1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:14,520 He's all I need. Jesus is all I need. 2 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:35,320 He's all I need, always all I need. 3 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:52,040 Jesus is all I need. He's coming again. 4 00:00:54,200 --> 00:01:04,440 He's come, coming again. Oh Jesus, he's coming again. 5 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:17,680 He's coming again. 6 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:33,520 Oh, he's coming mean again. Yes, my Jesus, yes, come mean 7 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,840 again one more time. He's all I need. 8 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:51,360 Yes, he's all all I need. He's all I need. 9 00:01:54,360 --> 00:02:09,720 Jesus is all I need. Well is all I need. 10 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:32,080 He's all I need. My Jesus is all I need to love 11 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:35,480 you together. Hallelujah. 12 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,600 He's what I need, all that I need, Amen. 13 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,080 You understand with me this morning, Amen. 14 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,360 Thankful for Brother Fred coming over here, cleaning off our 15 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,880 sidewalk. Brother Reese got here before 16 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:54,880 8:00, sweeping the floors or something, I don't know. 17 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,880 He's here for some reason, I know, Amen. 18 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,320 So it's good to be in the House of the Lord for each one of you 19 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,560 that braved the code and the wind and the ice on your car and 20 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:05,880 such. Amen. 21 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,680 To be here today, going to do a little bit. 22 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,440 Maybe this is the reason why the Lord directed me this direction, 23 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:16,000 because of just the aspects of everything that happened. 24 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,000 I want to do a little investigative. 25 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,920 Bible study here this morning. To investigative Bible study 26 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:24,120 today, you know. Paul. 27 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:28,880 Told Timothy in first Timothy, he said that he was to give his 28 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:33,720 attention to reading and the he was inferring that the reading 29 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,960 of the word Scriptures and things of that matter. 30 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:41,480 But then in second Timothy, Paul told Timothy, which was his son 31 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,320 in the gospel wasn't like a literal son, but son in the 32 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,760 gospel, someone that being saved and kind of took under his wing. 33 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:52,000 He told him to study, to shoot thyself approved, studied to 34 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,160 shoot yourself approved. And so to the same person, on 35 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:57,600 one hand he says, give attention to the reading. 36 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:02,360 On the other hand, study. And so sometimes in our everyday 37 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:05,200 lives, and I know we preach it from this pulpit, we're like 38 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:08,000 rah, rah, rah. Don't forget your daily Bible 39 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,960 reading and so on and so forth. And that's a task even within 40 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,520 itself. There's another aspect of that 41 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,279 too, that sometimes we need to give ourselves to the study of 42 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,279 God's Word, the study of God's Word, right? 43 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:23,080 Because I don't know if you ever just kind of just read through 44 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:24,600 stuff because it's there on the page. 45 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,600 You just read it. How many times you really 46 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,080 thought about what you was reading, right? 47 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:31,560 Really process what was taking place. 48 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,800 So I want to do just a little investigative Bible study today, 49 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:37,440 all right? Not it's not going to be too 50 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,680 heavy on you. All right, but I'm going to look 51 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:46,360 at Ephesians chapter #2 Ephesians chapter #2 I'm going 52 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:49,280 to read the first 3 verses because this is some I don't, I 53 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:51,760 don't know what your, your Bible reading is like. 54 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,880 Maybe you have a Bible reading program that started you in the 55 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:57,160 1st chapter of a book and then took you through. 56 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,840 Or maybe your Bible reading program is the. 57 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:03,240 Right. Maybe that's your Bible reading 58 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,840 program, you know, flip over, hit on a a verse, or maybe if 59 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:09,360 your hand hits within a chapter, it's like, OK, that's the 60 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,000 chapter I'm reading to get day, right. 61 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,480 And so this may just very well be like part of our Bible 62 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:17,560 reading program. You opened up like, OK, 63 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,320 Ephesians chapter 2. That's what I'll do. 64 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,440 OK, you know, And so, but whenever we always, if we do do 65 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:25,800 that, we're landing right in the middle of something, right? 66 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,680 Something's being towed, something's being spoken about 67 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,520 or landing just right, probably in it, unless we get real lucky 68 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:34,720 and we're right like at the beginning of the story or 69 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:36,600 something that we're just kind of like right in it. 70 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,840 So Ephesians 2 verses one through 3, the Bible says, and 71 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:43,760 you hath he quickened. There's something interesting 72 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,240 about when we read or you read. Some of us have been alive long 73 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,960 enough that our brain starts starts filling in blanks and 74 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,320 starts doing things that we don't even realize it's doing 75 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,560 right. Our mind starts asking questions 76 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,880 about stuff that we're reading that we don't even know there's 77 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:00,400 already. I'm wondering, who's you? 78 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:07,560 Well, right, so. And you have he who? 79 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,160 Who's quicken? Who's quickening? 80 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:13,040 Who hath he quickened? Who we're dead in trespasses and 81 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,160 sins. Wherein in times past he walked 82 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:20,000 according to the course of this world, according to the Prince 83 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,080 of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the 84 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:30,520 children of disobedience, Among whom also we had, we all had our 85 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:34,760 conversation in times past, and the lust of our flesh fulfilling 86 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,240 the desires of the flesh and of the mind. 87 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:39,760 And we're by nature. The. 88 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,760 Children of Wrath, even as others so. 89 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,440 I'm going to try to do a little. Investigative Bible study, all 90 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:50,520 right, today, this is something you can do all right, And I'm 91 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,280 not going through all of the everything this morning. 92 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:57,640 Just kind of just giving you a little, you know, if it was like 93 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,760 starting a relationship with someone, I'm not laying a big 94 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:02,400 one on your lips. I'm just giving you a kiss on 95 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:03,560 the cheeks today. OK. 96 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,560 Does that make sense? We're just kind of just a little 97 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,320 kiss on the cheek here this morning in this relationship of 98 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,360 investigating Bible study. Amen. 99 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,240 Father, we love you today. We're so thankful Lord, for your 100 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,840 goodness and your mercy. God, I thank you, Lord, your 101 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,400 word is alive. It's real, it's applicable and 102 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,720 relevant. God for us this morning. 103 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,400 God help us the Lord today, God, as we investigate the word of 104 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,120 the Lord that we bring the Lord Jesus direction and guidance, 105 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,000 the Lord to our very own lives. The name of Jesus Christ that I 106 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,400 pray Hallelujah, Amen of the church say Amen. 107 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,760 I will though title this already. 108 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,920 I'm going to title it from death to life. 109 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:53,960 All right, and you may be seated this morning in Jesus name for 110 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:58,200 our purposes this morning. I have a lot of words here 111 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:02,840 within the first 3 verses and maybe a few more that found the 112 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,320 definitions of not from Webster's dictionary, but from 113 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:11,240 this is the New Testament Greek, from a Greek dictionary. 114 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:14,280 And you know, you don't have to be a Bible scholar to have 115 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:18,280 access to those type of things. We, we live in a world where 116 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:21,040 information is right here at your fingertips, right? 117 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:23,840 You can get it on your phone, you can get it on the Internet. 