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[0:06] Heavenly Father, we are here for you. And this morning, I pray that we would not hear clever words from Cameron, but we would hear your spirit speaking through him. That you would bless the preparation and the diligence that he has done in his study. That you would enliven our hearts to be receptive to the word. And, Lord, that you might make us into people who are more and more people of love, people who manifest your love in this world, and people who not only hear the word but become doers of the word. Lord, we ask this in your name. Amen. Amen. Good morning, Conduit. Nice to see you this morning. It's been a great morning so far. I don't know what I feel about dandelion jelly, but we're going to send it anyway.

[1:06] Did anyone else's parents tell them that dandelions were poisonous growing up? Just mine that didn't like me? Or what? Maybe I ate too many flowers growing up. They're like, we've got to tell this kid something to stop eating grass so much. They're poisonous. Don't eat them.

[1:20] I don't know. I think it'll be really fun, a really great opportunity. Opportunity, once again, to build a skill, but also really stuff like that is just one of the ways that we hope to build additional community with people, for people, so that you can live, life with others in the context of Christian community. And that's a little bit, kind of, what we're going to be talking about this morning. We're continuing in our series on Ephesians, and we're going to talk about what Paul begins to develop in Ephesians 3, an understanding or an explanation of the nature of the church, what one of the purposes of the church is and how the church is formed and the way in which the church is bound together.

[2:30] But it's important to do a little bit of background before we get into chapter 3.

[2:39] So we're going to spend a little bit of time at the end of chapter 2. We're going to talk about what happens or what Paul's main piece of communication is there. And it really is similar to almost all of his letter to the Romans. If you were here a couple months back where we walked through the book of Romans, one of the main messages in Romans is that Gentile Christians, or Gentiles I should say, or non-Jewish people now through faith in Jesus Christ were engrafted like engrafted branches, into the family of God or the household of God that God had originally established with the Jewish people so that God's people going all the way back to Abraham were that was the Jewish nation and he gave them the covenants and he gave them promises and he gave them a land and he promised to bless them as they were a blessing to the nations, right? And so they were the covenant people of God.

[3:54] But now through faith in Jesus Christ, the Messiah that came from the Jewish people Gentiles or non-Jewish people became part of the same family so everything that separated the people of God from the non people of God has now been torn down in Jesus Christ this dividing wall of hostility that Paul said how Paul says in Ephesians and now we are one together through faith in Jesus Christ.

[4:30] And not only does our faith in Jesus Christ make us one together with the Jewish people, but it is the Spirit, God's Spirit, who now dwells in not just us as individuals, but in us as a body, uniting us together with each other, so that one Spirit, so that it's the one Spirit that connects us with one another, rather than the things that divide us and separate us.

[5:03] And so that's the main message of Romans, but it's also a part of the message of Ephesians and what Paul kind of builds kind of these building blocks on as he goes into chapter three. So if you look at, if you take out your Bible, if you don't have a Bible, your own personal Bible, or you don't have a Bible with you, there should be one in the pews for you You are in the seat underneath in front of you. If you don't have a Bible, you're welcome to take that Bible that you see or that you've got your hands on with you. It's for you. Write your name in the front cover. Take it home. It's yours now.

[5:39] We should have the verses up here on the screen as well. But I'm going to kind of set the stage for how Paul delivers this message in Ephesians 3 by looking at a few key verses in Ephesians 2, the end of Ephesians 2 first, okay?

[5:57] Um, so knowing what we just, what we just talked about, uh, Paul in Ephesians chapter two, verse 13 says this to the Gentile believers in Ephesians. Remember Ephesians is a letter to new believers or believers in the city called Ephesus, this Gentile city. And he says in verse 13 he says but now in Christ Jesus you who were once far away have been brought near through the blood of Jesus so so you who were once far away from the covenants of God were once far away from the promises of God were once far away from the people of God because of the blood of Jesus Christ, all of the walls or obstacles that have separated you from the people of God have been torn down. There is now nothing that stands in your way. He goes on to say in verse 18 of the same chapter, he says, for through him, through him, we both have access to the Father.

[7:15] So he continues with this line of reasoning that now through Jesus Christ, we, both Jew and Gentile, have access to the Father through the means of the same Spirit.

