1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:03,900 This morning, I want to talk from Ephesians chapter 2 and I 2 00:00:03,908 --> 00:00:08,300 want to specifically look at the reasons in Jesus that we have 3 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:14,400 reason to be thankful to praise God and to be grateful for our 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,900 Unity for a quality. And for the opportunity, we have 5 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:21,300 in Christ Jesus and I think this is an important message because 6 00:00:21,300 --> 00:00:23,400 right now in our country, there's a lot of unrest. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:27,000 There's people have been treated poorly and that's causing 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,600 problems for a lot of people. It's causing a lot of Anger and 9 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,400 frustration. And I think these words 10 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,500 infusions chapter to have a message for us that we need 11 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:41,900 during this time and we need to keep growing and as we develop 12 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:46,000 as a body that we are aware of what Jesus said about us and our 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,100 unity and already quality. And I want to read from 14 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:53,900 Ephesians chapter 2, we're going to focus on the second half of 15 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:56,600 the chapter, but before we get into the second half, I just 16 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:58,900 want to give it free a brief recap of the first half of the 17 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:02,900 chapter and Ephesians chapter 2. Paul is started out by telling 18 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:07,200 the Ephesians about being brought from Death To Life. 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,000 He's told them their ones dead in their sins. 20 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:15,000 He's told him that they were once lost and hopeless and he 21 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,300 says, in verse 4. But God who is rich in Mercy 22 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:21,500 because of his great love with which he loved us. 23 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:26,000 Even when we even when we were dead in trespasses made us alive 24 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,500 together with Christ by Grace you've been saved and raised us 25 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:32,400 up together and made us sit together in the Heavenly places 26 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,700 in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come. 27 00:01:34,700 --> 00:01:38,000 He might show the exceeding Riches of his grace and his 28 00:01:38,100 --> 00:01:40,400 Kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 29 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:45,700 He's giving us this picture of how we were so low down and far 30 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:49,700 from God. That he says, it was death. 31 00:01:51,500 --> 00:01:54,300 And I don't know if we can quite fully, understand the spiritual 32 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:59,000 implications on an eternal level because we just haven't seen it 33 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,200 yet. You know, we can see that the 34 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,400 implications of mistakes we make on a temporal level. 35 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,500 For example, if you get caught drunk driving, you see that 36 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:10,600 person on the curb their, their head in their hands because they 37 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,200 know that now they are going to face thousands of dollars in 38 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,800 fines. They're going to may be facing 39 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,700 jail time and not to mention any of the consequences that might 40 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:21,200 have come from maybe an accident. 41 00:02:21,700 --> 00:02:23,900 Those people are going to have higher interest there. 42 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,500 Their insurance premiums are going to go up. 43 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,000 There's a lot of consequences that come from sins that we can 44 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,900 see on a temporal level, but we've never really seen the 45 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:37,400 Eternal consequences. They come from sin, and that's 46 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,000 what he's trying to give us the gravity of its death. 47 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,500 And he said that you are walking and he said, and what you walked 48 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:47,000 according to the course of this world, you are walking dead 49 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,300 people today called The Walking Dead zombies. 50 00:02:50,300 --> 00:02:53,800 He says you're like walking around zombies, you were dead in 51 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,900 your trespasses as we get into the second half of the chapter 52 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:01,000 Paul, is trying to bring home this point by talking about it 53 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,600 through the lens of the Old Testament and he gets into this 54 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,500 talking about the Gentiles and things. 55 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:09,900 We're going to read a couple verses real quick to give kind 56 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:12,200 of picture of what he's going to be talking about Ephesians 57 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,400 chapter 2. Beginning in verse 11 says, 58 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:21,500 therefore remember that you Once Gentiles In the Flesh who are 59 00:03:21,500 --> 00:03:25,000 called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision Made In 60 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:30,000 the Flesh by hands that at the time you're were without Christ, 61 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,700 being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel and 62 00:03:34,700 --> 00:03:40,200 strangers from the covenants of Promise having no hope and 63 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:45,200 without God in the world, he's starting out by. 64 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:47,600 Now looking at this idea of spiritual death, through the 65 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:50,100 lens of the Old Testament, I think it's important to 66 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:53,300 understand the Old Testament. A few things about these 67 00:03:53,300 --> 00:03:54,900 Gentiles. What are the Gentiles? 