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You're very welcome to today's 
Triumph Church podcast. 

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We pray that you enjoy the 
message. 

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When we read Scripture, it's 
really good for us to have an 

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understanding of what's going on
in that letter. 

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You know, the apostle Paul is 
writing, you know, a letter. 

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We call it Ephesians because 
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Ephesus, right? 
And he's writing a lot of 

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different things. 
And, and it's important for us 

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to know a lot of different 
things about that. 

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Like what is, what is the 
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What is the culture of the time?
You know, these are things that 

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help us be able to interpret 
accurately what it is that an 

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author is writing and helps us, 
helps us interpret Scripture 

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accurately. 
So we're not coming up with some

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really weird doctrine or, or 
theology, but understanding the 

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culture of what's going on in a 
book like Ephesians, Colossians,

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Philippians, like wherever it is
that we're reading, 

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understanding the culture of the
time that the author was writing

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to helps us interpret things 
accurately. 

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So I don't want to take a a 
little bit of time because 

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Ephesians isn't a really amazing
book and we've been talking 

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about a lot of just fantastic 
things that the Lord has done in

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Ephesians chapter, right? 
But when we understand the 

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culture and what the apostle 
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things kind of take a a little 
different perspective and kind 

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of come a little more to life. 
So let's look really briefly at 

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some of the culture in Ephesus. 
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known center of Pagan worship, 
might not have known that it was

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home of a famous temple of 
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of fertility. 
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It was beautiful. 
It's an amazing temple, you 

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know, but it wasn't a good 
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It was named after a goddess of 
fertility in Ephesus was a 

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center of demonic and religious 
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Ephesus was fascinated with 
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You know, things were happening 
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Regularly there's idle making 
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Magic arts and occult practices 
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And spiritually, Ephesus was 
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with fear of spirits and 
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It was a place where demonic 
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prevalent and feared. 
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One and Two Timothy, these were 
written to Timothy, who Paul had

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had instilled as the pastor of 
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Did you know that One and Two 
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Timothy, who he instilled as the
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there? 
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writing this in Two Timothy 
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It's a great scripture says, for
God has not given us a spirit of

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fear, but of power and of love 
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You ever read that before? 
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Paul is writing into because 
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pastoring this congregation and 
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demonic things going on in 
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You know, people were, were 
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Christians were, were 
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You know, it was a, it was just 
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So the apostle Paul is writing 
Timothy, who's leading this 

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church, saying you have not been
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you've been given a spirit of 
power and of love and of a sound

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mind. 
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in Ephesus wasn't to sympathize 
with them, right, but to help 

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them understand the incredible 
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those who believe. 
He prays in verse 17 that we had

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read earlier that God would give
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revelation in the knowledge of 
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the eyes of their understanding 
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And the entirety of of chapter 1
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mother lode of what God has 
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with through Jesus. 
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verses one through 18 and this 
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this chapter with verses 19 
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So if you brought your Bibles, 
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chapter one, verse 19 through 
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We're going to read through 
those and they'll also be on the

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screen here. 
If you, if you don't have a your

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Bible or a device where you can 
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says, I also pray that you will 
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greatness of God's power for us 
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This is the same mighty power 
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and seated him at the right hand
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at God's right hand in the 
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Now he is far above any ruler or
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anything else, not only in this 
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come. 
God has put all things under the

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authority of Christ and he has 
made him head over all things 

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for the benefit of the church. 
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is his body. 
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Christ who fills all things 
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That's some amazing scripture, 
isn't it, man? 

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You read through Ephesians 
chapter 1 and it's just like 

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just one thing after another, 
you know, it's just like these 

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these massive waves coming in, 
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It's so amazing. 
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Ephesus, many of us may not 
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Christ in what he has given us. 
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understanding is enlightened, 
when God's given us the spirit 

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of wisdom and revelation in the 
knowledge of him, you begin to 

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realize really the immensity. 
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is presenting us here in 
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immensity of what Christ has 
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And this leads us to our my 
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you need revelation of the power
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God's power is ready for you 
just like he has that, you know,

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there was that vascular surgeon 
and its entire staff on standby,

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right? 
God's there. 