[7:32] The same Spirit that gives the people of God in Israel, the Jewish people, access to the Father, is the same Spirit that now lives and dwells in us by faith in Jesus Christ. It is the same Spirit that links us with people who look differently than us, believe differently than us, think differently, talk differently, act differently, come from different places. The same spirit of God unites all people who have faith in Jesus Christ.

[8:04] And then he finally says this to close up this section in chapter 2, verses 19 through 22. He says this, Consequently, you, and by you, he is, since he's speaking to Gentiles, he ends up speaking to us, right? This is a promise that is transposed to our lives. This is a promise that is transposed to our hearts. It's something that is for us. Consequently, you, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household. You are built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him, the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him, you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his spirit.

[9:15] So listen, this whole message of Paul, not just here in Ephesians, but previously in Romans and in his other letters as well, is one that was not just appropriate for both Gentile and Jewish believers in the ancient Near East 2,000 some odd years ago, go, but it's important for us to understand and let it seep into the soil of our own hearts as well. Because although we do not really have this kind of like weird dynamic in our lives between like feeling like, wow, I don't walk around with a Gentile identity very often. I don't know if you do or not. I don't know if you like walk down the street and just think, man, I am such a Gentile. I don't think like most people don't think at least in the United States or in the West don't think that way right and so we don't think of this large dichotomy between Jewish people and Gentile people anymore and kind of like the separation that existed between them.

[10:28] But it's not like we are without any understanding of what it means for a world or a culture to separate us into specific camps in life right now. Everywhere you look, and really at every turn, the world is consistently looking to separate people into different identities, right? Your political identity, or you're a Republican, or you're a Democrat, or you're a liberal, or you're a conservative, or you're a progressive, right? It's your family of origin category. Where did you grow up? Did you grow up in the faith, or are you new to the faith? Are you an old Christian, or are you a young Christian? What kind of money do you make? Are you super wealthy? Are you super poor? Are you somewhere in the middle?

[11:33] What cultural influences have you had that make you who you are? What is your race? What is your ethnicity? What is your sex? What is your gender? What are all of these things? And what the world loves to do is to take the things that are different about me from you and you and you and you and you and you, and to magnify them so that they, the differences, now become the main orienting principle for how we are in relationship with all the people around us.

[12:08] It's like, how are they different from me? And how are they different from you? And how are they different from me? And we take all of these differences and they become the foundation upon which we have relationship with one another. Well, what Paul aims to say, and listen, even beyond what Paul aims to say, what the gospel of Jesus Christ does, not just what Paul says, but what the gospel of Jesus Christ does is to take all of the things that the world wants to use to separate us, to divide us, to isolate us from one another, is to tear them all down and to say, the one thing that matters the most is the one thing that unites us all together. And that is by our faith in Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God dwells in us all.

[13:11] By our faith in Jesus Christ, it is the Spirit of God that lives in us and unites us with one another. Now, interestingly enough, the way that Paul talks about the indwelling of the Spirit is not just from this personal level, right? As a part, again, of the kind of the way our culture works is that we love to live in this really rugged individuality of life.

[13:46] And our rugged individuality of even our spirituality or our relationship with Jesus, right? How do we talk about it? Jesus is my savior. He has saved me, right? He is like, I believe by faith in Jesus Christ and he has saved me and I am walking with Jesus, but I don't really like people.

[14:13] Right? Love Jesus, kind of hate people. So I'm just going to walk this, I'm going to walk this Christian journey just all on my own, isolated in my own spiritual bubble from the other people around me. I may even go to church, and I may sit in the seats, and I may drink the coffee, and I may put my kids in conduit. Kids, but listen, man, I'm just here for my personal Jesus. Jesus, I want to talk to anyone. I want to be in relationship with no one, right? Because they're all different from me.

[14:52] They're all different. No one understands me. No one gets me. There are so many things that separate me from the people around me. I'm so much different. They're so much different. We're so much different. Let's just all do our own individual thing in the same room and then leave. Right? I want to tell you what, like when Paul is talking about the role of the Spirit in the life of the church, he's not saying, yeah, you each have your own little individual piece of the Holy Spirit pie that sustains your walk with Jesus.

