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Ephesians chapter 2 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Ephesians chapter 2. Let us pray our God and our King
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  and our Father forever to be glorified and praised in the
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  highest. We love you, King Jesus.
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  Come, Father, come and fill us overflowing.
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  God, help us, Lord, to love our neighbors as ourselves.
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  Help us to love you with all of our heart and mind and strength
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  and soul body. God, all of our mind, will and
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  emotions bent towards you and your goodness and your grace and
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  your love. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus today that we will go out into the highways and the
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  hedges, out into the harvest, God, and snatch those fire
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  brands God out, Lord. And I pray, Lord, that you'll
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  clothe them in your righteousness, God and your
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  glory. Father, I pray that you will
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  save to the utmost. God, I pray for healing over our
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  bodies. God heal Lord limbs and heal
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  hearts and heal minds. God heal Lord organs.
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  Father. God, drive out any unclean
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  impure spirit from off of us in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  I pray, Father, that you Lord, will come and be well pleased to
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  and dwell us in the fullness. Let us radiate your glory, God.
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  Burnout, anything that does not belong, anything within this
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  temple, God, burn it out, Father.
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  I pray, Lord, that will be polished and refined and Lord,
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  that we will mirror your image, Father.
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  I pray, Father, that we do not keep going back to our vomit.
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  God. I pray in the name of Jesus that
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  we don't keep going back into bondage.
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  Lord, I pray, Father, that we can turn our eyes and our ears
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  away from all the things that are dragging us away from your
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  goodness and your fullness and your glory and your mercy.
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  Father, I pray, Lord, for grace to abound.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll help us, Lord, to be
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  holy because you are holy. Father, open up our eyes and our
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  ears to Your words today. Help us to see them fresh and
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  new. Help us, Lord, to see that
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  You're working mightily today all around us.
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  Lord, help us to get into the fight.
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  Help us to get in to Your purposes and plans for us in our
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  lives. Lord, help us not to be cowards.
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  Help us not to shrink back. Help us to be bold in our faith
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  today and to tell people about what you have done for us.
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  Lord Maranatha, come. Lord, come.
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  I decrease as you increase. Holy Spirit, teach us your
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  eternal paths. We're acknowledging you today.
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  Direct us, help us not to miss out on what God has for us
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  today. Jesus Christ be exalted.
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  The name above all names. We love you and it's in your
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  holy and precious name that I pray Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. And you has he quickened who
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  were dead in trespasses and sins.
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  So God, when he places the Holy Spirit inside of you, he makes
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  you come alive. Friends, this quickening in the
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  inner man, you no longer see the world all around you the way
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  that you used to. You no longer hear the things
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  like you used to. Everything becomes fresh and
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  new. Everything becomes alive and you
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  see the world around you through the lens of Jesus Christ and all
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  of His words and what He told us and how we should go and all of
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  the Beatitudes. Friends, we see the world
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  through the lens of His glory and that is what is referenced
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  here. We were once dead in our
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  trespasses and sins. We had crossed the line, We had
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  missed the mark. But God and His infinite love
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  and glory and wisdom, he snatched us out, and He put a
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  new heart and a new mind in US. And now we do not see the world
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  around us the way that we used to.
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  Verse 2 Wherein in times past you walked according to the
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  course of this world, according to the Prince of the power of
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  the air, the spirit that now works in the children of
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  disobedience. He is the father of lies.
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  Satan has no power over God's children.
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  Friends, we can have victory in Christ.
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  We can have victory and being covered in the blood of Jesus
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  Christ and Paul wants us to remember where we came from so
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  that we do not become prideful and arrogant, self-righteous.
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  We need to remember that we were once those people who were led
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  off into bondage and slavery and sin and self.
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  We do not need to become so pious that we forget to become
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  level with the gravel friends. We need to be relevant to our
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  neighbors. We do not need to seem so
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  unattainable through all of our spiritual platitudes.
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  We do not need to try and act as if we are better than others.
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  Just remember that you were once dead and you were once lost, and
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  you were once separated, but God in His grace saved you through
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  faith. We'll talk about that three
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  among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in
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  the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the
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  flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath,
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  even as others. We had a sin nature from birth,
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  friends, and we do not need to try and explain that away.
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  It is there. And children by default need to
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  be taught how to tell the truth. They need to be taught how to
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  not be selfish and we need to teach them in the ways of Christ
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  and we were once like little children, but when I was a child
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  I reasoned as a child, I thought as a child I spoke as a child,
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  but when I became a man I did away with childish things
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  friends. And that is taking off the old
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  man and putting on the new creation and get being given the
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  mind of Christ and that is what is referenced here.
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  We were once like them, and we need to be merciful and we need
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  to let grace abound into those camps that are still stuck in
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  the sin patterns. We do not need to just build
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  little country clubs up on a hill and lock the doors, sit in
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  a circle and sing Kumbaya. We need to be found out in the
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  hardest darkest places, shining the light and pouring salt in
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  the wounds for but God, who is rich in mercy for His great love
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  wherewith He loved us. So that is how we got here.
