1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Welcome to Bible on the Beach. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,300 I'm Ryan, I'm glad you can join us today. 3 00:00:02,300 --> 00:00:05,840 We'll be in Ephesians chapter one, verses one through six. 4 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:07,360 We're actually up in the hills today, 5 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:09,660 behind my house, because the surf sucks, 6 00:00:09,660 --> 00:00:11,400 and it's really overcast. 7 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,320 And sometimes at the coast, it's foggy at the beach, 8 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:17,440 and I live about three miles. 9 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,200 So it's really sunny and beautiful. 10 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:20,700 Glad you can be with us today. 11 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:23,040 So last time in Bible on the Beach, 12 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:28,040 we finished with Paul's incredible missionary journey 13 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:32,520 into every space and every place that God would have them go. 14 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:34,600 That's what God wants to do with our life. 15 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:36,280 God literally wants to use our life 16 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:37,880 to start a ripple effect. 17 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,880 So God's love can get into every nook and every cranny 18 00:00:42,060 --> 00:00:44,680 in every part of the world where people are hurting. 19 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:48,220 And so when we stay in tune with the Holy Spirit, 20 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,580 that enables us to be used by God every day, 21 00:00:52,580 --> 00:00:55,760 be the hands and feet for what God wants to get done 22 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:58,360 in the world, showing people his love. 23 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:03,360 So every time I open up the Bible, 24 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,560 I always say, God, give me your eyes to see, 25 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,180 give me your ears to hear, 26 00:01:10,180 --> 00:01:13,080 give me your heart to feel what you want to say to me today, 27 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,280 and then help me to follow through on it. 28 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,400 So here we are in the book of Ephesians. 29 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,200 It starts in chapter one. 30 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:23,560 It says, my dear friends, my name is Paul. 31 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,900 I was chosen by God to be an apostle of Jesus, the Messiah. 32 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:33,240 An apostle was an establisher of new works. 33 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:38,480 Paul was called by God to pastor people 34 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:43,480 and to plant churches and to proclaim the gospel. 35 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,920 So Pauline theology or Paul's missiology 36 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,360 is he would go into a new area, 37 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:54,360 proclaim, publicly debate the person and work of Jesus, 38 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:56,480 and in and through that experience, 39 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:01,480 a new work, a new expression of God's global family 40 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:03,300 would be established. 41 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:08,300 And so he had an apostolic calling on his life, 42 00:02:08,820 --> 00:02:12,000 apostle in the New Testament phraseology 43 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,720 and the New Testament meaning. 44 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:16,680 As Paul uses it, means an establisher 45 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,440 of a new network of churches. 46 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:20,920 That's exactly what it means. 47 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:24,260 It doesn't mean anything outside of that. 48 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,000 Verse two, he says, I'm writing this letter 49 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,360 to all the devoted believers who have been made holy 50 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,040 by being one with Jesus, the anointed one. 51 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,000 So one of the manifestations 52 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,620 of having a daily walk with Jesus is that you become holy. 53 00:02:40,620 --> 00:02:43,360 Now the word holy means set apart. 54 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:44,720 And what that means is that you have 55 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:46,800 a different character focus. 56 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,000 You have a different lifestyle focus. 57 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,360 You have a different love focus with your life. 58 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,320 When you focus on loving others before yourself, 59 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:56,640 you're becoming holy. 60 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:59,240 When you focus on giving your body 61 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:02,720 as an instrument to God in purity and holiness, 62 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,000 you're becoming holy. 63 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,920 When you focus your mind on the thoughts of God, 64 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:10,600 on the things of God, you're becoming holy. 65 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:12,880 What that means is that God is literally 66 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,560 setting you apart, renewing your mind, 67 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:17,760 giving you a different way of thinking 68 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,320 in your daily life, in the life that you live, 69 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,800 in the objectives that you're trying to accomplish. 70 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,000 He says, may God himself, the heavenly father, 71 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,640 the Lord Jesus release grace over you 72 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:33,320 and impart total wellbeing into your life. 73 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:35,200 Now we should pray every single day 74 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,000 that God would give us his grace. 75 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,680 God's grace is not getting what we do deserve. 76 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,720 When we are loved by God and forgiven by God, 77 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,760 it changes how we relate to God, 78 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:48,720 changes how we relate to others. 79 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,080 We don't walk in guilt and shame, 80 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:56,080 we walk in grace and freedom and love and life. 81 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,600 He says, may he impart total wellbeing into your lives. 82 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,800 What God is trying to do in our life 83 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:08,040 is to bring about full healing into every part of our life. 84 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:13,040 Now you're never fully healed until you go into heaven. 85 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:15,760 And people think that you experience 100% healing 86 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,680 here on earth, that's not true 87 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,200 because there's different types of healing. 88 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,080 There's spiritual healing, there's emotional healing, 89 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,060 there's physical healing, there's relational healing. 