68 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,600 Gentiles are? One of two classifications guys, 69 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:01,000 set up during the Old Testament times. 70 00:04:01,900 --> 00:04:05,500 You were either a Jew, which means you were in God's people, 71 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:08,200 or you were a gentile. There's only two groups. 72 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:13,000 God didn't separate people and erases, and to skin color, and 73 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,400 all these different things. God, and the Old Testament has 74 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:17,000 only ever made two groups of people. 75 00:04:17,899 --> 00:04:21,100 His people, the Jews, and the people who were not his people, 76 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:24,700 the Gentiles, and that's important, because of what we're 77 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:30,000 going to read in a little bit, but Within those Jews and 78 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:31,800 Gentiles. There's some specific things 79 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,200 that would happen that make this whole concept really come out. 80 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,800 And that's in the area will illustrate in the area of the 81 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,500 temple and the temple courts. Chris, I think did a lesson not 82 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:45,000 too long ago on the temple and the meaning they're so I think 83 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,800 you all might know more about this maybe than me but The 84 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,100 temple is lined out like this. You had first will say, here is 85 00:04:53,100 --> 00:04:56,900 the most holy place you had the most holy place, where only the 86 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:01,300 priest, the high priest was allowed to go the most holy 87 00:05:01,300 --> 00:05:04,400 places where the presence of God would dwell among the people in 88 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,600 the camp of Israel. And by the way, the only way to 89 00:05:07,608 --> 00:05:10,700 become an Israelite to become a Jew, a true Jew was to be born 90 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:13,800 into the family. So if you weren't too bad, this 91 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:15,200 that makes this even more important. 92 00:05:15,300 --> 00:05:18,100 But God, dwelt in the peace among the people and the most 93 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:22,300 holy place and only once a year, could the high priest go up and 94 00:05:22,300 --> 00:05:25,800 be in the presence of God? Okay, let's take a step back 95 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,700 from there. Then you have the Holy place. 96 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:29,400 There is the room that was the most. 97 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:32,600 Holy now we have the Holy and in the Holy Place only the priests 98 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:34,500 only the Levites were allowed to go in there. 99 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,100 Once again, a specific line of people if you're in a family and 100 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:39,900 a tribe, you could go in this place. 101 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:42,300 And they're the priest. We go. 102 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,400 Let's remember the priest. Don't forget them. 103 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,800 Then a step back from there. You had the court of men or the 104 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:53,700 court of Israel, which is where the Jewish men only could go 105 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,000 then a step back from there. You have the court of women 106 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,200 which is where only the Jewish women could go. 107 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:05,200 And then a step back from there. You have the court of Gentiles 108 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,400 and the court of Gentiles is where the Gentiles couldn't go 109 00:06:08,407 --> 00:06:12,400 any further. If you were a woman or a man in 110 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:14,100 Judaism you could come back here. 111 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:18,200 But only the Gentiles could not go any further than this place 112 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:19,700 far. From the most holy place, where 113 00:06:19,700 --> 00:06:24,600 God dwell That's why this gravity of what he says. 114 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:27,300 Let's go and read it now and verse 11 is so important. 115 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:30,800 Therefore remember that you once Gentiles In the Flesh who are 116 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,900 called uncircumcision by what is called circumcision Made In the 117 00:06:33,900 --> 00:06:37,000 Flesh by hands. That at that time, ye were 118 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,100 without Christ, being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel. 119 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:46,400 Israel, the saved people, God's people and strangers from the 120 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,500 covenants of Promise having no hope. 121 00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:52,500 The person who is, who is a gentile they could Could convert 122 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:57,500 to Judaism but they were still considered a gentile. and so, 123 00:06:57,500 --> 00:07:00,100 yes, they could want to be among God's people, but they could 124 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:04,900 only get this close They couldn't get any closer by 125 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:08,300 trying Harder by becoming a better person by following along 126 00:07:08,300 --> 00:07:11,300 more perfectly. They were stuck and the outer 127 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:15,500 area. He says you were that way you 128 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:18,300 were strangers. Can any of you in here? 129 00:07:18,300 --> 00:07:22,900 Prove you're Jewish descent. No, he says you were all 130 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:26,300 gentiles. And without God in the world 131 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:31,500 without hope. But now in Christ Jesus you who 132 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:34,800 were once far off have been brought near by the blood of 133 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:39,700 Christ. Jesus Christ, broke all that up. 134 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:43,300 And that's what this lesson is, really all about, is about Jesus 135 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,200 and many of his roles. I want to focus on this morning. 136 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:51,100 The fact that Jesus is the barrier breaker for us, he died 137 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:53,800 for our sins. He is the one who saved us from 138 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,300 our sins. He is our mediator. 