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And now, here's Andrew. All right, I'm in teaching

through Ephesians, and I haven't gotten very far. I'm halfway through, and this is my last

message. So we're going to, this message will be five or six hours long.

No, it won't be.

Don't encourage me. I have ministered that long before.

But we're now into chapter four, and I'm just going to have to skip through some things.

And again, I hope that this encourages you to go back and study the word for yourself. Maybe you could just hear some things that says, I've never looked at it that way.

I've never thought about it that way. And if you'll go back and study these verses and ask the

Holy Spirit to show you, he'll show you anything that he's shown me. He's the teacher. Amen. So I encourage you to

just really study. So I'm going to jump down here. There's some things I want to get to. But the very

first part of this fourth chapter is Paul talking about how that God has given all of us gifts.

And then he starts talking in verse 11 about the different ministry gifts,

the apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher.

And these are gifts from God to the body of Christ.

Man, that's awesome.

That's awesome to think that God would give gifts unto men and raise up people to minister to us and to help us. And there are awesome things here.

I hate to skip over that, but I am. I'm going to skip on down to some other things.

But notice this. It says in verse 11 that he

gave the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers and teacher. And here's the purpose he gave

them for in verse 12, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.

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