What is the difference between being with Christ?

Because I'm not with him today physically, one day I will be, and in Christ.

Because I am in Christ and wow, that is a marvelous truth.

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Now, let's join Kurt for today's episode. Welcome back, my friends,

still here in Australia, and I hope you are still wherever you are. It didn't really make

sense, but anyway, glad to see you. We are in Ephesians Chapter 2, and I just introduced last episode one of my favorite verses in all the Bible

where it says but God who is rich in mercy for his great love wherewith he hath loved us

and think about that the rich mercy of God and the great love of God. And watch when he showed us mercy,

and watch how he loved us, because this will knock your socks off. Look at verse number five.

So we're in Ephesians 2, verse number 5, where it says, even when we were dead in sins.

So last episode, we talked about the before picture, how that we were dead in trespasses and in

sins, how we had rebelled against God, how we had missed the mark, how we were just walking

after the course of this world and

following the devil. And I mean, that's bad news. And yet God made the difference. How? Through his

rich mercy, through his great love. But when? When did God demonstrate that mercy to us? When was God's love revealed to us? Was it after we said we were

sorry and after we came back and said, oh, God, please? No, because what did John teach us? He said,

we love him because he first loved us. And what did John say in John 316? You know this first, for God so loved

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