Episode 28

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19th Jan 2026

28 | The Sound Mind Series: Ephesians 2:1-22

Join us in this new episode of the "Sound Mind" series as we read and pick apart Ephesians Chapter 2.

I study the chapters on my own, then I share my "interpretation" from the particular portion of scripture I just read. Again, as stated before - this is simply my interpretation.

I am vocalizing the importance of that, because this is the living Word . It may not resonate to you in the way it has resonated to me. Therefore, I kindly ask that you all open up your bibles and follow.

I am here to help you grow, but the Lord is the only one that can birth true knowledge and wisdom. I thank you for listening and following along in these Holy scriptures. God bless you, my friends.

Transcript
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All right, everyone, welcome

back to I Can He Can.

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This is Sai and this is episode 28 Today

we are doing the Sound Mind series,

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part two, and we are going to jump

into Ephesians chapter two momentarily.

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But before I do that, I wanna go

ahead and tell you guys about my

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weekend today, January 17th, 2026.

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I did something that has filled

my cup more than anything I think

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I have ever done before and.

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You know, you can say that I've done

a few exciting things here and there

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and traveled to a few places that have

really just kind of left me wanting more.

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But today I hosted my very first Bible

study, and I'm not going to lie, all

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the things that I have done in my 35

years of life, this is giving it a run

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for its money because I feel so happy,

so joyful, so fulfilled, just so.

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In love with the feeling that the Holy

Spirit gives you when you really are

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connected to Jesus, and not just by

yourself, but within a group of women who

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want the exact same thing that you do.

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And it's amazing.

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It really is amazing, and I'm

looking forward to doing it again.

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And these ladies truly touched my heart.

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they took.

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The time to be there.

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And they took the time not just to

be there for me, but to give their

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time to the Lord, because that

is exactly what today was about.

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It was all about the Lord.

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We gathered together, we took forever to

set up the music, to set up the little

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screen that we had and the projector.

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But when we got it on and

we had everything working,

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and we started worshiping.

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The spirit was moving.

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We all had chills.

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We were all teary eyed and we

cried and we were laughing and

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we danced a little bit and it was

just, it was absolutely beautiful

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We're planning to do it

at least once a month.

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That's the goal.

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But it was just absolutely amazing to

share that time with those ladies and.

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While we were worshiping one of the

girls, her name is Evelyn, she told

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me after that she kept thinking

of this one verse in her head the

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entire time while we were worshiping

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And that verse is Matthew 1820,

when she shared it with me, I

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wasn't really sure what verse it

was, but I'm looking at it now.

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And she sent it a little earlier

as well in the group chat.

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But now that I'm reading it,

I have no doubt she was right.

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And this verse says, Matthew chapter

18, verse 20, for when two or three

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are gathered together in my name,

I am there in the midst of them.

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And yes, yes, the Holy

Spirit was definitely in our

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midst and we all had chills.

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We finished worshiping.

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I know a name.

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We finished praise and we finished.

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Gratitude.

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And in those three

songs, we all had chills.

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We were all teary eyed.

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We were just so full of the joy of

the Lord that there's no denying it.

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The Holy Spirit was indeed in

our presence and it was amazing,

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and I can't wait for more.

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I truly, truly can't wait

for our next Bible study.

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But Before I do, before I start

reading, remember what I always

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tell you guys, I am not an expert.

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I'm not a theologist.

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I am new to reading the Bible.

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This is my interpretation.

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This is what I am getting from reading.

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What I have studied so far, and I

truly, truly do encourage you guys

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to open your Bible to read it for

yourself because this is how it spoke

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to me, and it doesn't mean that it's

going to speak in the same way to you.

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And I assure you that if I read this

again a few months from now or a

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year from now, I'm probably gonna get

something brand new from it as well.

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Because this is the living word.

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The Bible speaks to you in

ways that you'll never imagine

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and when you least expect it.

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So this is the new King James version.

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So let's go ahead and jump

into Ephesians chapter two.

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And you, he made alive who were dead

and trespasses and sins in which you

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once walked according to the course of

this world, according to the prince of

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the power of the air, the spirit who

now works in the sons of disobedience,

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among who also, we all once conducted

ourselves in the lusts of our flesh,

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fulfilling the desires of the flesh

and of the mind, and were by nature

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children of wrath just as the others.

