Imposter Syndrome – Mystery & Mission

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All right, everybody.

Hope you came to church ready to get to work.

Today is going to feel like drinking out of a fire hose because today we are getting into Ephesians chapter three.

Now, if you're new to our church or maybe you just missed the last couple weeks, every summer we take a long period of time and we dig into a book of the Bible.

I said this in week one.

I said in the spring and the fall, we teach series that help to grow our church, series on relationships and finances and things that people deal with.

In the summer, we really dig into helping you grow spiritually.

And this is so cool to me.

When we help you grow, you know what happens?

Our church grows and everybody grows and everybody gets better.

So we're going through the book of Ephesians.

Ephesians is six chapters, and this is a seven-week series on week seven.

For those of you who are like super Bible nerds, you got to get here because in the book of Revelation, Jesus himself talks about the church in Ephesus.

So I thought that would be a fun little bonus at the end of this whole series.

And so what we're gonna do is we're gonna spend seven weeks in Ephesians and talking about the church in Ephesus.

Week one, we said this God has a new identity for you.

So many of us, we find our identity from all the wrong places, but the only one who can name you and label you is the one who created you, and God has a label for you, and it is his child.

It was a really strong message.

Then last week, we heard from my favorite preacher in the whole world, the beautiful Liz Burns, everybody.

And she said that God's intention wasn't just to make us a better version of ourselves, his whole intention was to make us new.

So, what does it look like to live new in Christ?

Today, as we get to chapter three, I want to show you where we're at because I want to help you understand the context of what we're going to read.

And maybe for some of you today, I'm gonna take a verse that you've heard a hundred times and I'm gonna show you what it actually means and what it doesn't mean, okay?

Now, when Paul writes letters, and he wrote lots and lots of letters, they all seem to follow this same kind of rhythm or pattern.

He starts with doctrine and then he gets with application.

So he starts with like theology, like what you need to know about God, and then how does this apply to your life?

In the book of Ephesians, it's like every other book, he starts with our identity in Christ.

In fact, in the first three chapters of Ephesians alone, he uses the phrase in Christ 27 times, identity, and then the second part is your behavior.

It's like a lot of us grew up in churches where we talked about our behavior.

You got to fix you, fix your issues, and then you can come to God.

That's not how God works.

God works from the inside out.

If you fix your identity, your behavior flows from your identity.

Here's another way to break up the book of Ephesians because I want you to see where we are in the book.

The first two chapters, the first three chapters, are about what I would call the wealth of the believer.

In chapter one, he says that we are seated in heavenly places with God.

There is this royal inheritance you get as being a son or daughter of the king.

It's super cool.

Then chapters four and five are what I would call the walk of the believer.

Now, walk is a kind of a Christian-y term.

It means how you walk out or live out your faith.

And here's what Paul's going to talk about.

Next week we're going to get into the walk section.

When you understand who you are, it should affect how you live.

And if you start living according to the things of God, if you start living out your divine purpose, the enemy of your soul is going to take notice and he's going to wage war on you.

So, how do you fight for your freedom in Christ?

And so you could say it like this: as followers of Jesus, as we get into this book, the goal is to help you grow and then walk so you can fight.

The problem for some of you with your relationship with God is you thought the way you started was just walking.

But but let me try to explain this to you in really simple terms.

No baby comes out the womb, eight pounds, six ounces, and parents are like, well, get up, stop being lazy and start walking.

No, no, you gotta grow first, right?

And like no baby comes out of the womb and a parent hands them a machete or a gun and says, Hey, get to work.

It doesn't work like that, right?

I mean, if you do, that's the most pulp county thing ever, but nobody does that.

But here's what I want you to understand.

You have to grow before you can walk or fight.

The problem for some Christians is we spend our whole life in grow mode.

And what do you call a person who never stops growing?

I would say that there's a lot of American Christians, ready for this, who I would call spiritually obese.

There are people who come to church and they treat church like a spiritual buffet.

Feed me, feed me, feed me, feed me, feed me.

It's all about me, me, me, me, me.

And until you start walking out your faith and exercising your faith, you'll never come to fruition or fullness or maturity in Christ.

And that's what it's about.

