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well thank you asher uh and shalom to

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everyone

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out there in global broadcast land

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it's good to see you it's good to be

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with you again

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and as usher mentioned we've started uh

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teaching a series on the book of

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ephesians last time for those of us

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those of you who are with us or you can

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go to youtube i think and find it

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i just talked about the first few verses

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and the three

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uh players constituents in the letter

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paul saul christ jesus the messiah

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and the saints and we talked about what

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those things mean

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today we're going to read verses 3

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through 10 we're going to look at them

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they are a meaty meaty

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section of scripture maybe one of the

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meatiest

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in all of the bible it's one of these

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passages that just sort of goes these

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sentences go on and on and each

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phrase is so full of truth and

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revelation

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you just kind of want to stop and pause

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and and dwell on it

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uh so let's uh first read it okay

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and i'm gonna just go through it and

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read it uh

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slowly trying to sort of uh

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savor each meaty uh word

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and i want you to space spa pay special

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attention to the verbs

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that uh the apostle paul uses here in

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this section

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again we're reading ephesians chapter 1

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verses 3

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through 10. blessed be the god

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and father of our lord yeshua the

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messiah who has blessed us with every

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spiritual blessing

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in the heavenly places in messiah just

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as he chose us in him before the

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foundation of the world

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that we should be holy and blameless

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before him in love

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excuse me holy and blameless before him

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in love he predestined us

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to adoption as sons through yeshua the

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messiah to himself

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according to the kind intention of his

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will to the praise

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of the glory of his grace which he

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freely bestowed on us in the beloved

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in him we have redemption through his

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blood

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the forgiveness of our trespasses

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according to the riches of his grace

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which he lavished upon us lavished upon

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us in all wisdom and insight

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he made known to us the mystery of his

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will

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according to his kind intention which he

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purposed in him

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with a view to an administration

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suitable to the fullness of times

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that is the summing up of all things in

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messiah

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things in the heavens and things upon

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the earth

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wow uh

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did you pay attention to the verbs

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here's a list of them

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all seven of them he blessed us

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he chose us he predestined us

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he bestowed you know bestowed as a a

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fancy i

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i haven't checked the greek words here

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but bestowed is it a

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high english word for to give to grant

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lavished is also to give but just to

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give

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with such abundance you just or

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overflowing

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abundance of of the gift of god

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he has made known or revealed

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and he has purposed everything he's done

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has done in us and for us is with

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a purpose and that purpose is to bring

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everything together

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everything what's everything everything

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in heaven in the spiritual invisible

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places and everything on earth

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all together in his son jesus christ

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yeshua the messiah if we had to sum up

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these verses if it's possible again

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there's so much revelation and so much

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truth here

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i i would choose verse seven right this

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is sort of

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the center piece the meatiest of the

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meaty pieces here

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in him we have redemption through his

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blood

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the forgiveness of our trespasses

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according

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to the riches of his grace it's all

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about his grace

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i share with usher the excitement that

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we feel here today

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and just remembering this grace the

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power of the resurrection all of the

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hope that we have

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of of a renewed body of living forever

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with god

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in his kingdom i want us to

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look at this this section of scripture

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and i want to talk about

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uh three things that we see here and how

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they can

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how we can apply them to our lives the

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first one is about the timing

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the second one is his delight there's

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words of god's

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delight and his pleasure in his grace

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that he's lavished upon us and his plan

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those last verses 9 and 10 talk about

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the revelation

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of god's incredible plan and what that

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means for us

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okay so first let's look at the

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uh expressions of timing in these verses

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on the one hand in verse 4 it says that

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he

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chose us in him before the foundation of

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the world

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that's yeah it's intellectual a little

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bit difficult for us to grasp because

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god exists in eternity

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outside of our time uh

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you know i love studying and watching

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things about astronomy and nasa uh

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spaceships and what's going on in mars

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and galaxy and the

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the numbers that they is 700 million

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miles in kilometers it takes months and

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years to

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get to the end of our galaxy the

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distances

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light years it just makes you stop and

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think how

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how big how amazing god is and that

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he's as big and long and millions and

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tens of millions of years

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he's beyond that right and from that

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place of beyond

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he has a plan and he chose us from the

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foundation of the world

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from before eternity on the other hand

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it says in verse 10

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with a view it's a little bit difficult

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these words with a view

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to an administration suitable to the

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fullness of time

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and that's becomes a theme in this

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letter he says it in galatians two in

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the fullness of time

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god sent his son born of a woman born