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  It's through His love. He loved us when we were still
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  sinning, and we do not even know love unless we know God.
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  And God is love and He loved us and He chose us and he
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  predestined us and he brought us into the fold.
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  And all we can do is say Hallelujah, praise God Almighty.
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  5 even when we were dead in sins, has quickened us together
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  with Christ. By grace you are saved.
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  That is what you need to understand.
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  It is not anything that you have ever done that earns your
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  salvation. It is everything that Christ did
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  for us 2000 years ago on the cross, when he was beaten and
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  when he was mocked and his beard was plucked out and he did not
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  even resemble a man. And there was nothing to draw us
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  to him. And he was whipped and scourged,
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  and the nails were driven through his hands and his feet,
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  and he was asphyxiated on the cross, and it was hard for Him
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  to take take another breath as fluid entered into the lungs.
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  Friends, He saved us even when we could not save ourselves.
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  And it is grace, friends, nothing that we've ever done.
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  It is a free gift, but we must open it up. 6 And he has raised
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  us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in
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  Christ Jesus. That is how we are seated with
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  Him in heavenly places. It is in Christ Jesus.
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  He's the boat. Get in the boat, friends.
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  It's about to start raining, Friends.
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  He's the boat. We've got to get into it,
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  friends. And the second destruction comes
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  by fire, seven, that in the ages to come he might show the
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  exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through
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  Christ Jesus. So God desired through the
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  sacrifice, and it pleased God to crush him, because he knew it
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  would lead many into the eternal security of our salvation.
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  And it pleased him to give us the Holy Spirit and to mark us,
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  and to give us the down payment in the deposit of what's to
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  come. And it is in his kindness,
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  friends, that we were made right with God through Jesus Christ. 8
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  For by grace you were saved through faith and not of
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  yourselves. It is the gift of God.
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  Faith is just the conduit. Faith is just the apparatus.
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  It is grace that saves us, but we have to have the faith to
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  grab a hold of it. Friends, by faith we grab a hold
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  of the grace of God. By faith we put on the
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  righteousness of Jesus Christ. By faith we are given the Holy
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  Spirit. Friends, it is grace and it is
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  not by works. We are not going to behave our
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  way into heaven. If you find somebody who's
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  trying to measure their salvation, they are far from the
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  mark that he desires. We rest in the finished work of
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  the cross, 10 not of works less than a man should boast.
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  We cannot boast about how we are better off than others because
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  we give more money to the church.
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  We cannot boast that we're better off than others because
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  we have attended church and haven't missed a single day.
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  We cannot boast because the version of the Bible that we
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  enjoy is better than the cheap versions of the other ones that
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  somehow have been changed. We cannot boast because we keep
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  Sabbath on Saturday. We cannot boast because we go to
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  certain festivals. We cannot boast because we think
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  of ourselves as better dressed than those others.
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  That is religion, friends, and it never pleased God and it
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  never will. We must have a relationship with
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  God through His Son Jesus Christ and be covered in the blood of
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  Jesus Christ and put on His Holiness and righteousness,
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  friends, and be blameless. And you're in the sight of God,
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  and that is the only way that you're ever going to make it
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  into heaven. And there will be many who stand
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  at the door, knock, but the door will be shut. 10 For we are His
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  workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God
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  has before ordained, that we should walk in them.
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  So before He even chose us and predestined us, before the
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  foundations of the earth, God had things that He desired for
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  us to do with this little lifetime that we have, and He
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  expects for us to get into that. But that is not what saves us,
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  friends. Once we are saved and we get the
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  spiritual mind and we get the spiritual vision and the
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  spiritual hearing, then we are able to go out into the highways
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  and the hedges and the byways and to perform all of the tasks
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  that God desires for us to do. But it is not the tasks and it
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  is not the work that saves us. Friends.
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  And that is where many people get turned around. 11 Wherefore
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  remember that you being in times past Gentiles in the flesh, who
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  are called uncircumcised by that which is called the circumcision
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  in the flesh made by hands, he's going to start talking about
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  Gentiles and Jews. 12 That at that time you were without
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  Christ, being alienated from the Commonwealth of Israel and
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  strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and
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  without God in the world. That is what you need to
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  understand is that God chose Abraham as a peculiar nation to
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  show his glory through this little itty bitty teeny tiny
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  nation the size of New Jersey. There in the middle of all of
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  the world, the navel of the entire world, right there,
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  situated to where the gospel could go out to the ends of the
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  earth from that literal geographical place.
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  And all the Gentiles prior to being evangelized, had no prior
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  knowledge of Yahweh, but the Jews did.
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  And that is what is referenced here.
