You and I who have received Christ as Savior have the spirit of Christ living inside of us,

and one of his jobs is to make known to us what has been freely given to us by Christ.

I love that, because I don't want to miss anything.

If it could help me live in victory and it could help me live in fulfilling God's desire for me,

if it could increase my joy in a joyless world, I want it, don't you?

I want it.

I want it. What I'm going to do now is talk you through a little bit of an illustration about what we're talking about.

Now, listen, what I'm going to do is I'm going to strongly simplify it,

and in some ways, then I'm even going to make it more dramatic than it really would be often in our day-to-day.

But I need something that I can imagine for a moment, give me some kind of word picture so I can see what we're talking about.

And that's what I'm going to try to do here, because what does it mean then in Ephesians

chapter one when we're talking about him saying, having the eyes of your heart enlightened

so that you may know. So what does that look like? What does that look like?

Well, I want you to understand, first of all, that it all

starts and ends here with the scriptures. This, we've got to have this. There is nothing like

the word of God. This is the written revelation of God to man. This is all we have got in concrete.

This is written authority to us.

Nothing else matches this.

Absolutely nothing.

This is what everything else is tested by.

So everything starts and everything circles around. Everything comes from right here.

Our only unquestionable and utterly reliable written authority, the Word of God.

...