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, The Book of Ephesians.

When we look at the book of Ephesians, Paul's words are foundational for every believer.

They help us to understand who we are in Christ, how much he loves us, and how we can grow a stronger,

more intimate relationship with God. So today, let's go deeper in God's word. Listen as Joyce

walks through Ephesians chapter by chapter, showing us how we can apply its truths to our lives.

Now, here's Joyce with today's series on the Book of Ephesians.

We're doing the whole book of Ephesians this weekend, and that sounds like a daunting task.

I'm trying it for a couple reasons.

One, book of Ephesians is just phenomenal.

Six chapters in it, and it's just absolutely phenomenal teaching.

But secondly, I really want people to study the Bible, not just read it, but study it.

And the first three chapters of Ephesians are all about how much God loves us, the grace of God, his mercy, his forgiveness, our inheritance in Christ, who we are in Christ.

And that has to be the foundation of our walk with God.

Before we ever get around to teaching people how to behave right, we must teach them who they are in Christ.

And so I try in my teaching to keep a good balance of that. I teach a lot on behavior,

do this, don't do this, but I always work in who we are in Christ because if you try to

teach people how to behave without them knowing how

much God loves them and that his love for them is not based on their behavior, if that's

all we teach people, which a lot of religious organizations are very guilty of that, and it just

frustrates people no end. If we teach people right,

then they can have a great deal of success and growth in their relationship with God. How many

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