Episode 30

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2nd Feb 2026

30 | The Sound Mind Series: Ephesians 4:1-31 (AUDIO)

Ephesians just keeps getting better and better! Join us in our read of Ephesians, chapter 4, where Paul writes to the Gentiles.

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Welcome back everyone.

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This is episode 30 of I Can't.

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He Can.

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I am here sharing another episode of

the Sound Mind series where we are

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going through the book of Ephesians.

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Today we are going to read Ephesians four.

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And for next week we are actually going

to wrap it up with Ephesians five and

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Ephesians six, six is not too long.

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So I think next week we're

gonna combine both of those two.

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But today we're gonna

go over Ephesians four.

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And I don't know about you but

I absolutely love Ephesians.

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I also recently read Philippians and

it was just amazing, but you guys will

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find that every single book I read,

I'm probably gonna say, oh my gosh.

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Is my favorite book, but as a whole,

the Bible is just my favorite book.

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There's just so much to get from the word.

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It's amazing.

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But anyway, before we start reading, I

wanted to let you guys know that I have

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created an Instagram for the podcast.

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I am not like too gung-ho about

mixing, you know, professional

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with personal and vice versa.

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But I just figured it was easier to

create an Instagram for the podcast.

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And if you wanna follow that Instagram,

it's, I can't underscore he can.

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Very simple.

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you guys can go follow there.

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I'm going to post things as

they come up, whether it's.

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Scriptures, what I'm going to be

talking about on the podcast, if

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you guys ever want to reach out to

me, you can reach out to me here

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on YouTube or also, via Instagram.

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but remember that I'm not an expert.

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I'm not a theologist.

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I am simply reading the word to you

from the New King James version.

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That is the version that I am

reading and I'm just explaining what

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I'm taking from it, also things in

my perspective, things in my life

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currently, and what I'm going through.

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I don't expect everything

that I take from it to really

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resonate with you all the time.

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But I do.

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I want you to open the word for

yourselves and see what it has to say

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because every single time that you

open this book, this holy Bible, every

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time that you guys open it, believe me,

it's going to speak to you differently.

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That is exactly what happens

to me and all my friends that I

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know that also read the word so

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little of water.

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My goodness.

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I don't know how teachers

do it, talking all day.

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Alright, you guys, chapter four.

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Oh my gosh, I'm so silly.

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All right,

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So, verse four, chapter one, I

therefore the prisoner of the Lord

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beseech you to walk worthy of the

calling with which you were called

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with all loneliness and gentleness.

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With long suffering, bearing with one

another, and love endeavoring to keep the

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unity of the spirit and the bond of peace.

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There is one body and one spirit, just

as you were called in one hope of your

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calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

one God, and Father of all who is above

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all and through all and in you all.

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I really love.

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This little paragraph.

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This is verse one through verse

six, and then one through three is

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basically Paul saying, I'm the prisoner

of the Lord and I am imploring you.

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That's when he says, I ce you.

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I am implore.

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You walk in the worthiness of your

calling, meaning you are a child

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of God, so walk worthy of that.

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You are chosen by God, by Christ.

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So walk in that worthiness and endure.

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There's gonna be long suffering.

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There's gonna be trials, there's gonna

be things that you're gonna go through,

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but go through it together one another

in love bearing with one another.

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In love.

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We have to be gentle.

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We have to be lowly, meaning we have

to stay humble because we are all

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gonna go through this thing together.

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We are the body of Christ.

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So all of us, just like Christ, went

through his trials and went through his.

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Tremendous sacrifice and pain.

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We are also going to endure.

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Not that great, but similar stuff.

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Okay?

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So we need to enjoy that

together because what we are one.

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And then he continues to say in verse

three, endeavoring to keep the unity

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of the spirit and the bond of peace.

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So we need to be gentle, we need

to be loving with one another.

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The how are we gonna keep that spirit

of unity if we endure together,

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if we look after one another?

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So verse four, there is

one body and one spirit.

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We are the body of Christ.

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What do we all have inside us?

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The Holy Spirit.

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And we have that because Jesus left

that for us after he resurrected.

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That was our gift.

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I'm pretty sure that's

part of our inheritance.

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So we have the spirit and we're one

body because he is the head and we

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are the body of the church, and he is

calling us in one hope and one Lord.

