A Stroll Through Ephesians Chapters 1 & 2 - Pastor Dale Trevor

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Just wanted to say a few things over a few people and wanted to start with you, Andrew.

I just, God wants to say to you, Andrew, that you have studied and been very diligent in the things of the Lord.

And He's going to bring you into a place now where He's going to give you abundance of revelation and understanding.

That He knows your heart to follow Him.

And He's going to use you in many ways to increase the understanding of God to many people.

Thank you, Lord.

Jenny and Dave, you've been very faithful in the things of the Lord.

But God's saying to you, you can be a support, a disciple of the young ones.

You can come beside them in teaching and in undergirding and supporting and praying for them.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

Pastor Betty, you've been faithful in your prayers about many things.

You've asked for many big things.

And God wants you to know that He's trusting both laborers into the harvest to bring about many of the things you prayed for.

And He said, He said, hold fast through faith and patience.

You will inherit those promises.

Thank you, Lord.

Laurie Thompson, I'm just praying for you, brother.

You've got a lot of wisdom to do with finances and provision for people.

And I see you coming around more and more people you've done a little bit in the past.

And there's going to be a lot more for you to for people, for you to support, encourage and help with godly wisdom for how to manage the affairs of life.

Thank you, Lord.

For Tony and Ross, Lord, I thank you.

They think they've been busy in the law, but that's God's saying to you.

You ain't seen nothing yet across the body of Christ.

You'll be used to support people in your home.

You support them in the ministry, support them even in going places.

Father, I thank you for their light.

They're shining their home, their openness to serve you and father that you're going to increase that in the days to come.

Thank you, Lord.

For our brother Dallas, he said, God says, worry not, brother.

I'm going to lead you and guide you.

He says, you've set your vases to seek me to pray to live each day in me and and you and your and your wife are going to serve the Lord.

He said, don't worry about anything.

I'm going to look after you.

I'm a good father and it'll all go well.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you.

Thank you, Lord.

Bless you.

For Ruth, Ruth over here.

Father, I thank you for wisdom for Ruth that you've given her that she seeks out to walk in wisdom.

And thank you, Lord, that you're going to increase that for as she seeks your vice.

Thank you, Lord.

Jesus.

Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus.

Praise God.

Praise God.

Hallelujah.

He's good.

Amen.

God is good.

He's here.

He's visiting us.

Apart from him, we can do nothing.

Amen.

Praise God.

Would you turn with me to Ephesians, chapter three?

This is a pivotal since my accident.

This has been a pivotal verse in my life.

And we're going to do a study today, a stroll through Ephesians chapters one and two.

But we're going to set the stage by looking at Ephesians chapter three to start with.

Praise God.

Let's pray.

Father, we thank you that you are here.

We ask that your Holy Spirit would illuminate your word, that the teacher, the comforter,

the one who guides and looks after us, our helper, will give us illumination and revelation

of your word as we seek you in the scriptures today.

In Jesus name.

Amen.

Ephesians chapter three and verse 14.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Paul's saying there that everything in his life is submitted and surrendered to the father

of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.

We're going to talk about family and adoption and how we've been adopted in today.

Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.

That he would grant you according to his riches in glory.

That's pretty big.

We've just been singing how great thou art about the moon and the sun and the stars.

That he would grant you according to those riches of his in glory to be strengthened

with might.

This is a mighty thing we serve.

We serve a mighty God.

But that might by his spirit is in the inner man.

It's in you that mightiness that we see out there in nature.

All the wisdom and knowledge and strength and faith that's in God that can bring stuff,

physical substance out of just spiritual things.

That's in our inner man.

Verse 3, verse 17 of chapter 3.

That Christ, and this is a pivotal verse for my life and I hope it becomes a pivotal verse

for yours.

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.

That ye being rooted and grounded in love.

God is love isn't he?

So if Christ is dwelling in your heart then love's dwelling in your heart.

Amen.

That we may be able to comprehend with all the saints, four dimensions here not three.

The breadth, the length, the height and the depth.