118 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:27,560 You can look up some of these words, what they meant in the 119 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,320 Greek language and what would apply there would apply leave 120 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,640 and looking up to a word in a regular Webster dictionary, 121 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,280 there are several different definitions for the word run, so 122 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:43,520 to speak, right? It can be a noun or a verb, and 123 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:48,240 you got to decide by according how it's used which definition 124 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:49,840 applies. You know, you go nowadays and 125 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:52,520 there can be 1010 different definitions for a word. 126 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:54,840 Well, how do you know as an individual which one it's 127 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,200 talking about? By how it's being used. 128 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,520 And so you applied that very same principle then if you were 129 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,080 looking up the meanings of a Greek word, how is it being used 130 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:04,920 in order? To do this. 131 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,240 And so whenever I start my investigative Bible study, I 132 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,960 don't get very, very many words in before I'm already asking 133 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,120 myself a question. For instance, I'm stumped at 134 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:21,600 verse #1 and word #1. And isn't that powerful? 135 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:23,880 Don't you feel the gravity of that? 136 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,440 Anne, I'm telling you just some of the things that we should be 137 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:30,080 entertaining when we read the word and study the word. 138 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,200 And because when we look at the word, and I mean, what does Anne 139 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,400 do in our everyday language? And you think about lists and 140 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,760 stuff you have. I'm going to tell Jen I want you 141 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,080 to go to the grocery store and pick up some peanut butter and 142 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,560 some toilet bowl cleaner and some fruit. 143 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,320 Right, and so my and they're just kind of in this series of 144 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,080 things that it can joins and connects all these different 145 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,120 things together. Or I could tell you this 146 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,560 morning, I'm going to leave church today and I'm going to 147 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:01,680 go. Home and take a nap right and so 148 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:04,920 the if I just started though with and take a nap, you're 149 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,640 going to ask well, I wonder what else I wonder I mean it's a 150 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:09,720 series of something there's something that's taking place 151 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,240 that's connected. And so that first and in the 152 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:15,720 very first verse and 1st chapter should tell me I need to go 153 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,960 backwards and see what this and is connecting with right What is 154 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:23,920 this and connecting with because again, I've told you before in 155 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,000 your Bibles. I know we have, you know, book 156 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,360 and chapter and verse and what that that was not always there. 157 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,400 That was put there for our convenience, so that when 158 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,360 preachers got up and said, I want everybody to turn to the 159 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,880 Book of John chapter #316 imagine me trying to tell you. 160 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,840 Where I was getting ready to read if there wasn't chapter and 161 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,640 verse divisions. Wouldn't that be fun? 162 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,200 We would really hear the. Pages and there was no screen, 163 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,680 you know, and I just started, you know, for God so love. 164 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:54,800 Well, that's the easy 1, you know, But we'd have to go a 165 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,080 little harder, you know, if I just started reading somewhere 166 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,880 and I couldn't give you the address of where I was reading. 167 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,000 And so the, the chapters and the verses kind of help us with 168 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,840 that, but they were not there to begin with. 169 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,960 So what that means is it's quite, it's, it's about, you 170 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:12,040 know, whenever we read chapter 2, verse one that the last 171 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,760 chapter and the last verse, all of that really just kind of just 172 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,360 flowed and paired with each other and one another. 173 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,280 And so whenever I do my investigative Bible study and 174 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,680 I'm stumped at the end, I go back to the previous chapter and 175 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:26,960 I'm looking at what's happening there in the previous chapter. 176 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:30,400 And I learned that that chapter's closing out and it's 177 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:36,640 talking about how God's mighty power has wrought, which means 178 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,160 that he's worked. There's some type of operative 179 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:43,560 thing to taking place. He's wrought in Christ Jesus, a 180 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,080 man. He did some work. 181 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:47,520 He did some operative work in Christ Jesus. 182 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:51,520 And when he did this work, and I again, I'm just a kiss on the 183 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,520 cheek this morning when he did this work, that God raised Jesus 184 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:57,920 from the dead. And so I'm learning about this. 185 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,880 And then he begins to talk about how God placed Jesus in heavenly 186 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:06,080 places in verse 20 of chapter #1 And that place that he placed 187 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,480 him was far above all principality and power and all 188 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,200 these other things in this world or in the world to come in verse 189 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,920 21. And that he placed all things 190 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:20,560 under Jesus's feet and made him head over all things that was 191 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:24,080 applicable to the church and even the church himself in verse 192 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,360 #22 that God has done all of this. 193 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:30,800 And you. So he's talking about all these 194 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,240 things that God is doing for Christ, but in the switches, 195 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,560 he's doing all this and he's connecting it here. 196 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:42,720 And you have he quickened. We're dead in trespasses and in 197 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,080 sins. And so then the very next thing 198 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,160 I'm stumped upon, Sister Sheila is the you, right? 199 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,040 Well, who's the you? Who is you? 200 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:56,640 Who are you, Brother Trav? Who is you? 201 00:12:57,680 --> 00:12:59,800 I mean, I, I don't, I don't know who he's talking. 202 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:02,400 To right here in this moment. I know as a reader, as I'm just 203 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,120 reading through, maybe I'm just feeling like it's talking to me. 204 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:08,080 And I know the word does speak to us, but for, for, for Paul 205 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,840 writing to the church at Ephesus, this is the the epistle 206 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,040 to the Ephesians. Who, who all is he writing to? 207 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,680 So again, I go backwards. I go backwards among the verses 208 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:21,080 and I'm trying to find. Out who he's talking to and I 209 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,680 see this pronoun popping up a lot even in the 1st chapter. 210 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:27,520 So I keep going back and I go all the way back then to 211 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:32,760 Ephesians chapter #1 and verse one to find out who the you is. 212 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:37,280 And so in Ephesians chapter #1 and verse #1 the Bible says 213 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:42,960 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God to 214 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:51,120 the Saints which are at Ephesus and to the faithful in Christ 215 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:53,880 Jesus. And so now I'm understanding who 216 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:58,640 Paul is addressing here in the the Epistle of Ephesians. 217 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:03,240 He's addressing the Saints that were at Ephesus, but he's also 218 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:08,800 just addressing the faithful, the faithful in Christ Jesus. 219 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:10,320 Now, let's break this down a little bit more. 220 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,600 So whenever he said in you, he's talking to the Saints at 221 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,000 Ephesus, When he said in you, he's talking to the faithful in 222 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,600 Christ Jesus. Number one, that could apply to 223 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:25,160 any age and any period of time. That then for sure applies to 224 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,840 us. I guess that applies to us if 225 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:35,600 you meet the definition of what faithful is to the Saints. 226 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,480 The word Saints there in Ephesians 11 means most holy 227 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:42,480 thing. It means get this, Saints means 228 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:49,960 sacred, physically pure, morally blameless, and ceremonially 229 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:53,880 consecrated. That's heavy. 