel, because he gave us that.
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:So we continue verse 12, in whom
we have boldness and access.
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:Yes.
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:We have to be bold.
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:We have to stand firm and be bold
in whom we have boldness and access
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:with confidence through faith in him.
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:13.
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:Therefore, I ask that you do not lose
heart at my tribulations for you.
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:Which is your glory.
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:So Paul was persecuted.
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:Paul was put in jail.
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:His tribulations is for the glory of
who he's speaking to of the Gentiles.
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:And as a Christian, let's
not even call it a Christian.
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:Let's call it being a follower of
Jesus, When you are a follower,
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:the second you say, Lord.
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:You are my Lord.
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:You are my God, I am yours.
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:Other problems start there
and you guys know it.
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:if you are not saying yes to Jesus
right now, yeah, you may have
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:problems in your life, but it's not
going to be like the ones that you
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:have when you truly accept Christ.
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:Why?
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:Because the enemy wants
to keep you away from him.
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:And a true follower of Christ
is going to hold onto Jesus
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:even more in those tribulations.
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:Just like Paul and Paul went
through so many different things.
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:But what was that purpose?
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:What was the purpose of those
different things or the Gentiles?
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:The glory of the Gentiles
was in his hands, and it was
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:because he tried to fulfill.
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:His purpose that Jesus gave him
in that encounter so that he can
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:go ahead and give that gift, those
riches of Christ to the Gentiles.
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:I digress.
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:Oh, I actually had a little note here.
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:I put my tribulations for you, which
is your glory, and then right under
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:it I put our trials can serve to save.
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:I love serving.
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:I love serving at my, my old church, so
I really, I really do miss that part.
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:But serving isn't just
serving at a church.
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:Volunteering, serving is this.
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:I'm serving the Lord right now by reading
the word to you, giving you my thoughts,
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:my feelings on it, my experiences.
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:I am serving the Lord
right now doing this.
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:And that's okay because my trials and
things that I have talked about can save
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:one of the viewers, one of the listeners.
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:So yes, our trials can serve to save.
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:The next paragraph reads,
appreciation of the mystery history.
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:Verse 14.
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:For this reason, I bow my knees to
the father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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:From whom the whole family
in heaven and earth is named.
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:So who is heaven and earth named
after our Lord Jesus Christ.
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:Why?
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:Because everything was about Jesus.
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:It's crazy.
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:I didn't get that in the beginning.
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:That's how I knew I was
reading for the wrong reasons.
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:You guys, all of this is
about God, and God is who?
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:God is Jesus.
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:Jesus is God.
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:This is all about them.
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:Him the one.
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:This is a manual.
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:Yes, it's absolutely a manual, but
it is also a book of his heart.
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:It is a book of his mind.
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:It is the key to knowing who
he is and how much he loves us.
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:It is a key to understand what
hundreds of people went through.
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:And when they still held onto their faith
and they still were steadfast in walking
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:with God and walking with with Jesus,
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:it is a testament to what they
received after, and it's the
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:greatest gift of all is being in
heaven with God and with Jesus.
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:So
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:I don't even know how
I got into all of that.
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:My gosh.
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:Verse 14.
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:Let's start again.
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:For this reason, I bow my knees
to the father of our Lord Jesus
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:Christ, from whom the whole family
in heaven and earth is named for 16.
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:That he would grant you according to the
riches of his glory, to be strengthened
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:with might through his spirit in the
inner man, that Christ may dwell in
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:your hearts through faith that you
being rooted and grounded in love.
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:I'm gonna pause right there.
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:So I had that he would grant you verse 16.
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:I had that underlined, because Paul is
specifically saying, I am hoping and
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:wishing that he Jesus is going to grant
you this access that he granted to me.
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:And he said, according to the riches
of his glory, according to the
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:many amazing, glorious, wonderful
gifts that he has, I pray that
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:he is going to grant this to you.
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:and then he said that he wants
the Gentiles be gifted strength
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:and might through his spirit.
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:Through whose spirit,
through Jesus's spirit.
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:Verse 17.