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under the law

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so there's things that god is it exists

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in eternity

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but he also has a plan for us in time in

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history and it's progressively it's

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working itself out we see the

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fulfillment of

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huge parts of his plan 2 000 years ago

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in the death the resurrection

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the ascension of yeshua the pouring out

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of the holy spirit

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yeah uh and this whole this whole

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question of uh

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the times right is it something just old

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and ancient and timeless or is it

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something really really

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new uh is a question that we as jews

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israelis here as we share try to share

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or try to share we do share the gospel

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with our

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with our friends with our neighbors it's

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something we always have to think about

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is it new is it old is it

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continuous from the old testament just

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one stream

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from moses to david to the prophets

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samuel the prophets etcetera and then it

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just comes right to the new testament

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or is there a break is it discontinuous

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is there something so

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radically new i'll give you a few verses

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to think about in this respect john 1 17

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for the law was given through moses

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grace and truth came through jesus

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christ jesus the messiah

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wow if you just take that verse it

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sounds like

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in moses in the torah it's just law

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right

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there's and but grace and truth only

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comes with yeshua

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in the new testament that makes it sound

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like

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there's no law in the new testament and

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no grace and truth

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in the tanakh or in the torah well we

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know that's not

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right that's not exactly true here's a

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verse from the torah from

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one of moses's greatest uh experiences

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uh in revelations exodus 34 verse six in

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this story

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moses is asking god he says show me your

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glory god says no one can see my face

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and live

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but i will pass by you and you'll see my

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back and i'll declare the name of the

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lord but you can't see my face

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when he does pass by the pre-incarnate

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yeshua who's walking by there

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in his body says the lord jehovah

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the lord god compassionate and gracious

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there's grace grace

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compassionate and gracious slow to anger

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abounding

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in loving kindness in truth who keeps

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loving kindness for thousands who

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forgives iniquity

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transgression and sin yet he will by no

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means leave the guilty unpunished

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visiting the iniquity of fathers on the

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children and on the grandchildren to the

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third and fourth generation

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well that sounds that's a lot of grace

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and truth right there in the old

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testament i mean you can't get

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you almost can't get more than that

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right

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but it is there is something to it that

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in the tana

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in the torah there is the grace and

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truth but it seems to get overshadowed

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by you want to call it law you want to

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call it

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sin the disobedience of our people

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right and in the new testament we come

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to the new covenant

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and we get this revelation as paul is

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trying he's almost

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he's running out of words in ephesians

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one to describe the incredible

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gift of god's grace in him through him

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in him he says seven

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eight times in our verses in ephesians

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in him through him

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by him okay

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and there are also laws in the new

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testament there are commands the whole

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sermon on the mount

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twice paul says those who continue in

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certain sins will not inherit the

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kingdom of god

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so there's this balance it is the in in

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the old testament the torah

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it's it's grace and truth are there but

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there's just so much disobedience so

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much sin and so much

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legalism in the new testament it gets

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flipped we get the revelation to flip it

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over

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to live in grace and truth and

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by living in that by being filled with

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the holy spirit and walking in it

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we fulfill god's holy torah

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okay that's something we always have to

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talk about you know i was

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just yesterday talking with one of my

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orthodox jewish neighbors trying to

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share the gospel

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and i get this answer that i get many

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times which is like this he says

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well what do you make it sound like he

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said to me you make it sound like it's

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an

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ios upgrade like moses wasn't good

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enough the torah wasn't good enough now

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we need

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yeshua he says i i have the torah i have

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it i keep shabbat

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i love god everything's fine

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how to answer that i don't have time to

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go into but it's like

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what he's saying is i've got the old

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i've got the grace and truth he's got

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some of it

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it's there but it's not enough

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let's go on to the second theme here in

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ephesians

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uh chapter one which is god's

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love his delight in us

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okay this is especially clear in verses

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six through nine

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okay which we read i'll read them again

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it's just i just want to read these

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verses over and over again to the praise

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of the glory of his grace which he

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freely

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bestowed on us in the beloved

0:11:39.600,0:11:41.680
in him we have redemption through his

0:11:41.680,0:11:44.000
blood the forgiveness of our trespasses

0:11:44.000,0:11:44.880
according

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to the riches of his grace which he