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Just stand by just waiting, 
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You need me. 
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OK, Bam, he's right there. 
You need revelation of the power

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already for you. 
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is Paul sharing what God 
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purpose to give us through 
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But then in verse 19, the 
apostle Paul drops this absolute

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bomb. 
Ephesians 119 says, I also pray 

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that you will understand the 
incredible greatness of God's 

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power for us who believe God is 
so invested into you that He 

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predetermined to adopt you into 
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open this door for you so that 
his power could be leveraged in 

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your life. 
Just let that percolate for a 

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minute. 
Here's what I want you to see 

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this morning. 
It's first that God's power is 

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for you, right put up. 
Verse 9 is still there. 

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Yep, The incredible greatness of
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His power is for you. 
For you. 

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God's power, not my power, not 
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power, not the government's 
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God's power is for you. 
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The incredible greatness of 
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those who believe. 
This is why John says in 1 John 

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chapter 4 four. 
He says you are of God, little 

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children, and have overcome them
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greater than he who is in the 
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God's power is for you, and it's
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or any entity, any demon, any 
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world. 
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God. 
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God's power is for those who 
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And when you surrender your life
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sent to abide in you to empower 
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He says, and I will pray to the 
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another helper that He may abide
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And in verse 17 it says the 
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cannot receive because it 
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but you know him, for He dwells 
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Jesus is talking about the born 
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Spirit coming to abide within 
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The Apostle Paul says in One 
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chapter 6 that we have become 
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that he now dwells within us. 
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This is why John says greater is
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in the world. 
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Godhead, God the Father, God the
Son, God the Holy Spirit, right?

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You have the Holy Spirit 
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you, living with you. 
And what comes with the third 

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person of the Godhead? 
God's power for you. 

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He's present in your life every 
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situation that you find yourself
in, He's there and His power is 

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for you. 
Paul says that in verse 19, that

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the incredible greatness of 
God's power is working for us 

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who believe and listen. 
Faith isn't pretending or 

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denying the truth, right? 
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agree with what is true. 
It's aligning your thoughts and 

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your words with the truth of 
God's Word, with God, instead of

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the natural circumstance you 
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It's believing that God, 
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override and alter any natural 
situation that we find ourselves

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in in our lives because God is 
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Do you agree with that? 
God is greater, Greater is he 

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who was in you than anything 
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Anything, anyone, any situation,
whatever situation you find 

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yourself in, the incredible 
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those who what believe. 
It's all it takes. 

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You know, there's a great 
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through through 24, right? 
Jesus says begins by telling his

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disciples have faith in God, 
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believe in God. 
And if you then speak to this 

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mountain, what will happen? 
Well, some of us have these 

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amazing massive mountains in our
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We're looking at and we're like,
I don't know how God is going to

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be able to deal with this 
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Well, listen, that's none of 
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Don't try to be God for God. 
Let him deal with all the 

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details of how that situation is
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We just had this wonderful 
testimony this morning about how

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God is sorting out all these 
details that Natasha and Andre 

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could not have been able to do 
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Right. 
You ever been to the hospital, 

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any hospital here in Dublin, 
Like things move at a snail's 

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pace, right? 
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We had this 80 year old guy, he 
had some, some health issues and

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he, he went to at our church in 
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He went to the hospital there 
and they didn't have any space 

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for him. 
They didn't even have space on a

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Gurney in a hall. 
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They put them in a broom closet 
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OK, It is a miracle that Andre 
was able to get right in, had 

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staff waiting for him, right? 
Was able to get a bed, was able 

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to get moved to the vascular 
ward and all these things just 

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happening. 
Hello. 

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God's incredible greatness of 
God's power is for you. 

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This brings me to my second 
point this morning, that it's 

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the same power that raised Jesus
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In Ephesians chapter 1, verse 
19, the apostle Paul tells us 

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just how colossal this this 
power really is. 

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For you at the end of verse 19, 
you know all the, the, the 

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chapters and the verses. 
You know this was originally 

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written as a letter. 
You know, people put in the the 

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chapters and the verses for easy
reference for us, right? 

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I don't think they really did it
very well on on this one because

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the end of verse 19 really is 
part of a verse 20 there. 

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But put up verse 19 there says 
this is the same mighty power in

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verse 20 that raised Christ from
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place of honor at God's right 
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This is so wild. 
Like really, Apostle Paul is 

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saying that the power that is 
for you, the incredible 

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greatness of God's power, that 
is for those who believe. 

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He's saying that this is the 
same mighty power that raised 

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Christ from the dead. 
That is the power that's for 

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you. 
What circumstance or situation 

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are you facing? 
Are you dead? 

