1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,760 Welcome to Logan City Christian Church podcast where we bring God's Word to you weekly. 2 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:17,280 We pray that what you hear will bring clarity to your situation and open doors in your life. 3 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:18,800 Enjoy the message. 4 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:24,640 Just wanted to say a few things over a few people and wanted to start with you, Andrew. 5 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:34,000 I just, God wants to say to you, Andrew, that you have studied and been very diligent in the things of the Lord. 6 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:40,960 And He's going to bring you into a place now where He's going to give you abundance of revelation and understanding. 7 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,920 That He knows your heart to follow Him. 8 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:50,400 And He's going to use you in many ways to increase the understanding of God to many people. 9 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:51,920 Thank you, Lord. 10 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:58,560 Jenny and Dave, you've been very faithful in the things of the Lord. 11 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:05,360 But God's saying to you, you can be a support, a disciple of the young ones. 12 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:12,560 You can come beside them in teaching and in undergirding and supporting and praying for them. 13 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:14,080 Thank you, Lord. 14 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:14,960 Thank you, Lord. 15 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:19,760 Pastor Betty, you've been faithful in your prayers about many things. 16 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:21,280 You've asked for many big things. 17 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:28,080 And God wants you to know that He's trusting both laborers into the harvest to bring about many of the things you prayed for. 18 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:32,320 And He said, He said, hold fast through faith and patience. 19 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:34,240 You will inherit those promises. 20 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,000 Thank you, Lord. 21 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,120 Laurie Thompson, I'm just praying for you, brother. 22 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:43,680 You've got a lot of wisdom to do with finances and provision for people. 23 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,920 And I see you coming around more and more people you've done a little bit in the past. 24 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:57,680 And there's going to be a lot more for you to for people, for you to support, encourage and help with godly wisdom for how to manage the affairs of life. 25 00:01:57,680 --> 00:01:58,560 Thank you, Lord. 26 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,960 For Tony and Ross, Lord, I thank you. 27 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:04,800 They think they've been busy in the law, but that's God's saying to you. 28 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,520 You ain't seen nothing yet across the body of Christ. 29 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,400 You'll be used to support people in your home. 30 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:15,280 You support them in the ministry, support them even in going places. 31 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:16,880 Father, I thank you for their light. 32 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:23,600 They're shining their home, their openness to serve you and father that you're going to increase that in the days to come. 33 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,200 Thank you, Lord. 34 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,320 For our brother Dallas, he said, God says, worry not, brother. 35 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,160 I'm going to lead you and guide you. 36 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:38,160 He says, you've set your vases to seek me to pray to live each day in me and and you and your and your wife are going to serve the Lord. 37 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,320 He said, don't worry about anything. 38 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:41,760 I'm going to look after you. 39 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:44,320 I'm a good father and it'll all go well. 40 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:45,440 Thank you, Lord. 41 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:47,280 Thank you, Jesus. 42 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:48,880 Thank you, Lord. 43 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:49,680 Thank you. 44 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:50,560 Thank you, Lord. 45 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:51,760 Bless you. 46 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,240 For Ruth, Ruth over here. 47 00:02:54,240 --> 00:03:00,320 Father, I thank you for wisdom for Ruth that you've given her that she seeks out to walk in wisdom. 48 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:04,960 And thank you, Lord, that you're going to increase that for as she seeks your vice. 49 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:06,400 Thank you, Lord. 50 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:08,080 Jesus. 51 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:09,680 Jesus. 52 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:11,600 Thank you, Jesus. 53 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,280 Praise God. 54 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,040 Praise God. 55 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:16,640 Hallelujah. 56 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:17,520 He's good. 57 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:18,560 Amen. 58 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:19,360 God is good. 59 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:20,720 He's here. 60 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:22,800 He's visiting us. 61 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,000 Apart from him, we can do nothing. 62 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,360 Amen. 63 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:32,800 Praise God. 64 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:40,960 Would you turn with me to Ephesians, chapter three? 65 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,600 This is a pivotal since my accident. 66 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,240 This has been a pivotal verse in my life. 67 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:51,760 And we're going to do a study today, a stroll through Ephesians chapters one and two. 68 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:59,120 But we're going to set the stage by looking at Ephesians chapter three to start with. 69 00:03:59,120 --> 00:03:59,760 Praise God. 70 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,520 Let's pray. 71 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,480 Father, we thank you that you are here. 72 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:11,680 We ask that your Holy Spirit would illuminate your word, that the teacher, the comforter, 73 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:21,280 the one who guides and looks after us, our helper, will give us illumination and revelation 74 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:26,880 of your word as we seek you in the scriptures today. 75 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:28,640 In Jesus name. 76 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:29,840 Amen. 77 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:34,160 Ephesians chapter three and verse 14. 78 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:42,320 For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 79 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:52,400 Paul's saying there that everything in his life is submitted and surrendered to the father 80 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:57,120 of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. 81 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:04,640 We're going to talk about family and adoption and how we've been adopted in today. 82 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:08,720 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. 83 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:14,640 That he would grant you according to his riches in glory. 84 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:15,760 That's pretty big. 85 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:23,200 We've just been singing how great thou art about the moon and the sun and the stars. 86 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:28,320 That he would grant you according to those riches of his in glory to be strengthened 87 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:29,680 with might. 88 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:31,440 This is a mighty thing we serve. 89 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,000 We serve a mighty God. 90 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,440 But that might by his spirit is in the inner man. 91 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:44,240 It's in you that mightiness that we see out there in nature. 92 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:48,960 All the wisdom and knowledge and strength and faith that's in God that can bring stuff, 93 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:54,640 physical substance out of just spiritual things. 