230 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:59,960 To the physically pure at Ephesus, the morally blameless 231 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:05,080 at Ephesus, the ceremonially consecrated at Ephesus, and the 232 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:08,240 faithful in Christ Jesus. The word faithful means this. 233 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:12,920 Those that can be relied upon. Further definition says this. 234 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:17,680 Of persons who show themselves faithful in the transaction of 235 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:22,360 business, the execution of commands and or the discharge of 236 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:24,880 official duties. Whenever you take that and 237 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,240 understand then that our faithfulness is in Christ, then 238 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,640 we're talking about being faithful in business commands 239 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,840 and the discharging of Christ like duties, Christ like 240 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,160 business, Christ like commands, faithful or faithful. 241 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:45,640 Who are the people then who who are being executing the commands 242 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:48,600 of Christ? Well, that takes a whole. 243 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,640 Nother thing there, doesn't it? He's talking then to those that 244 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,560 execute the commands of Christ or discharging, if you will, the 245 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:58,040 offices that are Christ like or the business of Christ. 246 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,520 All of that takes in place whenever he's talking to. 247 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:07,640 You in second, second, the 2nd chapter of Ephesians chapter #1 248 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:12,320 and again that faithfulness then could incorporate us, if we're 249 00:16:12,320 --> 00:16:16,440 faithful, I guess, to the mode of the business and the duties 250 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,320 and the commands of Christ. Jesus in our day and you. 251 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,760 Hath he quickened? Well, I'm going to take Hathy 252 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:24,080 quicken. I'm going to lay that aside 253 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,680 right now because probably in your Bibles hath he quickened is 254 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,720 in italics. And your Bible probably tells 255 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:33,000 you, since that's in italics, that's something that the 256 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,600 translators has added, hoping that it will help our 257 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,160 understanding. And so I'm just going to lay 258 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:42,200 that aside right now because it's not there in the original 259 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:43,480 language. And I'm going to just set it 260 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,760 aside and get back to it maybe a little later in the verse. 261 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,600 And so when we look at then I set that aside. 262 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:54,280 And you who were dead in trespasses and sins, The Who 263 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,680 again, of course, refers back to the you, which are the Saints at 264 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,400 Ephesus and the faithful in Christ Jesus. 265 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,040 He says we're dead. Everybody say were. 266 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:14,560 That means you're not still word tells me that's past word dead. 267 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:19,160 The word dead means a corpse, whether literally or 268 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:23,400 figuratively, it's a corpse. It's the same word dead that was 269 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,240 used of Christ in Ephesians 120 when it talks about that Christ 270 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,880 was dead when the Bible says and when God or when he which was 271 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:34,440 God raised him, which was Jesus from the dead, it's the same 272 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,400 word dead there. It's just that in the case of 273 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:41,440 Jesus, it's used literally. Christ was dead, a literal 274 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,040 corpse, but whenever he's talking about us as humanity, 275 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:48,880 we're dead, a corpse not in the literal sense, but in the 276 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,720 figurative sense. You were dead spiritually, huh. 277 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:57,520 So we have a literal dead body be in Christ and we have a dead, 278 00:17:57,520 --> 00:18:01,040 we were once dead as well, dead in our spirits. 279 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,120 All right. For the Bible says this in 280 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:07,920 Romans 5 and 12. And again, my brain does a lot 281 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,960 of cross referencing because I've been doing this a long 282 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,480 time. But in Romans 512 the Bible 283 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:16,400 says, Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, who 284 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:18,600 was that man whereby sin? Entered into the world. 285 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:24,000 Adam right in enter into the world and death by sin so that 286 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:29,720 death passed upon all men for that all have sin and so because 287 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,080 of Adam and what took place in the garden. 288 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:36,200 The Adamic nature, if you will, the sin nature Amen. 289 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:39,600 As a result of that that sin nature then was transferred to 290 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:43,120 here in the future through the apostle Paul to the Saints that 291 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:46,960 were at Ephesus to the faithful in Christ Jesus to you and I 292 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:49,000 here's here's an omission today I was. 293 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:53,680 Born dead. That's the omission this 294 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:55,120 morning. I was born dead. 295 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:57,920 I wasn't. I wasn't literally dead, Sister 296 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:01,320 Trout, but I was born spiritually dead. 297 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,600 I was born dead. That is the start of all of us. 298 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:12,440 And he says then, who were dead in trespasses and sins. 299 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:16,440 In trespasses and sins we have a lot in scripture, a lot of 300 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:20,120 preparation, prepositional phrases, the end, the upon the 301 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:22,600 above, the under the all those things. 302 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:27,360 But in trespasses and sins, so in in denotes this location. 303 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:31,800 They were dead in these things. We're speaking about, again, a 304 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,440 figurative dead. I'm spiritually dead, but my 305 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:38,480 deadness is associated with actions and surroundings of 306 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,280 trespasses and sins. You'll remember Romans 623 a 307 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:45,040 verse, that's all. Times quoted for the wages of 308 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:49,800 sin is what death. So it makes sense that if you 309 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,440 are in sins and you're in trespasses, you'll have a 310 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:58,680 spiritual state of being dead because that's the payout, or if 311 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:02,000 the wage, if you will, of sin, it's death. 312 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,640 Amen. Even that Jesus said in John 824 313 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:11,680 He said, If you believe not that I am, he and the he's in italics 314 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:13,960 what they would have heard. And if you believe not that I 315 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:22,560 am, ye shall die in your sins. So looking though at terms, the 316 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:30,560 word trespasses means a side slip, a lapse, a deviation, 317 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:33,600 whether intentionally or unintentionally. 318 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:40,400 I was dead in a side slip, a deviation, a lapse and sins 319 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,280 means to miss the. Mark, we've said that for years. 320 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:47,280 To find it, to miss the mark further, it means to wander from 321 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:51,320 the path or law of God. It means an aggregate. 322 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,680 You know, you got concrete and you got sand and you got rocks 323 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,320 and you got, it's an aggregate. So it says an aggregate of sins 324 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:01,040 committed either by a single person or many. 325 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,840 Because I realized that the sins that I am in, I have my own 326 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:11,240 sins, but I live in a world, aggregate if you will, of sins, 327 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:15,520 and the sin is to miss the mark. I've learned sometimes that we 328 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:19,960 hit targets just not the right. 1 To miss the mark was from the 329 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,240 concept of archery. A guy would pull back a bow and 330 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,000 release the arrow to somehow, you know, meet his mark or his 331 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,360 target when he missed it. That's where they come up. 332 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:33,160 Then with this term of sin, several years ago, back in 2004, 333 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:37,080 there was an Olympian by the name of Matthew Emmons and he 334 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:42,320 was in the sporting event that was the the three position rifle 335 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,640 shooting a rifle and he was doing so well. 336 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:46,840 He was trailing far above all the others. 337 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,200 It looked like he was for sure going to be the Goad winner. 338 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,120 All he had to do was get that. Bullet through the little little 339 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:57,120 ring there of the target and it would seal his goal, his gold 340 00:21:57,120 --> 00:21:59,040 medal. And so he's sitting there, you 341 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:01,720 know, he's relaxing, he's breathing, you know, to take his 342 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,880 shot. And he takes his shot. 343 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:07,400 And the, the, the, the, the bullet, the shot goes right 344 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,840 through the bullseye. But he was a little confused 345 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:15,200 because the little Ding, it didn't happen, indicated that he 346 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,960 hit his bullseye. Come to find out, he was right 347 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,760 on. He hit the bullseye, but not the 348 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,040 one in his lane, in another one's lane. 349 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,520 So he hit his target, but it wasn't his target. 