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If you're dead, raise your hand,
all right? 

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Because this is the same power 
that rose Christ from the dead, 

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right? 
So if it can happen for Christ 

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and can happen for you, right? 
No one raised their hand. 

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It's good. 
It's hard to raise your hand 

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when you're dead. 
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understand the incredible 
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right? 
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the same power that rose Jesus 
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Paul's making a a very amazing 
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That the very same mighty power 
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and obliterated the devil's 
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grave. 
That that very same mighty power

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is for you. 
Incredible greatness of God's 

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power is for us who believe. 
I've talked about this word 

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power before. 
It's been a little while. 

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I love talking about it because 
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Here again is the Greek word 
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Dunamis is the the word that we 
get dynamite from, right? 

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It's explosive power, it's 
miraculous power, it's strength,

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it's violence. 
Have you ever witnessed an 

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explosion? 
Have you ever been around an 

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explosion? 
It's violent, isn't it? 

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It's powerful. 
If you go to see like these, 

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these firework displays, you 
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one day I'd, I think it'd be 
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Year's Eve. 
It's probably a pretty crazy 

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time to go. 
But the firework display is, is 

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just fantastic. 
You see over the London Eye and 

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everything just, and then they 
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this, just massive, Like it 
looks like hundreds of fireworks

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just going off. 
You know, if you've ever been 

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around where fireworks are going
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the, the explosion, you can feel
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right. 
Like it's powerful. 

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The end of World War 2 ended 
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violent bombs, right? 
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massive, so powerful that no one
wants to see anything like that 

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ever again, right? 
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dunamis, powerful, violent. 
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God's dunamis is for you. 
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against that. 
Absolutely nothing. 

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This really isn't a fair fight. 
Just to let you know everything 

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like if you were to weigh things
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power, all right, and everything
in the world, the devil like 

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whatever it is, everything like 
on the other scale, like gods 

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would just there is there like 
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comparison at all. 
There is nothing, no one, 

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anything that is more powerful 
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In verse 21 through 23, let me 
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violence that Paul is stating, 
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He's saying that the demonic 
power that the believers in 

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Ephesus were encountering were 
no match against the incredible 

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greatness of God's dunamis 
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So when you're reading in 
Ephesians here, like, you 

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understand what it is that the 
apostle Paul is writing into the

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culture that he's writing into 
the things that the believers, 

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the Christians in Ephesus we're 
having to deal with like every 

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single day, fear and 
intimidation and demonic power 

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being demonstrated in that city.
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you have not been given a spirit
of fear, but of power of 

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dunamis. 
He who is in you, greater is he 

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who's in you than anything going
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anywhere else in the world. 
So in Ephesians chapter 1 verses

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2021 through 23. 
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changes the way that we fight 
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You know, we had done a a series
on Ephesians chapter, chapter 6 

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a little while back about the 
weapons of our warfare, the 

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things that God has given us to 
fight these spiritual battles, 

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right? 
But Jesus changed the way we 

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fight before, before Jesus, no 
one had any way really to to 

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fight these battles. 
We were trying to do it in our 

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own power, in our own own own 
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But Jesus changed everything in 
verse 21 it says, and now he is 

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far above. 
Any ruler or authority or power 

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or leader or anything else? 
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excluded there? 
Is there anything that you can 

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think of that's more powerful 
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Does anyone have anything? 
He is now far above any ruler or

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authority or power or leader or 
anything else, not only in this 

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world but also in the world to 
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So he's saying, listen, as far 
in the future as you can think 

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of, there will never, ever, 
ever, ever be anything more 

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powerful than Jesus. 
He's been placed far above and 

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verse 22 God has put all things 
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and has made him head over all 
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church. 
And the church is his body. 

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It is made full and complete by 
Christ who fills all things 

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everywhere with himself. 
Now let me ask you, if I were to

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stand on something, I'm going to
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Right. 
We're supposed to stand on the 

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word, right? 
And that was so. 

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I have my head right? 
I have my my body, right? 

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And if this has been placed 
underneath the head, then where 

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else is it underneath? 
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isn't it? 
Right where you're the body? 

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Christ is the head, and you are 
the body. 

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You've been placed through 
Christ by him, not by your own 

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efforts, right, but by Christ 
through Christ. 