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But God who is rich in mercy because

of his great love, with which he

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loved us, even when we were dead in

trespasses, made us alive together with

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Christ by grace, you have been saved,

and raised us up together and made us

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sit together in the heavenly places.

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In Christ Jesus.

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That in the ages to come, he might show

the exceeding riches of his grace in

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his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.

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For by grace, you have been saved

through faith and that not of ourselves.

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It is the gift of God, not of works

lest anyone should boast for we are

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His workmanship created in Christ Jesus

for good works, which God prepared

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beforehand that we should walk in them.

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All right you guys.

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So that was verse one through

nine of Ephesians chapter two.

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Now I'm gonna go back and I'm

gonna break it down little

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by little before we continue.

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So verse one says, and you, he made alive

who were dead and trespasses and sins.

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He is dignifying Jesus.

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He made us alive.

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We are renewed.

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We are redeemed because

of the blood of Jesus.

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So what he did on the cross

is atonement for our sins.

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Right now, we are dead in sin, whether.

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Some people may be worse than others.

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Yes.

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You know, and we fall every day.

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We are in sin.

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This world was cursed the moment

that Adam and Eve messed up

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and ate from the tree of life.

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And the truth is that the only person

that can actually make up for that

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first trespass that led to sin is Jesus.

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So of course.

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You may not get all of that just from

this one verse, but knowing what I

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know now and what I have read, I a

hundred percent understand that in

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this, that he made alive who were

dead in trespasses and sins Now.

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Verse two says, in which you once

walked according to the course of this

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world, according to the prince of the

power of the air, the spirit who now

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works in the sons of disobedience.

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This for a moment, I don't know why.

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I was confused and I thought it was

Jesus, but then obviously seeing sons

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of disobedience and seeing prints of.

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The power of the air.

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That was really confusing to me and

I was like, well, Jesus is definitely

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not anything that's disobedience.

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So I started thinking that

this is referring to Satan

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So verse three says, among whom also,

we all once conducted ourselves in

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the lust of our flesh, fulfilling

the desires of the flesh and of the

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mind, and were by nature children

of wrath just as the others.

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So what this is telling me is that.

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Until we are forgiven through Jesus' blood

for the trespasses and sins that we are

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all born into, we are all like Satan.

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We are all giving into our flesh.

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We are all diving into those lust

and, and to the things of the world.

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Like verse two says, the course

of this world, according to the

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prince of the power of the air, so

anything that's of the world is.

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Is the enemies and we need to

be on the lookout for that.

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and then verse three finishes,

like I had said by Nature Children

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of Wrath, just as the others,

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It is natural for us to want

a sin, and as much as we may

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say, no, no, I'm not a sinner.

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I'm not this, I'm not.

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You need to stop holding

yourself up on a pedestal.

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I was once there.

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I didn't think I was a bad

person, but you know what?

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The more I learn about Jesus and

how he lived the perfect life,

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the more I know that I am dirty.

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I am unclean how the Old Testament says.

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There is a lot of work to do.

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There is a lot of things that we need

to actually change and work on little by

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little so we can walk that righteous path.

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And when I say righteous, I'm not

saying that we are going to have,

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you know, our nose is perked up and

walking like, we're better than others.

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No.

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This is something that we must do

for the Lord honoring him because

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of his sacrifice, because of him,

like we learned in chapter one.

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We have his inheritance.

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He paid for our inheritance

through his blood.

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And anyway, I digress because that

is only verse one through three and

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look at the round that I've gone on.

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But anyway, so verse four, but God,

who is rich in mercy because of his

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great love with which he loved us.

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Yes, God is rich in mercy

at the end of the day.

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All he wants is us.

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We have always been in his

plan and he is merciful.

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And no matter how many times we

may fall, it may not be a hundred

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percent correct, but in my opinion,

remember this is all my opinion.

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I truly do believe that God will always

forgive us if our heart, which he knows

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and he is within our heart, is true, and

he knows that we are actually repenting.

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Because we can't just say, oh Lord,

forgive me, forgive me, forgive

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me, and then not really mean it.

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He knows when our hearts are

right and when our hearts

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are not in the right place.

