WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.960 It's a description of our life in rebellion against God, not unlike what Adam and Eve were like in the garden. 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:17.980 It says we're spiritually dead, that we're without life, without hope, separated, excluded from the community that we can have with God. 00:00:18.900 --> 00:00:22.100 In fact, he tells us that it is a serious condition. 00:00:22.100 --> 00:00:23.980 Look at the end of verse 3. 00:00:23.980 --> 00:00:33.079 Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. 00:00:35.420 --> 00:00:42.960 You see, when we reject God, we face his rejection of us. 00:00:43.700 --> 00:00:49.260 When we push God out of the centre, he pushes us out. 00:00:49.939 --> 00:00:51.280 We face his judgement. 00:00:51.280 --> 00:01:00.260 But as we've been saying, God has this cosmic plan to bring people back into community with himself. 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:01.820 So look at verse 4. 00:01:02.760 --> 00:01:13.099 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ, even when we were dead in transgressions. 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:17.020 It is by grace that you have been saved. 00:01:17.019 --> 00:01:24.179 God has seen the mess, the hostility and the division in the world, but he doesn't ignore it and run away from it. 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:28.079 He reaches down and he intervenes into our lives. 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:39.759 Jesus came to take our rebellion on himself and suffer the rejection that we deserve so that we could be welcomed back into community with the Father. 00:01:39.760 --> 00:01:40.800 He rescued us so that we could be welcomed back into our lives. 00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:44.880 He rescued us so that we could be welcomed back into our lives. 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:52.200 He saved us so that we could enjoy life with him under his perfect loving rule. 00:01:52.200 --> 00:02:05.120 Now, if you and I are going to experience this salvation, if we're going to experience community with God, then the only response to that is faith. 00:02:05.299 --> 00:02:06.879 Look at verses 8 and 9. 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:14.379 For it is by grace you have been saved through faith. 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:16.680 And this is not from yourselves. 00:02:17.460 --> 00:02:23.419 Faith, that is, is a gift of God, not by works so that no one can boast. 00:02:25.699 --> 00:02:27.719 You see, it's very clear, isn't it? 00:02:28.099 --> 00:02:31.599 It's not the church that saves me. 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:36.099 It's faith in Christ that saves me. 00:02:36.879 --> 00:02:42.000 It's not my membership or my baptism that saves me. 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:45.359 It's my faith in Christ. 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:51.819 Yes, my baptism is an outward expression of my faith in Jesus. 00:02:53.740 --> 00:02:55.840 But it is faith that counts. 00:02:56.819 --> 00:03:01.240 Each one of us have been born outside of the community of God. 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:04.259 We're all born outside of the church. 00:03:04.259 --> 00:03:11.019 But through our faith in Christ, we are now restored into community with God. 00:03:11.020 --> 00:03:18.020 So first, the church is saved by Christ. 00:03:19.180 --> 00:03:22.680 Now, the other side of the coin is this. 00:03:23.180 --> 00:03:28.820 We're saved by Christ, but we are also gathered into community. 00:03:28.819 --> 00:03:38.079 We're saved individually, but we are always saved into the community of God's people. 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:41.820 So have a look at verse 12, chapter 2. 00:03:42.580 --> 00:03:45.000 Again, he's looking back to the past. 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:47.760 Verse 12. 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:53.219 Remember that at that time in the past, you were separate from Christ. 00:03:53.579 --> 00:03:58.179 You were excluded from citizenship in Israel. 00:03:58.859 --> 00:04:00.979 Foreigners to the covenants of the promise. 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:03.919 Without hope and without God in the world. 00:04:05.079 --> 00:04:08.500 So that exclusion of being apart from God. 00:04:08.500 --> 00:04:10.219 But now, look at verse 13. 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:14.500 But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far away, 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:20.459 have now been brought near through the blood of Christ. 00:04:21.980 --> 00:04:24.439 And as we'll see, what it's telling us is, 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:27.199 we're not just saved into the community, 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:30.199 to be into the community with God, 00:04:30.939 --> 00:04:35.699 but we are also saved into the community of God's people. 00:04:35.699 --> 00:04:41.300 In other words, church is not just a group of individuals all doing their own thing. 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:47.199 We are a family united together in Christ. 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:53.759 Excluded, but now brought near by Christ to be a new people. 00:04:54.339 --> 00:04:56.919 Two things under this gathered community. 00:04:57.120 --> 00:04:59.879 First, we are one united people. 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:01.419 Verse 14. 00:05:01.420 --> 00:05:06.920 For he, that's Jesus himself, is our peace. 00:05:07.699 --> 00:05:10.160 He has made the two one. 00:05:10.759 --> 00:05:14.819 And has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility. 