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Thank you, Father, for sending Jesus.

All right, I've been teaching through the book of Ephesians and I've covered two chapters in two

sessions.

There's six chapters in Ephesians and I've got two sessions left, which means I can't finish. So I've got to pick and choose what I'm

going to say. Let me just say that I hope that this is encouraged to if nothing else to maybe read

Ephesions with a different lens and like I was saying during the first two

sessions the first three chapters are basically about what has already been done.

Everything is in the past tense. God has already done it and he's just praying that your eyes would be open to what you already have.

Then in chapter 4 he begins to talk about because God has done these things now we should live

holy and here's how we should live but notice the order of this he didn't

talk about all of the things we need to do and then talk about what God would do.

No everything in the Christian life should come out of relationship with the

Lord. It is not in order to get relationship with the Lord. That's a subtle

difference, but it's huge.

And there are a lot of people that honestly think that by them studying the word and praying

and going to church and loving other people and forgiving that this is what causes God to move in their life.

It's just the opposite.

Our actions are actually the fruit and not the root of our relationship with God.

And if you really study it, that is very clear in the book of Ephesians.

The first three chapters are all about what's already been done and then it tells you how we should live

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