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Strengthen your faith with us, even as we see the day approaching.

And now, here's Gary.

It's Ephesians that tells you very, very, very specifically who you are in Christ.

We have been going through those wonderful topics, predestination, adoption, the will of God,

all those things that are easy to understand. And now today we're going to understand.

And now, today we're going to continue on in Ephesians.

And I think we'll start in about verse 9 of chapter 1.

We have noted that chapter 1 is divided into a small introductory sentence, verses 1 and 2, and then the second sentence of Ephesians goes from verse 3 to 14.

So, verses 1 and 2 are the first sentence, verses 3 to 14 are the second sentence.

And we've been struggling our way through the second sentence for a long time,

this section has been called the longest single sentence in the history of Western literature,

and it is, and it's a mouthful, because it talks about how we were chosen by the father

to be adopted into his family with all rights and privileges.

And Paul goes into great, great detail about that, and we've been spending the last

couple of weeks on it.

It also talks about how we were chosen in the beloved.

Verse six says, to the praise, the glory of his grace, where he hath made us accepted in the beloved. Verse six says to the praise, the glory of his grace, where he hath made us accepted

in the beloved. And the Greek language, that little phrase right there is called a locative

of sphere in the Greek text. And what that means is that we operate in the sphere of the beloved.

When we were saved, we were immediately placed in the sphere of the beloved. When we were saved, we were immediately placed in the spirit

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