Well, there was a family in New York a few years ago, and they were having a lazy Saturday, and they decided, hey, let's go to the local garage sale. They saw signs up for it, so they went over and perused the garage sale, looked at everything, set out on the driveway, and they decided that they were going to purchase a bowl. It was a $3, which I'm not even sure is all that good of a deal. Like, I think you

go to Target, get a bowl for $3, and it won't even be used. But they bought this bowl and brought it home, and then for six years, they kept it on the mantle right above their fireplace. And here's what the bull looked like. Again, it's like, I guess that's nice, but it's like not anything all that impressive. They set it out for six years at their house, had it displayed in their living room, and eventually they thought, you know, I wonder if we could sell this for more than what we paid for it. Like, I wonder if we could sell it for more than $3. So they had a connection to an antique dealer, so they brought it to this antique dealer and they said, hey, can we sell this for more than $3?

And he said, I think you can sell it for more than $3.

So he took this and put it up for auction.

And then when the auction was finalized, this bull sold for $2.2 million.

Yeah.

And I don't entirely know why. I'm going to tell you my best to tell you why.

The bowl's a thousand years old, and as you can tell from the condition of it, it was kept in

really immaculate condition. It was originally made in a certain area in China, and what likely

happened with this bowl is that it was just passed down from generation

to generation within one family. And this bowl just eventually became, you know, that's grandma's bowl and that's mom's bowl. And then eventually it's my bowl. And then someone was clearing out their house and they're like, we just got to get rid of this thing. Like we don't even use it. Let's just get rid of it with our old clothes. And they sold something that was worth

$2.2 million for $3. Why? Why did they sell something that was worth so much for so little?

They didn't know what they had. They didn't know what they had.

They didn't know what they had.

Instead, rather than selling this bowl for $2.2 million in buying a home in the Hamptons,

since they didn't know what they had, they sold it for three bucks and bought a cheeseburger at McDonald's,

simply because they didn't know what they had, They sold it for three bucks and bought a cheeseburger at McDonald's. Simply because they didn't know what they had. And I can just picture them a few years later

after selling it, seeing that it sold for $2.2 million going, if only we knew what we had.

Today's we're continuing in our study of the book of Ephesians. We're going to read a prayer from Paul, and he's going to write to the church in Ephesus,

and he's going to say, if only you know what you have, if only you knew what's available

to you right now because you have much in Christ Jesus, the question is, do you know it? Do you know what you have? I bet for any of us the

answer is probably not, because for some of us, maybe your faith has grown stale. Maybe it's

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