350 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,760 In today's classification, that would have been sin. 351 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:44,480 It's not just hitting a target, it's hitting the target that's 352 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:51,200 intended for your life. Yes, yes, yes, yes. 353 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,920 Amen. There's a lot of people good at 354 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,000 hitting targets, they're just not hitting the target that's 355 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,520 intended for them. I'm. 356 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:01,240 Almost feeling a little bit of the Holy Ghost. 357 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,040 Come on here right now. Because God has a purpose for 358 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,120 your life. God has an intention for your 359 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:09,600 life. You can hit other people's 360 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,920 targets, maybe all day long. But he wants you to be honing in 361 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,600 on with your crosshairs on the target he has for you. 362 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,480 Amen. And so let's go on to verse 2 363 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,400 because we we're already 17 minutes in recording. 364 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,880 I don't want. I thought I had That was a hanky 365 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,640 and that's really for my glasses. 366 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,520 The Bible says then in verse 2 we're in. 367 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,280 So I stop again. I'm not going to get none of my 368 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:37,800 Bible. Reading done, sister Samantha. 369 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,560 I stopped writing, wherein again, wherein is referring back 370 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:47,120 to those things that I used to be in trespasses and sins. 371 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,640 Wherein those trespasses and sins that that I was in that 372 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,520 location, that place. Can I even further define it 373 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,680 like that? That place that the Saints 374 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:01,320 Ephesus used to be, That place that those that are now faithful 375 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:06,120 in Christ used to be, We were all there, Amen. 376 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:11,040 He and I, it's important. He says we're in end time pass. 377 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:15,640 It's important to note the time stamps in Scripture again, 378 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:20,040 because he's talking about something that once was for the 379 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,800 Saints, once was for the faith. This is important. 380 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,240 The time stamp is important. We need to understand then it's 381 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:34,720 not proper for the Saints and for the faithful in Christ to 382 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:41,880 remain in their sins and remain in their deviations and lapses. 383 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:46,320 Trespasses, You understand here, you see, we're milking the cow 384 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,280 now. It's important that that we're 385 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,920 not still in them, that that's something that is in our past. 386 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,960 That's something that was there in then, right? 387 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,280 I was dead in trespasses. I was dead in sins. 388 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,880 That's what he's saying here. That's not your current 389 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,920 condition, but that had been your condition. 390 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:13,760 And then he says ye there it is wherein in times past ye again 391 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,680 making reference to who he's speaking to the Saints at 392 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,920 Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus. 393 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:23,000 He said in times past ye walked. Oh, pay attention to the verbs 394 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,920 you come across to in the word of God. 395 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,160 You walked again, it's past tense. 396 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:32,320 It it's not your walking now, huh? 397 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,480 You walked and it's stated as a fact. 398 00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,480 You walked. The word walked here. 399 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,240 This is simple definition from the Greek, but the word walked 400 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:46,920 here means to tread all around. That is to walk at large or be 401 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:51,560 occupied with. Let's see what it's tied to. 402 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,240 You walk. You, you, you walk. 403 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:58,760 You tread all around in sin. You walked. 404 00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:03,120 You, you you meandered at large among trespasses. 405 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:07,320 You allowed yourself and your life to be occupied. 406 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:09,640 Do you understand? See, that's just a little bit 407 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,080 more meaning to me, Sister Samantha, when I understand. 408 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:14,640 Yeah, that was me. I used to do everything I could 409 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,240 do. Was fully involved in all of 410 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,480 that. I walked, shredded, if you will. 411 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,440 I beat down a path among trespasses and sins. 412 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,360 That just brings a little bit more flavor. 413 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,080 Amen to what I'm looking at here. 414 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,800 So I walked according, which is another preposition here. 415 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,440 I walked according to the course. 416 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,680 I'll tell you what I did when I I. 417 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,800 Read through this the other day and I just read, OK, the course 418 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,600 they're talking about, they're talking about a path they're 419 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,000 talking about, but that's not what the word course here is in 420 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,280 Scripture. This course is not a path. 421 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,680 It just, it's defined as an age or a period of time. 422 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,360 See, there's where I can mess up in my, in my interpretation of 423 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:59,160 Scripture imposing what I think upon it. 424 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:02,440 The I would just have read that and think that was just a path, 425 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,320 the path of the world, the course of the world. 426 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:10,200 But that's no, it is the age or the period of time of this 427 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:15,440 world, a note of this world against preposition, 428 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:16,760 prepositional phrase of this world. 429 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,760 But when we define the word world in the Greek, and you can 430 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,880 do this right online, you could do it right now, right as I'm 431 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:24,880 talking number 2889. If you want to know what it's 432 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:29,880 associated with, it means the world, the inhabitants of the 433 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,880 earth, men, the human family is fairly defined as the ungodly 434 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:40,200 multitude, the whole mass of men that's alienated from God and 435 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,720 therefore hostile to the cause of Christ. 436 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,440 These aren't my words. This is the definition world 437 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:48,600 affairs, the aggregate of things earthly. 438 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:53,600 He says you walked according to the age and the period of time 439 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,160 of the world of this ungodly multitude. 440 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,160 To kind of grasp the idea of this, it would be kind of like 441 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:07,960 saying this, you walked to the spirit of your age, the period 442 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:12,280 of time of when you were living in, you walked according to 443 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,240 whatever was going on at that time. 444 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,440 And that brings interest to you and I, because Paul is talking, 445 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,400 of course, again to the Saints at Ephesus. 446 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,840 And this is an epistle to the Ephesians. 447 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,040 And so to investigate that a little bit, I got to ask what 448 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,440 were the world of the Ephesians like at that time? 449 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,200 And the world of the Ephesians was like this. 450 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,880 We can even read of it in the book of Acts because we read 451 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,280 about Ephesus, Amen. Of the book of Acts. 452 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,920 We read that the residents of Ephesus worshipped a God is 453 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:47,440 called Diana and and that they offered sacrifices to her there. 454 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:51,720 They even had the practice of temple prostitution that took 455 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:55,960 place there. In their world, Ephesus was a 456 00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:00,400 city that was loyal to the Roman Empire, which meant also the 457 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,520 residents of Ephesus. They also worshipped the emperor 458 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:09,000 of Rome as a God. They in the Bible, you remember, 459 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,560 you'll see that they did curious arts in the book of Acts 19 and 460 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,320 they brought their books, their magic books. 461 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,160 Paul did and had them burnt. So they're involved in all of 462 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,840 this type of stuff in the city of Ephesus. 463 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:23,160 You remember Paul began to preach about how these idols and 464 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,760 stuff were really not anything. And Demetrius, he, he raised his 465 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,400 voice. He was a silversmith in that 466 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,080 town and he made little idols of Diana. 467 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:32,360 So people get to take to their homes. 