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:It answers that very thing.
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:That Christ may dwell in
your hearts through faith.
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:Wow.
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:I love how Paul writes.
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:I have, I'm gonna stop for a second.
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:We're almost done.
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:Okay guys, we're almost done
this very short chapter.
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:I love how Paul writes because he
says things that may not be as clear
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:as it comes off, but then right
after, he usually answers them.
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:So if you just keep reading,
I promise you it'll click.
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:That's exactly what it does to me.
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:I'm gonna read back 17, so that it
makes more sense that Christ may dwell
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:in your hearts through faith that you
being rooted and grounded in love may be
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:able to comprehend with all the saints
what is the width and length and depth
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:and height to know the love of Christ,
which passes knowledge that you may be
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:filled with all the fullness of God.
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:Now
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:maybe able to comprehend.
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:You can take it literal like
to understand, but I take
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:comprehend in a different way.
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:And I also think that he's saying it's
not just understanding the fullness
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:of the love of Christ and all of that.
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:I think of having a conversation of having
that dialogue, having that back and forth.
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:So I'm gonna read that little part
again to see if it makes sense to
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:you in that way, may be able to
comprehend with all the saints, what
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:is the width and length and depth and
height to know the love of Christ,
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:which passes knowledge that you may be
filled with all the fullness of God.
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:So yes, you can.
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:Talk to the saints about the width and
depth and height of the love of Christ.
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:But it also to me sounds like
to have a conversation with them
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:and talk about all these amazing
things that is Christ and his love.
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:The last little paragraph, verse 20.
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:Now to him who is able to do exceedingly
abundantly above all that we ask or
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:think according to the power that
works in us, to him be the glory
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:in the church by Christ Jesus to
all generations, forever and ever.
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:Amen and amen, indeed.
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:Thank you Lord.
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:Thank you Lord for your glory.
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:Thank you, Lord for your riches.
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:Thank you Lord for blessing us abundantly.
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:Above all.
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:Thank you, Lord, for the
power that works through us.
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:Thank you, Lord, for your sacrifice.
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:Thank you, Lord for another day.
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:Thank you, Lord for just
giving us this word.
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:Thank you, Lord, for putting me
here in this place, in this moment.
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:God, thank you Lord for working through
me, for working through Paul, for working
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:through everyone that has come to me
in my life, to push me closer to you.
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:Lord, I thank you and I love you.
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:It's in your mighty
name, Jesus, that I pray.
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:Amen.
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:Whew.
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:Oh, you guys, this is,
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:this is weird being on camera and
and recording, but I am so grateful.
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:I'm so grateful.
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:I'm happy that I did this.
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:I don't.
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:Care.
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:If I look how I need to look to go
by today's standards, what I care
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:about is that you guys are completely
falling in love with Christ and with
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:Jesus because he already loves you.
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:He already has fallen in love with you
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:And we need to love on him back.
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:We need to love on him back.
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:And if we don't know how to do that,
then all we can do is just read the word.
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:And the more you read the word,
the more you open up the Bible.
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:Even if you start on the
Bible app, that's one step.
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:That's one step that
you are getting closer.
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:To get to know him and to build
that relationship with Christ
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:and to turning your life around.
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:'cause even though you have
a good life, this isn't to
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:say that you have a bad life.
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:This isn't to say that you're going
through a thousand trials and that
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:you're poor and that you don't
have family or that you're sick.
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:No, I pray that you are none
of those things, but there is
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:still a lot of peace and love to
feel and to be had with Christ.
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:So if you don't have them
in your life right now.
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:Take that step, seek him a little more.
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:Just have a conversation.
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:That's all that it takes.
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:And who knows?
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:Maybe one day you'll be here
reading Ephesians on your own,
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:reading the Bible, reading the
Old Testament, the New Testament.
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:Who knows?
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:If it happened to me,
it could happen to you,
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:I love you guys.
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:I thank you so much for tuning
in, for actually watching
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:this time, not just listening.
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:I thank you guys always
time and time again.
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:I truly hope that this has blessed you.
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:Until next time, love you guys.