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So there's one God, there's one Lord.

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There's one baptism.

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This isn't talking about water baptism.

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This is talking about the baptism

us in the faith when we are baptized

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with the word and with the spirit.

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So this is a spiritual baptism.

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This is, this isn't just a

dunking an in and out baptism.

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No, we are of one Lord, one faith, one

baptism, one God, and Father of all.

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God is the Father of all those things.

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And then it continues as.

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Who is above all, God is

above all and through all.

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So God is above all, he's

through all and in you all.

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We all have a piece of him.

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So beautiful.

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I love the word

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verse seven.

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Oh these planes,

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verse seven.

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But to each one of us, grace

was given according to the

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measure of Christ's gifts.

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Therefore, he says, when he

ascended on high, he led captivity

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captive and gave gifts to men.

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I have here written broke Bondage

of sin, and I have that for the line

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that says he led captivity captive.

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I think that is such a beautiful way

to say what he took from us, because

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not just in these times where Paul was

writing, but even now we are held captive.

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Of so many things we're held

captive of our careers, we're held

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captive of our marriages, of our

relationships, even of our children.

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Sometimes I love my children, but there

are people who have an almost obsessive

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and not good relationship with their kids

or with other people, and you can't be

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held captive to where you lose yourself

or you lose sight of what's important.

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Of course, family and children are

important, but it's also important to know

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that there is more to life So in verse

eight, Paul says, therefore he says, when

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he ascended on high, he meaning Jesus.

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He led captivity captive.

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He is so powerful and so incredible,

and he can do anything that he

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held captive the captivity itself.

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He broke bondage.

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He broke those chains that you always

hear people sing about and talk

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about, oh, break my chains, Lord.

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Yes, he did that and he does that

and he will continue to do that, and

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that was a gift that he gave to us.

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If we call on him, he

will help us do that.

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A lot of people don't understand that.

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People just assume God can do anything.

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But no, it also takes work.

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It takes work because you first have

to knock, you first have to knock.

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You first have to ask, and then

little by little you start doing

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the work and then comes the change.

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Then he really starts to get to work.

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That's what people don't

understand, but he can do it

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because he led captivity captive.

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Verse nine.

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Now this he ascended.

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What does it mean?

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But that he also first descended

into the lower parts of Earth.

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He who has descended is also the

one who ascended far above all the

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heavens that he might fill all things.

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So Paul here, is basically

saying like, what is this?

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He ascended mean?

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Because if you're a God in heaven or

from heaven, then wouldn't you come down?

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But yes, he did come down.

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Why?

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Because he was born here.

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He was born.

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On earth.

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But then when he ascended, that

means when he resurrected, he who was

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descended is also the one who ascended.

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So he came down and he went back up,

ascended far above all the heavens

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that he might fill all things.

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And in that ascending, what did he do?

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He filled all things with what?

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With the Holy Spirit.

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Verse 11.

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And he himself gave some to be apostles.

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Some prophets, some evangelists,

and some pastors and teachers.

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I wanna break this down because in

verse eight, where it was saying that

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he led captivity captive, it finishes

by saying and gave gifts to men.

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So Paul in verse nine, explains,

okay, but he's the one that ascended.

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But what happened there?

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Yes, he descended 'cause he was born here.

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He ascended back when he

resurrected and in him ascending,

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he left us with a spirit.

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But he also gave some people gifts, so

they're talking about spiritual gifts,

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and in these spiritual gifts, verse

11, it says he himself gave some to be

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apostles, some prophets evangelists,

and some pastors and some teachers.

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So he made some people

these specific things.

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Not everyone is a pastor.

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Not everyone is a teacher.

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Not everyone is an evangelist.

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I'm not saying I'm an evangelist, but.

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I am just a person here reading the

word of God and explaining how my

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life has changed because of Jesus.

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So if you wanna call me that, thank you so

much, but I'm just a person here bringing

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the word to you in my own way, but

also staying true to what it says here.

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Let, let's continue.

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And then verse 12, this is where Paul,

remember I said, I think in like the

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last episode that Paul always asks a

question or says something, but then he

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like elaborates and he further explains.

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So this is the verse where he explains

the things that these five different

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people, the teachers, the pastors,

evangelists, et cetera, et cetera, these

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are the things that he's explaining that

these people should be doing or what

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it is that they're going to be doing.

