1 00:00:09,570 --> 00:00:15,990 Welcome to Moore in the Word, a podcast of Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia that seeks 2 00:00:15,990 --> 00:00:21,665 to glorify God through biblically sound, thought-provoking and challenging talks and interviews. 3 00:00:22,605 --> 00:00:30,255 In this episode from a chapel service held on Tuesday the 18th of March, 2025, Mal York, Dean of Students and Lecturer 4 00:00:30,255 --> 00:00:37,905 in Ministry at Moore Theological College, speaks on Ephesians 2 and the way God has made us spiritually alive in Christ. 5 00:00:38,685 --> 00:00:42,885 He reminds us of what we once were, what happened once we became Christians, and what 6 00:00:42,885 --> 00:00:47,475 happens now that we are in Christ, and he encourages us never to take that for granted. 7 00:00:48,255 --> 00:00:49,635 We hope you find the episode helpful. 8 00:00:53,770 --> 00:00:58,215 I was given a book by my father-in-law for my birthday a few years ago. 9 00:00:58,395 --> 00:01:02,475 Uh, it's a story of an Australian comedian named an doe. 10 00:01:02,710 --> 00:01:07,780 He speaks about how he left Vietnam in a boat, uh, as a boat person. 11 00:01:07,780 --> 00:01:16,960 He made his way across to Australia avoiding death on many occasions, and then how he grew up in Australia and became an Australian citizen. 12 00:01:17,380 --> 00:01:24,160 And he speaks about how he realized the wonderful opportunities given to those who are Australian citizens. 13 00:01:24,435 --> 00:01:27,430 And he said in the book that he would never take this for granted. 14 00:01:28,725 --> 00:01:33,135 For me, my story is so different as an Australian citizen all my life. 15 00:01:33,705 --> 00:01:38,055 Uh, and because of that, I think sometimes I take living here for granted. 16 00:01:38,835 --> 00:01:43,725 Uh, the harbor bridge, the opera house, the beautiful beaches that we have. 17 00:01:44,145 --> 00:01:47,265 I mean, isn't this how everyone lives everywhere? 18 00:01:49,695 --> 00:01:53,535 And I wonder for us as Christians, if we sometimes feel the same way. 19 00:01:54,870 --> 00:02:00,750 Prior to this passage in Ephesians, Paul reminded the Ephesians how Christians have become a new people in Christ. 20 00:02:01,380 --> 00:02:03,450 We are members of the heavenly realms. 21 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:13,140 We have every spiritual blessing in Christ, and often when people are new Christians, they're so on fire for God. 22 00:02:13,140 --> 00:02:18,000 They, they struggle not to speak about the love that they have for the Lord Jesus Christ. 23 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,320 But then for others who have been Christians well for a long time. 24 00:02:23,220 --> 00:02:24,420 We don't get as excited. 25 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:32,760 We don't speak as much, and I wonder if many of us simply take God's word and the truths of what it means to be a Christian for granted. 26 00:02:34,380 --> 00:02:37,920 And this passage today reminds us of what Jesus has done for us. 27 00:02:38,610 --> 00:02:50,040 It will help us and remind us to see who Jesus is, and it's my hope that as we're reminded of who we are in him today, that we will leave here. 28 00:02:50,535 --> 00:02:58,695 Overflowing with love for him and the hope that we have of knowing the Lord Jesus and that we never take this for granted. 29 00:02:59,025 --> 00:02:59,505 Let me pray. 30 00:03:00,315 --> 00:03:07,095 Heavenly Father, as we come to your word, open to our hearts by your spirit, what it has to say. 31 00:03:07,755 --> 00:03:13,095 And through this, help us to not take what we have with you for granted, but to 32 00:03:13,095 --> 00:03:18,375 wanna speak about it, to want to live it out, and to want to help this whole world. 33 00:03:18,375 --> 00:03:19,515 Come to know who you are. 34 00:03:19,905 --> 00:03:21,255 We pray this in Jesus' name. 35 00:03:21,734 --> 00:03:22,095 Amen. 36 00:03:22,994 --> 00:03:28,125 Well, it would be helpful if you have the passage open at Ephesians two there, as I'll refer to it throughout the talk. 37 00:03:29,234 --> 00:03:34,364 First, Paul reminds us of what Jesus has done to make us Christian. 