There is no substitute for the preaching and teaching of God's Word.

Each weekday on enjoying the journey, Scott Pauley leads us in a brief study of scripture.

Today, on the weekend pulpit, we are happy to share a full-length

Bible message given through Scott's pulpit ministry. These messages were recorded live in a local

church or gospel event in recent days. It is our prayer that the message will be a help to you today. Let's take the Word of God, shall we, and go back to the same book we were in earlier this Lord's Day.

Turn to the book of Ephesians with me again.

How many of you started reading in Ephesians today between the morning, meeting, and tonight?

Would you raise your hand? Anybody here?

Good. I got a couple of, just a couple of overachievers among us. That's good.

I'm going to ask you to do something.

I don't know where you're

reading right now in scripture. I hope you're reading somewhere in scripture. How many

to try to read something in God's word every day? Good. On the count of three, shout out where you're

reading. One, two, three. That's a good place wherever you said. All right. It's in the Bible. It's wonderful. I hope you don't use the method the fellow used where he just let his Bible fall open, put his finger on a verse, and that was the spot.

Occasionally, I've done that and to some profit, but as a general rule, I think systematically going through portions of Scripture,

praying away through the Bible is the best way to do it. In fact, that is really why I'm preaching out of Ephesians this week, because this is devotionally where I've been living the last couple of

weeks, and as I've gone through it again, yet again, seeing fresh things, and, oh, I tell you

the word of God's amazing, isn't it? You never exhaust the unsearchable wisdom of our great God.

And so, wherever you're reading in scripture, add this to it this week.

Try to read and pray your way through the book of Ephesians. And as you do, I'm convinced of this.

The Holy Spirit is going to begin to really deal with you about his fullness in your life.

Now, just for fun, I want you to take a pen out. Would everybody get a pen in hand, something that you can

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