90 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,760 If you get healed physically in your life, 91 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:30,760 doesn't mean you're healed emotionally. 92 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:32,120 If you get healed emotionally, 93 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:34,040 it doesn't mean you're healed spiritually. 94 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:37,520 If you get healed relationally, 95 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,440 it doesn't mean you're healed emotionally. 96 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:45,440 So God is on a path of bringing a full healing 97 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:47,200 into our life. 98 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:49,760 That is an incentive to stay humble 99 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,300 and work hard every day in our life 100 00:04:51,300 --> 00:04:54,080 because every day that we stay humble and we work hard, 101 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:57,380 we get a little more healing and a little more grace 102 00:04:57,380 --> 00:04:59,440 into our life for us and for our family 103 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,740 and for our friends and the people that we interact with 104 00:05:01,740 --> 00:05:03,480 on a daily basis. 105 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,860 He follows it up by saying that every spiritual blessing 106 00:05:05,860 --> 00:05:08,720 in the heavenly realm has already been lavished upon us 107 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:11,760 as a love gift from our wonderful heavenly Father. 108 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:15,960 So in on earth, every day as we are humble 109 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:17,920 and we work hard in our life, 110 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,040 God gives us a little bit of a glimpse 111 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:23,240 into a new area of our life 112 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:28,240 where we experience more love, more blessing, more grace. 113 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:31,560 Is what you had yesterday amazing? 114 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:32,400 Yes. 115 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,860 Is what you're gonna have tomorrow more amazing? 116 00:05:34,860 --> 00:05:36,120 Absolutely. 117 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:37,540 The Bible calls this hope. 118 00:05:37,540 --> 00:05:41,320 You see, when you follow Jesus, 119 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,520 the hope of tomorrow gets stronger every day 120 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:47,480 because it ultimately leads to heaven. 121 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,160 And so our hope through the Holy Spirit 122 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:55,600 is amplified, magnified and multiplied 123 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,080 every day of our life that we keep our hope 124 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,540 and our focus on the Lord Jesus. 125 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:04,440 This is all because he sees us wrapped into Christ. 126 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:08,520 That is why we celebrate him with all of our hearts. 127 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:13,520 So Jesus sees us as we sit next to him in heaven one day. 128 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,760 That's the picture that he has of us in our lives. 129 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:19,840 That's why when the Holy Spirit is moving 130 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:22,480 and telling you to go here, do this, 131 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,940 talk to that person, don't do that, pray about this, 132 00:06:25,940 --> 00:06:29,080 relax, be patient because Jesus has a perfect picture 133 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,320 of us in heaven seated with him in the heavenlies 134 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,520 and everything that Jesus thinks about us 135 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,520 lines up with the picture that he has of us. 136 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:41,200 And so we wanna align with God's thoughts 137 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,200 and his picture that he has for us. 138 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,040 He says, and in love, he chose us 139 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,720 before he laid the foundation of the universe. 140 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:52,240 You see, God had a purpose and a plan for our life 141 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:53,880 as we came into the world. 142 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:55,400 And every day we humbly have to say, 143 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,120 okay, Lord, whatever you want me to do today, 144 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:00,320 I'll do your will, not my will, 145 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,880 even though I think I know your will, 146 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,000 I'm still gonna say ahead of time 147 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,460 that I submit to your will and your plan. 148 00:07:08,460 --> 00:07:10,200 He says, because of his great love, 149 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,480 he ordained us so that we would be seen as holy in his eyes 150 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,000 with an unstained innocence. 151 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,000 You see, as God sees us, it's with an unstained innocence, 152 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:26,120 he sees us perfectly again as we're seated with him in heaven. 153 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,760 For it was always his perfect plan to adopt us 154 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:33,320 as his delightful children through our union with Jesus. 155 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:35,440 So God adopts all of us. 156 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,600 If you had perfect parents, 157 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,660 unperfect parents, or no parents, 158 00:07:42,660 --> 00:07:45,520 we all experienced the adoption of Jesus. 159 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,200 Having perfect parents, unperfect parents, 160 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:53,680 or even no parents, we're all in equal playing field 161 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:54,860 when it comes to Jesus, 162 00:07:54,860 --> 00:07:59,860 because Jesus adopts everyone as being our heavenly father. 163 00:08:01,980 --> 00:08:04,760 The anointed one, so that this tremendous love 164 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,980 that cascades over us would glorify his grace. 165 00:08:07,980 --> 00:08:12,260 For the same love he has for the beloved Jesus, 166 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,220 he has for us, and this unfolding plan 167 00:08:16,220 --> 00:08:18,040 brings him great pleasure. 168 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,040 Did you know that God has an unfolding, 169 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,380 amazing plan for our life? 170 00:08:24,380 --> 00:08:25,300 It's exciting. 171 00:08:25,300 --> 00:08:26,720 You know, if you knew everything 172 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:28,520 that God was gonna do in your life ahead of time, 173 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:29,440 you'd be bored. 174 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,320 The adventure is getting up every day, 175 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,440 and being humble, and working hard, 176 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,360 and going after the things and the promises 177 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,560 that God has asked and has planned for our lives. 178 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:40,680 Thank you so much for joining me 179 00:08:40,680 --> 00:08:44,040 in Bible on the Beach today as we journey one day at a time 180 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:45,780 through all of God's word. 181 00:08:45,780 --> 00:08:54,780 Until next time, I hope you have a.