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So verse 12, for the equipping.

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Of the saints, of the work of ministry

for the edifying of the body of Christ.

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Verse 13, till we all come to the unity of

the faith and of the knowledge of the Son

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of God to be a perfect man to the measure

of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

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So I'm gonna read verse 11 through 13

again, so that it all makes sense for you.

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And he himself gave some to be apostles,

some prophets, some evangelists,

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and some pastors and teachers.

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For the equipping of the saints, of

the work of the ministry, for the

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edifying of the body of Christ, and

of the knowledge of the Son of God

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to be a perfect man to the measure of

the stature of the fullness of Christ.

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So he's saying, I gave some spiritual

gifts to these five kinds of people.

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Mind you, there could be many evangelists,

many teachers, but this is for the

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equipping, for the preparation.

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When he's saying equipping,

he means for people to be.

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Prepared for the saints of

the work of the ministry.

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So these are people that are going to

prepare other people to do the work

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of the ministry, to do the work of

God, it further says, for the edifying

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of the body of Christ, till we all

come to the unity of the faith and

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of the knowledge of the Son of God.

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To a perfect man, to the measure of

the stature of the fullness of Christ.

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So to edify is to improve or to instruct,

but in a godly way, I guess you can say.

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So kind of like this podcast, I personally

think that I am edifying God, because I'm

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trying to instruct and to teach and it is

something that I think the Lord will say.

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It's worthy.

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I think he'll give his approval on it.

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Maybe I'm wrong, but intellectually

and morally, I think it's something

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that can improve someone's life.

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And so it continues to say that these

people are here to prepare by equipping.

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So to prepare these people and to edify

the body of Christ, to instruct the

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body of Christ us, all of us as a whole,

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so we can have knowledge of the son

of God who was a perfect man, and in

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unity and in faith we can receive,

and we can have the fullness of

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Christ, we can come to understand all

that Christ is how by being equipped

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and by edifying the body of Christ.

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'cause if, think about it, if the church

the body of Christ is not edified.

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And it's not something that's

doing right by the word of

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God, then what are we doing?

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Are we really the body of Christ?

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We're not.

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So that is what these people have to do.

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These people have to equip us so that

we know the word of God and that we can

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continue to act on it together as a whole.

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Let's continue to verse 14 through six.

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16, that we should no longer be

children tossed to and fro and carried

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about with every wind of doctrine

by trickery of men in the cunning

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craftiness of a deceitful plotting.

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But verse 15.

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But speaking the truth in love may

grow up in all things into him.

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Who is the head?

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Christ 16.

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From who the whole body joined and knit

together by whatever joint supplies.

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According to the effective working

by which every part does its share

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causes growth of the body for

the edifying of itself in love.

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There's a lot there.

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But verse 14 says that let

us no longer be tricked.

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remember, we are children.

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We need rules.

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That is the truth.

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We need rules.

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We need to be taught.

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We need to be handheld 24 7 because if

we don't know this, if we don't follow

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this, then we are going to be what?

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We are going to be tricked.

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Like it says here With every doctrine.

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Every doctrine by the trickery

of men, how many places have

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we not gone to and nowadays?

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We don't even have to go

to church to be tricked.

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We can just open our phone on

Instagram or TikTok and that's it.

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We have it right there at our disposal,

in our hands, and that's really dangerous.

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So we can't be children that are

tossed back and forth to and fro.

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No.

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We need to have these teachers,

these apostles, these evangelists.

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We need to have these pastors who are

rightfully equipping us and edifying the

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body of Christ, teaching them, instructing

them so that we are not tricked.

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It, and we can continue to be true

children of God, not tossed to and fro

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how it says in verse 14 and then in 15.

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But speaking the truth in love, we

need to speak the truth, the word of

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God in love, not in like a hasty way.

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Um, making sure that people like,

oh, you gotta, you know, listen

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to this pastor and that pastor.

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You gotta read the word.

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You have to, you have to.

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No, no, no.

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We read, we evangelize.

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We plant the seed, that's all we do.

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If people wanna hear it, they will.

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And maybe one day they will have

no other choice but to hear it.

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And so verse 16 says, from whom?

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The whole body joined and

knit together by what?