38 00:03:34,394 --> 00:03:38,685 See there in verses one to three, how he tells us how we used to live. 39 00:03:39,375 --> 00:03:41,505 It says there in verse one, look what it says. 40 00:03:41,505 --> 00:03:45,915 We were dead in our sins and by this he means we were spiritually dead. 41 00:03:47,864 --> 00:03:51,704 We were living with no acknowledgement of his existence or kingship. 42 00:03:52,605 --> 00:04:01,725 In verse two, Paul says that we, this was seen in the way that we used to live following the waves of this world, gratifying our sinful nature. 43 00:04:02,505 --> 00:04:05,505 Following the ruler of the kingdom of the air. 44 00:04:06,524 --> 00:04:10,305 You see, when you don't follow God, you follow the devil. 45 00:04:10,965 --> 00:04:11,595 He's the one. 46 00:04:11,595 --> 00:04:14,115 Paul calls the ruler of the kingdom of the air. 47 00:04:15,180 --> 00:04:18,150 We're not free to do what we want as some people think. 48 00:04:18,870 --> 00:04:22,920 When someone doesn't follow God, they follow the Devil's ways. 49 00:04:23,850 --> 00:04:31,290 In 1995, there was a movie called The Use Your Suspects, and there's a great line by the main character played by Kevin Spacey. 50 00:04:31,830 --> 00:04:38,430 He said the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. 51 00:04:40,020 --> 00:04:42,420 And this is how people live in the world today. 52 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:49,650 They don't believe the devil exists nor has any control of their life, but he does. 53 00:04:51,150 --> 00:04:56,850 As a result, people spend their time living how they want to live, gratifying the 54 00:04:56,850 --> 00:05:02,130 cravings of their sinful nature and following their desires as they follow the devil. 55 00:05:03,420 --> 00:05:12,060 But those who live this way, God says, are dead to him, are spiritually dead, are objects of his wrath. 56 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,900 Have you ever been driving down the side of the road and seen roadkill on at the side of the road? 57 00:05:18,900 --> 00:05:22,410 If you're not from Australia, that's what we call animals that have been killed 58 00:05:22,410 --> 00:05:26,280 on the road by a vehicle of some sort and are just sitting there on the side. 59 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:28,380 We call them roadkill. 60 00:05:28,380 --> 00:05:33,135 I. Uh, in 1998, I did a year of ministry in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. 61 00:05:33,615 --> 00:05:38,985 In winter, it was so cold, it got down to below minus 40 degrees Celsius, and I was once 62 00:05:38,985 --> 00:05:43,095 driving further north than where we were living in Saskatchewan in the middle of winter. 63 00:05:43,095 --> 00:05:48,825 And I came across this coyote, you can see it there standing on the side of the road, and it looked 64 00:05:48,825 --> 00:05:55,845 like it was just walking along and it had become so cold in the minus 40 degrees that it just died. 65 00:05:57,285 --> 00:06:02,265 But actually what happened it, it had been killed by a car and it froze overnight on the ground. 66 00:06:02,265 --> 00:06:08,955 And the Canadian sense of humor is to put it up on the side of the road as you drive past. 67 00:06:10,065 --> 00:06:12,225 Gotta love the Canadian sense of humor. 68 00:06:13,305 --> 00:06:24,015 But I think road killers are helpful description of describing our spiritual state before God, because roadkill can't do anything to help itself. 69 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:30,960 Have you ever went, got out of the side of the car when you've passed by a dead wombat on the side of the road and said, come on, old chap. 70 00:06:31,170 --> 00:06:32,430 It's not as bad as you think. 71 00:06:32,730 --> 00:06:33,390 Get up. 72 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:34,170 You can do it. 73 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:36,120 It doesn't work, does it? 74 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,550 Or started little CPR with his legs. 75 00:06:39,270 --> 00:06:41,460 You know, it just doesn't work. 76 00:06:42,660 --> 00:06:48,120 This is what dead means, living life according to the ways of the world. 77 00:06:48,900 --> 00:06:53,640 We're lost and without hope, we're spiritual roadkill. 