468 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,080 He said, they're they're hurting our business because of what 469 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,680 they're saying because we make little idols of them in order to 470 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,680 take home. And you'll remember in Acts 19, 471 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,960 the Bible says there was such an uproar in the city over what 472 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,880 Paul was doing that they for two hours solid were crying out 473 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:51,440 great as Diana, great as Diana, great that was, was their world. 474 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:55,080 That was the age and the period of their time of their 475 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,280 inhabitants. Here they are giving themselves 476 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,280 to Diana who they thought had had fertility. 477 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,520 Power over fertility. This is interesting. 478 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:06,320 Power over nature and that she had life giving power. 479 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,960 See, this is important because God is talking to these people 480 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,720 how he brought them from a state of deadness. 481 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,760 He just talked about how he had raised Christ from the dead, but 482 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:22,280 this is to, he's speaking to a group of people in Ephesus that 483 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:28,280 believed in the Goddess that had life giving power, but he's 484 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:33,720 speaking about the God who is demonstrating his life giving 485 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:38,880 power. So he says you, you walked 486 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,480 according to that. Those were the practices. 487 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,560 Those are the things that you tread around in. 488 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,560 Those were the things that you walked at large in those that 489 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,120 was the course of that age of your time period of what was 490 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,480 going on in your world at that time. 491 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:56,120 And folks, it is absolutely hands down, it's what happens. 492 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,680 We sin and trespass according to the spirit of our age. 493 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:05,080 Someone 50 years ago are going to be involved in things that 494 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,800 were then. There's new things that arrive 495 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,760 now that people can get them self involved in. 496 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,240 You're always going to walk in trespass and sin, according, if 497 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,080 you will, to the age and time period of your world. 498 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,560 Amen. And he says, so we did this 499 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,080 according to the course of this world. 500 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,720 And he said, according to everybody doing all right, just 501 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,720 a little investigative Bible study here, according to the 502 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:36,040 Prince. So I looked at that word Prince. 503 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,560 The word Prince means first in rank or power to the Prince of 504 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,000 the power looked up the word power. 505 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,040 It means delegated influence. That's that's important because 506 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:52,040 this power isn't just like particular to who the Prince is. 507 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,800 It's a power that's. Been given to the Prince. 508 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,440 It's not something that he has of his own. 509 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,680 It's been delegated to him. What that means is he's under 510 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:06,600 authority. Someone say Amen, Power of the 511 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,840 air or the word air means the atmosphere, region. 512 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:14,200 So, so, so you walked according to the Prince of the power of 513 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,440 the air, and it specifies the spirit. 514 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,920 The word spirit means the disposition or influence which 515 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,160 feels and governs the soul of anyone. 516 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,880 It refers them back to the Prince of the power of the air. 517 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:33,520 The spirit that now everybody say now that now worketh. 518 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,720 Hold on, now what that now worketh. 519 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,080 We talked a lot about the stuff in the past. 520 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,920 But now Paul is describing to us that wasn't just something that 521 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:44,920 great Saints and stuff dealt with the past. 522 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,920 There's some dealing with this thing still today, right? 523 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,440 The Spirit. Now worketh and continues to 524 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,360 work, not just as it once did in Paul and the Saints and the 525 00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:02,240 faithful, but the children the Bible says, the children of 526 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:08,320 disobedience. The scripture that came to mind 527 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,160 was first John chapter 4 and verse 3. 528 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,240 The Bible says in every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus 529 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,720 Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. 530 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,520 And this is the. Spirit of Antichrist or 531 00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:22,120 opposition or against Christ, where have you have heard that 532 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:25,560 it should come and even now already is in the world. 533 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,160 I know when we look at the dynamic of prophecy, it's like 534 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,880 everybody's waiting for the Antichrist to be revealed true, 535 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:35,280 right? Who? 536 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,640 The man, that Antichrist, that individual be. 537 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,640 But the spirit of the Antichrist is already at the word in work 538 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:43,160 in the world right now. Uh huh. 539 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:50,120 That spirit that is Antichrist against or opposing to Christ is 540 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:55,240 at work right now. The Bible says it now worketh in 541 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,680 the children, the Spirit in the children of disobedience. 542 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,200 Again, in the children it's used the word children used to 543 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,800 describe one who depends on another or is in his. 544 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:12,679 Follower as a follower. A pupil A pupil of disobedience. 545 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:16,840 The word disobedience means obstinate opposition to the 546 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,960 divine will. So we have we were once that we 547 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,400 were once dealing with these things. 548 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,520 We were once according to the the the, the, the, the the 549 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,760 course of the world and once according to the Prince of the 550 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,960 power of the air. But even now there are some 551 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,920 that's under that guise that's walking the corner of those 552 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,400 things. I know some of you maybe you're 553 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,760 bored today, but this is important for Bible study. 554 00:34:39,159 --> 00:34:42,040 Amen Nonetheless, if you. If you're like I read scripture 555 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:43,400 all the time, I'm just not getting it you. 556 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:48,360 Got to stop. And ask the questions verse 3 557 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,159 says among whom? That's referring back to the 558 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:55,159 children of disobedience, among whom he just talked. 559 00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:57,680 About the spirit that now worketh in the children of 560 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,480 disobedience, among whom so referring back to the children 561 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,720 of disobedience. Also we, we who Paul's included 562 00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:07,520 himself, Paul, the Saints at Ephesus. 563 00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:08,840 I know I'm I'm going to be redundant. 564 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,680 You're going to hate me. And those are faithful in Christ 565 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,640 Jesus. We all had our conversation in 566 00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:19,480 times past, he says. What they are involved in now, 567 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:23,640 we were all once involved in what they are succumbing to 568 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,800 right now. We all at one time had succumbed 569 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:28,760 to. So he places him in there. 570 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,680 Paul places himself in there. We were pupils, if you will, of 571 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:36,480 things that oppose God. We were pupils and followers of 572 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,320 things that were Antichrist against Christ. 573 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,400 All right, we were. And again, he specifies again, 574 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,680 Please note there in verse three, we all had our 575 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:52,280 conversation in times past. No, the word conversation means 576 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,320 this. It means conduct or behavior. 577 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,360 It's not, it's not about what we're talking. 578 00:35:56,360 --> 00:36:00,080 It's about how we're living. We all had our conduct and 579 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,480 behavior like that. That's how we behaved. 580 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,120 That's how we conducted ourselves in time past. 581 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:07,720 It's important to say that again. 