139 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:58,500 He's a lot of things, but he's also in a very important role, 140 00:07:58,500 --> 00:08:01,400 he has is a barrier breaker and the Old Testament, there were 141 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,600 barriers for you and me, don't forget that the that the high 142 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,500 priest could go on the could only go in there once and then 143 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:09,900 the priests could gum that much closer. 144 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:13,900 But if you're born into any other tribe, other than the 145 00:08:13,907 --> 00:08:18,100 Levites you are stuck in the court of men or even a step back 146 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:23,200 in the court of women. That's kind of rough, right? 147 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:29,300 You're stuck there. But what we're told, In 148 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:33,200 Galatians, 3, verse 27, for as many of you as were baptized 149 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,900 into Christ. Have put on Christ, there is 150 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:39,100 neither Jew, nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free. 151 00:08:39,100 --> 00:08:42,200 There is neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ. 152 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,000 Jesus, the beauty of what Jesus did is he tore down, those 153 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,900 barriers? He tore down that separation for 154 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:51,800 you and me that even if you were a Jew, what if you weren't born 155 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,800 into the one of those tribes that can go close to God, you 156 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,300 were stuck in these places distant from God, So if you're a 157 00:08:58,308 --> 00:09:00,600 woman you how you can only go into the court of women. 158 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:05,600 But now because of Jesus, regardless of and this in the 159 00:09:05,608 --> 00:09:08,800 scripture and in Galatians, he says, juror Greek. 160 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,100 Regardless of your nationality, your ethnicity, your skin color, 161 00:09:12,100 --> 00:09:18,200 anything you can all come to the presence of God, And we learn 162 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,300 later we'll get in those verses in a second that we are all 163 00:09:21,300 --> 00:09:23,900 priests. So the priest could come into 164 00:09:23,900 --> 00:09:28,100 the holy Place, could come close to God's presence and now we all 165 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:29,900 as Christians are in that category. 166 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:36,600 Whether you're a woman, whether you are are in you name, any 167 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:38,900 nationality, you can come to God. 168 00:09:40,200 --> 00:09:41,800 And here, he listed several things. 169 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,400 It doesn't matter how people classify you slave or free, 170 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:45,700 doesn't matter. Doesn't mean your matter, your 171 00:09:45,700 --> 00:09:49,200 status, your place in society. And Jesus, that doesn't matter, 172 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:52,000 doesn't matter. If you're male or female, you 173 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,500 are all one in Christ Jesus. We have different roles. 174 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:56,000 Yes. But we are all one. 175 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,500 We are all equal here. We all are together. 176 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:01,100 Worshiping God and God's presence. 177 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:05,800 What a beautiful thing. What does it mean to be brought 178 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:16,200 in here? In Acts 10 verse 28, Peter is 179 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,800 gone to the house of Cornelius under the, under the direction 180 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,000 of God. And it says here, then he said 181 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,500 to them, you know, how unlawful this for a Jewish man to keep 182 00:10:23,500 --> 00:10:26,500 company with, or to go to one of another Nation. 183 00:10:27,500 --> 00:10:30,100 So there were barriers that they had an under Jewish law. 184 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:33,000 But after Jesus this happened, but God has shown me that I 185 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,000 should not call any man common or unclean. 186 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,200 Going on verse 34, then Peter opened his eyes and opened his 187 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:43,200 mouth and said and truth. I perceive that God shows no 188 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:46,400 partiality. But in every nation whoever 189 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,900 fears him and works, righteousness is acceptable to 190 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:51,400 him. Isn't that a beautiful thing 191 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,200 that you are no longer subject to any kind of classification 192 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,700 based on how you're born or where you were set up? 193 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:02,500 Now, God says there's no partiality. 194 00:11:03,700 --> 00:11:07,400 If you serve him and fear Him and are willing to follow God, 195 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:12,200 that's what matters. And policy and Peter said, who 196 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,200 am I to call anyone and clean? God has shown me. 197 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,500 No man is unclean. That's why we are all here 198 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:19,900 together today. Praise God for that, Revelation 199 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:23,800 5 verse 9 and 10 says, and they sang a new song saying you are 200 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,000 worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals for you were 201 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,400 slain and have redeemed us to God by your blood out, of every 202 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:35,600 tribe and tongue, and people and nation, and it made us Kings and 203 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,400 Priests to our God, and we shall reign on the Earth We're Kings 204 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:43,300 and Priests Yes, that's why Acts chapter 8, when Simon the 205 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:47,200 Sorcerer done wrong, he was told Peters told him, pray to God, to 206 00:11:47,208 --> 00:11:50,600 have your sins forgiven. You that's a Monumental 207 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,700 statement. He said, you can pray to God to 208 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:58,800 have your sins forgiven him. I was reading a statement from 209 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:04,300 the pope recently and the pope said we'll typically you're not 210 00:12:04,300 --> 00:12:07,400 alone, you have to have go to a priest to confess your sins. 211 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:11,300 But he says But if no priest is available to you during this 212 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:13,700 pandemic during these times, you can pray to God yourself. 