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So verse five, even when we were

dead in trespasses, made us alive

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together with Christ by grace.

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You have been saved.

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Again, like I said, even now that we are

dead in trespasses, we are dead in sin.

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We are constantly doing the

things that God looks down upon.

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He still gave us that

redemption through Jesus.

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He's still wanting to save

us and bring us together.

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He wants to make us alive

together with Christ.

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Verse six.

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And raised us up together and made

us sit together and in the heavenly

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places in Christ Jesus, he's going

to put us back in heaven with Jesus.

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We are all going to be

brothers and sisters of Jesus.

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Isn't that amazing?

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Verse seven, that in the ages to come,

meaning the end times the second coming.

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That in the ages to come, he might show

the exceeding riches of his grace in

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his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus.

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That's exactly what he's going to do.

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Guys, you need to read Revelation.

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I haven't fully a hundred percent

immersed myself in it, but I did a

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study, with my old church and what I

did learn is that today's day and age

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is very much looking like end times.

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So.

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Like verse seven says that in

the ages to come, the end times

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the second coming of Jesus.

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That can be any day.

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That can be any day now.

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So this is a warning to you guys.

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Stop with the lukewarm.

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Stop walking lightly.

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No.

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Dig your head into the word.

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Dive into it head first.

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We need Jesus because

at the end of the day.

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We know where we want to go.

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We do not want to be in the

place where Jesus is not.

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Anyway, I am like so excited from

today and still so happy and joyful

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that I'm just, I'm talking so much,

so I apologize in advance you guys.

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All right, Next is verse eight, and I

actually am going to read eight through

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10 because I have all of this underlined.

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And it says, for by grace you have

been saved through faith and that not

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of yourselves, it is the gift of God.

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So we can't save ourselves,

only God can save us.

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And again, this isn't super, super

detailed, but what I'm understanding here

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is that even though we think we are saved

because AKA, we are going to church, no.

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God knows our heart.

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He's the only one that can a

hundred percent tell where we are

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in our walk and in our faith, and

if we truly, truly accepted Jesus.

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So he's the only one that can save us.

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Verse nine.

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Not of works lest anyone should boast

not of works lest anyone should post.

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Yeah, I mean, we can't save ourselves with

our works, with the things that we do.

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No, God is the only one that can save us.

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For we are his workmanship created

in Christ Jesus for good works,

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which God prepared beforehand

that we should walk in them.

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So again, God already had us and

Christ in his plans way, way,

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way before we can even imagine.

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And he created us for good

works, for good things.

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It is a gift from God that we get to be

here and have a purpose that is godly.

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So.

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I urge you guys, I urge you guys to

not just go to church, but to truly

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seek Jesus and have a relationship

with him because it is a gift.

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It is a gift to understand him.

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And even if you feel that you keep

messing up, just walking alongside him

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little by little is going to change you.

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It doesn't take much.

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It truly doesn't.

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All right, so now I'm going to read

the second part of Ephesians two, and

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I'm going to read all the way from

verse 11 through the very end verse 22.

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So once I'm done with that, we'll go

ahead and we'll continue to break it down.

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Verse 11.

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Therefore, remember that you once

Gentiles in the flesh who are called

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uncircumcision by what is called the

circumcision, made in the flesh by hands.

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That at the time you were without

Christ being aliens from the

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commonwealth of Israel and strangers

from the covenants of promise.

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Having no hope, and without God in

the world, but now in Christ Jesus,

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you who once were far off, have been

brought near by the blood of Christ.

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For, he himself is our peace who has made

both one and has broken down the middle

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wall of separation, having abolished in

his flesh, the enmity that is the law

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of commandments contained in ordinances

so as to create in himself one new

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man from the two, thus making peace.

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And that he might reconcile them both

to God in one body through the cross,

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thereby putting to death the enmity.

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And he came and preached peace

to you who were a far off, and to

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those who were near for through him.

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We both have access by

one spirit to the father.

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Now, therefore, you are no

longer strangers and foreigners.

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Be fellow citizens with the saints and

members of the household of God have been

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built on the foundation of the apostles

and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being

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the chief cornerstone in whom the whole

building being fitted together grows

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into a holy temple in the Lord in whom

you also are being built together for

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a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

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I absolutely just love Ephesians.