78 00:06:55,604 --> 00:07:04,965 Brothers and sisters, it is so important that we remember this is what it is like for those who do not trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. 79 00:07:05,835 --> 00:07:12,495 They are spiritual roadkill, unable to help themselves, and this is what you and I were like. 80 00:07:13,034 --> 00:07:14,534 But Paul goes on in verse four. 81 00:07:14,534 --> 00:07:19,544 Can you see it there with a, but there are three big buts in this passage. 82 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:28,890 The first one is there in verse four, but in contrast to what we were like, God, who is rich in mercy, God who has mercy 83 00:07:29,010 --> 00:07:38,070 oozing out of every part of his character, has made us alive in Christ, even when we were dead in our transgressions. 84 00:07:38,955 --> 00:07:40,470 I mean, how amazing is that? 85 00:07:40,470 --> 00:07:49,260 Friends God, who is rich in mercy, even when we were spiritual, roadkill, has been able to make us alive. 86 00:07:50,534 --> 00:07:54,195 God is, is the God of making dead things alive. 87 00:07:54,465 --> 00:08:00,015 In Genesis one, he was able to breathe life into man and woman, which were made out of dusk. 88 00:08:00,585 --> 00:08:07,185 In Ezekiel 37, he was ma able to make a valley of dried bones put on flesh and come alive. 89 00:08:07,905 --> 00:08:12,974 In John 11, by the word of Jesus, he called Lazarus outta the tomb to life. 90 00:08:13,515 --> 00:08:18,344 Our God is a God who can make dead things alive. 91 00:08:21,090 --> 00:08:25,290 Can make spiritual roadkill alive. 92 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:36,390 But more than this, in verses six to seven, God also raises us up with Christ and seats us in the heavenly realms. 93 00:08:36,930 --> 00:08:39,720 Notice the language that's being used there in verse six. 94 00:08:40,049 --> 00:08:41,669 We are raised with Christ. 95 00:08:41,669 --> 00:08:42,990 We are in Christ. 96 00:08:44,295 --> 00:08:48,285 Paul is building on the language that he introduced back in chapter one of Ephesians. 97 00:08:49,965 --> 00:08:55,425 You see, when you put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, we become spiritually united with him. 98 00:08:56,055 --> 00:09:02,325 This is how we become spiritually alive, and as Jesus was raised from the dead and raised to 99 00:09:02,355 --> 00:09:09,435 the heavenly realms, this then becomes a spiritual reality for us because we're united with him. 100 00:09:10,064 --> 00:09:16,364 That's why Paul continues to use the language of in Christ we are spiritually found in him. 101 00:09:18,675 --> 00:09:21,584 Brothers and sisters is this not the most amazing thing? 102 00:09:22,334 --> 00:09:29,864 We have been moved from lying on the side of the road spiritually as roadkill following the ruler of 103 00:09:29,864 --> 00:09:37,515 the kingdom of the air, to now being seated in the heavenly realms of the one who rules the universe. 104 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,449 All of this will show to all who here. 105 00:09:43,110 --> 00:09:48,390 Just how great God is the incomparable riches of his grace. 106 00:09:50,339 --> 00:09:54,329 And so with this in mind, Paul concludes a section by reminding us what that grace is. 107 00:09:54,900 --> 00:09:58,829 See there in verses eight to 10 for it is by grace you of being saved through faith. 108 00:10:00,060 --> 00:10:01,589 And this is not from yourself. 109 00:10:02,189 --> 00:10:05,400 It is the gift of God, not by work, so that no one can base. 110 00:10:06,510 --> 00:10:12,750 For we are God's handiwork created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. 111 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,360 You see, God's grace is his mercy shown to those who do not deserve it. 112 00:10:19,380 --> 00:10:24,450 When it comes to our salvation, there is nothing that we can do in order to earn it. 113 00:10:25,620 --> 00:10:31,590 This is where we differ from so many other forms of people who say they follow the Lord Jesus. 114 00:10:31,965 --> 00:10:38,115 These churches that have that work-based theology where they attribute salvation to the work that you do yourself. 