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  And when we were trying to be brought up into the knowledge of
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  it all, but they have been steeped in it from birth, from
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  Genesis all the way to Malachi. They had great understanding of
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  Yahweh, but they needed to be taught in the ways of Christ.
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  And here is the beauty of the whole situation is that the Jews
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  have to come in the same way that the Gentiles do.
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  Jesus Christ said I am the way, the truth and the life, and no
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  one comes unto the Father except through me.
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  Their lineage to Abraham does not get them into heaven, as
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  some are in the habit of thinking, and that is what Paul
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  wants to expound upon. But he tells the Gentiles to
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  make sure they understand that their lineage is through the
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  Jews, and the Jews are the natural, and we are just the
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  wild that is grafted in. 13 But now in Jesus Christ you who
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  sometimes were far off, are made near By the blood of Christ,
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  praise God, Hallelujah. By the blood of Jesus Christ we
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  are grafted into the natural, the Jews.
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  The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is who we serve. 14 For he
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  is our peace, who has made both one and has broken down the
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  middle wall of partition between us.
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  Here you can see that the Gentiles and the Jews alike come
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  unto the Father through Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ alone,
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  and Jesus Christ is our peace. 15 having abolished in His flesh
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  the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in
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  ordinances, for to make in Himself of two one new man, so
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  making peace, that is the church capital.
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  C The Ecclesia friends, and what the Jews are going to have to do
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  is acknowledged that they murdered their Messiah and
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  become Messianic Jews. And how much more easy is it for
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  God to graft the natural branch back into the natural tree once
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  they acknowledge Jesus Christ as their Savior?
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  And they will be blessed because they already have the
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  foreknowledge of thousands of years of serving Yahweh.
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  And now when they see the culmination of it all in Christ
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  Jesus, they will be blessed. And God breaks down that enmity.
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  He breaks down that wall in between the 216 that he might
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  reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross having slain
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  the enmity thereby. So the cross of Christ is the
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  great divide. There's a chasm, friends,
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  between our sinfulness and God's glory.
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  And only cross. Only Christ could ever cross
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  that divine. And we walk across that chasm on
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  the cross, friends. 17 and came and preached peace to you which
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  were far off, and to them which were near.
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  That's the Jews and the Gentiles. 18 For through him we
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  both have access by 1 Spirit unto the Father, that is, the
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  Holy Spirit, which indwells both the ethnic Jews who choose to
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  believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior, and for the Gentiles,
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  the Barbarians who choose to believe Jesus Christ as their
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  Savior is the Holy Spirit marks both friends. 19 Now, therefore,
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  you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens
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  with the Saints and of the household of God.
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  God is building a wonderful. Sanctuary God is building a
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  temple and he is indwelling that temple and we are the temple of
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  God. We are the church.
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  It is not a building, friends. And we take the church to all
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  areas of this entire world, all people groups, all continents.
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  The temple of God goes. But we must get rid of all of
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  the idol worship that we keep allowing into the temple.
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  Friends 20 and are built upon the foundation of the apostles
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  and the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief
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  cornerstone. So the names of the 12 disciples
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  will be written on the foundations of New Jerusalem for
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  us to admire for all of eternity, forever and ever.
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  And when we've been there 10,000 years, we have no less days to
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  sing His praise. Friends, Forever and ever and
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  ever and ever, we will be paying our respects to those who laid
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  the foundation. But do not forget that Jesus
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  Christ is the chief cornerstone that everything is built upon,
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  and you will never be put to shame and dismay if you build
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  your life upon that rock. 21 in whom all the building fits frame
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  together, growing unto the holy temple in the Lord. 22 will end
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  here, in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God
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  through the Spirit. It is when you're marked by the
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  Holy Spirit that you become the temple of God.
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  And far be it from us to try to mix Christ and Belial friends,
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  do not try to mix godly wisdom and godly presence and the
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  Spirit of God with things of this world.
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  They do not cohabitate, Do not pollute the temple with the
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  merchandise. We must drive out the money
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  changers, friends. We must flip over the tables,
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  drive them out with the cord. Do not let them cohabitate with
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  God's holy presence that is inside of you.
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  Quit allowing the images to enter into your mind and your
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  eyes and your ears. Quit allowing this world to
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  pollute and stain you. Friends, you are called into a
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  higher purpose. You are called to be holy and
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  you are called to be spotless and you are called into purity.
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  Friends, be filled with the Holy Ghost today.
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  I hope that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. Got to land the plane friends.
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  He's come in and touched down like a fighter pilot.
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  Knocked all the pictures off the wall.
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  We are undone and undignified in His presence.
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  Praise God Almighty, I love you. He loves you.
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  I'm praying for you. I'm praying that you consecrate
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  your temple. He's worthy.
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  Give him all of yourself. Love him with all your heart and
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  all your mind and all your strength.
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  Love your neighbor as yourself and fulfill all the law filled
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  with the Holy Ghost today. God bless you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.