Depth and the height.

To know the love of Christ which passes knowledge.

That ye might be filled with a little bit of God.

No it doesn't say that.

It says with the fullness.

If you want to have a good study in the New Testament look up that word fullness and you'll

be shocked at some of the verses you'll see.

God wants to give not a little bit of himself but the fullness unto us.

That's an amazing thing.

So Christ may dwell in your heart by faith.

Are you convinced, are you fully persuaded that when you get out of bed in the morning

that Christ is walking and talking and living and moving and loving and bringing peace through

your being to others.

We are called to shine.

We are called to shine as lights in this world through our words, our actions and who we

are.

Apart from him we can do nothing but with him and in him we can do all things through

Christ who strengthens us.

And that's why Romans 6 and 7, the death to self, the baptism, the death to the old man

brings us to Romans 8 which is the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus that has

set us free from the law of sin and death because Christ is dwelling in us.

I learned an old song years ago.

With Christ in my vessel I can smile at the storm, smile at the storm, smile at the storm.

With Christ in my vessel I can smile at the storm as we go sailing home.

And there are all sorts of actions to it.

All this sort of stuff.

But this is simple truth.

You see when you're frantic and rushing around trimming the sails and bailing the water overboard,

guess where Jesus is?

He's in your boat but he's asleep.

And when you stop your frantic nonsense even though you might be an expert sailor and you

stop bailing and you stop trimming the sails and you wake Jesus up and you say, hey do

you care about me?

What a statement.

What a fapeless statement.

They'd been with us in multiple miracles.

We loved them every day.

Do you care that we're about to die?

He says you're not about to die.

Peace be still.

And you might see some storms in your life but when you know, when you're at peace, when

it's a finished thing in your life that Christ is in me by the power of the Spirit in my

inner man, then I can face anything.

No wonder.

No wonder James says, count it all joy.

You've got Christ in your vessel.

It's not you facing this.

It's Jesus and he's more than a conqueror through him who loves us.

Greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world.

This is the victory that overcomes the world, the faith.

Why?

Because with true faith Christ is living in you and he's facing it all.

Why are you going to worry about anything?

You've got a father, a dad who's living in you, who's looking after everything.

Trust and obey for there's no other way to be happy and at peace with Jesus but to trust

and obey.

Amen.

That's wonderful stuff.

And where to know the love of Christ?

To know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness

of God.

Love is where it's at.

By this, by this shall all men know that you are my disciples, that you love one another.

What have we, what has the body of Christ got to come to to look like that?

What relationships will we have with another, one another because we know the richness of

his inheritance in each saint that's sitting here today.

This is good news.

It's what the good news is meant to be.

I just want to read from Matthew 28 for a second because this is the Great Commission.

I just want to look at what that teaches us.

Go there for and make disciples of all nations.

I think the King James Version there says go there for and teach all the nations.

The good news, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching

them to observe all that I've commanded you.

And lo, I'm with you always even to the end of the age.

Verse 18, I'm going to go back to verse 18.

All authority has been given to me in heaven and therefore go.

And that authority is in you because you're seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus

and heaven is in your heart and that throne is in your heart.

You have an in the spirit connection to the throne of God.

That's why we can come boldly to the throne in the courts of heaven to find help, grace

and favor in a time of need.

This is a wonderful salvation.

It doesn't say there that we go and make converts, get them to say a little prayer and that's

in there in and they're going to heaven.

So this is about heaven coming and dwelling and living and manifesting itself in your

heart.

He who endures to the end will be saved.

Him that over cometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God.

It's through much tribulation testing a saying that we enter the kingdom of God.

That's why we've got to go through some trials.

But if Christ is in your vessel and you're sure of it and you know that in him you live

and move and have your being, then you can face anything.

That's why the words of scripture says, cast all your care, not just a couple.

Think of anything that's worrying you at the moment.

Cast it on him.

And the reason why you throw it is to get it away from you, even though he's living

in your heart, is to get that trouble away from you.

Don't race back and take it off him and worry a bit more about it because that's going to

do nothing for you.