So today, as we get to Ephesians chapter 3, I'm kind of ending the grow set of chapters.

Ephesians 3 · chapter mention

I want you back next week as we talk about how do we actually walk this out and how do we actually live this thing out so we can become mature followers of Jesus.

Are you with me?

Let's get after it today.

Many years ago, my family took our first family cruise, and um my I love cruises.

I love cruises because everything is thought of and everything is taken care of for you.

And I really love cruises because you can get ice cream after breakfast and nobody judges you.

Come on, somebody, right?

Some of you are like, this is my church.

I found it.

I love it.

Okay, I love this.

And so on our first one, we were trying to do, like, we've never been done a cruise, so we were trying to do everything.

So we went to all the shows and all the comedy stuff, and one night we went to a magic show.

That's what we were gonna see, a magic show.

And I don't remember a lot of the details.

I just remember the magician went by the name the amazing something.

We'll call him Kevin, the amazing Kevin.

And so we get there, but we got there like right as it was about to start, and there was only a few seats left, and so the other four in my family sat together near the front, and the only seat for me was literally all the way on the far end of the front row, and the way the row was set up, they weren't straight rows, they were all curved, like a half circle.

So my seat was on the far end, and I was literally sitting directly behind the magician.

So the magician would do tricks, and everyone in the room would go, ooh, wow, and clap for the guy.

But I was sitting behind him and could see everything he was doing.

And it was funny to me because he would end his tricks and he would go, Are you amazed?

And everyone would say, Yeah.

And I was like, not really.

I mean, I could see it the whole time.

Anybody understand how this works?

Ephesians chapter 3 is Paul saying, I want you to have a seat like that where you can see what God has actually been doing from the beginning of time until now.

Ephesians 3 · chapter mention

I want you to see what God has always been about, okay?

And here's what I want to do.

I want to jump to the end of the chapter, and I want to read two verses, and let me give you a heads up.

Here's how we're gonna end today.

We're gonna end by reading the end of this prayer together, and but I want to show you what it actually means.

Here is the end of the chapter, here's what he says.

Ephesians 3, verse 20.

Ephesians 3:20

He says this.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we could ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, he says, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever.

Amen.

And this is the verse that churches have built buildings off of.

This is the church that churches have raised money off of.

This is the kind of church that people wear on t-shirts, that literally the idea is that God can do immeasurably.

Meaning you can't count, you can't even fathom how much God is able to do.

And the point of this is simply this is that we were meant for more.

The problem is, many of us think the more means more for us.

More money, more success, more fame, more love, more enjoyment, more job satisfaction.

And so we take this verse and we pull it out of context and we put it into the context of our life.

That's called proof texting, okay?

Proof texting is what politicians do, where they find a verse that fits their political ideology and apply it, but they apply it with no context whatsoever.

Are you with me on this?

So here's what I don't want you to do as your pastor.

I don't want you to cherry-pick verses out of the Bible and be like, oh, God's able to do immeasurably more than I hope or imagine and apply it to the wrong thing, because I want you to see what God intended us to apply it to.

Now, I'm in a fun season of life where my kids are getting older and we're getting out of the kid movies, and I'm I'm now able to show my kids like wonderful, amazing, powerful movies like National Treasure.

Anybody love those?

Okay, like I'm showing them like adult movies now, but when they were kids, they loved all the cartoon kid movies.

And it's funny because now they're pretty much over it, but sometimes they'll say this, and it's like I can still see the sparkle of childhood in their eye.

They'll say, Well, just for nostalgia, let's watch, and then they watch some old kid movie.

There was one many years ago that was funny, and it was a really dumb movie.

Anybody seen this cinematic Master Piece, Madagascar?

Anybody seen this one?

And it was so funny because it was centered around these four animals who were in a zoo in New York, kind of in um in Central Park together.

And I love, I love the animals, that they're just so funny.

It started off with this giraffe, and the giraffe was kind of a hypochondriac, like always had anxiety, always needed a doctor, always felt like the world was caping in on him.

And then there was this hippo, and I can identify with this hippo because this hippo was all about the spa and getting a massage and a manicure, right?

And then there was this zebra, and the zebra thought he was the man.

Like he thought he was in the wild, and he had a treadmill, and he had a picture of the jungle where he should have come from.