0:11:47.360,0:11:49.440
lavished upon us

0:11:49.440,0:11:51.920
in all wisdom he made known the mystery

0:11:51.920,0:11:52.480
with his

0:11:52.480,0:11:55.519
kind intention all these words of god's

0:11:55.519,0:11:56.480
kindness

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his grace his delight in us

0:12:02.000,0:12:04.320
you know our good friend mike bickle

0:12:04.320,0:12:05.519
over there at ihop

0:12:05.519,0:12:07.440
in kansas city ihop means the

0:12:07.440,0:12:08.720
international house of

0:12:08.720,0:12:11.120
prayer right well we all love to pray

0:12:11.120,0:12:12.480
and it's important to pray

0:12:12.480,0:12:14.160
but you know if you just keep on praying

0:12:14.160,0:12:15.920
and interceding and asking

0:12:15.920,0:12:18.240
and supplicating praying praying praying

0:12:18.240,0:12:20.720
you're going to get pretty tired

0:12:20.720,0:12:22.639
and he teaches everyone who enters into

0:12:22.639,0:12:24.560
the ihop system has to go through his

0:12:24.560,0:12:25.279
teaching

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on the song of songs on how much

0:12:28.560,0:12:31.360
god loves us in him in christ jesus in

0:12:31.360,0:12:32.000
yeshua

0:12:32.000,0:12:34.959
he delights in us he's happy with us

0:12:34.959,0:12:35.360
he's

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when you look when he looks down on you

0:12:37.040,0:12:39.200
now through his son he's not going like

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this

0:12:39.680,0:12:42.880
he's smiling he's receiving us

0:12:42.880,0:12:45.120
and this is so important for us you see

0:12:45.120,0:12:45.920
it in these

0:12:45.920,0:12:48.639
paul's emphasis in ephesians 1. it's

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grace

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he's done it he's chosen us before the

0:12:51.600,0:12:53.839
foundation he's lavished upon us

0:12:53.839,0:12:55.760
he's blessed us with every spiritual

0:12:55.760,0:12:57.360
blessing in the heavenly places

0:12:57.360,0:12:59.839
and now when he looks we were covered

0:12:59.839,0:13:01.440
like the blood of the lamb on the

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on the lintels and the doorposts of the

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israelites during the exodus

0:13:05.120,0:13:07.279
that blood covers us and it's not just

0:13:07.279,0:13:09.440
that the death is past passes over us

0:13:09.440,0:13:10.959
it's not just that he's saved us from

0:13:10.959,0:13:11.519
death

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he's poured out his love into our hearts

0:13:15.279,0:13:20.800
by the holy spirit romans 5.

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amen i'm sure you're all saying amen and

0:13:23.120,0:13:25.680
i'm reminding you of something you know

0:13:25.680,0:13:28.480
but i'll tell you it's not easy to stay

0:13:28.480,0:13:29.839
in this place

0:13:29.839,0:13:32.959
of god's delight and his love for us

0:13:32.959,0:13:35.200
i know this and i'm learning it as a

0:13:35.200,0:13:36.320
parent

0:13:36.320,0:13:39.040
you know i'm a godly parent a godly

0:13:39.040,0:13:40.720
father i know the proverbs and the

0:13:40.720,0:13:42.560
scriptures about raising up my

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my children in the in fear and

0:13:43.920,0:13:46.000
instruction of the lord and all that

0:13:46.000,0:13:49.519
and i'm i'm pretty strict sometimes

0:13:49.519,0:13:52.399
i'm pretty good at pointing out what my

0:13:52.399,0:13:55.120
kids do wrong

0:13:55.440,0:13:58.160
but i'm learning i have to constantly

0:13:58.160,0:13:59.120
remember

0:13:59.120,0:14:02.160
to express my love for them

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that i delight in them it doesn't matter

0:14:03.839,0:14:06.000
what they do they're my children

0:14:06.000,0:14:09.120
and that god is happy with him in yeshua

0:14:09.120,0:14:11.120
that we can come to him we can be

0:14:11.120,0:14:12.240
forgiven

0:14:12.240,0:14:15.120
god loves us i love you i'm delighted

0:14:15.120,0:14:15.519
i'm

0:14:15.519,0:14:18.480
happy i'm smiling at you i don't know

0:14:18.480,0:14:20.000
how many of you out there are parents

0:14:20.000,0:14:20.639
but if you

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if you are and you have a few kids you

0:14:22.480,0:14:24.720
know the challenge

0:14:24.720,0:14:26.800
but that's how our god is and we're to

0:14:26.800,0:14:28.240
be imitators

0:14:28.240,0:14:31.920
of him and just close this uh this

0:14:31.920,0:14:34.959
portion here with a verse from uh psalm

0:14:34.959,0:14:36.000
147

0:14:36.000,0:14:39.760
verses 10 and 11. he god

0:14:39.760,0:14:41.680
does not delight in the strength of the

0:14:41.680,0:14:43.199
horse

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nor does he take pleasure in the legs of