Absolutely nothing.

And in fact, in fact, it puts you in the darkness.

So we bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, which is he's got the worries,

he's got the care.

Take no thought for my life.

What I'm going to wear, put on, what I'm going to do, where I'm going to go and how I'm going

to get there.

Poor kids, they come into the fridge when they're young.

They take, open the fridge and start just grazing, doing what they want.

They don't come out in the morning and say, oh, dad, mom, how are you going to pay that

electricity bill?

And the rates, have you done that?

And you know, the insurance on the car, have you really?

No, the kids don't come and do that.

They simply think, mom and dad, they just think it all happens, you know.

And we're to be like that with God.

He's going to look after it.

He will take care of you.

God will take care of you.

That hymn says, be not dismayed, what e'er be tired, God will take care of you.

Beneath his wings of love abide.

God will take care of you.

Are you convinced of that?

He's the God El Shaddai, the God that's more than enough.

If we abide in him and his word abides in us, we'll ask what we will.

Why?

Why will he answer that?

Because this is the confidence we have confidence that Christ is.

This is the confidence we have in him.

If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

And if he hears us, then we know, we know, we know we have it.

Why?

He's in us.

The God that does all that is in us.

So we're going to take a wander with that little opening bit.

We'll take a wander through Ephesians chapter one.

And we're just going to do a little bit of a Bible study.

And what I want you to look for, and when you look at the scriptures, there's some things,

some keys of what you should look for.

And one of them, I love to look for these two little words that means so much because

we're seeing how great thou art, but it's not out there.

It's in here.

That greatness of wisdom and knowledge and faith is in here.

And we must never forget that.

So we're looking for the word in him and in whom and in Christ.

We're looking for those words because there's a massive amount of stuff in there.

All the riches in glory in Christ Jesus are in those two words in him.

And if we're living and moving and have our being in him, we have access, direct access

to hear from him.

So Ephesians one verse one, Paul, an apostle, sent one of Jesus Christ by the will of God

to the saints who are in Ephesus and to the faithful in Jesus Christ.

If they're faithful, they're full of faith, the God kind of faith.

It's a gift from God.

They say any man should boast.

That was the faith that got us into this in the first place, that got us into Christ,

therefore being justified by faith.

We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace to be to you.

In many, in many, in many opening books, he says grace be multiplied to you and peace

from from God, our father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

God be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath who hath past tense, who

hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.

It's a done work.

It's in him, all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, all the spiritual blessings.

And that pertains to everything.

Peter says at the beginning of his book, who hath granted us past tense, everything pertaining

to life and godliness.

It's all in him.

If you dip into him and stay in, he's the vine and you're the branch and that's one

plant and if you stay abiding in that branch through the word of God and the spirit of

God and you're in a man, you're going to bear fruit.

You're going to walk in love.

It's a choice.

A soft answer turns away wrath.

People try to manipulate one another through words.

We see it everywhere.

We want to cancel them.

We want to cut them off.

We want to stop those words getting out.

We want to shut them down because it's normally to those people that are speaking truth that

they want to shut down and that's very manipulative.

When you get angry at someone, you're trying to manipulate them.

When you're getting frustrated, you're going, well, I don't like what you're saying and

you know, that's affecting me.

Well, why is it affecting you?

Would it affect Christ?

No, but if your life is dead and hidden with Christ and God, then it's not going to affect

you.

It's going to be water like a duck's back.

Jesus can handle it.

Step back.

When someone's getting angry and they're threatening the words like you at work or they're trying

to manipulate it, step back and let Jesus handle it and stay in peace.

Amen.

Praise God.

That's why we give it, you know, those be anxious for nothing Philippians forces, nothing.

That's the same as all cares gone.

Take no thought for your life.

Be anxious for nothing, but with prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving.

Oh, when you're thanking God, you can't be grumbling and complaining when you're praising

God and worshiping and singing the songs of the redeemed and blessing one another and

singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.

You can't be in the place of grumbling and complaining.