He had a treadmill and he would walk and pretend like he was in the wild, but he was literally just in the zoo, right?

And then there was this lion, and the lion is kind of the central figure in the movie, and literally every day the zookeepers would bring him steak.

He would come out, stand on a hill, roar, the people would cheer for him, and he'd go back, and he felt like he was the man.

Anybody seen this movie?

Anybody remember this one?

And it's funny because one day the zebra realizes that he's literally just on a treadmill.

Like he realizes that the steak gets brought, the manicure, pedicure is not normal.

He realizes that their environment isn't really all real to them.

He realizes he's walking on a treadmill to a picture of the jungle.

And he says, maybe we, maybe this isn't all there is.

Like maybe there is something, and they break out and they go on this wonderful adventure and they find Madagascar and they discover that which they were meant for.

I wonder how many of us, if we could just take an honest audit of our own hearts, we feel like there is this part of our heart, of our spirit, where God's calling us to a great adventure in Him, but we've settled for like the lowest level of mediocre, media, mediocre Christianity.

And just what would it look like if all of us just made this decision to say, God, no, I know you created me for more.

So let me get the more that you intended and let me live on mission with you.

Now that you understand where we're going, let's go back to the beginning of Ephesians chapter 3.

Ephesians 3 · chapter mention

I want you to see this because this is funny to me.

Chapter 3, verse 1.

Paul says, For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus.

Pause here.

He's in jail in the book of Ephesians.

He's in jail in Rome, and he writes four different epistles, which are letters to churches that we have.

He writes the book of uh Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and the little book of Philemon.

He writes all of these from jail, and from jail he writes that I'm a prisoner, but he doesn't say a prisoner of Rome.

He says I'm a I'm a prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles.

Now this is interesting because you need to remember in Jesus' world, like the writing of the Bible, there's there's two predominant groups of people.

There's the Jews, God's chosen people, then there's the Gentiles.

And we don't use the word Gentiles very much in our modern language, but Gentiles just means non-Jewish.

So you've got Jewish people and you've got non-Jewish people.

And so Paul says he's in prison, and maybe it's possible that God has an intention for him in his circumstances.

And maybe that's a message for somebody that's a separate side note, but maybe you're in the middle of what feels like a prison season or a waiting season or a longing season or a lonely season.

And maybe instead of focusing on you and saying I'm a prisoner to my circumstances, what if you saw the way Paul did, which is that I might be trapped in something, but maybe God has an intention bigger than me.

Like if Paul isn't in prison, we don't get this masterpiece, the crown jewel of the New Testament, because he writes it from prison.

He says, for this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus, for the sake of you Gentiles, and then there's this dash.

And it's interesting because he's about to start a prayer, but it's almost like, um, okay, this is church, but it's okay, this is a free space.

Okay, did anybody watch the TV show, The Office?

Anybody like that show?

One of my favorite Michael Scott's lines is he says, Sometimes I start a sentence and I don't know where it's going, and I hope to find it along the way.

That's kind of what Paul does.

He's like, I'm gonna start this prayer.

I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles.

Ah hold on a second, let me kind of go back.

And he walks it back, he he puts that dash, and he says, This, verse two, he says, Surely you have heard about the administration of God's grace that was given to me for you.

That is the mystery made known to me by the revelation, as I have already written briefly.

So Paul is in prison, and he writes this letter, and this letter is to a church in Ephesus.

We talked about Ephesus week one.

It was this monumentally uh successful, independent, proud city.

It was one of those cities that everyone in the world knew it was a big deal to be from, Ephesus.

They had one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

They had this massive commerce, massive port system, all kinds of amazing things happen in Ephesus.

And he writes to them and he says, Listen, I want you to pay attention because God is doing something.

The fact that I'm even in prison writing you says God is up to something.

And he uses this word.

He says, You know my circumstances, but I want you to know what's happening is a mystery.

He uses this word.

He uses it here, he also uses it in the book of Colossians.

This word mystery in Greek is a fun word.

It's the word musterion.

And musterion means mystery, but like when we think of mystery, we think of things like Scooby-Doo.

Anybody remember Scooby-Doo?

It's like, who did it?

Who did the bad thing?