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Every joint supplies, according to the

effective working by which every part

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does, its shared causes growth of the

body for the edifying of itself and love.

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So if every body does their part.

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And it does it correctly edifies the

body of Christ correctly and it's

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done in love, then it's going to grow.

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And that's exactly what

we have to keep in mind.

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Like I just said, we can't wanna

beat the word into people as much as

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sometimes you wanna say, oh my God,

you're going down the wrong path.

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You can't do that.

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You have to take a step back,

which is something that I really

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have a hard time with, especially

with my sisters and my family.

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But.

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Family are usually the

toughest critics, right?

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Because they know you, they know

the old you, so you just have to

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learn how to take a step back.

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And if you take a step back and you do

things with love, then the effective

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working by every part does its share.

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Eventually someone, someone else

in the body of Christ may reach

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those family members that are

hard to reach and they're gonna do

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their part just like it says here.

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By what every joint supplies, according

to the effective working by which every

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part does its share causes growth of the

body for the edifying of itself and love.

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So I'm confident that maybe not just me,

maybe, maybe they don't wanna hear it

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from me, but maybe they'll be open to

hearing it from someone else one day.

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And that's the body, that's the body of

Christ doing its work in the correct way.

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And I'm hopeful of that.

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I pray for that.

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I have faith in that.

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We're almost done.

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Yes, we're almost done.

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Okay.

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I'm gonna read verse 17 through 28.

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This I say therefore and testify in

the Lord that you should no longer

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walk as the rest of the Gentiles

walk in the futility of their mind,

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having their understanding darkened.

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Being alienated from the life of God

because of the ignorance that is in them,

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because of the blindness of their heart.

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Okay, I'm gonna stop.

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I said I was gonna read to

28, but that was too good.

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I have to stop.

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So 17 through 18, that

is perfectly stated.

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Paul says that this, I say

therefore, because of everything

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that I already said before, I'm

testifying, I'm saying to you guys.

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That in the Lord.

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When you are in the Lord, when you

have the Spirit, you are no longer to

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walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk.

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So I, because I have the Holy Spirit in

me and I, I, I consider myself saved.

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I know I am saved.

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I can't walk the way that

I was walking before.

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Does that mean I'm perfect?

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Does that mean that I'm

not gonna make mistakes?

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I pray that I continue to

grow and stop making mistakes.

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I do.

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But.

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I should definitely no longer walk

like the rest of the Gentiles.

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I can't.

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It's just you can't do it.

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But then it says in the futility, so you

no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles

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walk in the futility of their mind.

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Our minds are disgusting.

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If you just stop for a moment and you

say, I'm not gonna talk for 10 minutes.

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The things that you think

about in 10 minutes.

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For the most part, trash all trash

in the futility of their mind.

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Verse 18, having their understanding

darkened again, our phones.

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Our phones darken our mind.

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We have darkness in our hand 24 7.

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We are just continuously connected to

all these things that darken our mind,

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being alienated from the life of God.

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This.

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The world sin.

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This alienates us from God.

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It keeps us further and further away,

further and further away from God because

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of the ignorance that is in them, the

people that created all of these things.

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All the things that are sinful,

all those things feel good.

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Why?

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Because they're ignorant.

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They don't want God.

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They don't want this.

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If they wanted this, they wouldn't have

this because this was meant to destroy.

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This was meant to keep us dumb, to keep us

away from this, to keep us away from him.

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That's what that is for, and

that is why you need this to be

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awakened, to see that there's more

out there than the phone than.

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Netflix, then partying, then drinking and

passing out and just fun and wasting your

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life away and just money, money, money.

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No, you're being alienated

from the life of God because of

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the ignorance that is in them.

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'cause the ignorance

that is in those people.

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The people that created all

of these things of the world

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because of the blindness of their heart.

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They're ignorant because

their hearts are blind.

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They don't know it.

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The song, amazing Grace, I was blind,

but now I see, and that is in fact me.

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I was blind and now I see

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and I see clearer than ever.

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Clearer than ever.

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It's not 'cause I'm wearing my

contacts today 'cause I wear glasses.

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No, I'm, I was blind and now I see.

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But I see clearly because I have read.

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I know.

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And I am not a ignorant,

I am not ignorant anymore.

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I am alive and I am free.