The children of God were whittled down to two people.

Joshua and Caleb made it in.

Why?

Because they gave a good report and a good report is that I don't care what I'm going

through.

I've got Christ in my vessel and I'm going to get to the other side.

You know what happened when they got to the other side after that big storm and it's,

you know, they were going over there to rid that man of.

Allegiant of demons.

We got a legion of demons out there in the world and the first place to be when you're

headed towards the victory that God wants to do on this planet to bring about the victory

of the cross in the world out there and a mighty harvest is for you to start realizing

that Christ is in your vessel.

And he's there for a reason.

You can either be operating out of you or you or by walking in the spirit, you can be

operating out of him.

That's your choice.

And one of the biggest things that stops all these wonderful promises that coming is you

and me.

That's why we put off the old man in Colossians three and we put on the Lord Jesus Christ.

We put off everything of self and what we want to do.

It's no longer I that liveth but Christ that liveth in me.

So we've been blessed with all according as he has chosen us.

Let's go to verse four in him chosen us in him.

When before the foundation of the world.

That's a long time ago before we even went to the cross before the world was created

before he said the to Eve that you know he was going to she was going to crush him under

foot through the through the Messiah that was going to come through her lineage.

Before all that he knew us that we would be holy and blameless before him in love.

That's a description of God holy blameless full of love.

If God lives in us we should be like God.

That's why one of the big things that Paul talks about over and over again is where to

be holy.

We have the Holy Ghost and the first fruit of the Holy Spirit is love and if you walk

in love you won't be sinning.

All sin is based in selfishness.

I will you know I'll take I'll do this I'll have what's not mine.

I'll cover it with what's not mine.

I'll kill with what's not mine because I want to.

All of that's taken away and if we read Corinthians 13 we know that you don't have love you got

nothing nothing.

That's why it's not arrogant boastful proud rude doesn't keep a record of wrongs gentle

kind peaceful full of humility counting other one another is more important than ourselves

and that's something we should never forget in the body of Christ.

We shouldn't be looking out just for our stuff.

We should be looking out for one another.

Having predestined us to the adoption by children by of children by Jesus Christ to himself

according to the good pleasure of his will.

When he gave you faith to be translated out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom

of his dear son you were adopted born into the family.

I was born into the family physically but something greater than that has happened now.

I'm born into a spiritual family by one spirit I was immersed into the body of Christ and

I've become part of his members and as we connect to the head to listen to his voice

to see a revelation of his word in the in the Bible here the spirit of God teaching

us that's forming the living word in us so that the word will become flesh again in you

and I amen to the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he has accepted us.

You're accepted.

You don't have to do anything to get there.

You don't have to do any works.

There are people out in Christendom today.

They saw those words of Jesus.

I think it's Matthew twenty five or somewhere around there where he says you know when do

we see you naked?

When do we see you hungry?

When we are sick and we we visited you at the hospital or when we are in prison and

we came and saw you and they take those words and think oh well we'll impress God by doing

all those four.

No we're going to come to a verse later in chapter two that tells us we don't get in

by works lest any man should boast but once we're in we have his nature.

And then we're led by the spirit to do those things when we see a brother or a sister in

trouble that we will help them because if you if you say that you love God that you

haven't seen and blessed are those that do then you've got to love your brother and sister

who you have seen and might be a need in front of you.

So let's go to Ephesians one seven in whom in whom there we go big words in whom in Christ

we have redemption through his blood he's brought us back.

The Passover lamb has been sacrificed for us.

I love lamb.

It tastes great.

I had a I had a big lamb roast yesterday.

I probably had more than my fair share but it was good taste and see that the lamb is

good you know there's there's there's principles in the Bible that says first the natural then

the spiritual things in the natural correlate to things in the spiritual and one of the

biggest lessons of that for Christ our Passover lamb sacrifice for us was that back in Egypt

there was a price for them to escape from Pharaoh's clutches and that price was to kill

an unblemished male lamb and put the blood on the doorpost of their house just like we're

the house of the Holy Spirit now the door of the house is our life and that's where

we dwell.

You dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide.

It's where you're dwelling and abiding that determines the promises and the reality that

you have.

So they put the blood on the doorpost of this house so that in the middle of the night or

whenever it came the angel of death passed over and death has passed over you and I and

has lost its sting because we have eternal life in Jesus Christ and we're living forever

because we started when we invited him in eternal life came in and it's living in us

every day and that's why we go to have that's why we go to be with him heaven is to being

with him and in him we stay there he's not leaving and so what did they do after they

put the blood on the doorpost of the house they went inside and they barbecued the lamb

over the fire and they ate it.

Jesus said eat my body drink my blood.

What did they do they ate the lamb whatever is left went back in the fire the lamb was

in them.

This is a this is a spiritual parallel of Christ in us right back there and that was

the price for them to get out of Egypt cross over through the waters of baptism death back

that we're leaving Egypt behind the water is going to close behind us and we'll never

go back to the kingdom of darkness.

That's why Jesus said anyone putting their hand to the plow and turning backs not fit

he didn't say you're not going to get to heaven he says you're not fit if you're looking

back at Egypt and and and we're hankering for the onions and leeks and garlic or whatever

they ate back there.

He says leave and leave it behind.

I believe that that was it was that unleavened bread they ate and the and the and the lamb

with a bread that speaks of Christ as well and that blood on their house.

Save them and redeem them out of Egypt redemption is a price paid to take us back you could

redeem a slave go and pay the price and set them free.

Jesus paid the price in his body therefore glorify God in your body through his blood

the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace so the lamb can come and live

in us just like they ate the lamb and he was in them and David says he brought them forth

with silver and gold and there was not a feeble one amongst them.

Why is that because the lamb was inside them the great physician Jehovah Raffer the Lord

your healer verse 9 having made known to us the mystery of his will according to the good

pleasure which he purposed in himself that in the dispensation of the fullness of times

he might gather together one in one all things in Christ that's you and me the body both

which are in heaven and which are on earth even in him there's words in him just keep

flowing over and over and over again.

We need to be convinced fully persuaded that what God has promised he's able to perform.

In Romans 7 and I think it says we'd be dead to the law through the body of Christ rules

and regulations that we might be married to another.

You know what I don't have any problem with a certain fact in my life that 43 years ago

I got married I don't have any problem with remembering it 44 is it oh I'm in trouble

here I'm in real trouble now 44 years ago yeah we just passed the other mark praise

God but you know I don't have trouble knowing I don't get up and think oh am I am I married

to us still you know.

I'd be in trouble if I got up wondering about that I don't have any trouble it's a fact

like you're only like you know your name we become one flesh we live together we think

similarly it just goes on every day.

I have no trouble I'm confident in it I don't need to go and find that where's that certificate

you know I better just see is this really true it's etched on my brain I know that I

know it's family for heaven's sake this is family I said I do to it and there's no way

I'm going to forget it yet people have a lot of trouble believing that where's God I haven't

seen the answer to my prayer well he heard your prayer you have confidence is there he's

with you he's doing it through faith and patience we inherit the promises just stand fast it's

God's problem not yours.

So we have to know that in whom verse 11 in whom here we go in again it's not just with

it's in that's a big difference it's not out there somewhere some way some day it might

happen because it's supposed to no it's in you revivals in you you've got to let the

God of revival out of you by letting love joy and peace by letting fruit come and by

let his his spirit flow in you being predestined in whom we have also obtained an inheritance

when I stood at the altar with Christine I didn't have much she had a lot more than I

had actually she owned a car and a caravan which we lived in for a little while and when