[15:27] What he's saying is that the Spirit of God dwells within the church.

[15:34] The wholeness of the community. And it is the Spirit of God who brings together a multitude of people who couldn't look more differently from one another if you tried to make it random and brings them together in the unity of the same Spirit with one another. Meaning the same Spirit that lives in me lives in you by faith in Jesus Christ. The same Spirit that lives in you lives in the person that you think couldn't be more different from you. And by a worldly standard, yes, they are vastly different from you. But the thing that the world tries to use to create division amongst the body of Christ, the Spirit of God comes in to magnify and overwhelm our unity unity, so that there can be no division, and so that we can move with oneness out into the world in mission on unity of the Spirit of God. It is the Spirit of God that brings us together, and that is the beautiful thing of the church. While the world wants only to create division and separation by a million different identities, the Spirit of God comes to say, uh-uh, no, No, my people are united together by my spirit that holds them in relationship.

[16:59] That defies every obstacle that the world tries to put in its place.

[17:08] And so our community, the community of the church, should look radically, completely, wholly different than the world around us.

[17:24] Not separated into little camps and identities by a million different factors, but both physically and spiritually speaking, Speaking, linked arm in arm with one another, saying that everything that the world uses to try to divide us, the spirit of God overwhelms with unity. We are one. We are one in faith. We are one in baptism. We are one in mission. We have one God and one Father and Lord over us all. We have one spirit. It binds us all together. We don't have one culture, right? We don't have one background. We don't have one ethnicity. We don't have one gender. We have oneness in the Spirit of God.

[18:20] Anything that we could ever use to create differences between us is superseded and overpowered by the one thing that brings us together, the Spirit of God.

[18:40] I think it's important that we recognize even the ways now that we live in relationship and community with one another. And I'm not talking generally speaking like some big ethereal spiritual principle up here. I'm talking about actually and practically live in relationship with the people People that are physically in the room with you right now. Because if you think about it, you know, don't be turning around making eye contact with anyone right now, right? Or maybe do it. I don't know. Like, we'll roll with it. Because the reality, I want you to think about the people who are in the room around you right now. Think about those seated around you. The ones maybe you sit around every Sunday morning or even go to maybe you're in the same small group together or maybe you see each other when you're out serving on the food truck or you see each other when you're dropping kids off in mutual rooms and as you see them in the hallway you're just like hi how are you but in the back of your mind it's like man I do not like that person happen.

[20:07] Like, they just bug me. They rub me the wrong way. And I don't get them. Or I don't like them. Or, you know, and maybe it's all just like smile and like, maybe you like everyone. I don't know. Like maybe the person you don't like is me. It's very, like it's, you know, there's a long list and you can join it if you want. But listen, but the reality is, is I think that we all, we all come into this, we all come into place in relationship with one another. And if there is no, if there is never any moment, right, where you have to deal with your dislike for another person, then one, you don't have true community with them. And three, there's no intimacy of relationship there. So you probably You probably are living in isolation for a lot, for a good portion of your life because close intimate relationship with other people creates friction that must be dealt with and forgiveness offered and forbearance offered and patience offered and reconciliation and communication. It must occur. It has to happen. All right. But what if, I guess what I want to ask you to do this morning.

[21:37] Is to take the steps to ask the Spirit of God to reveal even in your heart, the things that you have allowed to create wedges of division between you and other brothers and sisters in the room.

[22:04] Maybe really, really simple. Maybe something they said, very innocuous, but it just rubbed you the wrong way, and you've let that seed of bitterness stay in the soil of your heart, and now guess what? When seeds of bitterness get planted in our heart and not plucked out, what do they do? They grow, and then they produce fruit, and the fruit of bitterness is a lot of bitter living. Okay?

[22:32] Or maybe it's not something that they said. maybe it's something that they didn't say, that you wanted them to say, that you wanted them to do some way you wanted them to show up in your life, and they didn't. Maybe they knew, and maybe they didn't know, but for whatever reason, there's a gap that's been created in that relationship, and now it's developed into this even unspoken tension between you and them. Or maybe it's like, yeah, they are just so far different from you that you can't even find common ground of agreement on anything whatsoever. And so you just naturally feel like there is just, there's a grand canyon of division between you and them. Listen, what we're going to see here in a few minutes in Ephesians chapter three is that there are multiple tactics and tools that the enemy uses He chooses to slow down the building and growth of the kingdom of God. But one of those tactics and tools that he uses is division in the body of Christ.