0:14:45.199,0:14:46.480
a man

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the lord favors who wrote say

0:14:49.600,0:14:52.800
delights in those who fear him those who

0:14:52.800,0:14:53.440
wait

0:14:53.440,0:14:56.000
for his loving kindness god loves the

0:14:56.000,0:14:56.639
horses

0:14:56.639,0:14:59.199
he made them their strength don't get me

0:14:59.199,0:14:59.760
wrong he

0:14:59.760,0:15:01.839
that excites him too and the legs of a

0:15:01.839,0:15:03.120
man our strength

0:15:03.120,0:15:04.720
our ability to get things done he likes

0:15:04.720,0:15:06.959
that too but that's not where

0:15:06.959,0:15:09.600
he's looking people who don't know god

0:15:09.600,0:15:10.959
have a lot of strength and they can get

0:15:10.959,0:15:12.560
a lot of things done with horses and

0:15:12.560,0:15:14.480
with their own legs and arms and we see

0:15:14.480,0:15:16.320
examples of that all over the world

0:15:16.320,0:15:18.160
all throughout history people who don't

0:15:18.160,0:15:19.839
know god don't need god can still

0:15:19.839,0:15:21.760
accomplish a lot of things

0:15:21.760,0:15:24.880
but god delights in those who look up to

0:15:24.880,0:15:25.360
him

0:15:25.360,0:15:27.680
who are waiting expectantly for him who

0:15:27.680,0:15:29.839
delight in his grace and his loving

0:15:29.839,0:15:30.560
kindness

0:15:30.560,0:15:33.120
and he responds he loves us he loved us

0:15:33.120,0:15:33.759
first

0:15:33.759,0:15:38.639
and we can stay and bask in that love

0:15:38.800,0:15:41.600
so we talked about the timing right and

0:15:41.600,0:15:43.199
when we're in that timing

0:15:43.199,0:15:45.680
we can also be renewed as usher spoke

0:15:45.680,0:15:48.320
about we can be constantly renewed

0:15:48.320,0:15:50.320
and get a sense of god's timing in our

0:15:50.320,0:15:51.519
lives and in what's happening in the

0:15:51.519,0:15:52.160
world

0:15:52.160,0:15:54.240
and his secondly we spoke about his

0:15:54.240,0:15:56.000
delight last i want to talk about his

0:15:56.000,0:15:56.720
plan

0:15:56.720,0:15:59.279
his significant the significance that

0:15:59.279,0:16:00.000
his plan

0:16:00.000,0:16:02.720
gives us in this life verses nine and

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ten

0:16:04.240,0:16:06.320
he made known to us the mystery of his

0:16:06.320,0:16:08.959
will according to his kind intention

0:16:08.959,0:16:11.600
which he purposed in him with a view to

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an administration

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suitable to the fullness of times that

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is the summing up of all things

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in christ jesus things in heaven and