I said I do everything that I own she got and everything she owned I got and when we

stand at the altar with Jesus the bridegroom and we're the bride everything that is his

is ours all riches in glory by Christ Jesus he says I'm going to meet your needs according

to what I can scrape up in you know Woodridge and Springwood no I'm going to meet your needs

according to my riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

With God in whom we obtained an inheritance where joint heirs with Jesus all the treasures

of wisdom and knowledge are in him we should have the best wisdom and knowledge when we

go to work or whatever we're doing out there we should have it because it's there freely

available in him that's why James says hey it's easy to ask and not doubt and be like

the wave tossed on the sea if you're asking for wisdom and it's a great prayer to pray

because wisdom with wisdom if you look at Solomon's life with wisdom comes a lot of

benefits and he asked for wisdom and he's the guy that wrote in Proverbs trust in the

Lord with all your heart and lean not oh how's it going to happen I don't know it's going

to happen according to his riches in glory though lean not to your own understanding

not to what the circumstances are telling you but in all your ways acknowledge him because

he is your way he is your truth he is your life and he's living in you praise God that's

exciting we have joint ears with Jesus being predestined according to the purpose of him

who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will that we should be to the praise

of his glory who first trusted in Christ and even that trust he gave us in whom in whom

here we go again you also trusted that after you heard the word of truth the gospel of

your salvation in whom also after you believe you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise

praise God I believe we're going to see and we need to focus and get back to the baptism

in the Holy Ghost when John was talking about this great salvation that was coming and the

mighty the mighty Messiah that was coming what did he say he says I'm not worthy to

undie his thing but he will he will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire he'll come

and live in you through his spirit in your in your inner man Christ will dwell in your

hearts by faith amen that's good news and I want to see more evangelists saying that

sort of stuff not where you pray this prayer and you got a ticket into heaven no pray this

prayer become a disciple get learn about these things of the spirit in your inner man and

you can shine to the world and bring heaven to the world now amen heaven in our hearts

and the fire of God in us we need that fire Holy Ghost and fire that burns out the dross

that leaves self behind and we get swept away in the spirit of God you know that that verse

I think it's Ezekiel 37 or 47 I'm not sure which one one's dry bones and the other one's

water coming out of the temple but the the water coming out of the temple was ankle deep

people say oh I'm in the river I'm ankle deep you know it's coming from the temple we are

the temple of the living God now out of our bellies should flow rivers of living water

and then it goes to knee deep and whoa I'm getting a bit wobbly on my feet now it's knee

deep but then it goes waist deep and you go whoa I'm nearly being swept off my feet here

you see when when that river touches our heart we will he will sweep us off our feet and

we'll no longer be anchored on the earth we'll no longer be anchored to worldly things but

the spirit of God will wash us away in the river and the last thing that goes under our

head so even our head will be transformed by the renewing of our mind that we might

prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God that comes through reading

his will and getting our eyes of our understanding enlightened to it so we're going to read about

that in verse 15 actually I shouldn't jump verse 14 which is the earnest of our inheritance

until the redemption of the purchase possession that's all of us under the praise of his glory

whereas I also after I heard your faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the saints

look at that if you've got some faith that Christ is living in you if you're living by

faith then love's going to come out for all the saints especially of the household of

God I cease not to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers when I'm before

the throne I'm talking to God that he would do this I started reading praying this prayer

back in the early 2000s one of the most important things I did in my life but the God of our

Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation

and knowledge of him your eyes of your understanding be enlightened that you can see in the spirit

you can see what God's telling us you can only walk through a door that you can see

if I see the door open I can walk through that door and and John 10 verse 9 says I am

John 10:9

the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved behold I'm standing at the door and

knocking Christian I want to come into your life come in today come in to stay because

I'm not going to leave we serve a great God a great salvation and he's transformed us

from the inside out and his spirit should flow out of us and we should read the word

of God every time you open this book ask the Holy Spirit to give you a spirit ask to see

it ask to feel it ask for it to become alive to you ask it to be quickened to you the same

spirit that raised Christ from the dead he'll quicken and give life to us in our spirits

and even in our bodies because if we know he lives in then the great physician lives

in there too and healing is not a great sweat anymore that's why it says the prayer of

faith shall save the sick the elders because people don't know that the that the physician

lives on the inside then the elders just go well I got Jesus silver and gold I don't have

much of but such as I have give I be in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise and

