The following is a presentation of Messenger International,

a ministry committed to teach, reach, and rescue.

For more information, visit MessengerInternational.org.

I want to share with you the mandate that was on the Apostle Paul's life

as he wrote to the Ephesian church.

He made this statement in Ephesians 3, 9, and 10.

My task is to bring out into the open

and make plain what God has been doing.

Through Christians like yourselves, this extraordinary,

everybody shout extraordinary, plan of God is becoming known.

Notice Paul said, I've got to bring it out into the open,

I've got to make it plain.

For him to say that means what?

There is something hidden that needs to be revealed.

What is hidden is God's plan, and God's plan for your life is,

one more time, shout it out, extraordinary.

So let me first of all start out by defining this remarkable word.

The word extraordinary is defined as this, to go beyond what is usual.

It means to exceed the common measure.

Now sometimes we can understand better what a word is by looking at what it is not.

The antinum of extraordinary are common, ordinary, or normal.

So I want you to think with me here for a minute,

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