213 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:21,200 Really because I read the New Testament saying that we are now 214 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,400 priests and we can talk to God that what Jesus is our meteor 215 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,800 mediator and we can come to his place. 216 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,700 His holy place and speak our concerns to him. 217 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:34,500 Ourself, what a beautiful thing we don't have to worry of during 218 00:12:34,500 --> 00:12:36,400 a pandemic. We can't get to a certain person 219 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:39,500 to talk to God for us. The one person we need access to 220 00:12:39,500 --> 00:12:42,400 die for us on the cross, and he's sitting at the right hand 221 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,000 of God and can mediate for us there. 222 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:49,000 Praise God for that. You don't have to worry about 223 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:53,500 where you were born into. Now, we all have access to God 224 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:57,100 first, Peter 2, verse 9 and 10, but you are a chosen generation, 225 00:12:57,100 --> 00:13:00,400 a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people. 226 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:02,500 Do you have anything special to you? 227 00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:05,000 I've got a special baseball glove. 228 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:07,900 And for most people probably doesn't look like anything to 229 00:13:07,900 --> 00:13:09,300 them, but that glove is special to me. 230 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:12,000 I had it all four years of high school that leather is nice and 231 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000 is broken into my hand just right. 232 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,000 Do you have anything special to you? 233 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:22,800 God says, you are his special people that carries with it, a 234 00:13:23,300 --> 00:13:27,400 tone of of cared and having something invested in you, 235 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:33,200 Having importance resting with you, his child, he says you're 236 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,700 his own special people for what that you may proclaim the 237 00:13:36,700 --> 00:13:39,400 Praises of him who called you out of Darkness Into His 238 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,400 Marvelous Light. Who are once? 239 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:45,000 Not a people but are now the people of God who had not 240 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,300 obtained Mercy, but now have obtained Mercy. 241 00:13:50,100 --> 00:13:55,600 Our god is awesome. and so today, I want to continue on 242 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,200 verse 14. Let's read verse 14 for he 243 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:03,200 himself, is our peace. This is Ephesians 2:14 who has 244 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,500 made both one. Who is those both? 245 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaking of the Jew and the Gentile is he's made them both. 246 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:12,000 One and has broken down the middle Wall of Separation, 247 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:13,600 having a ball of shit in his flesh. 248 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,800 The enmity that is the law of Commandments contained in 249 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,900 ordinances, the Old Law. So as to create an himself, one 250 00:14:20,900 --> 00:14:25,100 new man from the two, thus making peace and that he might 251 00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:29,100 reconcile them. Both to God and one body through 252 00:14:29,100 --> 00:14:34,800 the cross there by Putting to death the enmity and he came and 253 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:41,500 preached peace to you who were afar off. the Gentile maybe if 254 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:46,200 you're a woman, whatever your state was and to those who are 255 00:14:46,208 --> 00:14:50,200 near Even if you were a Jew, even if you were a priest you 256 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:55,000 needed Jesus for through him we both have access by one Spirit 257 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,900 to the father. Now therefore you are no longer 258 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:02,100 strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the Saints 259 00:15:02,100 --> 00:15:06,400 and members of the household of God, I mean, it's one thing to 260 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,100 be kind of in the same Community as important people, but he 261 00:15:09,100 --> 00:15:12,700 says, you're in the same household Having been built on 262 00:15:12,700 --> 00:15:14,800 the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets. 263 00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:18,500 Jesus Christ himself being the Chief Cornerstone, and whom the 264 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:20,400 whole building being fitted together. 265 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,900 Grows into a holy Temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being 266 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:27,000 built together for a Dwelling Place of God in the spirit. 267 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 We are now God's Temple. From wherever we've came from, 268 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,800 for whatever, our background was whatever. 269 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,900 Our family was we are now God's Temple, praise God, for that. 270 00:15:37,900 --> 00:15:40,700 And in light of our social climate, we need that message. 271 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:43,600 We need to know this and have this in our hearts because it's 272 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:48,700 not just any specific ethnicity. They can be grateful for this. 273 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:51,200 We all would have been distant from God. 274 00:15:53,100 --> 00:15:55,800 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 275 00:15:55,800 --> 00:16:01,300 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 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