And usually in Scooby-Doo, it was always someone wearing a mask the whole time, right?

Like, we think of movies that are mysteries, it's like, who's the murderer, who did this, who, and that's how mystery in the Bible, this word musterion, when he writes, he's like, God had something that really very few people knew what he was doing, and now he's been doing it the whole time, but now he's revealing it to you.

That's what Ephesians chapter 3 is.

Ephesians 3 · chapter mention

Is there there is this mystery.

Well, what is the mystery that God has been up to the whole time?

He says it in verse 6 a few verses later.

He says, This mystery, musterion, is that through the gospel, the good news of Jesus, the Gentiles, even those who are not Jewish, even those who at one time felt excluded, the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel or Jewish people, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise of Christ Jesus.

Let's just pause here for just a moment.

That this is the mystery.

That there was a moment in time where God was really like only it felt like accessible to the Jews, but now the message of Jesus, and because of who Jesus is, the mystery is that Jesus came for Jews and for Gentiles.

That the message of Jesus literally is, it's not just for the Jewish people, it literally is for everyone.

If you go back to Ephesians chapter 2, there's this interesting line where Paul talks about how God tears down a wall.

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And if you don't understand the context, it doesn't really make sense.

But in the church in Jesus' day or when this was written, it's like Gentiles were invited to come, but there was a wall that separated the Jews from the Gentiles.

The Jews got the good seats, the Gentiles got the noseblees.

Like if you're if you're old enough to remember smoking sections and non-smoking sections and restaurant, there was a wall.

The wall never made sense.

I worked at Olive Garden.

There was a smoking section and a non-smoking section and a wall this tall, like smoke.

Anyways, but this is what he wants you to know.

And he wants you to know that those who are not Jewish get the same blessing and benefit as those who are not.

Everyone's welcome into God's family.

He goes on in verse 7 to say this.

We're gonna read a lot here.

Here's what it was: it was to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ.

Hold on to that for just a moment.

And to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, this mysterion.

Next verse, which for ages past was kept hidden in God who created all things.

So God had this plan the whole time, but just now is he starting to reveal it to us.

His intent, God's intent, was that now, through the church, through you and me, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly realms according to his eternal purpose, that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In him and through faith in him, we may approach God with freedom and confidence.

This is how God wants you to come to him.

He says, I ask you therefore not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.

Here's what he says: He says that in Christ, and because of what Jesus did, every single person, Jewish, Gentile, Jewish, and non-Jewish, every single person is now the revelation of the mystery.

Because the message of Jesus really is not just for Jews.

Everyone's invited.

So remember, he starts with this word that we just use, mystery.

And the mystery is simply this that the message of Jesus is for everyone.

But the next few verses, here's what he's going to explain to us.

It's not just the mystery, it's a mystery and a mission.

And so if the message of Jesus is for everyone, look at this.

The church should be for everyone.

And this is a big deal to me.

It's the reason that I preach the way I preach and explain things the way I explain things.

It's the reason the songs we sing, we try to pick songs that at least kind of make sense.

It's because if you ever bring someone who is far from church, doesn't really do the church thing, doesn't do the God thing, you'll understand it.

That if the message of Jesus is for everyone, that's the mystery that God's revealing, then the church should be for everyone.

And then Paul's gonna go on as he writes, and he's gonna use this word.

And it's it's so interesting how God puts pieces together.

Here's the word Paul's going to use in the next verse that God is our father.

This is the picture that Paul wants us to see of God.

The problem is, I know that this word is loaded with all kinds of meanings.

I bet you if we were to pull our whole church today, we would get hundreds of different pictures of what a father is, wouldn't we?

I've always loved this analogy.

I've got a good dad who I love, who loves me.

I always felt encouraged and inspired, I always felt uplifted and supported.

One time I was preaching about God being our father, and I remember it was our third service here in South Lakeland, and I finished the message and went backstage and grabbed a drink of water, and I came back out into the auditorium, and in this room to my left, there was a man three or four rows back, and he was standing with his hands on the back of the chair in front of him, with his head down, just looking like this.

And I had a couple quick conversations, and I thought maybe he's just praying.

I don't know what's going on.

And I went over to this guy and I knew the guy.

