Welcome to 15 Minutes in the Word with New York Times best-selling author Joyce Meyer.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series on the Book of Ephesians.

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The book of Ephesians is foundational for every believer to understand their identity as a follower of Christ.

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Ephesians chapter by chapter, helping reveal to us who we are in Christ and just how much he loves us.

Now here's Joyce with today's series on Ephesians. You know, the amplified Bible, when it talks

about sin, it talks about forgiveness for our sins in thought,

word, and deed. So we not only sin with our deeds, but to be honest, the things that we do wrong

start in our mind. And then our mouth gets involved and then we complete the process

and really get ourselves in trouble. No man can tame the tongue. Bible says no man can tame the

tone. We need a lot of help. Lord put a guard over my mouth lest i sin against you with my tongue

help me lord to say nothing if i can't say something that's going to have life in it now

verses 30 verse 30 not verses 30 says don't grieve the holy spirit wow don't grieve the holy spirit of god. Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God. Do not offend

or vex or sadden him by whom you were sealed, marked, and branded as God's own, and secured

for the day of redemption of final deliverance through Christ from evil and the consequences of sin.

Now I shared with the people here last night because it's such an important point.

I'm going to take a moment to share it here again.

The sealing of the Holy Spirit, this being marked and branded, has a real significance that

we may not fully understand.

Just like I would talk to you today based on the culture that we live in. Paul talked to the people in his day

based on the culture that he lived in. And so many of the examples that he uses, we don't fully

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