582 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:11,240 He's trying to tell him that's what we used to be. 583 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:30,120 That's what we used to be. He says in times past, in the 584 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:39,520 lusts of our flesh, lust means a longing, usually for the 585 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,720 forbidden. The lust of our flesh, the word 586 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:49,400 flesh means sensuous nature or human nature apart from divine 587 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,520 influence. So we conducted our behavior in 588 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:59,480 time past with a longing that mirrored that of our sensuous 589 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:05,800 nature and our human nature that was apart from God, apart from 590 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,280 any type of divine influence. And notice what the Bible says. 591 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,840 Then the next verse or next word fulfilling, which is a verb 592 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,000 fulfilling. In other words, it means we were 593 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,600 making or doing to be the author of a thing. 594 00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:22,160 We caused it to come about. We fulfilled the desires. 595 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,800 We were the author of that. We had a hand, and causing it to 596 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:29,200 come about to take place to bring it about right, we talked 597 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:30,560 about. I was tempted by this, I was 598 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:31,840 tempted by this or tempted by that. 599 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,760 Remember what James said in James chapter #1 and verse 14. 600 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,280 He said that every man is tempted when he is drawn away of 601 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:45,760 his own lust. The initial temptation may come 602 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,480 from somewhere, but the actor offering of acting upon that is 603 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:56,760 ours. For that matter, certain things 604 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:01,240 have no sway of temptation on us if it isn't a desire in US 605 00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:04,840 already. Like there's certain thing. 606 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:09,400 I think, man, you know, someone can tempt me with a particular 607 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,000 thing right now. I'd be like, who cares because I 608 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,880 just don't have no but if they hit on the right thing, it might 609 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:18,880 have a pull on my life. If I have a tendency toward that 610 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,480 already a desire or want or loaning that's simmering there 611 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:26,200 already. She says so here are these lusts 612 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,160 along. That's according to the sensuous 613 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,920 nature, the human nature, and then I make it. 614 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,520 I do it. I'm the author of it. 615 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:38,360 I fulfill those desires. I fulfill those desires of the 616 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,520 flesh, what I wish to do, what I've determined to do. 617 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:45,040 The word desires even can mean choice, that which I. 618 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:49,720 Choose to do what you choose becomes what you're the author 619 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:52,360 of. That's the reason why Brother 620 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,920 Mason for years, he's not here right now telling all the young 621 00:38:54,920 --> 00:39:00,600 people your choices matter and you're the author of that. 622 00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:08,360 You own that choice. Of the flesh again reverts back 623 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,480 same word of the sensuous nature, human nature, apart from 624 00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:15,800 divine influence, but not just desires of the flesh and of the 625 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,160 mind. The word mind meaning thoughts 626 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:23,400 and it can even mean imaginations fulfilling the 627 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,960 desires even of your mind. No wonder, the Apostle Paul in 628 00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:36,640 2nd Corinthians 10 said, casting down imaginations and every high 629 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:40,800 thing that exalteth. Itself against the knowledge of 630 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,960 God, right? Because that's anti God 631 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:47,520 Antichrist and bringing the captivity every thought to the 632 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:52,200 obedience of Christ. He says This Is Us that that 633 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,680 that that that's what they were. That's what we were. 634 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:58,760 We're not now we fulfilled all these things verse 3 and were by 635 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:05,680 nature, by say, by nature, were again past tense by nature, by 636 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:09,600 your birth or by your physical origin by nature. 637 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:15,440 The Bible says the children of wrath we were, we were pupils, 638 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,640 we depended upon this violent passion or the excitement of our 639 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,640 minds, which can again feedback into the imaginations and the 640 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:27,160 thoughts that the sensuous human nature man has by nature. 641 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:31,440 That's who we are. We say no time you bring a kid 642 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,400 into the world, I don't have to take them aside and say this is 643 00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:38,880 how this is how you act in order to be ornery and hateful and and 644 00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:40,440 and I'm going to teach you how to do this. 645 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,880 Wouldn't life be big time difference, Sister Jen, if 646 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:44,600 that's the way it was that the children just came out, the 647 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,120 women, they were all good and proper and mannerly and we had 648 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,320 to teach them how to be bad. That's not how it works, though, 649 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,240 is it? It's like the bad thing is like 650 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,600 the nature. But we're instructing them how 651 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,600 to be polite and say please and thank you and. 652 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,840 So on and so. Forth by nature why again back 653 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:06,680 to the old Adam thing right we go all the way back then This is 654 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,880 something that because of one man and and the transgression 655 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,520 that came sin upon us all and we're in our sins and we're 656 00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,960 walking around trading around in the trespasses of it all. 657 00:41:16,240 --> 00:41:19,720 So I I'm I I come into the world with this disposition I'm 658 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:23,120 disposed like this. Can I say that's one reason why 659 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:31,600 we need born again? Because by nature I got XYZ. 660 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:35,240 I'm I'm in trespasses and sins. I'm like doing the backstroke 661 00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:38,760 and in deviations in the backstroke and the lapses and 662 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,800 things that are against God and not like God. 663 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,600 I need a born again experience, right? 664 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:49,000 To be born of the water and the spirit for a nature alteration. 665 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:55,160 I want to say Amen. We thought I was done because I 666 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,200 was at verse #3. But there's still a little thing 667 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:04,920 on there that says even as others, we were in times past 668 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:06,800 like all that, just like everybody else. 669 00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,280 So we painting with A we painting with A brush. 670 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,280 Here, it's not. Well, Mike Trout, he, he, he was 671 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,480 the one that was like that. No, it was Mike Trout and it was 672 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,360 Reese and it was Pastor and it was no one's left out. 673 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,560 No one's left out. And a good thing to remember 674 00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,800 where we were is not to get too sanctimonious about where we 675 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:32,080 are. Well, I'm holy now. 676 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:34,400 I'm. I'm holy now. 677 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:37,960 I'm morally, morally pure. And I, I, I got all of you. 678 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,480 Well, yeah, but in times. Past. 679 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,840 You weren't born with the spiritual silver spoons in your 680 00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:52,760 mouth. Hey man, everybody doing OK? 681 00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,680 Verse four, I didn't read this in the opening because I didn't. 682 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,800 Verse 4, I'm doing my investigative Bible study and 683 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,560 then I'm going to start to read my Bible, but I can't even go 684 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:08,880 on. I'm just like stop. 685 00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:13,520 But I mean it's. Going to be a. 686 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,120 It's going to. Be a long morning with the Lord. 687 00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,320 You know, reading a few verses. But. 688 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:23,480 Hold on. That conjunction is a contrast 689 00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,480 is tell me what I'm about ready to hear is different than what 690 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:32,560 I've heard what that there. This conjunction here is then 691 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,080 everything that's been previously discussed right here. 692 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:37,480 There's about ready to come a change. 693 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:38,800 There's about ready to come a turn around. 694 00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:43,120 But it'd be like, you know, you're a pretty nice person, but 695 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:47,800 I don't like your attitude. I love your outfit, but those 696 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:52,800 shoes are ugly. You're my best friend, but not 697 00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:57,120 my very best friend, huh? It all sounds good right up to 698 00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,480 that moment. And then the butt comes in, like 699 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,120 someone said. I'm really sorry, you know, for 700 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,960 screaming at you the other day. But you raised your voice with 701 00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,400 me too, right? It changes the apology, don't 702 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,360 it? That butt causes that change. 