walk you know I believe that story is a bit of a type of the end church and we need a

restoration of the things of God the man go by the gate beautiful he's in a good place

it's like the modern church but it was born without evangelistic legs they thought it

was all about themself and because he didn't have legs he stayed in the one place and he

had to tin cup in his hand and every day he's counting the numbers game who can I get because

the more people I talk to if I get in a place where I can get more numbers I'll get more

money and if I get more money I'll have more survival and and I only talk to people because

because I need them to put money in my bucket and they're playing the numbers game you heard

this before you've seen this in the body of Christ before their only vision is to get

more people on the seat so they get more in the cup and more power and influence it's

all about God it's not about us so what does a man with a tin cup do he thinks oh he's

a good prospect he's dressed well he looks good we'll give him pride a price we'll sit

him down the front you know we'll we'll make him a deacon whatever no that's not how this

works but that's how it worked for the guy with a tin cup because he had to get his needs

met he had to had to be sustained but along came along come the apostle and prophet for

all of the Holy Ghosts and power and say we don't have what you're looking for you're

looking for silver and gold to meet your needs but I got something that's far better I got

something that the world can't give and the world can't take him away amen Jesus is the

one that the world can't give and the world can't take him away praise God and such as

we have Christ the healer in us we give to you now bang and he went walking and leaping

and braising God and I believe as the church gazes as the church puts aside silver and

gold in the numbers game and they look to Almighty God and his messages and servants

that are bringing the word of God then God will go out into that church will go then

flourish there instead of the flesh and we'll actually do we'll get our evangelistic legs

back and we'll actually go and do what we're called to do amen got a little bit off track

there but you know that's all right so that the eyes of your understanding verse eight

and be enlightened we need enlightenment on what we have we had this treasure in earth

and vessel that the excellence is not of ourselves but of God that's fantastic that we might

know the hope you're calling your called find out what your calling is listen to the voice

of God and walk in that calling doesn't matter what it is do it in the name of Jesus Christ

you know that that that guy that was laying by the at the gate beautiful it says later

on faith in that man faith in my in that name has made this man whole in the midst of you

all when God's acting in us it's when we use the name of Jesus that what's in us is activated

we cast out demons in the name of Jesus we pray for the sick in the name of Jesus we

do everything in that night because when we use that name Christine took my name and when

she uses that name all the resources that we had together goes into action and the same

happens when we use his name that he gave for us so the eyes of our understanding to

understand what the hope of our calling the riches so if Christ in me is is big and great

then Christ in you is too so we have riches in this room riches of his inheritance in

the saints there's gifts and ministries and callings right here today and as you move

in it the whole body will move as one when my body's running your arms pumping like that

you think well that's a funny action for an arm to do but for the body to run properly

and for the balance to be there you've got to swing those arms and it all moves together

and the head is coordinating the whole lot sending it down the nerve pathways and it's

through the spirit of God that the head is sending all the messages to the body that

we'd work together for the edification of itself in love amen wonderful stuff that he's

done for us and so verse 19 what a wonderful verse if there's nothing else you get from

this morning meditate on verse 19 for a week or so and what is the exceeding greatness

of his power to us would who believe according to the working of his mighty power.

Nothing is impossible when you put your trust in God nothing is impossible when you're trusting

in his word I can do the voice of God to thee is there anything too hard for me so put your

trust in God alone and stand upon his word for everything yes everything yes everything

is possible with God.

You know who had that singing at their meetings?

