Hey, I'm David Platt. I wrote a book on how to read the Bible, a simple guide to deeper intimacy with God.

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There is spoil. There's treasure waiting for you and me every day in God's word, not just so that we know it and understand it,

but so that we know God and walk in love relationship with God. That's why I wrote this book

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This morning looking at the ramifications of covenant for community.

We're going to look at verse 22 and 23, which comes at the end of a prayer that Paul

praises.

It's the first of two prayers that Paul prays in the book of Ephesians, which are great

in helping inform us and how we pray for each other. And I would encourage you to look,

Ephesians 1, 15 through 23, and then Ephesians 3, 14 through 21. It's a letter that Paul wrote

to Christians at Ephesus. He was likely in prison when he wrote this letter, and he is writing it

near the end of his life. And he comes to Ephesians chapter 1, verse 15, and he begins to pray for

them to know the person of Christ and the power of Christ. Listen to what he prays. Verse 15. Paul says,

For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.

I keep asking the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation

so that you may know him better.

I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope

to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably

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