[23:42] Because if he can get us focusing and our hearts focusing only on what we don't like about this person and how that person has wronged me and how I don't get along with that person or I'm so different from that person, then what he has done is successfully magnified our differences and diminished the power of the one thing that does unite us together, which is the power of the Holy Spirit.

[24:10] And so if you are sitting in the room today, my encouragement, my exhortation to you as your pastor this morning is to say, let us together ask the Holy Spirit of God to reveal in our hearts the points of division and separation that we have allowed to grow, creating division with other people in our body today. And that God would give you the grace and the courage to in humility and gentleness approach that person at some time and in some place when it's appropriate and God-honoring and to say, I just need to say, this has been an issue that I have had in my heart for a long time now and I need to clear it up. I need common ground. I need reconciliation of relationship. I need to know that I love you and you love me. I need to rebuild relationships so that the work of the kingdom may continue and that the work of the enemy may die on the altar of our humility and forgiveness of one another.

[25:25] It is critical, not just for the building of the kingdom that is the church of Jesus Christ, but it's critical for the environment of your own heart.

[25:42] Because what you're going to see in a minute from Ephesians 3 is that it is mutually inclusive to our relationship with the Father. Our sense of freedom and confidence to approach the Father in our relationship with him. Meaning that, like, listen, if you are like, man, I just have no intimacy with the Father, I have a hard time connecting with my Heavenly Father, that is usually in the same proportion to which you have allowed division to occur between you and your other brothers and sisters in Christ. Because we can't love the Father rightly without loving one another rightly, and we can't love one another rightly without loving the Father rightly. They are mutually inclusive to one another. They act and react in proportion to one another. And Paul says that here. All right? I just preached all my sermon without looking at my notes and now I'm all discombobulated.

[26:59] If we look at the way that Paul kind of formulates his communication or kind of formulates this idea to the Ephesians, like I said, he begins to develop, especially it's starting to really ramp up in Ephesians chapter 3, this theology, we'll call it the theology of the church, or what do we believe about the nature of the church? This group of people, the group of people that met this morning downstairs. And I just got to say, I'm glad we had two services this morning because of all the people that were downstairs this morning tried to fit in all the empty seats that are up here today. It wouldn't work, right? It wouldn't be enough of them, right? We had like 80 people downstairs this morning, right?

[27:54] So what is the nature of the church? What do we believe about the church? What do we believe about our relationships with one another? What is the purpose of why we gather here together? Why do we worship Jesus together? Why are we united by faith in Christ through the Spirit of God? What's the difference? What difference does it make? What's God's plan? What was his intent? Was this God's idea or is this our idea? And what Paul says here is that it is the intent of God the Father before even the foundation of the world. Before it was revealed to any man, woman, or child that God had in mind the formation of a people for himself that would go out and thwart the work of the enemy and build the kingdom in the place that they were at.

[28:44] But Paul talks about it in this language of mystery. It's a really, really interesting way to talk about it. But he introduces it and then he explains what he means by this being a mystery. If you look at Ephesians chapter 3.

[29:08] And you're going to see that this mystery that Paul speaks of or the truth of this mystery that Paul speaks of is first, the mystery is first revealed to him, through divine revelation from the resurrected Jesus Christ and then it's revealed to the apostles and the prophets and then it's revealed to the world as a whole. And then this mystery is revealed to the heavenly beings, in the spiritual realms, which Paul usually means to describe the forces of evil that are at work around us. Okay? So listen to the way Paul talks about it. Verse 1 in chapter 3. For this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles, surely you have heard about the administration of God's grace that was given to me for you. That is the mystery made known to me by revelation as I have already written briefly.

[30:30] In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to men in other generations, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God's holy apostles and prophets.

[30:51] Here's the definition of what he's talking about, about the mystery that was revealed to him, and now the mystery that was revealed to the holy apostles and prophets. This mystery is that through the gospel, the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel.