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I hope you guys are enjoying

this as much as I am, honestly.

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So let's break down a few verses here.

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So verse 11 says, therefore, remember

that you once gentiles in the flesh

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who are called, uncircumcision by

what is called the circumcision,

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made in the flesh by hands.

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Okay, that is a lot to understand.

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That's, that's a lot.

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Let's read verse 12 and

put it all together.

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That at the time you were without Christ

being aliens from the commonwealth of

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Israel and strangers from the covenants

of promise, having no hope, turn the page,

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no hope and without God in the world.

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Okay, so if you've read the Old Testament.

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You will remember that the Jews had

a covenant with God and part of that

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covenant where they showed that they

were devoured, that they believed in

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God, the men were to get circumcised.

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So right here, it's saying that before

Jesus, that's what they had to do.

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They had to circumcise themselves, but

that's because they were without Christ.

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They were aliens.

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From the Commonwealth of Israel.

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They were strangers.

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So there's no promise in that.

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That is a worldly thing.

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there was no hope, and Why?

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Because Jesus was still to come.

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Now, verse 13, I have completely

underlined and I even have Amen

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right after 'cause it was just.

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So beautiful.

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Verse 13 says, but now in Christ Jesus,

you who once were far off, have been

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brought near by the blood of Christ.

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So just like the Jews who had

to circumcise themselves to

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prove their covenant to God.

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Now we have Jesus, and Jesus

is allowing us to come closer.

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We are no longer far off.

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We have been brought near

because of the blood of Christ.

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Verse 14, for He himself is our peace.

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He is he meaning Jesus,

who has made both one.

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And has broken down the middle wall

of separation, having abolished in his

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flesh, the enmity that is the law of

commandments contained in ordinances.

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Okay.

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Before I continue, Jesus is our peace

and because of him, he abolished the

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enmity, the, the war that existed

because of the law and its commandments.

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So.

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There was a middle wall of separation is

what it's saying in verse 14, and then

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15, having abolished in his flesh with his

blood, with his body, with his sacrifice.

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He abolished that war that there

was with the Law of Commandments

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contained in ordinances in the order

of God, because God is a God of order.

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I actually had that ingrained in my

mind because of my, my new pastor.

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That God is a God of order.

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That's why he had the law.

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That's why he created the law,

because we have to know that there

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is an order that God believes in and

not just believes in, but demands.

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So as Christians, we must

also follow those laws.

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It's not saying that not following

them is not going to have us be saved,

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but it's it's an all in all thing.

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My friends, we need to know the laws.

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We need to know right from wrong.

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And we need to follow those things.

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We need to honor what God wants us to do.

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So continuing here on verse 15, it says

So as to create in himself one new man

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from the two, thus making peace, verse 16.

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And that he might reconcile them both

to God in one body through the cross.

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So, of course, that's

exactly what I was saying.

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because of Jesus's sacrifice, we're

going to be reconciled to God because

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of what he did on the cross, thereby

putting to death the enmity, putting

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to death, that war that was going

on between the law and having faith

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in Jesus and walking with Jesus.

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There is no more of that

because of that sacrifice.

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All we need to do.

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It is believed that what Jesus did

for us is verse 17, and he came and

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preached peace to you who were a

far off and to those who were near.

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So Paul is saying there that Jesus

came and he preached the gospel.

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He preached that peace to you, to all

the people that were there, people

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that were far off, people that were

in sin, and also to people that

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were near people that followed him.

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People that believed

that he was a messiah.

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Verse 18.

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This is another one that I have

completely circled, and it says, for

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through him, we both have access by

one spirit to the father, man, because

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of Jesus, we have access to God.

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How amazing is that?

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Now, continuing on verse 19.

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Okay, now therefore, you are no

longer strangers and foreigners,

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but fellow citizens with the saints

and members of the household of God.

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So I don't know if you remember in chapter

one it actually said that we were going

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to be with Jesus in the heavenly places.

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Oh yeah.

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Right here.

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Yeah.

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I'm going through my actual

Bible as I'm talking.

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So bear with me.

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So Ephesians one.

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Verse 20 says, which he worked in

Christ when he raised him from the

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dead and seated him at his right

hand in the heavenly places, far

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above all principality and power and

might and dominion, and every name

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that is named, not only in this age,

but also in that which is to come.