703 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,040 And so we come to this butt. What's going on here? 704 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,680 Because Paul's going to begin to talk again. 705 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:20,480 Notice he's been talking to the Saints at Ephesus. 706 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,120 He's been talking to the faithful in Christ Jesus. 707 00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,520 He's been talking to them how they once lived. 708 00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:28,280 And how there's still. Some people in that right now 709 00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:32,080 living and treading around in the sin and the transgressions 710 00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,800 and all that he's telling them that they don't have to live 711 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:35,880 like that. Amen. 712 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,040 But they did. And nonetheless, he says there's 713 00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:41,480 even a segment of society that's still in those type of waters in 714 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,840 that land, the living according to the course and the spirit of 715 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,600 their age. And, and then the Prince and 716 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,640 piety they and they're fulfilling their lusts and their 717 00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,880 desires and, and there's still some treading around like that. 718 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,760 And they're against God and hostile to God and not even 719 00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,120 thinking about God. And their practices are 720 00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:01,160 Antichrist type of practices and and the world and the Prince and 721 00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:03,840 power of the air and the lust. All of these forces reckoned 722 00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:07,480 together are upon them still, just like it used to be you. 723 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,040 And then the difference though he he is explaining to us the 724 00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:16,000 difference though between the old you and the new you is but 725 00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:18,400 God. This is the difference between 726 00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:22,440 you being in your sin and no longer in your sin is but God. 727 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:26,400 The difference between you just flailing around and in 728 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,400 deviations and lapses of sin and things that are contrary in the 729 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:35,560 world is a but God moment folks, that's powerful that's powerful. 730 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:40,600 That means I thank the Lord for my but God moment and those that 731 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,680 are now children of disobedience, those that are now 732 00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,160 in the clutches of all that you know what they need. 733 00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:52,360 They need a but God moment. You know what that tells me 734 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:54,720 McGee didn't get there because of McGee. 735 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:58,040 McGee didn't get there because of another, if you will, human 736 00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,400 in this world. McGee got there because God from 737 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,320 a strong in glory says I'm going to save humanity. 738 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,400 I'm going to step down. I'm going to walk among them. 739 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,360 I'm going to pull them out. I'm the real life giver. 740 00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,520 Diana can't do it. They say she's the life giver. 741 00:46:13,720 --> 00:46:17,880 I'm going to demonstrate who the life giver but God 742 00:46:28,860 --> 00:46:29,820 not could have read right through. 743 00:46:29,820 --> 00:46:31,500 That my morning thing just missed it all. 744 00:46:35,740 --> 00:46:39,460 But God? Who is The Who referring back to 745 00:46:39,460 --> 00:46:44,780 God? But God, who is rich in mercy. 746 00:46:46,580 --> 00:46:51,060 Who? Rich here is a metaphorically 747 00:46:51,060 --> 00:46:57,960 rich abounding, abundantly rich in mercy, mercy meaning goodwill 748 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,160 or rich in a desire to help. The old phrase we used to do we 749 00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:07,640 used to have different phrases for the grace and the mercy of 750 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,960 of God. But mercy all times was, was 751 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:14,720 described and defined as is mercy is when you don't get what 752 00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:24,320 you should have gotten. But God who is rich, abundantly 753 00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:29,080 abounding rich, and providing to you something that you should 754 00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:35,080 have got, but he withheld. Matter of fact, another places 755 00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,320 in Ephesians, Ephesians chapter #3 and verse 8 again speaks of 756 00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:40,240 this richest thing concerning God. 757 00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:41,800 And you read a lot about his riches. 758 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,560 Actually in Ephesians you read about the riches of his glory. 759 00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:46,360 You read about the riches of his power. 760 00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,840 But in in Ephesians 3/8, it talks about his unsearchable 761 00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,600 riches. God's so rich that you can't 762 00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:56,280 even search them all out. God is so rich that you just 763 00:47:56,280 --> 00:48:00,480 kind of meander. You can't comprehend his 764 00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:06,520 richness of mercy. Listen, you want you want to go 765 00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:15,360 through this life serving a God that's rich in mercy because 766 00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:19,560 you're fallible humanity and there's a lot of things we 767 00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:22,960 should have already gotten and we should deserve that. 768 00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:33,200 He's withheld. So I want him, Jeremiah writing 769 00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,280 lamentations and thinking of of the destruction of Jerusalem, 770 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,000 all that you, you understand, remember what his word said. 771 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:42,840 He said that the Lord's mercies, it's because of the Lord's 772 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:46,400 mercies that we are not consumed. 773 00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,000 In other words, he's saying if it wasn't for God's mercy, we'd 774 00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,520 already be anniated, snubbed out, consumed. 775 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,760 But because his rich for our purposes, his rich mercy, he 776 00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:02,200 said we're still here. And he goes on to say and his 777 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:09,480 mercies are new every every morning. 778 00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:14,240 That's the reason why I can stand here and say in the past I 779 00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:20,600 used to do according to. The spirit of my world, because 780 00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:24,280 of his rich mercy, I'm standing here because I used to be doing 781 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:28,120 those things that were against her, opposing to Christ. 782 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,360 So verse 6, I got to hurry. I really do. 783 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:38,000 But God, who is rich in mercy for everybody, say 4 three 784 00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,320 letter word. I know, but it means. 785 00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:46,240 The channel of an act. The channel of an act through 786 00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,440 the ground or reason by which something is or is not done. 787 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:52,960 So we're about ready to be towed. 788 00:49:53,520 --> 00:50:00,240 This God who is rich in mercy, Why and how this mercy, mercy 789 00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:09,760 reaches us for His great love wherewith He loved us. 790 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,760 That sentence right there. Love is both a noun in one spot 791 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,160 and a verb in another spot. They both derived from what is 792 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:21,520 called the adoptee love of God or the unconditional love of 793 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:24,240 God. So what the Scriptures tell me 794 00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:28,280 then, this, this, this, for God loved us, for his great love 795 00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:32,000 wherewith he loved us, Mercy came through. 796 00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,240 If there's this channel that mercy got to us, it's almost 797 00:50:35,240 --> 00:50:37,960 like, you know, I'm piping, I'm piping plumbing. 798 00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:41,120 Right here the water source is here and I need to get water to 799 00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:43,880 the youth room. Well all the pipe that I put 800 00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:47,640 together and channel around over here to the youth room, they are 801 00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:51,720 able to get the water I have here because of the channel that 802 00:50:51,720 --> 00:50:54,920 I'm working with that provides it that makes it accessible to 803 00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,320 them. And so God saying, he's saying 804 00:50:57,320 --> 00:51:04,400 my love channel, he said I have mercy, but my love made mercy 805 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:09,760 accessible to you. My, my love is the piping. 806 00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:13,920 It's the 90° and 45° turns and the elbows that pipes, if you 807 00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:15,960 will, to wear you out where you are. 808 00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:20,400 So me being the merciful God, it gives you access to the mercy 809 00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,760 that I have. And I'm rich in mercy. 810 00:51:24,240 --> 00:51:26,560 If I say the little water supply over here isn't a trick. 811 00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:30,720 I mean, it's a gusting thing, you know, I'm rich in mercy, but 812 00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:33,080 my love makes that accessible to you. 813 00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:39,320 Someone say Amen. Hey man, can I say them this 814 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:43,600 morning this that if you've received, if you've experienced 815 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,960 the mercy of God, let me even define it like this. 816 00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:49,760 When you experience the mercy of God, you are benefiting from the 817 00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:55,720 love of God, and God will not be merciful to you without loving 818 00:51:55,720 --> 00:52:02,120 you, because His mercy reaches. You because of His love. 819 00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:10,600 We don't have enough time. I do and we might have church 820 00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:14,480 tonight, so we really do that. You don't have enough interest 821 00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,720 in your interest meter. Stand with me today. 