0:16:20.240,0:16:22.320
things upon the earth in him

0:16:22.320,0:16:26.399
also we have attained an inheritance

0:16:26.399,0:16:28.320
you know i don't know if you've ever

0:16:28.320,0:16:29.920
been in a dead

0:16:29.920,0:16:31.680
end job or if you know what i'm talking

0:16:31.680,0:16:33.279
about but there's nothing

0:16:33.279,0:16:36.720
more depressing in this life than

0:16:36.720,0:16:38.800
getting up and going to some kind of

0:16:38.800,0:16:41.040
work eight nine ten hours a day and

0:16:41.040,0:16:42.160
toiling

0:16:42.160,0:16:44.720
in something that you really don't enjoy

0:16:44.720,0:16:45.440
doing

0:16:45.440,0:16:47.600
that doesn't bring significance that you

0:16:47.600,0:16:48.800
don't think you're doing

0:16:48.800,0:16:51.600
something that that is meaningful in

0:16:51.600,0:16:53.040
this life you feel like you're just

0:16:53.040,0:16:54.399
spinning your wheels

0:16:54.399,0:16:56.720
like you're treading water i remember

0:16:56.720,0:16:58.240
when i built my house in downtown

0:16:58.240,0:17:00.320
jerusalem i had different work crews

0:17:00.320,0:17:03.440
chinese romanians arabs volunteers

0:17:03.440,0:17:06.160
and you know they would do stuff

0:17:06.160,0:17:07.199
sometimes

0:17:07.199,0:17:08.640
and i'd come home at the end of the day

0:17:08.640,0:17:10.480
and i'd look at it and i saw it was

0:17:10.480,0:17:13.679
it was done wrong and i'd say to them

0:17:13.679,0:17:17.679
guys take it apart start over

0:17:17.679,0:17:20.799
now i was paying them by the hour

0:17:20.799,0:17:22.799
right okay they got to work a little bit

0:17:22.799,0:17:25.280
more but their faces went like this

0:17:25.280,0:17:27.679
they hated that i hate it too there's

0:17:27.679,0:17:28.640
nothing worse

0:17:28.640,0:17:30.400
than doing something then having to do

0:17:30.400,0:17:32.160
it over again because you did it wrong

0:17:32.160,0:17:36.160
and you feel like you wasted your time

0:17:36.160,0:17:40.000
well god's plan

0:17:40.000,0:17:42.080
what paul is speaking about here in

0:17:42.080,0:17:43.280
ephesians

0:17:43.280,0:17:46.400
when we're in him

0:17:46.400,0:17:50.160
we walk in significance

0:17:50.160,0:17:52.559
everything we do has meaning listen to

0:17:52.559,0:17:53.280
what he says

0:17:53.280,0:17:55.280
what he writes a few verses later in

0:17:55.280,0:17:58.320
chapter chapter 2 verse 10

0:17:58.320,0:18:01.440
we are his workmanship created

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in messiah yeshua for good works

0:18:05.120,0:18:08.160
which god prepared beforehand that we

0:18:08.160,0:18:11.440
should walk in them wow brothers and

0:18:11.440,0:18:12.000
sisters

0:18:12.000,0:18:14.400
when we we have the privilege of serving

0:18:14.400,0:18:15.200
god

0:18:15.200,0:18:17.120
whether it's in ministry whether it's in

0:18:17.120,0:18:18.559
different kinds of work

0:18:18.559,0:18:21.120
as parents if we serve him if we

0:18:21.120,0:18:23.200
dedicate our lives to him

0:18:23.200,0:18:26.080
it brings significance we have that love

0:18:26.080,0:18:27.120
you know i've

0:18:27.120,0:18:29.679
some of the books that i've read i

0:18:29.679,0:18:31.360
forget which one it is but one

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christian and he was a christian