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That was uh, verse 21, verse 22 says, and

he put all things under his feet, meaning

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Jesus, and gave him to be head over all

things to the church, which is his body.

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We are his body, the fullness

of Him who fills all in awe.

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We are the fullness of Jesus.

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We complete him.

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And just like this verse that I was

reading says in Ephesians two verse 19,

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we are fellow citizens with the saints

and members of the household of God.

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And how is it that we can

do that through Jesus?

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That is the only way

that we will get there.

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Verse 20, having been built on the

foundation of the apostles and prophets.

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'cause those are the

ones that came before us.

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Jesus Christ himself being

the chief cornerstone.

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Remember, Jesus is the head of the church.

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He's the cornerstone, verse 21, in whom

the whole building being fitted together

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grows into a holy temple in the Lord.

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Verse 22, I love verse 22.

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So, so much.

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Well, you guys are probably like sadra.

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You love every single verse

and Yeah, that's true.

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I just, I love the word.

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So verse 22 says, in whom you also

are being built together for a

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dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

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note on here that says,

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Just as Jesus is a temple, we

are also temples of the spirit.

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That's the note that I had written

here in the Bible, You guys, God

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thought of absolutely everything that

there is to possibly think about when

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he planned out this amazing majestic

plan to make sure that the people.

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Who truly loved him can return to him.

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He knew that he was going to leave a

piece of him in us, a piece of Jesus.

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'cause Jesus is God.

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So he knew that he was

going to leave that in us.

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So once we are finally reconciled

to him, once we finally have that

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second coming of Jesus, and we have

that white throne judgment, we are

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finally going to be built together.

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And have that dwelling

place in God, in the spirit.

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I don't know about you guys, but

that sounds so beautiful, so peaceful

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and just so much joy and, and, and a

thought that one day we are going to

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just be dwelling among the apostles,

like it says there, the apostles and

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the prophets, the people that wrote

this very book that I'm reading from.

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We're all going to have

a different purpose.

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We're all going to have a different

job in heaven, whatever that may be.

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I don't even know what, what that may

be, and I'm really like veering off

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here, but it's beautiful and I truly

hope that reading the word gives you

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a sense of who God and who Jesus are.

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like I said in one of the other episodes,

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They are the perfectionists.

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Everything they do is absolute perfection.

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They know when something

is good or bad for us.

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They know when we need them a

little bit more, even when we don't

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think they want us, they're there.

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They are there.

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The spirit resides in us.

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Our inheritance is peace

through Jesus, and then finally

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being reconciled back to God.

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How beautiful so anyway, my

friends, I hope that you've

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enjoyed this verse by verse.

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Of Ephesians chapter two.

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I will be back next week with chapter

three, I truly appreciate every single

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one of you that tune in, and I can't

wait to have you guys here again.

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I hope this has blessed you.

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I hope that this has brought

you closer to the Lord,

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and I truly hope that there is

something that you can take away from

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this and share with someone else.

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Love you all.

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Take care.

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Until next week.

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I Can't (HE Can)
All things life, love, Christ.
Hello, everyone!! Welcome to I Can't (He Can) - a down to Earth and honest podcast about life's high's, lows, and everything in between.

From childhood experiences, love, raising kids, a career, walking with Christ - to unpacking (very personal) daily struggles... Join me as I share my journey through life and how I discovered that when, "I can't... He can."

Each episode is rooted in the Word of God and how it gave me the strength (and the hope) to endure all parts of life. So - if you're not sure where your faith lies or if you're looking to grow closer to Jesus, while finding encouragement for your own walk, this is the space for you.

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To whoever reads this:
I'm glad you're here and I hope you stay a while. There is something I need to give back to the world - and to you.

That 'something' is my story, my life and my words that were once marked by pain, but are now marked by love and a new found faith in Christ. But hold it right there! Do not be quick to judge. While the root of all my talks are founded in the Bible - do not mistake what I have to say for 'unremarkable' or 'not relatable'.

My story is different than yours. However, if there is one thing we 100% have in common, it's that God has always been with us. If you agree - stick around. If you DON'T agree - stick around too. Let me show the unbeliever, the doubter, and the unsure person, how God has always been there.