115 00:10:39,045 --> 00:10:45,795 Or some have a churchman theology where they attribute salvation to the type of church you go to, or some 116 00:10:45,795 --> 00:10:51,765 have that experiential theology where they attribute salvation to the types of experiences that you have. 117 00:10:51,915 --> 00:10:53,895 But this passage is clear. 118 00:10:55,425 --> 00:10:56,385 It is by faith. 119 00:10:56,385 --> 00:11:01,035 We have been saved not by works, so that no one can boast. 120 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:08,310 No one can say that we're better than the person we're sitting next to, or better than anyone else in the world. 121 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:16,290 You see, if we could play a role in our salvation, then there would be cause for boasting we could claim to be better than others. 122 00:11:17,550 --> 00:11:21,810 We could dare I say it, claim some of the glory for ourself. 123 00:11:23,580 --> 00:11:26,310 And we all like to think of ourselves better than we are, don't we? 124 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:29,310 But this is not what the passage says. 125 00:11:29,820 --> 00:11:34,500 Now look there again at Ephesians two verse nine, and this is not from yourself. 126 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,530 It is a gift of God. 127 00:11:38,940 --> 00:11:45,960 God does all the saving here so that we cannot boast so that we can know it is not by our works that 128 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:53,880 we're saved, but solely through the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross and our faith in him. 129 00:11:55,485 --> 00:11:57,945 And then notice how he concludes this section, verse 10. 130 00:11:58,515 --> 00:12:02,265 By saying that as a result of God's grace, it will lead us to doing good works. 131 00:12:02,595 --> 00:12:11,385 Good works don't come in order to earn salvation, but for someone who has been saved, they must be part of our Christian life. 132 00:12:12,615 --> 00:12:21,075 As we study here at Moore, we should have the mindset and ask ourselves every day, what good works has God prepared for me in advance to do today? 133 00:12:23,190 --> 00:12:25,350 And so friends, we've been saved by an amazing God. 134 00:12:25,350 --> 00:12:31,590 We've been taken out of the kingdom of air and placed into God's eternal kingdom by the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. 135 00:12:31,770 --> 00:12:37,920 We've been saved by grace, and we should never ever take this for granted. 136 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:44,310 Next, Paul reminds us of what happens when we became Christians. 137 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:50,760 He says that before trusting in the Lord Jesus, we were excluded from God's people. 138 00:12:51,750 --> 00:12:56,310 Through faith in Jesus, we are now included in God's people. 139 00:12:57,090 --> 00:13:03,600 See there in verses 11 to 12, Paul starts speaking specifically to those who are not Jewish at this 140 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:10,020 stage, and unless I'm mistaken, that's most of us here today, he says that formally, those who were 141 00:13:10,020 --> 00:13:15,870 not part of the Jewish people, that is those who were Gentiles, were excluded from the promises of God. 142 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:21,840 They were not part of the Jewish people, so therefore the promises of God did not apply to them. 143 00:13:23,070 --> 00:13:29,310 You see, before Jesus came to be part of God's people, a person needed to become a Jew. 144 00:13:29,610 --> 00:13:34,140 They needed to follow the Jewish religion, follow the Jewish laws and customs and rituals. 145 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:38,790 There was this real divide between Jewish people and the rest of the nations. 146 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,270 You are either part of the covenant people or you were not. 147 00:13:43,755 --> 00:13:48,840 There's a great Netflix series called Unorthodox, and it looks at a Jewish community in New 148 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:55,245 York trying to live according to the Jewish customs and laws spelt out in the Old Testament. 