00:05:15.220 --> 00:05:17.200 Now, the people he's writing to here, 00:05:17.340 --> 00:05:22.100 the particular division that he has in mind is between the Jew and the Gentile. 00:05:22.620 --> 00:05:23.560 Different cultures. 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:28.800 But he says, between you, I am now making peace. 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:34.120 There was division, but now I'm going to break that dividing wall of hostility. 00:05:34.459 --> 00:05:37.680 And I'm going to bring you together in Christ. 00:05:38.740 --> 00:05:44.519 Now, we know our experience in life today is that division and hostility exist everywhere. 00:05:44.840 --> 00:05:46.639 Between all kinds of people groups. 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:49.259 Even between different social classes. 00:05:49.699 --> 00:05:52.319 We exclude and we reject people all the time. 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:54.159 Well, because they're not like me. 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:01.719 But what Christ has done is to break down all those barriers that divide. 00:06:03.180 --> 00:06:05.339 Look at the end of verse 15. 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:09.060 Pick it up in the middle of verse 15. 00:06:09.060 --> 00:06:18.060 His purpose was to create in himself one new people out of the two, thus making peace. 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:24.620 And in this one body in Christ, to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, 00:06:24.819 --> 00:06:28.160 by which he put to death their hostility. 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:34.139 So he takes people from different sides, 00:06:34.500 --> 00:06:37.759 who are hostile, who don't get on, 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:43.779 and brings them together to create peace and to bring about a new kind of people. 00:06:45.740 --> 00:06:50.980 Recently, the four provinces of Ireland, Munster, Leinster, Connacht and Ulster, 00:06:51.439 --> 00:06:53.139 they all played each other in rugby. 00:06:53.259 --> 00:06:54.980 I think it was last weekend. 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:59.300 They played as rivals and enemies. 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:01.680 And if you watched the match, you would have seen them. 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:03.259 There was no love between them. 00:07:03.500 --> 00:07:06.240 They were thumping the living daylights out of each other. 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:19.399 But then, those same players from those same four teams all get called to play for Ireland, the national team. 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:25.039 And we've seen them, Ireland, standing together on the pitch, shoulder to shoulder, 00:07:25.420 --> 00:07:31.240 as one united team, under one anthem, under the one green jersey. 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:39.019 The barrier that divides has now been broken down and they are now united as one to serve one purpose. 00:07:40.819 --> 00:07:44.560 Now, in a much more significant and in an eternal way, 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:47.460 this is what Christ does for the world. 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:50.439 He takes people from different backgrounds. 00:07:50.780 --> 00:07:53.060 And each one of us here has got a different story. 00:07:53.460 --> 00:07:55.060 We come from different countries. 00:07:55.060 --> 00:07:58.819 We come from different families. 00:08:00.420 --> 00:08:02.060 We've got different cultures. 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:05.300 We've got different ideas of looking at the world. 00:08:05.300 --> 00:08:11.540 But yet, he takes us all from our different places and walks of life. 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.120 And he says, I unite you together in Christ. 00:08:15.259 --> 00:08:18.680 Because the one thing we've got in common is, we're all rebels. 00:08:20.340 --> 00:08:23.060 But he says, I'm going to take that rebellion on myself. 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:25.460 And I'm going to bring peace to you. 00:08:25.620 --> 00:08:27.040 And peace to one another. 00:08:27.040 --> 00:08:36.960 So, if we're saved by Christ, our identity is no longer Irish or British. 00:08:38.340 --> 00:08:43.379 Our identity is not about our colour, whether we're black or whether we're white. 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:49.820 Our identity is not whether we say I'm Catholic or Protestant, rich or poor. 00:08:49.820 --> 00:08:58.540 Our identity is now that we are a new people, united under Christ. 00:08:58.820 --> 00:09:01.060 Look what it says again in the middle of verse 15. 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:12.560 His purpose was to create in himself one new people, out of the two, thus making peace. 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:25.439 So, if you're a Christian here this morning, your identity is not in a culture, is not in your background. 00:09:26.459 --> 00:09:33.119 Your new identity is one that is in Christ, where we now become a new kind of people. 00:09:34.239 --> 00:09:36.899 But we're more than just one united people. 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:41.519 We are one spirit-filled family. 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:46.459 Look at the illustration he gives us in verse 19. 00:09:48.199 --> 00:09:57.759 Consequently, because of this work of Christ, you're no longer foreigners and aliens, people who are outsiders, but fellow citizens. 00:09:59.179 --> 00:10:01.859 Your passport is Christ. 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:08.679 You are God's people and members of God's household. 