94 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:57,920 That's in our inner man. 95 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:02,040 Verse 3, verse 17 of chapter 3. 96 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:07,520 That Christ, and this is a pivotal verse for my life and I hope it becomes a pivotal verse 97 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,320 for yours. 98 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:14,760 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. 99 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,560 That ye being rooted and grounded in love. 100 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,480 God is love isn't he? 101 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:24,600 So if Christ is dwelling in your heart then love's dwelling in your heart. 102 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:26,560 Amen. 103 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:31,600 That we may be able to comprehend with all the saints, four dimensions here not three. 104 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,400 The breadth, the length, the height and the depth. 105 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:36,400 Depth and the height. 106 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:41,880 To know the love of Christ which passes knowledge. 107 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:46,680 That ye might be filled with a little bit of God. 108 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:49,160 No it doesn't say that. 109 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:50,440 It says with the fullness. 110 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:55,840 If you want to have a good study in the New Testament look up that word fullness and you'll 111 00:06:55,840 --> 00:07:00,120 be shocked at some of the verses you'll see. 112 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:07,880 God wants to give not a little bit of himself but the fullness unto us. 113 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:09,720 That's an amazing thing. 114 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,360 So Christ may dwell in your heart by faith. 115 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:18,840 Are you convinced, are you fully persuaded that when you get out of bed in the morning 116 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:28,040 that Christ is walking and talking and living and moving and loving and bringing peace through 117 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,720 your being to others. 118 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:32,880 We are called to shine. 119 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:38,920 We are called to shine as lights in this world through our words, our actions and who we 120 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:39,920 are. 121 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:46,440 Apart from him we can do nothing but with him and in him we can do all things through 122 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,560 Christ who strengthens us. 123 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:55,560 And that's why Romans 6 and 7, the death to self, the baptism, the death to the old man 124 00:07:55,560 --> 00:08:01,560 brings us to Romans 8 which is the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus that has 125 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:09,040 set us free from the law of sin and death because Christ is dwelling in us. 126 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,480 I learned an old song years ago. 127 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:19,720 With Christ in my vessel I can smile at the storm, smile at the storm, smile at the storm. 128 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:25,280 With Christ in my vessel I can smile at the storm as we go sailing home. 129 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:29,080 And there are all sorts of actions to it. 130 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:30,080 All this sort of stuff. 131 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,320 But this is simple truth. 132 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:40,320 You see when you're frantic and rushing around trimming the sails and bailing the water overboard, 133 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:41,320 guess where Jesus is? 134 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,680 He's in your boat but he's asleep. 135 00:08:43,680 --> 00:08:50,240 And when you stop your frantic nonsense even though you might be an expert sailor and you 136 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:54,240 stop bailing and you stop trimming the sails and you wake Jesus up and you say, hey do 137 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:55,760 you care about me? 138 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,080 What a statement. 139 00:08:58,080 --> 00:08:59,080 What a fapeless statement. 140 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,880 They'd been with us in multiple miracles. 141 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:03,600 We loved them every day. 142 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,080 Do you care that we're about to die? 143 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:10,280 He says you're not about to die. 144 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,280 Peace be still. 145 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:20,400 And you might see some storms in your life but when you know, when you're at peace, when 146 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:26,320 it's a finished thing in your life that Christ is in me by the power of the Spirit in my 147 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,880 inner man, then I can face anything. 148 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:31,240 No wonder. 149 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:34,240 No wonder James says, count it all joy. 150 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:35,680 You've got Christ in your vessel. 151 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:37,400 It's not you facing this. 152 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:42,200 It's Jesus and he's more than a conqueror through him who loves us. 153 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:46,180 Greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world. 154 00:09:46,180 --> 00:09:48,480 This is the victory that overcomes the world, the faith. 155 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:49,480 Why? 156 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:56,080 Because with true faith Christ is living in you and he's facing it all. 157 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,800 Why are you going to worry about anything? 158 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:06,120 You've got a father, a dad who's living in you, who's looking after everything. 159 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:12,560 Trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy and at peace with Jesus but to trust 160 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:13,560 and obey. 161 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:14,560 Amen. 162 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:17,760 That's wonderful stuff. 163 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,580 And where to know the love of Christ? 164 00:10:20,580 --> 00:10:25,220 To know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness 165 00:10:25,220 --> 00:10:26,800 of God. 166 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:27,800 Love is where it's at. 167 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:36,800 By this, by this shall all men know that you are my disciples, that you love one another. 168 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:42,460 What have we, what has the body of Christ got to come to to look like that? 169 00:10:42,460 --> 00:10:47,360 What relationships will we have with another, one another because we know the richness of 170 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:52,680 his inheritance in each saint that's sitting here today. 171 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:53,680 This is good news. 172 00:10:53,680 --> 00:10:57,960 It's what the good news is meant to be. 173 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:05,400 I just want to read from Matthew 28 for a second because this is the Great Commission. 174 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:12,640 I just want to look at what that teaches us. 175 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,040 Go there for and make disciples of all nations. 176 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:21,880 I think the King James Version there says go there for and teach all the nations. 177 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:26,760 The good news, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching 178 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,440 them to observe all that I've commanded you. 179 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:35,520 And lo, I'm with you always even to the end of the age. 180 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:40,360 Verse 18, I'm going to go back to verse 18. 181 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:44,540 All authority has been given to me in heaven and therefore go. 182 00:11:44,540 --> 00:11:49,040 And that authority is in you because you're seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus 183 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:54,200 and heaven is in your heart and that throne is in your heart. 184 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,240 You have an in the spirit connection to the throne of God. 185 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:02,880 That's why we can come boldly to the throne in the courts of heaven to find help, grace 186 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,400 and favor in a time of need. 187 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,520 This is a wonderful salvation. 