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You've been placed far above 
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What is it in your life that is 
above you? 

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Any need, any attack, anything? 
Is that above you? 

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No, it's not. 
You've been placed far above it 

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through Christ. 
That's the position you're being

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positioned. 
Everything that that Jesus has 

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done is about positioning you. 
You've been adopted into his 

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family, right? 
You've been positioned in the 

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family of God. 
And if the devil ever tries to, 

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when he comes to try to steal, 
to kill and cause destruction in

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a life, he's picking on a family
member of God, our heavenly 

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Father. 
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doesn't take that too kindly. 
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So when Paul says that Jesus is 
far above everything, far above 

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means that there is no equal 
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There is no rival power, no 
demon, no authority, no 

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sickness, no disease, no need. 
Nothing outranks him. 

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This is what the apostle Paul is
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The incredible greatness of 
God's power for those who 

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believe Jesus changes the way we
fight our battles because as 

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adopted children of God, we no 
longer fight in our power, 

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right, but we are positioned in 
Christ that the incredible 

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greatness of God's power is for 
us who believe. 

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This is why the apostle Paul is 
in this prayer is saying, I pray

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that you would have the spirit 
of wisdom and revelation of Him,

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that the eyes of your 
understanding would be 

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enlightened, that you may know 
what is the hope of his calling,

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right? 
It's all about position, but we 

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have to know where it is we are 
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Christ is the head and we are 
the body. 

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Greater is he who is in us than 
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Jesus is the King of kings in 
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Like that's not just a title. 
Jesus is the Lord of every 

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earthly Lord. 
He is the king of every earthly 

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king, every government, every 
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He is Lord and he is king. 
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tries to do and tries to rise 
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I was just reading a a scripture
the other day about how the Lord

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laughs at the world and these 
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rise up against him and cast him
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Like their Lord, like their 
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And God just laughs, right? 
Because they have no power. 

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They have no authority, right? 
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Jesus is given authority far 
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He has no equal. 
He has no rival. 

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I want you to have in your mind 
and understand there's that 

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scripture in Psalm 23, right? 
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valley of the shadow of death. 
But I will fear no evil, right? 

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How can you walk in that place? 
You're walking through the 

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valley of death. 
That's a pretty wild valley to 

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be passing through, isn't it? 
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that kind of situation in your 
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You have this peace that 
surpasses all understanding. 

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Why? 
Because God is with you. 

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The incredible greatness of His 
power is working for you on your

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behalf. 
If you'll just believe in Him, 

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Believe in Him, trust Him, 
expect from him that as a child 

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of God adopted into his family, 
right? 

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And we talked about this a 
number of weeks ago, adopted 

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into his family that there are 
rights and privileges that you 

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now have through Christ. 
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presenting these all through 
Ephesians chapter 1. 

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And he has this prayer that he 
prays for the the church in 

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Ephesus and for the broader 
church that you would have the 

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eyes of your understanding would
be enlightened that you would 

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know what it is that Christ has 
done for you. 

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The power that he's been given 
to you, the power that that is 

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for you. 
When you have a revelation of 

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that, you will start to like 
live your life completely 

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different and everyone will take
notice around you. 

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Because when everyone else is 
freaking out, right? 

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And you're just the picture of 
calm right? 

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Here you are, Andre on a 
hospital bed and he's assuring 

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the surgeon, right? 
Oh, you've got this. 

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You're going to do a great job. 
She just like what you know. 

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But when you're walking in the 
peace of God, that surpasses all

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understanding When you 
understand that the power of God

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is for you in any circumstance 
or any situation that you find 

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yourself in. 
Man, we're so thankful that God 

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intervenes on our behalf, aren't
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Because that incredible power, 
that supernatural can completely

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alter and overcome anything in 
our natural Amen. 

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Do you believe that? 
So what scripture says in 

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Philippians chapter 2, verse 9 
and 10, we'll close with this 

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Scripture. 
It says, therefore God elevated 

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him to the place of highest 
honor and gave him the name 

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above all other names. 
And then at the name of Jesus 

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every knee should bow in heaven 
and on earth and under the 

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earth. 
So here's what I want you to 

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take away this morning. 
The point of what Paul is saying

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in Ephesians chapter 1 is that 
you are far more secure, 

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empowered, and positioned in 
Christ than you realize, and the

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revelation of this truth will 
completely change and alter your

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life. 
Amen. 

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