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Bible on the beach. I'm Ryan. Today I'm up here in the hills again right by my house.

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I've got some fun waves this morning. I'm glad you can be with me. Now today we're going

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to look at Ephesians chapter 2 verses 11 through 22 and it says, so don't forget that you were

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not born as the uncircumcised. You had none of the covenants and laws. You were foreigners

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to an incredible heritage. You were without the covenants and promises of the Messiah,

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the promised hope and without God. Yet look at you now. Everything is new. Although you

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were once distant and far away from God, now you've been brought close to Him through the

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blood of Jesus. You've actually been united with Christ. You know, isn't it amazing what

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God does in our life when we give him a chance to... Every day we need a new chance with

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God. We need a fresh start. We need a new beginning. We need new opportunity. And every

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day we humbly come before God and say, hey Lord, here I am. Today's your day. Work in

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my life. He always gives us a fresh start. He always gives us a new beginning. You know,

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I believe that's why there's a new day every day because it's a new opportunity to live

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a better life for God every single day that we're alive. He says, our peace is Jesus.

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He's made us one in Him. Boy, isn't that true? The peace that we get in life comes from God.

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It comes from Jesus. We say, Lord, give me your peace. Give me your grace. And he helps

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us every single day. He says, He's broken down every wall of prejudice that separated

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us has now been, has now made us equal through our union with Christ. So, humans love categories.

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God doesn't. God abolishes all categories through Jesus. Every category that you can

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come up with, the religious category, an economic category, a racial category, every category,

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God does away with it in Jesus. He says that we're all one in Him in knowing Him and in

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following Him in our life. He says that in verse 15, ethnic hatred has been dissolved

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by the crucifixion of His precious body on the cross. So, God does away with all race

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through Jesus. We're all seen as one in Christ. The legal code that stood condemning every

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one of us has now been repealed by this. The triune essence has made peace between us by

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starting over. That's how we get peace in our life, by starting over, saying, God, give

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me a fresh start. Give me a new beginning, flow in my life, work in my life, move in

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my life, forming one new people, a humanity fused together in Himself. So, God is on the

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plan and the purpose in this world of bringing everybody together in unity through Jesus.

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That's how unity is accomplished. It's accomplished through humility and a focus on Jesus. And

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this is why politics can never bring unity. This is why nation states can never bring

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unity. What brings unity is humility and a focus on one hero, Christ. That's what unites

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us together. God says, if you're humble and you love Jesus, I'm working in your life.

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That's the invitation to serve and follow God. He says the two have now become one and

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we live restored to God and reconciled in the body of Christ. That's what God does.

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He brings us into a relationship with Himself and He brings us into a relationship with

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each other. Through His crucifixion, hatred died. So, when we see Jesus crucified our

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own selfish desires and the hatred that we feel in our heart, it melts away because the

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love of God melts away all hate. For Jesus has come to preach this sweet message of peace.

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The ones who were distant are those who are now near. Verse 17. So, we who were far from

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God are now near to God through Jesus and through what He's done in our life. He says,

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now we are united to Christ. We both have equal and direct access into the realm of

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the Holy Spirit before the Father. So, now we can go directly to God with everything

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that we need in our life. We just say, Lord, would you help me today to go directly to

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you and to get what I need? That's why I get up every day early and I pray. I go to God

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and I ask Him for what I need for the day. The strength that I need for today. He says,

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we're not foreigners or guests, but rather we're children of the city of the Holy One

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with all the rights of a family member as the household of God. God says, if you're

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in my family, you have rights and you come to me and you tell me what you need and I

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will take care of you. He says, you are rising like the perfectly fitted stones of the temple

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and your lives have been built up together upon the foundation laid by the apostles and

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prophets and best of all you are connected to the headquarter stone of the building,

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the anointed one, Jesus himself. So everything in life revolves around one person, Jesus

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Christ. Everything that we do in our life and on this planet is for one person, it's

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for Jesus Christ. The entire building is under construction and is continually growing under

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his leadership and supervision until it rises up completed in the Holy Temple of the Lord

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himself. This means that God is transforming each of us into his holiness, his dwelling

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place through the power of the Holy Spirit living in us. So the power of the Holy Spirit

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living inside of our life is what transforms us and our thinking every single day. The

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Holy Spirit literally changes how we think when we invite him into our life. God can

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get us to think differently, to act differently, to live life differently. That's the invitation

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to be led by the Holy Spirit every day. I don't know about you, but I need to be led

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by the Holy Spirit every single day. I'm so glad you joined me today for Bible on the

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Beach, actually Bible on the Hills today here in San Clemente. Thanks so much for tuning

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in. Until next time, I hope you have a beautiful day.