188 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:14,120 It doesn't say there that we go and make converts, get them to say a little prayer and that's 189 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,320 in there in and they're going to heaven. 190 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:20,920 So this is about heaven coming and dwelling and living and manifesting itself in your 191 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:21,920 heart. 192 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:25,120 He who endures to the end will be saved. 193 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:31,120 Him that over cometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God. 194 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:38,440 It's through much tribulation testing a saying that we enter the kingdom of God. 195 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,040 That's why we've got to go through some trials. 196 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:48,760 But if Christ is in your vessel and you're sure of it and you know that in him you live 197 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:53,080 and move and have your being, then you can face anything. 198 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,960 That's why the words of scripture says, cast all your care, not just a couple. 199 00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,880 Think of anything that's worrying you at the moment. 200 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:01,200 Cast it on him. 201 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,520 And the reason why you throw it is to get it away from you, even though he's living 202 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:09,480 in your heart, is to get that trouble away from you. 203 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:14,000 Don't race back and take it off him and worry a bit more about it because that's going to 204 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,480 do nothing for you. 205 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:17,480 Absolutely nothing. 206 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:20,600 And in fact, in fact, it puts you in the darkness. 207 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:25,760 So we bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, which is he's got the worries, 208 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:26,900 he's got the care. 209 00:13:26,900 --> 00:13:28,760 Take no thought for my life. 210 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:32,040 What I'm going to wear, put on, what I'm going to do, where I'm going to go and how I'm going 211 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,160 to get there. 212 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:39,800 Poor kids, they come into the fridge when they're young. 213 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:45,400 They take, open the fridge and start just grazing, doing what they want. 214 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,480 They don't come out in the morning and say, oh, dad, mom, how are you going to pay that 215 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:49,480 electricity bill? 216 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,280 And the rates, have you done that? 217 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,080 And you know, the insurance on the car, have you really? 218 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,760 No, the kids don't come and do that. 219 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:01,800 They simply think, mom and dad, they just think it all happens, you know. 220 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:07,000 And we're to be like that with God. 221 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,480 He's going to look after it. 222 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:13,000 He will take care of you. 223 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,320 God will take care of you. 224 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:21,760 That hymn says, be not dismayed, what e'er be tired, God will take care of you. 225 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,200 Beneath his wings of love abide. 226 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:26,440 God will take care of you. 227 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:30,560 Are you convinced of that? 228 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:35,280 He's the God El Shaddai, the God that's more than enough. 229 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:39,600 If we abide in him and his word abides in us, we'll ask what we will. 230 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:40,600 Why? 231 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,200 Why will he answer that? 232 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:46,600 Because this is the confidence we have confidence that Christ is. 233 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:49,040 This is the confidence we have in him. 234 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:54,280 If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 235 00:14:54,280 --> 00:14:59,280 And if he hears us, then we know, we know, we know we have it. 236 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:00,280 Why? 237 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:01,680 He's in us. 238 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:05,380 The God that does all that is in us. 239 00:15:05,380 --> 00:15:08,200 So we're going to take a wander with that little opening bit. 240 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,500 We'll take a wander through Ephesians chapter one. 241 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:13,540 And we're just going to do a little bit of a Bible study. 242 00:15:13,540 --> 00:15:18,240 And what I want you to look for, and when you look at the scriptures, there's some things, 243 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,540 some keys of what you should look for. 244 00:15:20,540 --> 00:15:26,080 And one of them, I love to look for these two little words that means so much because 245 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:30,840 we're seeing how great thou art, but it's not out there. 246 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:31,840 It's in here. 247 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,920 That greatness of wisdom and knowledge and faith is in here. 248 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,400 And we must never forget that. 249 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:43,600 So we're looking for the word in him and in whom and in Christ. 250 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:48,960 We're looking for those words because there's a massive amount of stuff in there. 251 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:55,960 All the riches in glory in Christ Jesus are in those two words in him. 252 00:15:55,960 --> 00:16:01,000 And if we're living and moving and have our being in him, we have access, direct access 253 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:04,200 to hear from him. 254 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:10,080 So Ephesians one verse one, Paul, an apostle, sent one of Jesus Christ by the will of God 255 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:14,080 to the saints who are in Ephesus and to the faithful in Jesus Christ. 256 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:18,720 If they're faithful, they're full of faith, the God kind of faith. 257 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:19,920 It's a gift from God. 258 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,240 They say any man should boast. 259 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:26,440 That was the faith that got us into this in the first place, that got us into Christ, 260 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:30,300 therefore being justified by faith. 261 00:16:30,300 --> 00:16:34,000 We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 262 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:36,080 Grace to be to you. 263 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:42,720 In many, in many, in many opening books, he says grace be multiplied to you and peace 264 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:47,880 from from God, our father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. 265 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:55,080 God be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath who hath past tense, who 266 00:16:55,080 --> 00:17:05,760 hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. 267 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:07,320 It's a done work. 268 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:13,400 It's in him, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, all the spiritual blessings. 269 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,160 And that pertains to everything. 270 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:22,040 Peter says at the beginning of his book, who hath granted us past tense, everything pertaining 271 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:23,800 to life and godliness. 272 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,180 It's all in him. 273 00:17:25,180 --> 00:17:29,520 If you dip into him and stay in, he's the vine and you're the branch and that's one 274 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:34,220 plant and if you stay abiding in that branch through the word of God and the spirit of 275 00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:37,920 God and you're in a man, you're going to bear fruit. 276 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:39,200 You're going to walk in love. 277 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,440 It's a choice. 278 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:46,000 A soft answer turns away wrath. 279 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,040 People try to manipulate one another through words. 