Catherine Kuhlman a piece of Missouri cornbread a lady a divorcee whose life was had it and

she said God if you can take anything of what's left fill me up she had choirs singing songs

like that and that impossibility can be done through you the greatness exceeding greatness

of the power towards us who believe which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from

the dead and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places far above all principality

all power and might and dominion so all the stuff that's happening out there all those

people that think they're hot shots in the world today that have got the spirit of the

devil in them and the world you know whether it's the web or whether it's the leader here

or there or those trying to get rid of speech put a big clamp down God is on the throne

and he's in you and greater is the I don't care if he's the Antichrist greater is still

he that's in you than he that's in the world these words shall not pass away even if the

worst turns up in front of us because God won the battle and having spoiled principalities

and powers making an open show of them he triumphed over the devil why because he took

the handwriting of ordinances against us all those little bits of paper all the things

we've done wrong and nailed it to the cross so that we might be made the righteousness

of God in Christ he who knew no sin became sin that we would be made the righteousness

and there we can come boldly to the throne of grace and dip into everything that he is

joint heirs with Jesus Christ

praise God

he's put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things of the

church which is his body the head and the body eternally unite we're we're moving from

the instructions from heaven which is why we need the prophetic then the body will move

with the instructions of the head Jesus Christ and will dwell in his fullness the fullness

of him that filleth all in all so I haven't got a lot of time left so I want to I want

to skip down to and please read chapter 2 it's fantastic stuff that even when we're

dead and our trespasses and he quickened and made us alive having raised us up together

and sit in heavenly places I'm reading from verse 6 of chapter 2 in heavenly places in

Christ Jesus that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace and

his kindness toward us through Jesus Christ Peter said on the day of Pentecost this promise

of the Holy Ghost is for you and for all who are far off and as to many as our God shall

call that's us far off two thousand years later that in the ages to come he might show

us the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus for

by grace and we'll finish with this for by grace you say through faith it's not of yourselves

it is a gift of God so we get in by grace and loan we can't do anything to earn this

because if we say we are earning something or any blessing then you're cutting across

the cross of Calvary because he earned it all when he said it is finished it was a done

work completed in the spirit and we'll finish in verse 10 for we are his workmanship you

need to say I am his workmanship created in Christ Jesus under good works whenever you

see good works I see drop out and oh out of good and see God works I used to say this

guys in Bible College good works are God works and he's prepared and before a whole lot above

and what beyond whatever you can ask think or imagine he's prepared good works for you

that you might walk in them even before the foundation of the world will you stand on

your feet with me that we should walk in them we walk by faith our walk is on the golden

streets that their faith is tested like silver and gold and our faith is more precious than

silver and gold because faith put the silver and gold there in the earth in the first place

that we might walk in him father I thank you that you are a need meeting God and for any

needs in this congregation today whether it be physical in our bodies spiritual we need

more faith and more enlightenment we ask God that their eyes their understanding be open

the things in the natural you'll meet our needs according to your riches in glory by

Christ Jesus father we speak that out today and if you've got a need today cast that care

on him give it to him let Lisa throw it away from you invite that the peace of God will

come right God wants to bring you peace as you give that care that worry that way that

not knowing where you're going to turning the way you're going to turn next not knowing

what's down the road because you can't see but he's saying I am your way I will show

you and as you move forward in faith you'll see what's in front of you father we thank

you for your love I remember that song long wide wide as the ocean deep as the deepest

sea all about your love that you have for me and it's because of a revelation that you

love us that we can trust you give us a revelation of how much it took me until I was lying there

in hospital but thinking that I was condemned and he came and spoke and he said I don't

want giving you a new life and when you know how much he loves you and he's never left

you nor forsaken you your faith will grab a hold of him and never let go Jesus we we

we rededicate ourselves we present our bodies saints present your body to him a living sacrifice

a living dead dead to what you want because apart from apart from you apart from him you

can do nothing but with him we can do all things so God we put off the old man with

his passions and desires to follow this earth to follow the things of this earth we and

we look forward in your face the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the glory

of God that we find in the in his face as we seek his face we change from glory to glory

that we might know him and the power of his resurrection father bless these saints as

they're looking to you as the all-sufficient one God Almighty you're more than enough more

than enough and we thank you for this great salvation we want to dedicate our lives to

it to follow and live and move and have our being in you every day help us to go this

week shining with your goodness and grace may our speech be seasoned with salt and gentle

meek and kind to everyone that we come across and we show your nature to all that we meet

we pray these things in Jesus name amen thank you for joining us we pray God's richest blessing

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