Ephesians 3

Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast

Skip Heitzig

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 July 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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God's plan for a new society, called the church—where all believers, Jews and non-Jews alike, are united in Christ by faith—was once hidden but had finally been fully revealed. Wrapping up the doctrinal section of his letter, Paul expanded on the power and importance of that shocking revelation. In this message, Skip Heitzig explores Paul's costly dedication to delivering the good news, and what it means for us today.

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0:00.0	Calvary Church is dedicated to doctrine, and we want you to experience the life change that comes
0:07.4	from knowing God's word and applying it to your life. So we explain the Bible verse by verse,
0:13.2	every chapter, every book, this is expound. So turn in your Bibles, please, to the book of Ephesians chapter 3. And let's have a
0:25.0	word of prayer. Father, we still our hearts before you. We bring them to you, Lord. We bring
0:33.2	our very being.
0:44.5	And Father, we pray that you will meet us at our point of need.
0:49.6	Meet us at our point of faith as we reach out to you.
0:57.0	We have different backgrounds, different expressions and experiences, but we all need you. We have that in common.
0:59.0	Some of us need a physical touch. Some need an emotional touch. Some need encouragement.
1:05.0	Some need rebuke. Some of us need a course correction. You know exactly what it is that we need, and we as your
1:14.7	people, place our bodies before you as living sacrifices, as Paul encouraged us to do, and we
1:22.7	just pray that you will work, and that our lives would then be used for your glory to please you in Jesus'
1:31.2	name. Amen. To catch you back up to where we are, Paul is writing this letter from Rome. Paul is in
1:43.4	prison. He will be in prison for a total of two years in Rome. Paul is in prison. He will be in prison for a total of two years in Rome. He was arrested
1:49.5	in Jerusalem. I'll make a little more reference to that in a minute. But he is currently in
1:55.5	Rome when he is writing this letter. And he is there for two years. At the end of the book of Acts in chapter 28,
2:03.1	once Paul arrives at Rome, it says that he was chained to a soldier, but that he was allowed
2:11.1	to live in his own rented house for two years. So he had to pay the rent on whatever flat house apartment he was in,
2:22.4	but he was under house arrest. He was chained to a guard 24 hours a day. But he had a certain
2:29.0	amount of freedom. It says he could receive all those who came to visit him, and he was preaching the kingdom of God
2:38.2	and teaching things concerning Jesus Christ with all confidence, no one forbidding him.
2:45.4	That's how Acts chapter 28 closes out. Well, while he is in Rome and he is receiving visitors, and he is preaching
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