280 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:51,040 We see it everywhere. 281 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:52,240 We want to cancel them. 282 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:53,700 We want to cut them off. 283 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:55,800 We want to stop those words getting out. 284 00:17:55,800 --> 00:18:03,360 We want to shut them down because it's normally to those people that are speaking truth that 285 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:07,360 they want to shut down and that's very manipulative. 286 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:10,840 When you get angry at someone, you're trying to manipulate them. 287 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,480 When you're getting frustrated, you're going, well, I don't like what you're saying and 288 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:15,800 you know, that's affecting me. 289 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,320 Well, why is it affecting you? 290 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:18,320 Would it affect Christ? 291 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,200 No, but if your life is dead and hidden with Christ and God, then it's not going to affect 292 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:23,200 you. 293 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,240 It's going to be water like a duck's back. 294 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:26,240 Jesus can handle it. 295 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:27,240 Step back. 296 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,440 When someone's getting angry and they're threatening the words like you at work or they're trying 297 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:35,280 to manipulate it, step back and let Jesus handle it and stay in peace. 298 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:36,280 Amen. 299 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,360 Praise God. 300 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:43,960 That's why we give it, you know, those be anxious for nothing Philippians forces, nothing. 301 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,400 That's the same as all cares gone. 302 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:47,480 Take no thought for your life. 303 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:51,440 Be anxious for nothing, but with prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving. 304 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:56,240 Oh, when you're thanking God, you can't be grumbling and complaining when you're praising 305 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:01,000 God and worshiping and singing the songs of the redeemed and blessing one another and 306 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,840 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. 307 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:09,960 You can't be in the place of grumbling and complaining. 308 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,560 The children of God were whittled down to two people. 309 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:13,880 Joshua and Caleb made it in. 310 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:14,880 Why? 311 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:19,160 Because they gave a good report and a good report is that I don't care what I'm going 312 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:20,160 through. 313 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:24,120 I've got Christ in my vessel and I'm going to get to the other side. 314 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:28,400 You know what happened when they got to the other side after that big storm and it's, 315 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:33,360 you know, they were going over there to rid that man of. 316 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:35,520 Allegiant of demons. 317 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:41,520 We got a legion of demons out there in the world and the first place to be when you're 318 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:45,280 headed towards the victory that God wants to do on this planet to bring about the victory 319 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:51,460 of the cross in the world out there and a mighty harvest is for you to start realizing 320 00:19:51,460 --> 00:19:54,400 that Christ is in your vessel. 321 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,400 And he's there for a reason. 322 00:19:57,400 --> 00:20:03,440 You can either be operating out of you or you or by walking in the spirit, you can be 323 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,000 operating out of him. 324 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,000 That's your choice. 325 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,760 And one of the biggest things that stops all these wonderful promises that coming is you 326 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:13,440 and me. 327 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:19,480 That's why we put off the old man in Colossians three and we put on the Lord Jesus Christ. 328 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:23,280 We put off everything of self and what we want to do. 329 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:29,840 It's no longer I that liveth but Christ that liveth in me. 330 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:33,240 So we've been blessed with all according as he has chosen us. 331 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:39,040 Let's go to verse four in him chosen us in him. 332 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:41,440 When before the foundation of the world. 333 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:46,720 That's a long time ago before we even went to the cross before the world was created 334 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:51,840 before he said the to Eve that you know he was going to she was going to crush him under 335 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:58,440 foot through the through the Messiah that was going to come through her lineage. 336 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:05,200 Before all that he knew us that we would be holy and blameless before him in love. 337 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:11,320 That's a description of God holy blameless full of love. 338 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,600 If God lives in us we should be like God. 339 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,360 That's why one of the big things that Paul talks about over and over again is where to 340 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:18,360 be holy. 341 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:22,680 We have the Holy Ghost and the first fruit of the Holy Spirit is love and if you walk 342 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:27,000 in love you won't be sinning. 343 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,640 All sin is based in selfishness. 344 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:33,000 I will you know I'll take I'll do this I'll have what's not mine. 345 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 I'll cover it with what's not mine. 346 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:40,520 I'll kill with what's not mine because I want to. 347 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:45,880 All of that's taken away and if we read Corinthians 13 we know that you don't have love you got 348 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:51,760 nothing nothing. 349 00:21:51,760 --> 00:22:04,680 That's why it's not arrogant boastful proud rude doesn't keep a record of wrongs gentle 350 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:12,360 kind peaceful full of humility counting other one another is more important than ourselves 351 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:15,700 and that's something we should never forget in the body of Christ. 352 00:22:15,700 --> 00:22:18,680 We shouldn't be looking out just for our stuff. 353 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,840 We should be looking out for one another. 354 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:29,600 Having predestined us to the adoption by children by of children by Jesus Christ to himself 355 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,520 according to the good pleasure of his will. 356 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:38,640 When he gave you faith to be translated out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom 357 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:43,240 of his dear son you were adopted born into the family. 358 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:48,040 I was born into the family physically but something greater than that has happened now. 359 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:53,480 I'm born into a spiritual family by one spirit I was immersed into the body of Christ and 360 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:58,640 I've become part of his members and as we connect to the head to listen to his voice 361 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:04,140 to see a revelation of his word in the in the Bible here the spirit of God teaching 362 00:23:04,140 --> 00:23:09,520 us that's forming the living word in us so that the word will become flesh again in you 363 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:18,480 and I amen to the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he has accepted us. 364 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,540 You're accepted. 365 00:23:20,540 --> 00:23:23,280 You don't have to do anything to get there. 366 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:24,920 You don't have to do any works. 