[31:11] Members together of one body, and sharers together in the promises of Jesus Christ. He says, look, there is a mystery. It's mysterious to the world. It's been mysterious to people for ages past, but it was revealed to me, the mystery, and then it was revealed to the holy apostles and prophets. And now listen to this, verse seven. He's like, I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God's grace given to me through the working of his power. Although I am less than the least of all of God's people, this grace was given to me to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. Listen, his intent was that now, through the church, The manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms according to his eternal purpose, which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

[32:38] Paul's message was to be clear about the mystery of the power of God.

[32:45] Revealed first to him and then to the apostles and prophets and then to the world. And then only then, as God's reconciling power in Christ Jesus became effective in the church, it produced a united fellowship. And out of the elements which the world had tried to separate, Jew and Gentile, did the powers of evil realize what God was achieving in this moment. That everything that the powers of evil had set out to do, divide person from person from person from person, isolate and separate, divide and conquer. That God in Jesus Christ and through the power of the gospel had destroyed the dividing walls between human beings, all of the differences melting away, and then uniting them together through faith in Jesus Christ and the power of the Spirit. And what he said is that the unifying spirit of the church, the way in which those by faith in Jesus Christ are united by the spirit is like a bullhorn message to the evil powers of the world that we will have none of the division that they intend to breed.

[34:12] It is a manifold witness of the power and the wisdom of God. Our unity together is the number one tool that we utilize after faith in Jesus Christ to destroy the work of the enemy in the world. We can do nothing divided. We channel the power of the Holy Spirit when we are unified.

[34:48] There is nothing that can separate us when the power of the Spirit unites us.

[34:58] Listen, the church is God's plan A. the number one plan to declare to all of creation that Jesus Christ is Lord. But only a church that is united by his spirit successfully carries this message that Jesus Christ is Lord. How can Jesus Christ, how can we declare a message? How can we be a lamp on a stand, stand a city on a hill, the salt and light of the world declaring that the kingdom of God has come in Jesus Christ. If we can't even get along with the people that we see a couple times a week.

[35:47] But we think it normal, right? Because we live neck deep in the world that tells us, well, our differences are just the way that we, it's just the way the world is, right? Where the gospel speaks a different language to us. It speaks a different message. Is that, as an example, the Jews and the Gentiles could not be any more different. But now by their faith, mutual faith in Jesus Christ, they're one. They are together by one Spirit. There is nothing now that divides them that cannot be overcome by the power of the Holy Spirit. Listen, if the enemy can separate us from one another, he can succeed in slowing or destroying the work of the kingdom.

[36:39] Kingdom. But if you look here at the end of Ephesians chapter 3 or this like verses 10 through 13, listen to these words. So his intent was that now through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms according to his eternal, So he says, okay, that through the church, our unity is the manifold or the projected wisdom of God that makes known to the rulers and authority in the heavenly realms, what God has accomplished through Jesus Christ. Verse 12, In him and through faith in him, we may approach God with freedom and with confidence.

[37:38] This is like, listen, we should hear this and understand this to mean that one of the key tactics of the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms is to not just divide us from one another, but also to convince us that we cannot approach God with freedom and confidence.

[37:59] That not only are there dividing walls of hostility between us and one another, but there is a dividing wall of hostility between us and the Father.

[38:07] We do not have freedom to go right to the Father. We do not have confidence to go right to the Father. I mean, listen, I saw how you talked to your spouse. I saw that you kicked the dog. I saw that you were angry at work. I saw that you were cheated on your taxes. I saw, I saw, I saw, I saw, I saw. And how does that make us live? We live now in this kind of almost perpetual state of spiritual shame. Where we don't even want to look to our heavenly father because we think, well, man, I got to get my life cleaned up. And like one of these days, like I need to have a better week. I need to be nicer. I need to like think better thoughts, say better words, do better things. And then I will feel okay and good to go to church on a Sunday because I've been a good little boy or a good little girl and God will be happy to see me there.