I slapped him on the shoulder.

I said, What's up, man?

How are you?

And he goes, I can't do it.

I said, What?

He goes, I can't do the father thing you're talking about.

He goes, My earthly father was so bad, so jacked up, so abusive, so toxic, so distant, so abandoned, he was so gone.

I can't do the father thing.

And it's interesting because I know Jesus' intention when he talked about God as Father was to give us a good picture, but for some of us it's a broken picture.

So here's what I want to do.

I want to use the last few verses to show you the picture that God has as Father for you on this Father's Day.

And maybe for some of you, hopefully you'll leave having that father wound healed.

Maybe for some of you you'll see I you can maybe you can put into your perspective the right places.

Maybe you had a dad who wasn't the best dad, but you have a heavenly father who is perfect and who is good.

And I want you to see this.

Now, remember earlier we read verse one that ends with the dash?

Paul says, like, whenever I think about you, and then he's gonna pick up here where the dash left off.

This is the prayer he was going to pray, and this is for you.

Here's what he says, verse 14.

When I think of all of this, the mystery and the mission of God, I fall to my knees and I pray to the Father, the creator of everything in heaven and on earth.

He says, I pray that from his glorious unlimited resources.

A picture of God.

And no matter how down and out you feel, no matter what your bank account shows, no matter what it feels like, like you are a son or a daughter of a God with endless pockets.

He can do anything he needs.

He will empower you with inner strength through his spirit.

That means that no matter what you walk through in this life, when you feel like your strength is inadequate, that's a good place to start because you don't have to do any single day in your strength.

You get to do it in his strength.

Then he says, This then Christ will make his home in your heart as you trust in him.

Your roots will go down, will grow down into God's love and keep you strong.

Have you ever seen a tree stand up to a hurricane?

It's just because it's got something grounding it so much.

That's what he says that you can experience.

And he says, And may you have the power to understand.

And this word understand is a big word, but because it doesn't just mean to know intellectually.

He's gonna tell us about God's love, but he doesn't want you to just know it.

And a lot of Christians know that God loves them.

You could go up to a person on the street and say, Hey, God loves you so much, and they say, Thank you.

I know that because we've heard it.

God loves you.

I know I've heard those words before.

I've heard it.

No, no.

Paul's saying, I don't want you to know it.

I want you to understand it.

I wanted to take the 18-inch journey from your mind to your heart.

I want you to fully lean in and trust and know your Father in heaven and how he actually loves you.

I want you to understand as all of God's people should, and then he's gonna use this beautiful illustrative language: how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.

Pause here for just a moment.

You ever been to the Grand Canyon?

This is the reason that the book of Ephesians is called the Grand Canyon of the New Testament.

If you've ever been to the Grand Canyon, it's one of the most spectacular places in the world.

I've been all over the world and it's one of the most breathtaking places.

I'll never forget my family went years ago.

And when we pulled up to it and we could see over the crest and we could see the great cavern of the Grand Canyon, my wife literally went because it's so overwhelming that the only adjective that feels adequate is grand.

I found out when we went that the average person spends less than 15 minutes in the Grand Canyon, and I was like, that's dumb, no way.

And we spent about 10 minutes in the Grand Canyon because it is so big, it is so incomprehensible that when you see it, if you were to walk an hour in either direction, your view would be the same.

It is so overwhelming in how big it is.

This is a small picture of God's love for you.

Then he goes on to say this he says, May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully.

Okay, because you can't fully understand it, you have to experience it.

Because you can't fully get your mind around it.

Maybe instead of it being an intellectual thing, it needs to be an experiential thing.

He says, Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and the power that comes from God.

And maybe for some of you, your spiritual journey has just felt kind of incomplete.

You feel like your relationship with God is a list of things to do and things to accomplish.

It's an endless, never-ending checklist of rules to follow and laws to obey, and you just feel worn out.

If that's you, ready?

Ephesians chapter 3 is God's gift to you.

Ephesians 3 · chapter mention

Because God wants you to experience Him as Father.

And then Paul uses this language, and I want you to write this down because I need some of you to come back to this this week.

He's gonna describe God's love to you, and I compared it to the Grand Canyon, but let's take it and let's make it even bigger than that.