367 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,920 There are people out in Christendom today. 368 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,560 They saw those words of Jesus. 369 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:35,760 I think it's Matthew twenty five or somewhere around there where he says you know when do 370 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:36,980 we see you naked? 371 00:23:36,980 --> 00:23:38,560 When do we see you hungry? 372 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:44,000 When we are sick and we we visited you at the hospital or when we are in prison and 373 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:49,680 we came and saw you and they take those words and think oh well we'll impress God by doing 374 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,800 all those four. 375 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:59,160 No we're going to come to a verse later in chapter two that tells us we don't get in 376 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:08,080 by works lest any man should boast but once we're in we have his nature. 377 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:13,440 And then we're led by the spirit to do those things when we see a brother or a sister in 378 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:19,840 trouble that we will help them because if you if you say that you love God that you 379 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:27,120 haven't seen and blessed are those that do then you've got to love your brother and sister 380 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:32,680 who you have seen and might be a need in front of you. 381 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:44,400 So let's go to Ephesians one seven in whom in whom there we go big words in whom in Christ 382 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:49,600 we have redemption through his blood he's brought us back. 383 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,720 The Passover lamb has been sacrificed for us. 384 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:54,000 I love lamb. 385 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,880 It tastes great. 386 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,360 I had a I had a big lamb roast yesterday. 387 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:05,600 I probably had more than my fair share but it was good taste and see that the lamb is 388 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:10,800 good you know there's there's there's principles in the Bible that says first the natural then 389 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:18,080 the spiritual things in the natural correlate to things in the spiritual and one of the 390 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:24,480 biggest lessons of that for Christ our Passover lamb sacrifice for us was that back in Egypt 391 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:31,440 there was a price for them to escape from Pharaoh's clutches and that price was to kill 392 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:36,880 an unblemished male lamb and put the blood on the doorpost of their house just like we're 393 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:41,320 the house of the Holy Spirit now the door of the house is our life and that's where 394 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,600 we dwell. 395 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:48,880 You dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide. 396 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:54,800 It's where you're dwelling and abiding that determines the promises and the reality that 397 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,280 you have. 398 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:00,600 So they put the blood on the doorpost of this house so that in the middle of the night or 399 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,920 whenever it came the angel of death passed over and death has passed over you and I and 400 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:09,600 has lost its sting because we have eternal life in Jesus Christ and we're living forever 401 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:14,480 because we started when we invited him in eternal life came in and it's living in us 402 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:20,520 every day and that's why we go to have that's why we go to be with him heaven is to being 403 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:29,160 with him and in him we stay there he's not leaving and so what did they do after they 404 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:34,200 put the blood on the doorpost of the house they went inside and they barbecued the lamb 405 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:39,400 over the fire and they ate it. 406 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,460 Jesus said eat my body drink my blood. 407 00:26:42,460 --> 00:26:48,920 What did they do they ate the lamb whatever is left went back in the fire the lamb was 408 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,800 in them. 409 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:57,440 This is a this is a spiritual parallel of Christ in us right back there and that was 410 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:03,000 the price for them to get out of Egypt cross over through the waters of baptism death back 411 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,560 that we're leaving Egypt behind the water is going to close behind us and we'll never 412 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,480 go back to the kingdom of darkness. 413 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:14,080 That's why Jesus said anyone putting their hand to the plow and turning backs not fit 414 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,060 he didn't say you're not going to get to heaven he says you're not fit if you're looking 415 00:27:17,060 --> 00:27:21,360 back at Egypt and and and we're hankering for the onions and leeks and garlic or whatever 416 00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:23,840 they ate back there. 417 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:30,600 He says leave and leave it behind. 418 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,760 I believe that that was it was that unleavened bread they ate and the and the and the lamb 419 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:40,680 with a bread that speaks of Christ as well and that blood on their house. 420 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:47,660 Save them and redeem them out of Egypt redemption is a price paid to take us back you could 421 00:27:47,660 --> 00:27:52,000 redeem a slave go and pay the price and set them free. 422 00:27:52,000 --> 00:28:01,700 Jesus paid the price in his body therefore glorify God in your body through his blood 423 00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:06,320 the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace so the lamb can come and live 424 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:12,040 in us just like they ate the lamb and he was in them and David says he brought them forth 425 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,720 with silver and gold and there was not a feeble one amongst them. 426 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:20,720 Why is that because the lamb was inside them the great physician Jehovah Raffer the Lord 427 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:28,320 your healer verse 9 having made known to us the mystery of his will according to the good 428 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:34,480 pleasure which he purposed in himself that in the dispensation of the fullness of times 429 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:44,040 he might gather together one in one all things in Christ that's you and me the body both 430 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:51,800 which are in heaven and which are on earth even in him there's words in him just keep 431 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:55,780 flowing over and over and over again. 432 00:28:55,780 --> 00:29:03,520 We need to be convinced fully persuaded that what God has promised he's able to perform. 433 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:10,160 In Romans 7 and I think it says we'd be dead to the law through the body of Christ rules 434 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:14,440 and regulations that we might be married to another. 435 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:21,080 You know what I don't have any problem with a certain fact in my life that 43 years ago 436 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:30,160 I got married I don't have any problem with remembering it 44 is it oh I'm in trouble 437 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:40,760 here I'm in real trouble now 44 years ago yeah we just passed the other mark praise 438 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:45,800 God but you know I don't have trouble knowing I don't get up and think oh am I am I married 439 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,880 to us still you know. 440 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:53,840 I'd be in trouble if I got up wondering about that I don't have any trouble it's a fact 441 00:29:53,840 --> 00:30:01,600 like you're only like you know your name we become one flesh we live together we think 442 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:08,240 similarly it just goes on every day. 443 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:14,600 I have no trouble I'm confident in it I don't need to go and find that where's that certificate 444 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:21,400 you know I better just see is this really true it's etched on my brain I know that I 445 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:32,600 know it's family for heaven's sake this is family I said I do to it and there's no way 446 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:40,320 I'm going to forget it yet people have a lot of trouble believing that where's God I haven't 447 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:47,720 seen the answer to my prayer well he heard your prayer you have confidence is there he's 448 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:54,480 with you he's doing it through faith and patience we inherit the promises just stand fast it's 449 00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:59,960 God's problem not yours. 