Hey, this is Beth.

Listen, what we live for at Living Proof is to serve people, the Word of God.

We base our ministry on Hebrews 412 that tells us that the Word is alive and active.

We pray this message is going to serve you in some way today and that God

is going to speak through it. Thank you so much for giving us this privilege.

You may be seated and turn with me to the first chapter of Ephesians, please.

Here we are wrapping up our series together on becoming who we are. But as you would well know, this is not something

that we can get to the end of five once a week times together, and now we've got this thing.

This is something we work on and work toward for the rest of our lives.

Because we'll always have that little imposter in us,

that person that wants to hide,

that part of our natural man that's going to want to spring up again because new circumstance, new situation, new temptation,

whatever it might be, and here it comes back. And here's the thing,

it can come back ferociously. One of the things we always hope for is after a long stretch

of having some victory in the Lord, we want to hope that if we fell back into the pattern of that imposter, that it

wouldn't be nearly as bad, because after all, we've done, listen, we got to understand that

the enemy is more scheming than that.

One of the things that we have to understand is, man, he wants us all the way down in the bottom

of that pit. He doesn't want us, he wants us all the way down in the bottom of that pit.

He doesn't want us hanging on to a limb about halfway down. He wants us in the bottom.

And so as we see it, one of the ways that we'll know that we're really growing in the Lord

is that we bounce back quickly. I don't mean that we're necessarily restored quickly.

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