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Don't you guys wanna feel free?

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Don't you wanna feel.

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Oh gosh.

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Don't you wanna feel the love of God

and understand that everything he did

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and understand that

everything he did was for you?

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Oh.

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I was blind, but now I see.

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Stop being confused by the

things of the world because

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the things of the world are all going

to leave you when you most need someone.

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But what will never leave you will,

you will never be able to escape.

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Like Ephesians four verse

eight, He led captivity captive

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Jesus and God and the Holy

Spirit will never leave you.

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The world will.

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You'll be forgotten,

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but you'll not be forgotten by your

Lord and your savior, Jesus Christ.

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You should take ownership of that.

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You should read this so

you can understand it.

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Oh, see, this is what understanding.

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Knowing and loving the Lord does.

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Let's continue with verse 19.

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Who being past feeling have

given themselves over to lewdness

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to work all UNC cleanliness?

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Ugh.

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To work all on cleanliness.

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Uncles,

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sometimes these words are so difficult.

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Let me read that again.

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Who being past feeling have given

themselves over to lewdness to

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work all uncles with greediness.

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That just sounds like things with the

world, things that are unclean, things

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that are dirty, things that are naughty,

greediness, because the more money

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you make, the more money you want.

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Lewdness, I mean, you

already know that word.

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Verse 20.

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But you who have not so learned Christ,

the people who have not heard of Christ,

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if indeed you have heard him and have been

taught by him as the truth is in Jesus.

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So yeah, there are some people who

haven't heard of Jesus, but if you

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have, if you have heard and you indeed

heard him and have been taught by him.

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So Paul here was mainly talking to

Gentiles who had not heard of Jesus,

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who have not heard the gospel.

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But he's saying here, throwing it in.

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If you are one of the people that were

taught by him or have heard of him, then

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he says, verse 22, that you put off stop.

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That you put off concerning your

former conduct, your former self.

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The old man which grows corrupt.

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So he's calling your

former self, your old man.

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So we all have an old man inside

of old woman, old man, whatever.

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Our old self is, what he's saying.

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Verse 22 that you put off, cut 'em

off concerning your former conduct.

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The old man which grows corrupt

according to the deceitful lusts.

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Verse 23, and be renewed in the spirit

of your mind, and that you verse

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24 and that you put on the Newman.

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So forget the old person,

put on the new person.

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Why?

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Because.

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You have been renewed in

the spirit of your mind.

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You have a new spirit now.

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It's not just like a new body.

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No, no, no.

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Here on earth we have a new spirit.

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We have a new mind.

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Once we learn of Jesus, we can have that.

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We don't have to continue

to live in our past self.

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In our old man, we can put on the new

man, which was created according to

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God in true righteousness and holiness.

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I love that.

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Oh my gosh.

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He got me all teary-eyed

and now I'm all stuffy.

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Sorry guys.

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Verse 25, therefore putting away lying.

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That's one of the things

that we have to stop doing.

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Lying.

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Let each one of you speak

truth with his neighbor.

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That's one of the things like we

need to speak truth with people that

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are around us with our neighbors,

for we are members of one another.

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We are all.

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One, remember one body of Christ,

we all make up the body of Christ.

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this section is called

Do Not Grieve the Spirit.

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So do not lie.

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'cause we are one with our neighbors.

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So let's not lie amongst each other.

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Okay?

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Verse 26, be angry and do not sin.

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So yeah, it's really hard when we get

angry to not do things that are sinful.

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To not cause us to sin.

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Like that's difficult.

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But it says here, be angry and do not sin.

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Just walk away.

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It's easy to just stop,

hold your tongue, walk away.

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Do not let the sun go down on your wrath.

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I actually circled that because

that's something that's, that

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was really difficult for me.

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Going to bed angry.

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I don't want the sun to come

back up and me still be.

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Letting anger and all

these thoughts fester.

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No, that just, that makes things worse.

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It really does.

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So even in relationships,

never go to sleep mad.

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Talk it out lovingly and with

understanding, hear one another.

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Do not let the sun go down on your wrath.

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Verse 27, nor give place to the devil.

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Absolutely not like this book that.

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RA and are always talking about

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don't give the enemy a seat at your table.

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I promise I'm gonna actually read it.

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I've had it for, I don't

know how long, I had no idea.