[39:11] But then when we live throughout the week in a pattern of sin and failure and we don't have victory and we're depressed or we're anxious or we're angry or we're sad or we're living in enmity with one another, then we think, like, man, I can't live in community anymore. I'm going to separate myself. I'm going to hide away. way. I'm going to isolate. I'm not going to join the community anymore. Listen, these things are mutually inclusive to one another, right? But what Paul says is because of our faith in Jesus Christ, what the gospel says, because of our faith in Jesus Christ, that we may approach God with freedom, and with confidence. In the same way in which the barriers between us and others have been torn down through the power of the gospel.

[40:16] The barrier of sin that has kept us separate from the holiness of God has been torn down through Jesus Christ. And now we may approach God the Father with confidence and freedom that whatever we ask in his name, he will hear us like a loving father hears the voices of his children. We do not lead to live in isolation either from our father or from one another. But what the enemy wants us to believe is that, hey, look, you've had a bad week. You've had a bad moment. You had a bad relationship. You better run from God because he is mad at you.

[41:00] But over and over and over and over and over again, what the gospel tells us is like, look, this is a tactic of the enemy to keep us far away, separated from, isolated from the God that says, hey, come to me in freedom and confidence. My son has made a way for you. The way is open. The door has been opened through Jesus Christ. There is no reason to be fearful. There is no reason to lack confidence. I sit and wait and knock. Open the door. I am here. I am for you. You are for me. We are one together in intimacy of relationship. And look, when we lack intimacy of relationship with the Lord.

[41:48] You know what happens to the relationships in our lives? They begin to deteriorate. and when the and when our when when we when we have our relationships in our lives deteriorate you know what ends up happening our relationship with the lord begins to deteriorate right because these things are what we call mutually inclusive meaning they work in proportion to one another this is why one of the reasons why jesus when he was asked hey what is the most important and commandment, Jesus. He responded to love the Lord God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and what? To love your neighbor as yourself, because connection to one another in love and connection to God in the intimacy of our relationship is mutually inclusive to one another. You cannot love God and hate people. You cannot love people and hate God, right? You cannot love Love a person well unless you know where that love has come from.

[42:58] And so even the idea that we could live in community with one another, in a community of the Spirit, but be at enmity with one another is a foreign idea. You cannot love God fully or rightly without maintaining an attitude of humility and gentleness and forgiveness and love and peace with one another who have the same spirit. You can't. And sometimes that reality is not even just in our church. Church, sometimes that distills down into our homes, right? The people closest to us, most intimate to our lives, right?

[43:53] We're going to go into communion here in just a moment. But this last part of chapter 3, verses 14 through 21, is a prayer. Paul was a pastor at heart. He shepherded and tried to disciple the people. And I think in the gravity of this whole message of unity in the spirit that he was speaking to the people and the tactic of the enemy to divide us from one another and divide us from our heavenly father to destroy the building of the kingdom, I think he recognized that there was this sense that the people needed, prayed for, for strength, for encouragement, for repentance, to know the power that was in them through the Holy Spirit. And so he offered this as a prayer to the Ephesian church.

[45:01] And while I told this the first service, I'm gonna tell you this again. I want you in your personal time with the Lord this week to use this prayer as your prayer for the week.

[45:15] This is Ephesians 3, 14 through 21. And pray it and pray it and pray it and pray it and pray it. How do you pray scripture? You pray scripture by reading it. Normally out loud. Not just like a read it to get through the words, but a read it to be reflective and meditative on what it's saying praying and coming into agreement with it in the spirit by saying, yes, Lord. The words that Paul once prayed for the Ephesian church, I pray this for my church. I pray this for the people that I call part of my spiritual family. I pray this for myself. I pray this for my pastors. I pray this for the people that I sit next to. I pray this for the people that I serve with. I pray this for the church of Jesus Christ that they may be united in spirit and destroy the work of the enemy.

[46:13] For this reason, I kneel before the Father from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches, he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established Established in love may have power together with all of the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge. Oh, let's pray that. That we would know a love that surpasses knowledge. That you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Who wants someone to pray that prayer for them? That they would be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Please pray that for me this week. I want to be filled with the measure of all the fullness of God. Please pray that for me and I will pray it for you.

[47:37] Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all that we can ask or imagine according to his power that is at work within us to him be glory in the church and in christ jesus throughout all generations forever and ever amen conduit have a great week You are loved. We will see you next time.