450 00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:11,120 So we have to know that in whom verse 11 in whom here we go in again it's not just with 451 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:18,680 it's in that's a big difference it's not out there somewhere some way some day it might 452 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:23,120 happen because it's supposed to no it's in you revivals in you you've got to let the 453 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:28,840 God of revival out of you by letting love joy and peace by letting fruit come and by 454 00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:38,280 let his his spirit flow in you being predestined in whom we have also obtained an inheritance 455 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:42,880 when I stood at the altar with Christine I didn't have much she had a lot more than I 456 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:49,040 had actually she owned a car and a caravan which we lived in for a little while and when 457 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:53,800 I said I do everything that I own she got and everything she owned I got and when we 458 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:59,160 stand at the altar with Jesus the bridegroom and we're the bride everything that is his 459 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:04,720 is ours all riches in glory by Christ Jesus he says I'm going to meet your needs according 460 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:09,200 to what I can scrape up in you know Woodridge and Springwood no I'm going to meet your needs 461 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:17,680 according to my riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 462 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:26,320 With God in whom we obtained an inheritance where joint heirs with Jesus all the treasures 463 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:30,160 of wisdom and knowledge are in him we should have the best wisdom and knowledge when we 464 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:35,200 go to work or whatever we're doing out there we should have it because it's there freely 465 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:41,880 available in him that's why James says hey it's easy to ask and not doubt and be like 466 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:46,400 the wave tossed on the sea if you're asking for wisdom and it's a great prayer to pray 467 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:55,600 because wisdom with wisdom if you look at Solomon's life with wisdom comes a lot of 468 00:32:55,600 --> 00:33:03,280 benefits and he asked for wisdom and he's the guy that wrote in Proverbs trust in the 469 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:10,920 Lord with all your heart and lean not oh how's it going to happen I don't know it's going 470 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:16,800 to happen according to his riches in glory though lean not to your own understanding 471 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:23,120 not to what the circumstances are telling you but in all your ways acknowledge him because 472 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:31,640 he is your way he is your truth he is your life and he's living in you praise God that's 473 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:37,960 exciting we have joint ears with Jesus being predestined according to the purpose of him 474 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:44,040 who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will that we should be to the praise 475 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:53,440 of his glory who first trusted in Christ and even that trust he gave us in whom in whom 476 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:58,840 here we go again you also trusted that after you heard the word of truth the gospel of 477 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:05,980 your salvation in whom also after you believe you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise 478 00:34:05,980 --> 00:34:12,940 praise God I believe we're going to see and we need to focus and get back to the baptism 479 00:34:12,940 --> 00:34:19,800 in the Holy Ghost when John was talking about this great salvation that was coming and the 480 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:24,060 mighty the mighty Messiah that was coming what did he say he says I'm not worthy to 481 00:34:24,060 --> 00:34:30,360 undie his thing but he will he will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire he'll come 482 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:34,680 and live in you through his spirit in your in your inner man Christ will dwell in your 483 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:42,920 hearts by faith amen that's good news and I want to see more evangelists saying that 484 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:47,360 sort of stuff not where you pray this prayer and you got a ticket into heaven no pray this 485 00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:52,240 prayer become a disciple get learn about these things of the spirit in your inner man and 486 00:34:52,240 --> 00:34:58,360 you can shine to the world and bring heaven to the world now amen heaven in our hearts 487 00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:07,080 and the fire of God in us we need that fire Holy Ghost and fire that burns out the dross 488 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:12,960 that leaves self behind and we get swept away in the spirit of God you know that that verse 489 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:18,840 I think it's Ezekiel 37 or 47 I'm not sure which one one's dry bones and the other one's 490 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:25,780 water coming out of the temple but the the water coming out of the temple was ankle deep 491 00:35:25,780 --> 00:35:29,960 people say oh I'm in the river I'm ankle deep you know it's coming from the temple we are 492 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:34,280 the temple of the living God now out of our bellies should flow rivers of living water 493 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:38,800 and then it goes to knee deep and whoa I'm getting a bit wobbly on my feet now it's knee 494 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:45,160 deep but then it goes waist deep and you go whoa I'm nearly being swept off my feet here 495 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:51,760 you see when when that river touches our heart we will he will sweep us off our feet and 496 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:56,560 we'll no longer be anchored on the earth we'll no longer be anchored to worldly things but 497 00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,760 the spirit of God will wash us away in the river and the last thing that goes under our 498 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:05,720 head so even our head will be transformed by the renewing of our mind that we might 499 00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:10,880 prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God that comes through reading 500 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:20,240 his will and getting our eyes of our understanding enlightened to it so we're going to read about 501 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:28,240 that in verse 15 actually I shouldn't jump verse 14 which is the earnest of our inheritance 502 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:35,680 until the redemption of the purchase possession that's all of us under the praise of his glory 503 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:40,640 whereas I also after I heard your faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the saints 504 00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:45,920 look at that if you've got some faith that Christ is living in you if you're living by 505 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:52,200 faith then love's going to come out for all the saints especially of the household of 506 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:58,240 God I cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers when I'm before 507 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:02,760 the throne I'm talking to God that he would do this I started reading praying this prayer 508 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:08,640 back in the early 2000s one of the most important things I did in my life but the God of our 509 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:14,800 Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation 510 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:20,560 and knowledge of him your eyes of your understanding be enlightened that you can see in the spirit 511 00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:26,160 you can see what God's telling us you can only walk through a door that you can see 512 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:31,920 if I see the door open I can walk through that door and and John 10 verse 9 says I am 513 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:37,280 the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved behold I'm standing at the door and 514 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:43,200 knocking Christian I want to come into your life come in today come in to stay because 515 