This morning we are continuing the Word series in the book of Ephesians.

Anybody loving God's Word through Ephesians coming out the last couple of weeks.

So powerful and so strong and I know a lot of you are reading ahead and you are trying

to figure out how far are we going and where are we going to get to this time.

Today we are coming to such a great passage of Scripture.

I think we are going to say that every week, aren't we?

Every single week we are going to say, oh my goodness, this is going to be incredible

and this Word is going to be so powerful because every single week you turn the corner

and it seems like when you turn that corner there is so much more in what God is wanting

to say to us and for us in our lives.

Just a little overview if you just dropped in on us, we are calling this series, we are

putting as a banner over this series in the book of Ephesians, the title, who do you think

you are?

Because every single one of us is operating out of a perception of our own lives.

You are either operating out of the perception that your parents put on you or people around

you have put on you or your self perception of who you are or what God says about you.

Most of us are operating in sort of a mixed match of all of those things.

We got a little bit of what we think, a little bit about what our friends said, a little

bit about what our former boyfriend or girlfriend said about us, a little bit about what our

boss said about us, a little bit about what God said about us, a little bit about what

the enemy said about us and we sort of mixed all that up into this idea about who we are,

but what we want to do in these weeks together is let God strip away everything except what

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