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Today's talk comes from Pastor Louis Giglio.

We're in a story that's moving up. God's always about lifting. You look all through the

scripture. He lifted me out and he lifted me up. He led us out and he led us up. Even

the holy city of Jerusalem, it's up. It's on the top of a mountain.

You go up to the holy city. You go up to Zion. You lift your eyes up to the hills from where your strength comes from. We're in a story of moving up and out with God.

And Christ is in that story with us. In fact, he knows the highs and the lows of life, but ultimately

Christ is in the highest place today, and we see that in his word. We see he has been lifted up, came in the flesh, but now lifted up out of death

into everlasting life. And in Paul's prayer, Ephesians, one, he's helping us understand that we're linked in with Christ.

So that's going to be key for you today.

Are you linked to Christ?

Not do you belong to a denomination or do you own a Bible

or was your grandmother a follower of a certain faith?

But what about you?

Have you put your faith in Jesus like we saw with Joanne and this amazing set of sisters and this brother in Wisconsin today have you put your

faith in Jesus and if so you're linked to him and Paul's trying to help you see what you're linked to. And he comes to the end of this prayer and he says that power, talking about the power that's in us now, is like the working of his mighty strength. This is the end of verse 19. Going into

verse 20 which he exerted in Christ when he raised him, that's our key and

operative word, up, raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the

heavenly realms.

Verse 21, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can be given not only

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