149 00:13:55,995 --> 00:14:03,855 Heather and I watched it, and as we did, we had a great understanding of the divide between us and how they live their lives. 150 00:14:04,065 --> 00:14:07,185 It really was like they're living on another planet. 151 00:14:07,740 --> 00:14:17,610 And this is Paul's point, God's people and those outside God's people were miles from one another when it came to salvation. 152 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,060 But we read this in verse 13. 153 00:14:21,060 --> 00:14:23,010 It's the second big but of the passage. 154 00:14:23,340 --> 00:14:28,170 But Jesus has bought you from being far away to now being close. 155 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,859 Friends, Paul is saying that we were without hope, we were living far away from God. 156 00:14:35,189 --> 00:14:39,599 We were living as far away as whoop whoop is compared to Newtown. 157 00:14:39,719 --> 00:14:50,040 Now, if you're not originally from Australia, whoop, whoop is Australian, slaying for really, really far away, as far away as you can possibly be. 158 00:14:50,670 --> 00:14:53,130 And Paul is saying you've been living in Woowoo. 159 00:14:54,810 --> 00:15:00,240 But through the blood of Jesus that he shed for us on the cross, we have now been bought near. 160 00:15:01,020 --> 00:15:03,300 We can now come into his presence. 161 00:15:04,770 --> 00:15:11,730 See there in verses 14 to 18, there is peace between God and us and also through this there is peace with one another. 162 00:15:12,810 --> 00:15:17,730 No longer do we need to become Jewish, but rather Jesus is creating a new humanity. 163 00:15:18,300 --> 00:15:23,310 Jesus is dropping the wall of hostility between cultures and nationalities and the like, 164 00:15:23,850 --> 00:15:29,850 and he's creating himself one new people, this new people who are reconciled with God. 165 00:15:30,449 --> 00:15:35,189 So rather than there being one nation reconciled with God, there is now a group of 166 00:15:35,189 --> 00:15:40,410 people from every tribe and every nation who have been saved by the blood of Jesus. 167 00:15:40,980 --> 00:15:44,370 Who all have access to the Father through the Lord Jesus Christ. 168 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,390 Now, is that just not the most incredible thing? 169 00:15:49,650 --> 00:15:56,970 If we jump back to Isaiah six in the Bible, we would see when the prophet found himself, uh, in the heavenly throne room of God and there were 170 00:15:56,970 --> 00:16:06,180 charitable sl everywhere, peels of thunder, and Isaiah was completely aware of his sin, he fell to the floor and could go no further without any help. 171 00:16:06,180 --> 00:16:09,570 He had no access to God because of his sin. 172 00:16:10,725 --> 00:16:20,415 Thankfully, God was able to atone for his sin, but now through Jesus, you and I have access where others have not. 173 00:16:21,855 --> 00:16:31,814 Through Jesus, God has brought you and I who are far away, near to him, and given us access all areas to a heavenly Father. 174 00:16:32,805 --> 00:16:36,165 Friends, we should never, ever take this for granted. 175 00:16:38,355 --> 00:16:42,795 And finally, Paul concludes this section by reminding us what happens when we become Christians. 176 00:16:43,425 --> 00:16:52,725 Paul shows us that before trusting in Jesus, we were aliens and foreigners, but through faith in Jesus, we've been made members of God's household. 177 00:16:53,325 --> 00:16:55,305 See there in verses 19 to 22, 178 00:16:57,470 --> 00:17:00,225 brothers and sisters, we can belong to God. 179 00:17:02,175 --> 00:17:05,085 The third big button, the passage is found here in verse 19. 180 00:17:05,295 --> 00:17:11,265 No longer are we considered aliens, but fellow citizens and members of God's household. 181 00:17:12,825 --> 00:17:15,734 You can spot a tourist a mile away in Sydney, can't you? 182 00:17:16,665 --> 00:17:17,359 They walk around. 183 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:18,480 They're taken back by things. 184 00:17:18,500 --> 00:17:18,920 Oh wow. 185 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:19,359 Look at that. 186 00:17:20,204 --> 00:17:21,885 Things that we just take for granted. 