He says, God's love is so wide.

What does it mean?

It means it's wide enough to be everywhere, every bar, every club, every brothel, every red light district.

It's it's it's wide enough to be everywhere.

And the thing is, human love wears out.

At some point there can be an end to it.

And as much as you might want to say, I love you unconditionally, even with your own children, there are strings attached to our love, but God's love never runs out, it's long enough to last forever.

He says, May you experience in your heart how deep his love is, and I want you to see this.

It's deep enough to handle anything.

It means there is no place, no depth you can sink to which his love can't reach.

If you could physically get your body to the Mariana trench, his love would be there.

And I was praying early this morning for someone, and I read these words, and I thought, I bet you there's someone in this room, someone listening to us today, who's in deep depression.

So deep that you see no way out.

You're in a depression that feels so overwhelming and so dark that you can't see hope or light for yourself.

And you just need to hear about the love of your father.

It's deep enough to get anywhere and to handle anything.

And maybe for someone, here's the last one.

This is high enough to overlook my sins.

The funny thing is, a lot of us think that there's there's no way that God could possibly love me.

I've had people say to me, If you knew what I did, I've had people come to my office and unload on me things that they thought were unforgivable.

But you know what scripture teaches about the love of God?

That when you've been made new in Christ, when God sees you, he doesn't see your sin, he sees the perfection of his son.

And if God can overlook and forgive your sins, what if you just received it for yourself?

Here's how I want to end today.

It's gonna be a little different today, how I want to end.

In a moment, I want to give you an opportunity to examine your own heart.

In a moment, I want to give you the chance to think like, have I ever fully experienced the love of God for myself?

Have I ever received salvation, the gift of God through Jesus?

Have I ever gotten that?

And some of you I want to give you an opportunity to make things right with God, to experience his love, to receive his forgiveness, to experience his grace.

And then we're going to stand together at all of our locations.

If you're joining us at church online, if you're sitting at the beach, stand your butt up.

Sorry about that.

Stand up, okay?

And what we're gonna do is we're gonna read the end to Paul's prayer together.

Why?

Because you need to be reminded that it's in his strength that all of this is even possible.

So at all of our locations, would you bow your head and close your eyes?

And I don't care if you're joining us in North Lakeland, Bartow, Church Online, here in South Lakeland, wherever you're joining us today, this moment is for you and God.

Maybe you came today and you've struggled with this for so long.

Maybe you've wondered so long, am I possibly saved?

Could God save someone like me?

Maybe you came today and you don't know if you've ever made a decision to follow Jesus, but right here, right now, this moment is for you and for God.

But if this is you, I'm gonna ask you to take three seconds of insane courage.

And if you need to make the decision to follow Jesus, to let him be the Lord and Savior of your life, no matter where you are, would you raise your hand right now?

We're gonna experience his love.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

If this is you, would you pray this with me?

Say, Jesus, today, I want to receive your love.

The incomprehensible grand over the top, so big, so wide, so deep, so great, so powerful.

I want to receive that love for myself.

Jesus, today I admit that I need a savior.

I need someone to step into my life and save me and to forgive me from all of my sins.

So today I come to you and I confess that I need you.

Jesus, would you save me, forgive me, make my life new?

I believe that you died on the cross and paid the price for my sins, and because of your great sacrifice, my life can be made new.

So, Jesus, would you save me and forgive me?

I give you my life for the rest of my life.

I choose to follow you, and it's in your name I pray, Jesus.

Amen.

Church family, would you stand up with me and celebrate people who made that decision?

And stay with me.

Stay with me.

Here's how we're gonna end today.

I want to read the final two verses of Ephesians chapter three together.

And I don't want you to just read them.

I want you to read them, and after we read them, we're gonna celebrate the power, the grace, and the immeasurable, incomprehensible love of our great God together.

Everybody with me on this?

Let's do this.

Ephesians chapter 3, verse 20.

Ephesians 3:20

And I want you to read it like you mean it.

I want you to read it like he's actually changed you.

I want you to read it because Jesus is still in the life-changing business in North Lakeland Bartow here in South Lakeland, church online all together.

Let's read it now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.

To him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever.

Amen.

If you believe it, say amen.