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It was a Christian book when I first

bought it years ago, and I always had

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it there collecting dust, but they have

nothing but good things to say about that.

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Also, that's not a paid promotion,

I'm just randomly talking about it.

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But anyway, I definitely do

have to read that and it says.

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Verse 27, nor give place to the devil.

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Why are you gonna give room

for things of the enemy?

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stop that.

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verse 28.

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Let him who stole steal no longer.

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So if you still stop it, but rather

let him labor, Working with his hands.

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What is good that he may have

something to give him who has need.

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So I also take this as if a person

stole, if a person did something

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wrong, stop doing the wrong stuff, but

also give him something good to do.

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Give people second chances because he

can make something good with his hands.

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He can make something good of

himself and then he can pay it

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back to give him who has needs.

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We all deserve that chance.

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Verse 29,

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let no corrupt word

proceed out of your mouth.

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No cursing.

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I was such a foul mouth, but I think

I'm doing a lot better in that area.

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Let no corrupt word proceed

out of your mouth, but what is

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good for necessary edification?

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Again, edifying is what you're

saying is a edifying God.

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Are you properly instructing someone?

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Are you showing someone

something the right way?

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what's coming out of your mouth?

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Would that say, oh yeah, she's,

she's a follower of Christ.

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Yeah, she's a follower of Christ.

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If what comes out of your mouth says

the opposite, then you need to, you

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need to reexamine yourself like me.

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I also had to examine myself a lot that it

may impart grace to the hearers you see?

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Sometimes I just need to

finish the sentence so that

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I can read my own response.

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Let no corrupt word

proceed out of your mouth.

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But what is good for necessary edification

that it may impart grace to the hearers.

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Verse 30, and do not grieve the

Holy Spirit of God by whom you were

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sealed for the day of redemption.

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Don't grieve the Holy Spirit.

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When you grieve.

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When you have a loss of someone in

your life, you're sad, You just, you

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have like this sadness among you.

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And that's what it says here,

do not grieve the Holy Spirit.

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I didn't know that.

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But Hera actually made me understand

that, that we grieve the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit is not just like

a little ghost floating around.

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No, no, no.

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The Holy Spirit is in us and it is Jesus.

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It is God.

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They are in us and they.

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Feel, they have feelings.

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They grieve just like us.

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So when we do these things, when

we get angry and we sin, and when

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we have corrupt words that come

out of our mouth, when we curse,

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When we lie, all of these things,

we grieve the Holy Spirit.

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So it's saying, do not grieve the

Holy Spirit by whom you were sealed.

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Why?

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Because when Jesus resurrected and

he left us without inheritance, with

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the Holy Spirit, we were sealed.

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For the day of redemption, verse 31.

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Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor,

and evil speaking, be put away from you

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with all malice, all of those things.

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Pack it up, tie it,

throw it away, let it go.

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Take a step back and analyze

these things before you do them.

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Verse 32.

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This is the last one.

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And be kind to one another,

tenderhearted, forgiving one another

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even as God in Christ forgave you.

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When I was driving home today

from church, I don't know why

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I was thinking about that.

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Maybe something I saw on social media,

I don't know, but I remember thinking.

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It's not easy to forgive.

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It's not easy to forgive, but

it feels so good to be forgiven.

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When we do something wrong and someone

forgives us, it's like, ah, yes, fools.

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They forgave me,

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and we shouldn't be like that.

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We need to forgive other people.

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The same way that Jesus and God

and the Holy Spirit forgave us.

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Be kind, tenderhearted,

forgiving one another even as

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God and Christ forgave you.

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That's an important lesson,

probably the most important of

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all, because we all keep anger.

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Built up inside us for a really

long time, and that probably keeps

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us the furthest away from God.

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There's no anger in him.

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There is patience.

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There is mercy.

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There is love.

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There is grace.

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He doesn't get angry at us.

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I don't think he does.

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If we did something wrong, he's

just gonna say, I never knew you.

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He is not gonna get angry with us.

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He's just not gonna recognize us.

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So with that said, I pray that you

guys have enjoyed this episode.

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I pray that you'll be here next week for

chapter five and chapter six of Ephesians.

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And I pray that you guys

have an amazing week ahead.

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I thank you and I love you guys.

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God bless you all.

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Until next time.

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