187 00:17:22,245 --> 00:17:24,015 They don't strike us in the same way. 188 00:17:24,015 --> 00:17:31,365 I mean, when was the last time you went down to the Opera House and sort of got out the camera and did the pose for Instagram? 189 00:17:32,055 --> 00:17:37,695 We don't do it because we see it all the time, but it's such a different perspective. 190 00:17:37,695 --> 00:17:38,985 When you are a foreigner. 191 00:17:38,985 --> 00:17:42,135 When you're an alien, we're no longer like these people. 192 00:17:42,195 --> 00:17:49,335 You and I, when it comes to knowing God rather, we're members of his household awaiting an inheritance. 193 00:17:49,620 --> 00:17:53,010 That one Peter one says, will never spoil fat or perish. 194 00:17:53,129 --> 00:17:54,750 Just think about that for a second. 195 00:17:54,929 --> 00:18:03,899 How many things spoil fate and perish in this world, but our inheritance will never just think about that 196 00:18:03,899 --> 00:18:11,310 transformation from being roadkill, going nowhere fast to be living and raised with Christ in the heavenly realms, 197 00:18:11,310 --> 00:18:18,240 from being in whoop whoop, now being called clear, but coming closer near to God where we get to call God Father. 198 00:18:18,629 --> 00:18:21,300 Where we get to call him Dad, 199 00:18:23,970 --> 00:18:28,200 we get to call the king of the universe. 200 00:18:28,350 --> 00:18:28,770 Dad. 201 00:18:30,870 --> 00:18:34,560 Often when my kids are being cheeky, they'll go around and call me Mao. 202 00:18:36,330 --> 00:18:42,805 I say to them, there are only four people in the world that can call me Dad, and you are one of them, so use it. 203 00:18:44,745 --> 00:18:47,325 But I'm not just gonna give that invitation to anyone. 204 00:18:47,385 --> 00:18:51,855 I'm not gonna say to all you here at college, when you see me come and call me dad. 205 00:18:51,855 --> 00:18:53,535 I mean, that would be weird, wouldn't it? 206 00:18:55,515 --> 00:19:07,215 However, out of the great love that he has for us, God gives you the invitation to call him Father through the Lord Jesus Christ. 207 00:19:07,215 --> 00:19:09,105 We become considered part of his family. 208 00:19:09,105 --> 00:19:11,235 I mean, how wonderful is that? 209 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:13,290 More than this. 210 00:19:13,290 --> 00:19:17,670 Together we're being built, built into a dwelling place in which God's spirit lives. 211 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:25,950 The foundation of this dwelling place is the Bible, the words of the prophets and the apostles, but with the words of the Lord 212 00:19:25,950 --> 00:19:35,400 Jesus as the chief cornerstone, the foundation of foundations, and through building on this foundation, we become a people of God. 213 00:19:36,705 --> 00:19:38,715 Brothers and sisters, we must remember this. 214 00:19:39,044 --> 00:19:43,335 We live in an individualistic society, but we are not individuals. 215 00:19:43,544 --> 00:19:49,544 Once we are saved by the Lord Jesus, once we have put our hope in the Lord Jesus, 216 00:19:49,544 --> 00:19:55,725 we become part of a new people in which God's spirit dwells amongst us and in us. 217 00:19:56,625 --> 00:19:57,855 This is the church. 218 00:19:58,875 --> 00:20:00,254 This is the gathered people. 219 00:20:00,254 --> 00:20:03,375 This is why we meet and pray together and build each other up. 220 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:10,740 Through God's word, we are the body of Christ whom he purchased with his blood. 221 00:20:12,270 --> 00:20:12,629 Friends. 222 00:20:12,629 --> 00:20:18,120 We need to remember who we are in him, the access that we have to the Father through the 223 00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:26,760 Lord Jesus, the dwelling place of Christ, and we must never, ever take this for granted. 224 00:20:28,620 --> 00:20:29,520 Well, lemme conclude. 225 00:20:30,090 --> 00:20:38,220 We've seen in three clear ways that we were one separated from God by living a life without him, by being excluded through 226 00:20:38,220 --> 00:20:47,640 birth and by being aliens and foreigners, spiritual roadkill, but, and we're seen three very big butts, haven't we? 227 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:53,340 By God, who is rich in mercy, has made us alive in Christ Jesus. 