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:50,480 I'm not going to leave we serve a great God a great salvation and he's transformed us 516 00:37:50,480 --> 00:38:01,040 from the inside out and his spirit should flow out of us and we should read the word 517 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:08,120 of God every time you open this book ask the Holy Spirit to give you a spirit ask to see 518 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:15,720 it ask to feel it ask for it to become alive to you ask it to be quickened to you the same 519 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:19,880 spirit that raised Christ from the dead he'll quicken and give life to us in our spirits 520 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:26,520 and even in our bodies because if we know he lives in then the great physician lives 521 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:32,240 in there too and healing is not a great sweat anymore that's why it says the prayer of 522 00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:37,380 faith shall save the sick the elders because people don't know that the that the physician 523 00:38:37,380 --> 00:38:42,240 lives on the inside then the elders just go well I got Jesus silver and gold I don't have 524 00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:47,360 much of but such as I have give I be in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise and 525 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:53,780 walk you know I believe that story is a bit of a type of the end church and we need a 526 00:38:53,780 --> 00:38:59,960 restoration of the things of God the man go by the gate beautiful he's in a good place 527 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:06,520 it's like the modern church but it was born without evangelistic legs they thought it 528 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:13,560 was all about themself and because he didn't have legs he stayed in the one place and he 529 00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:18,480 had to tin cup in his hand and every day he's counting the numbers game who can I get because 530 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:23,640 the more people I talk to if I get in a place where I can get more numbers I'll get more 531 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:28,280 money and if I get more money I'll have more survival and and I only talk to people because 532 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:33,600 because I need them to put money in my bucket and they're playing the numbers game you heard 533 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:39,000 this before you've seen this in the body of Christ before their only vision is to get 534 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:44,680 more people on the seat so they get more in the cup and more power and influence it's 535 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:51,840 all about God it's not about us so what does a man with a tin cup do he thinks oh he's 536 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:56,360 a good prospect he's dressed well he looks good we'll give him pride a price we'll sit 537 00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:02,960 him down the front you know we'll we'll make him a deacon whatever no that's not how this 538 00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:07,920 works but that's how it worked for the guy with a tin cup because he had to get his needs 539 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:16,560 met he had to had to be sustained but along came along come the apostle and prophet for 540 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:21,800 all of the Holy Ghosts and power and say we don't have what you're looking for you're 541 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:26,160 looking for silver and gold to meet your needs but I got something that's far better I got 542 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:31,280 something that the world can't give and the world can't take him away amen Jesus is the 543 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:38,080 one that the world can't give and the world can't take him away praise God and such as 544 00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:46,920 we have Christ the healer in us we give to you now bang and he went walking and leaping 545 00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:52,240 and braising God and I believe as the church gazes as the church puts aside silver and 546 00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:58,400 gold in the numbers game and they look to Almighty God and his messages and servants 547 00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:03,600 that are bringing the word of God then God will go out into that church will go then 548 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:09,400 flourish there instead of the flesh and we'll actually do we'll get our evangelistic legs 549 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:17,880 back and we'll actually go and do what we're called to do amen got a little bit off track 550 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:25,280 there but you know that's all right so that the eyes of your understanding verse eight 551 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:32,400 and be enlightened we need enlightenment on what we have we had this treasure in earth 552 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:42,520 and vessel that the excellence is not of ourselves but of God that's fantastic that we might 553 00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:47,080 know the hope you're calling your called find out what your calling is listen to the voice 554 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:54,800 of God and walk in that calling doesn't matter what it is do it in the name of Jesus Christ 555 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:59,820 you know that that that guy that was laying by the at the gate beautiful it says later 556 00:41:59,820 --> 00:42:05,120 on faith in that man faith in my in that name has made this man whole in the midst of you 557 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:13,720 all when God's acting in us it's when we use the name of Jesus that what's in us is activated 558 00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:19,680 we cast out demons in the name of Jesus we pray for the sick in the name of Jesus we 559 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:25,680 do everything in that night because when we use that name Christine took my name and when 560 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:31,180 she uses that name all the resources that we had together goes into action and the same 561 00:42:31,180 --> 00:42:38,680 happens when we use his name that he gave for us so the eyes of our understanding to 562 00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:44,480 understand what the hope of our calling the riches so if Christ in me is is big and great 563 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:50,560 then Christ in you is too so we have riches in this room riches of his inheritance in 564 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:56,000 the saints there's gifts and ministries and callings right here today and as you move 565 00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:00,960 in it the whole body will move as one when my body's running your arms pumping like that 566 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:05,280 you think well that's a funny action for an arm to do but for the body to run properly 567 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:10,240 and for the balance to be there you've got to swing those arms and it all moves together 568 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:14,720 and the head is coordinating the whole lot sending it down the nerve pathways and it's 569 00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:18,320 through the spirit of God that the head is sending all the messages to the body that 570 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:24,720 we'd work together for the edification of itself in love amen wonderful stuff that he's 571 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:32,080 done for us and so verse 19 what a wonderful verse if there's nothing else you get from 572 00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:39,080 this morning meditate on verse 19 for a week or so and what is the exceeding greatness 573 00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:50,640 of his power to us would who believe according to the working of his mighty power. 574 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:59,120 Nothing is impossible when you put your trust in God nothing is impossible when you're trusting 575 00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:06,480 in his word I can do the voice of God to thee is there anything too hard for me so put your 576 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:16,080 trust in God alone and stand upon his word for everything yes everything yes everything 577 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:20,720 is possible with God. 578 00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:25,160 You know who had that singing at their meetings? 