822 00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:37,720 I just want to read verse 5 and I'll just make a few closing 823 00:52:37,720 --> 00:52:43,440 comments. OK so first forces for his great 824 00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,120 love wherewith he loved us 5 even when we were dead in sins. 825 00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:50,080 There he goes, He brings it back home. 826 00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:54,760 Even when we were dead in sins hath quickened us. 827 00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:58,800 And the reason why the the interpreters put hath quickened 828 00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,040 us in the first verse is really because of what's happening in 829 00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:05,160 verse #5 They were just kind of already cluing this in early. 830 00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:09,400 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with 831 00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,200 Christ. By grace are ye saved. 832 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:17,280 And it talks about how we were then made to sit in Christ in 833 00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,400 heavenly places. And so whenever you start doing 834 00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:25,240 the study and you go back to chapter #1 God raised Christ 835 00:53:25,240 --> 00:53:29,200 from the dead, or quick in Christ from the dead, and made 836 00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:34,680 him to sit in heavenly places, and then he was far above all 837 00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:37,360 principality. Note the word power. 838 00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:44,720 But God has also quickened us and made us to sit in Christ 839 00:53:44,720 --> 00:53:47,720 Jesus in heavenly places. Get it now. 840 00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,480 If God made. Christ to sit in heaven, places 841 00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:52,400 where he was. Far above all principality and 842 00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,320 power. But now you sit in Christ Jesus 843 00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:57,640 in heavenly places. You're. 844 00:53:57,640 --> 00:54:01,360 Above all, principality and power. 845 00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:07,520 The reason why that's important because you used to give ear and 846 00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:13,360 sway of your soul to the Prince and the power of the air, but 847 00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:16,920 now you're seated in a place that's even above that power 848 00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:23,320 that you used to tread around in and deviate and lapse in. 849 00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:30,840 You walked according to, but now you're seated because of God in 850 00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:34,200 a place that's far above all of that. 851 00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,320 And what you're really experiencing now is the 852 00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:38,880 expression. You can read of it there in 853 00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:42,080 chapter #1 Ephesians chapter #1 and right now, off the tip of my 854 00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:45,360 head, I can't find it verse #19 when it's speaking to God, what 855 00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:48,480 is the exceeding greatness of His Speaking of God's power to 856 00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,720 us who believe according to the working of His mighty power. 857 00:54:51,720 --> 00:54:54,200 See, they traded all of this power. 858 00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:57,960 Quote UN quote power of Princess Diana. 859 00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:03,120 You know, Goddess life giving source seating, the place above 860 00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,600 all that that used to affect them, but they're not still 861 00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:09,080 without a power source. They have the power of God 862 00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:15,080 underwritten by love, underwritten by mercy. 863 00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,640 And the Scripture even tells us there, the little parentheses in 864 00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:20,120 verse 5 by grace. Are you saved? 865 00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:25,640 Underwritten by grace, folks. I could still say a whole lot 866 00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:29,560 more, but I won't but notice. Both Christ and us were 867 00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:33,280 quickened. Both Christ and us were made to 868 00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:36,320 sit in heavenly places. Both Christ and us now have 869 00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:40,400 things that used to be allure, especially for humanity. 870 00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,800 Now what used to be over your head, so to speak, is now under 871 00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:50,480 your feet. And we just derived that little 872 00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,840 bit from a few little verses of reading in the morning and 873 00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:56,040 looking at it and saying, I wonder what this means. 874 00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,480 And I said all that today because that's how the Bible can 875 00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:06,680 open up to you. A lot of things I read to you 876 00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:10,840 were definitions I just got from a dictionary, choosing the 877 00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,760 definition that was applicable to the context in which it was 878 00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:17,920 set out of the dictionary. But it brought, and I understand 879 00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,720 you're dealing with a 30 some odd year old ministry brain 880 00:56:20,720 --> 00:56:23,960 here, but the Lord can speak to you. 881 00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:29,080 Let me say it like this. He wants to speak to you through 882 00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:29,720 His word. Amen. 883 00:56:29,720 --> 00:56:34,960 Amen, but God, Amen. Amen. 884 00:56:36,240 --> 00:56:51,400 Sister Masons, go come. You just be attentive right now. 885 00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:58,240 I am the God of today, yesterday, and forever. 886 00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:02,080 I am the God of the valley as I am on the mountaintop. 887 00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,800 I am God. There is none like me or beside 888 00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,360 me. I am the God of Abraham, Isaac 889 00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,120 and Jacob, and I have chosen you. 890 00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:13,480 I will guide your footsteps if you will only allow me. 891 00:57:13,480 --> 00:57:17,080 I am yours. Thus saith the Lord. 892 00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,440 Can we honor the Lord with our hands raised right now, this 893 00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,560 morning? Father, we love you, Jesus. 894 00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:27,280 God, we're appreciative that you are the great I am, God, what 895 00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,920 you revealed yourself to Moses as God, you are Lord for every 896 00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:34,600 generation, for every century, God, for every age. 897 00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,440 I pray, O Lord, today, God, that you're able to help us. 898 00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,520 God, I pray, Lord, in our walk and our talk and the way that we 899 00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,600 conduct our lives, I pray, O Father, today we need you, but 900 00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:49,080 for God, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. God, consecrate our souls, our 901 00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:53,160 spirits, our minds, our lives. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 902 00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:03,200 Hallelujah Jesus, Hallelujah Jesus, we need Lord God you 903 00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:06,080 today. God, we need you, Lord Jesus to 904 00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:08,480 be the author and the finisher of our faith. 905 00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:12,200 God, you who for the, the, the, the things. 906 00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:15,320 Lord Jesus, that there we go, Lord of what was said before 907 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,560 you, knowing God the blood was going to be shed. 908 00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:21,000 God for our purpose and plan. God, you endured all the shame. 909 00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:22,920 You endured all the ridicule and the criticism. 910 00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:25,960 God, I pray the Lord help us today, God, to mirror our lives 911 00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:28,320 in a proper fashion, in a way will not. 912 00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:31,560 Lord, don't forget to thank you and praise you for it in the 913 00:58:31,560 --> 00:58:35,240 lovely name of Jesus Christ. We love you when we thank you. 914 00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:39,280 Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 915 00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:44,800 Hallelujah. Someone say Amen, Amen. 916 00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:47,800 Again, we'll keep you posted here this afternoon. 917 00:58:47,800 --> 00:58:50,440 Concerning tonight, our greatest fear for tonight is that it's 918 00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,480 cold all day. Wind's blowing all day. 919 00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:55,720 Everything's probably going to sure up as far as being ice 920 00:58:56,040 --> 00:58:59,760 right where the slush and stuff. Even our parking lot, I don't 921 00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:01,680 think we can scrape slush off our parking lot. 922 00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:06,320 But it's just, it may just be at ice by the time 6:00 gets here. 923 00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:09,080 So keep your eye on Facebook. We'll announce something there 924 00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:12,440 for sure. OK, so right now it's this. 925 00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:15,040 We're having church and I'll tell you differently through 926 00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:17,640 Facebook, OK? And so just be aware of that. 927 00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:20,080 If I don't say anything, then you don't have to call me. 928 00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:22,560 We're just having it. But if you see something on 929 00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,960 Facebook then that says otherwise, then you know that 930 00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,200 we're not OK. Is that understandable? 931 00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,880 Is that simple enough? Amen, Hallelujah. 932 00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:31,960 Thank you for being here today, Amen. 933 00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,920 At God's house, I know he'll bless you and honor you, Amen, 934 00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:38,400 for being here and hopefully being here has been a blessing, 935 00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:41,200 Amen, In some fashion to you as well, Amen. 936 00:59:41,200 --> 00:59:42,640 God bless you this morning. Jesus name. 937 00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:44,920 Be careful as you walk to your car, OK? 938 00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:46,720 Just a little. Whatever you know.