0:18:32.559,0:18:34.559
counselor he said the two

0:18:34.559,0:18:37.840
greatest needs of every human being are

0:18:37.840,0:18:38.799
love

0:18:38.799,0:18:42.000
and significance love he delights

0:18:42.000,0:18:44.000
in us we need to stay in that place and

0:18:44.000,0:18:46.000
to know how much god

0:18:46.000,0:18:48.880
loves us he chose us he blessed us he

0:18:48.880,0:18:50.080
predestined us

0:18:50.080,0:18:52.080
he's lavished all these things upon it

0:18:52.080,0:18:53.200
and he continues

0:18:53.200,0:18:56.880
to do that we we just bask in it but

0:18:56.880,0:18:58.559
we don't just sit there all day we can't

0:18:58.559,0:19:00.720
just stay like this we're made to work

0:19:00.720,0:19:02.320
we're made to do things

0:19:02.320,0:19:04.880
and he's laid out things for us to do

0:19:04.880,0:19:06.799
good works for us to walk in

0:19:06.799,0:19:09.360
and that brings significance our lives

0:19:09.360,0:19:10.480
are not empty

0:19:10.480,0:19:12.640
we don't have to be depressed we don't

0:19:12.640,0:19:13.760
have to think why

0:19:13.760,0:19:16.000
why am i here why do i have to keep on

0:19:16.000,0:19:17.840
wasting my time doing these things

0:19:17.840,0:19:20.320
we don't have to have a mid-life crisis

0:19:20.320,0:19:22.160
like a lot of my friends i'm 53 i'm

0:19:22.160,0:19:24.080
finding a lot of my friends who i grew

0:19:24.080,0:19:25.760
up with are going through this kind of

0:19:25.760,0:19:27.840
crisis at this age because they've spent

0:19:27.840,0:19:29.600
20 25 years just

0:19:29.600,0:19:31.360
investing and achieving and all this

0:19:31.360,0:19:32.640
stuff and now they're starting to get

0:19:32.640,0:19:34.000
old and going

0:19:34.000,0:19:37.840
what does it all mean what did i do

0:19:37.840,0:19:39.120
where is it

0:19:39.120,0:19:41.120
and they're starting to feel depressed

0:19:41.120,0:19:43.039
and get sick but

0:19:43.039,0:19:46.240
i won't go into that so my brothers and

0:19:46.240,0:19:47.280
sisters

0:19:47.280,0:19:51.039
amazing grace the riches of his grace of

0:19:51.039,0:19:53.039
his love

0:19:53.039,0:19:56.960
think about it stay there delight in him

0:19:56.960,0:19:59.440
he delights in you if you're in jesus

0:19:59.440,0:20:00.960
this is the foundation

0:20:00.960,0:20:03.440
this is salvation by grace we've got to

0:20:03.440,0:20:04.320
wake up

0:20:04.320,0:20:05.679
and think about this we got to think

0:20:05.679,0:20:07.760
about it all through the day and go to

0:20:07.760,0:20:09.120
sleep with it that hits

0:20:09.120,0:20:12.480
it's about him his plan for us

0:20:12.480,0:20:15.280
he loves us

0:20:15.600,0:20:17.520
i'm going to read one more verse from

0:20:17.520,0:20:19.200
paul and then pray

0:20:19.200,0:20:21.600
and we'll go back to our worship team

0:20:21.600,0:20:23.440
this is second timothy

0:20:23.440,0:20:27.679
chapter 1 verses 9 through 11.

0:20:27.679,0:20:31.039
god who has saved us and called us with

0:20:31.039,0:20:33.280
a holy calling

0:20:33.280,0:20:35.679
not according to our works but according

0:20:35.679,0:20:37.840
to his own purpose and grace

0:20:37.840,0:20:40.559
which was granted us in messiah yeshua

0:20:40.559,0:20:40.960
from

0:20:40.960,0:20:44.320
all eternity but now has been revealed

0:20:44.320,0:20:44.960
by the

0:20:44.960,0:20:48.080
appearing of our savior messiah yeshua

0:20:48.080,0:20:51.200
who abolished death and brought life

0:20:51.200,0:20:54.480
and immortality to light through

0:20:54.480,0:20:57.679
the gospel wow lord we thank you

0:20:57.679,0:21:01.039
for these words

0:21:01.039,0:21:04.080
and i think about the apostle paul who

0:21:04.080,0:21:07.360
when he was writing these things

0:21:07.360,0:21:10.480
i don't know how much he was aware of

0:21:10.480,0:21:12.000
the fact that he was writing holy

0:21:12.000,0:21:14.240
scripture he was writing letters

0:21:14.240,0:21:16.080
to his beloved congregations and

0:21:16.080,0:21:18.159
churches

0:21:18.159,0:21:22.000
but lord he was so inspired

0:21:22.159,0:21:26.240
by the gospel by this love

0:21:26.240,0:21:28.559
by god's timing by the privilege of

0:21:28.559,0:21:29.360
living

0:21:29.360,0:21:32.559
at this time and lord we want to also be

0:21:32.559,0:21:35.760
excited the fullness of time continues

0:21:35.760,0:21:37.200
it's being constantly

0:21:37.200,0:21:40.000
renewed we're living in the fullness of

0:21:40.000,0:21:40.400
time

0:21:40.400,0:21:43.280
every day as we get closer and closer as

0:21:43.280,0:21:44.000
we move into

0:21:44.000,0:21:47.280
the end times as we get closer to the

0:21:47.280,0:21:49.520
fullness the fullness of the fullness

0:21:49.520,0:21:52.480
when yeshua returns lord help my

0:21:52.480,0:21:54.880
brothers and sisters help me

0:21:54.880,0:21:58.240
lord to stay in that in your delight

0:21:58.240,0:22:02.159
and your love to remember that you

0:22:02.159,0:22:05.600
don't first delight in our strength and

0:22:05.600,0:22:08.000
the strength of horses and cars and

0:22:08.000,0:22:10.960
iphones and technology and things like

0:22:10.960,0:22:12.159
that you delight

0:22:12.159,0:22:15.600
in us and we want to delight in you

0:22:15.600,0:22:18.799
lord thank you that you are have a plan

0:22:18.799,0:22:20.960
and you've laid out good works for each

0:22:20.960,0:22:22.799
one of us lord help us to help us to

0:22:22.799,0:22:23.679
desire

0:22:23.679,0:22:26.799
and to focus to walk in those things and

0:22:26.799,0:22:29.200
nothing else

0:22:29.200,0:22:34.159
yeshua amen