228 00:20:53,820 --> 00:20:56,520 God who is rich in mercy has brought us near. 229 00:20:57,270 --> 00:21:08,429 God who is rich in mercy has made us members of God's household how through the death and resurrection of His one and only son, the Lord Jesus Christ. 230 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:13,230 It's not our work, but it is the work of the Lord Jesus. 231 00:21:13,230 --> 00:21:18,720 And so we're called to put our trust in him, A trust that's given to us by God so 232 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:24,030 that no one can boast a trust that we must ask God for, but a trust that he is. 233 00:21:25,125 --> 00:21:32,115 Keen and willing to give us freely and a trust that will lead us to respond to 234 00:21:32,115 --> 00:21:37,965 what he's done for us with good works and living our lives for him and friends. 235 00:21:37,965 --> 00:21:41,595 Let me urge you to never, ever take this for granted. 236 00:21:43,065 --> 00:21:43,605 Let me pray. 237 00:21:44,955 --> 00:21:50,115 Heavenly Father, we give you great thanks for the wonderful work of the Lord Jesus Christ. 238 00:21:50,939 --> 00:21:59,669 For the immense grace and mercy that you have shown to us through him, help us to never, ever take this for granted. 239 00:22:00,990 --> 00:22:01,260 Amen. 240 00:22:10,379 --> 00:22:15,060 Thank you for listening to Moore in The Word, a podcast of Moore Theological College. 241 00:22:15,645 --> 00:22:20,325 Our vision as a College is to see God glorified by men and women living for 242 00:22:20,325 --> 00:22:25,005 and proclaiming Jesus Christ, growing healthy churches and reaching the lost. 243 00:22:25,455 --> 00:22:30,615 We invite you to attend any of our upcoming events, including this one that's happening at Moore College. 244 00:22:30,915 --> 00:22:36,765 The need for Christians to take the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the world is greater than ever before. 245 00:22:37,515 --> 00:22:44,415 For over 165 years, Moore Theological College has been training men and women for a lifetime of 246 00:22:44,415 --> 00:22:50,655 vocational word ministry so that they can proclaim this gospel and nurture others to grow in the faith. 247 00:22:51,615 --> 00:22:55,935 If you've been considering theological education, come and discover what life 248 00:22:55,935 --> 00:23:01,945 and study at Moore College could look like you at one of our May 2025 events. 249 00:23:02,595 --> 00:23:09,725 On the evening of Tuesday 13th of May, we will be hosting an information and Q&A session that will also be livestreamed. 250 00:23:10,215 --> 00:23:15,195 Then from Wednesday 14th of May to Friday 16th of May, you have the opportunity to join 251 00:23:15,195 --> 00:23:20,834 us in person to tour the campus, participate in chapel, and even sit in on a class. 252 00:23:21,455 --> 00:23:29,685 Find out more and register your interest on our website: that's moore.edu.au/open. 253 00:23:36,395 --> 00:23:41,245 You can find out more and register by going to the Moore College website moore.edu.au. 254 00:23:41,345 --> 00:23:44,735 That's moore.edu.au. 255 00:23:45,314 --> 00:23:49,514 If you have not already done so, we encourage you to subscribe to our podcast 256 00:23:49,514 --> 00:23:53,415 through your favourite podcast platform so that you'll never miss an episode. 257 00:23:54,104 --> 00:23:59,084 For past episodes further resources, and to make a tax deductible donation to support 258 00:23:59,084 --> 00:24:07,094 the work of the College and its mission, please visit our website at moore.edu.au. 259 00:24:08,220 --> 00:24:14,010 If you found this episode helpful, please share it with a friend and leave a review on your platform of choice. 260 00:24:14,790 --> 00:24:23,030 We always benefit from feedback from our listeners, so if you'd like to get in touch, you can email us at comms@moore.edu.au. 261 00:24:24,380 --> 00:24:32,389 The Moore in the Word podcast was edited and produced by me, Karen Beilharz and the Communications Team at Moore Theological College. 262 00:24:32,929 --> 00:24:36,840 The music for our podcast was provided by MarkJuly from Pixabay. 263 00:24:37,550 --> 00:24:38,480 Until next time.