579 00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:31,720 Catherine Kuhlman a piece of Missouri cornbread a lady a divorcee whose life was had it and 580 00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:38,400 she said God if you can take anything of what's left fill me up she had choirs singing songs 581 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:46,760 like that and that impossibility can be done through you the greatness exceeding greatness 582 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:51,160 of the power towards us who believe which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from 583 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:58,280 the dead and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places far above all principality 584 00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:03,700 all power and might and dominion so all the stuff that's happening out there all those 585 00:45:03,700 --> 00:45:07,760 people that think they're hot shots in the world today that have got the spirit of the 586 00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:12,180 devil in them and the world you know whether it's the web or whether it's the leader here 587 00:45:12,180 --> 00:45:17,520 or there or those trying to get rid of speech put a big clamp down God is on the throne 588 00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:22,120 and he's in you and greater is the I don't care if he's the Antichrist greater is still 589 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:27,680 he that's in you than he that's in the world these words shall not pass away even if the 590 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:35,280 worst turns up in front of us because God won the battle and having spoiled principalities 591 00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:41,600 and powers making an open show of them he triumphed over the devil why because he took 592 00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:46,600 the handwriting of ordinances against us all those little bits of paper all the things 593 00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:51,080 we've done wrong and nailed it to the cross so that we might be made the righteousness 594 00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:56,540 of God in Christ he who knew no sin became sin that we would be made the righteousness 595 00:45:56,540 --> 00:46:01,520 and there we can come boldly to the throne of grace and dip into everything that he is 596 00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:06,640 joint heirs with Jesus Christ 597 00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:12,640 praise God 598 00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:17,720 he's put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things of the 599 00:46:17,720 --> 00:46:25,200 church which is his body the head and the body eternally unite we're we're moving from 600 00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:30,400 the instructions from heaven which is why we need the prophetic then the body will move 601 00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:36,880 with the instructions of the head Jesus Christ and will dwell in his fullness the fullness 602 00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:43,680 of him that filleth all in all so I haven't got a lot of time left so I want to I want 603 00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:51,360 to skip down to and please read chapter 2 it's fantastic stuff that even when we're 604 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:56,640 dead and our trespasses and he quickened and made us alive having raised us up together 605 00:46:56,640 --> 00:47:01,080 and sit in heavenly places I'm reading from verse 6 of chapter 2 in heavenly places in 606 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:07,120 Christ Jesus that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace and 607 00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:14,200 his kindness toward us through Jesus Christ Peter said on the day of Pentecost this promise 608 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:20,220 of the Holy Ghost is for you and for all who are far off and as to many as our God shall 609 00:47:20,220 --> 00:47:28,840 call that's us far off two thousand years later that in the ages to come he might show 610 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:35,440 us the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus for 611 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:44,880 by grace and we'll finish with this for by grace you say through faith it's not of yourselves 612 00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:50,600 it is a gift of God so we get in by grace and loan we can't do anything to earn this 613 00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:54,440 because if we say we are earning something or any blessing then you're cutting across 614 00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:58,800 the cross of Calvary because he earned it all when he said it is finished it was a done 615 00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:07,960 work completed in the spirit and we'll finish in verse 10 for we are his workmanship you 616 00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:17,560 need to say I am his workmanship created in Christ Jesus under good works whenever you 617 00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:24,480 see good works I see drop out and oh out of good and see God works I used to say this 618 00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:31,040 guys in Bible College good works are God works and he's prepared and before a whole lot above 619 00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:36,520 and what beyond whatever you can ask think or imagine he's prepared good works for you 620 00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:41,520 that you might walk in them even before the foundation of the world will you stand on 621 00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:48,440 your feet with me that we should walk in them we walk by faith our walk is on the golden 622 00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:54,540 streets that their faith is tested like silver and gold and our faith is more precious than 623 00:48:54,540 --> 00:48:58,880 silver and gold because faith put the silver and gold there in the earth in the first place 624 00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:07,360 that we might walk in him father I thank you that you are a need meeting God and for any 625 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:17,160 needs in this congregation today whether it be physical in our bodies spiritual we need 626 00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:23,520 more faith and more enlightenment we ask God that their eyes their understanding be open 627 00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:27,140 the things in the natural you'll meet our needs according to your riches in glory by 628 00:49:27,140 --> 00:49:34,560 Christ Jesus father we speak that out today and if you've got a need today cast that care 629 00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:41,280 on him give it to him let Lisa throw it away from you invite that the peace of God will 630 00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:46,960 come right God wants to bring you peace as you give that care that worry that way that 631 00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,600 not knowing where you're going to turning the way you're going to turn next not knowing 632 00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:55,280 what's down the road because you can't see but he's saying I am your way I will show 633 00:49:55,280 --> 00:50:05,160 you and as you move forward in faith you'll see what's in front of you father we thank 634 00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:14,240 you for your love I remember that song long wide wide as the ocean deep as the deepest 635 00:50:14,240 --> 00:50:23,000 sea all about your love that you have for me and it's because of a revelation that you 636 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:36,200 love us that we can trust you give us a revelation of how much it took me until I was lying there 637 00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:43,880 in hospital but thinking that I was condemned and he came and spoke and he said I don't 638 00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:48,800 want giving you a new life and when you know how much he loves you and he's never left 639 00:50:48,800 --> 00:51:00,280 you nor forsaken you your faith will grab a hold of him and never let go Jesus we we 640 00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:07,460 we rededicate ourselves we present our bodies saints present your body to him a living sacrifice 641 00:51:07,460 --> 00:51:13,880 a living dead dead to what you want because apart from apart from you apart from him you 642 00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:22,000 can do nothing but with him we can do all things so God we put off the old man with 643 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:27,320 his passions and desires to follow this earth to follow the things of this earth we and 644 00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:33,440 we look forward in your face the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the glory 645 00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:39,720 of God that we find in the in his face as we seek his face we change from glory to glory 646 00:51:39,720 --> 00:51:48,640 that we might know him and the power of his resurrection father bless these saints as 647 00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:58,000 they're looking to you as the all-sufficient one God Almighty you're more than enough more 648 00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:04,040 than enough and we thank you for this great salvation we want to dedicate our lives to 649 00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:10,320 it to follow and live and move and have our being in you every day help us to go this 650 00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:18,360 week shining with your goodness and grace may our speech be seasoned with salt and gentle 651 00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:27,960 meek and kind to everyone that we come across and we show your nature to all that we meet 652 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:37,680 we pray these things in Jesus name amen thank you for joining us we pray God's richest blessing 653 00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:43,480 on your life if you haven't already make sure to join us on Facebook Instagram and YouTube 654 00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:58,440 you can also find us at Logan City Christian Church dot com see you next week