Hey, this is Beth.

Listen, what we live for at Living Proof is to serve people, the Word of God.

We base our ministry on Hebrews 412 that tells us that the Word is alive and active.

We pray this message is going to serve you in some way today and that God

is going to speak through it. Thank you so much for giving us this privilege. Paul, an apostle

of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and are faithful

in Christ Jesus, grace to you in peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Would you begin reading with me now?

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every

spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us

in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him.

In love, he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose

of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the beloved.

In Him, we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,

according to the riches of His grace, which He lavished upon us in all wisdom and insight, making known to us the mystery of his will,

according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time

to unite all things in Him, things in heaven, and things on earth.

In Him, we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him

who works all things according to the counsel of His will, so that we, who were the first

to hope in Christ, might be to the praise of His glory.

In Him, you also, when you heard the Word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him,

were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance, until we acquire possession of it to the praise of his glory, this is the word of the Lord.

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