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:12.319 Literally, you are members of God's family. 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:15.599 Brothers and sisters of each other. 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:18.979 The Lord Jesus is our brother. 00:10:19.319 --> 00:10:20.779 And God is our Father. 00:10:22.179 --> 00:10:23.579 That is God's design. 00:10:23.580 --> 00:10:27.860 My sister has a sign up in her kitchen. 00:10:29.139 --> 00:10:32.360 And if you're a family and you have children, you'll probably relate to it. 00:10:32.460 --> 00:10:34.139 The sign says this. 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:35.860 This is not a hotel. 00:10:36.580 --> 00:10:37.800 We are a family. 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:43.100 In other words, mum and dad are not here to give and get what the children demand. 00:10:43.100 --> 00:10:44.100 We're a family. 00:10:44.100 --> 00:10:46.000 We're a family. 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.620 We serve and care for one another. 00:10:48.620 --> 00:10:52.680 You don't just walk in and walk out and do as you please and get what you like. 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:55.000 It's much more than that. 00:10:55.700 --> 00:10:59.480 And that's what it means to live in the community of God's people. 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:07.139 We're not just a random collection of individuals who just turn up and do their own related things throughout the week and throughout the day. 00:11:08.340 --> 00:11:09.860 No, we're family. 00:11:10.680 --> 00:11:15.820 Brothers and sisters seeking to support and share and serve one another. 00:11:15.820 --> 00:11:20.340 We say, well, how do we experience this family life? 00:11:21.220 --> 00:11:22.400 What's it look like? 00:11:23.160 --> 00:11:28.840 Well, the way we experience it is, is to start living out our familiness. 00:11:29.660 --> 00:11:36.320 And that is we start behaving and living as family where we get involved, where we're committed. 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:49.460 You see, if you see church as simply just one meeting that you attend once a week, then we'll never truly know the love and care of God's people. 00:11:50.660 --> 00:11:58.320 If church is just something that you attend whenever it doesn't interfere with some other thing that you're doing in your life, 00:11:59.120 --> 00:12:03.740 then we're never ever going to know community as God intends. 00:12:03.740 --> 00:12:11.399 Family life means doing life together 24-7 in the good times and the hard times. 00:12:11.740 --> 00:12:16.279 It means that we're a people who work through the messiness of life with each other. 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:20.680 That we forgive each other when we fail each other and let each other down. 00:12:20.980 --> 00:12:22.639 Where we support one another. 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:27.240 He gives us a wonderful picture and description of this. 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:28.500 Have a look at chapter 4. 00:12:28.500 --> 00:12:35.759 He gives these wonderful pictures of what this family life is like. 00:12:37.200 --> 00:12:40.100 I'm just going to read some verses for you. 00:12:40.259 --> 00:12:42.419 Have a look at verse 29. 00:12:42.419 --> 00:12:48.639 This is what it looks like. 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:51.199 Verse 29 of chapter 4. 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:55.679 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths. 00:12:56.519 --> 00:13:03.500 But only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs. 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:06.579 That it may benefit those who listen. 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:09.000 That's good, isn't it? 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:12.240 Or have a look at verse 32. 00:13:14.460 --> 00:13:19.100 Be kind and compassionate to one another. 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.460 Forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you. 00:13:23.940 --> 00:13:28.980 Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love. 00:13:29.340 --> 00:13:31.399 Just as Christ loved us. 00:13:31.899 --> 00:13:37.580 And gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 00:13:37.580 --> 00:13:43.540 Or have a look down at verse 4. 00:13:44.540 --> 00:13:51.360 There should be no obscenity or foolish talk, coarse joking, which are out of place. 00:13:52.560 --> 00:13:54.639 But rather, thanksgiving. 00:13:57.120 --> 00:13:58.020 Verse 8. 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:01.080 You were once darkness, but now you're light in the Lord. 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:02.980 Live as children of light. 00:14:02.980 --> 00:14:07.639 For the fruit of light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth. 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:11.519 And find out what pleases the Lord. 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:18.560 Isn't that a wonderful description and picture of the family of God's people? 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:26.579 Well, you're saying, I sure like the sound of that. 00:14:27.579 --> 00:14:29.939 But it's not always what I experience. 00:14:31.219 --> 00:14:32.959 And that is true. 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.459 So let's be measured in our expectations. 00:14:37.460 --> 00:14:41.500 He's telling us this is what it should look like. 00:14:42.160 --> 00:14:46.320 But we also need to recognise that we are not yet the perfect family. 00:14:46.920 --> 00:14:48.660 So go back to chapter 2. 00:14:49.700 --> 00:14:50.879 Verse 22. 00:14:51.139 --> 00:14:53.560 He's been talking about the church as family. 00:14:53.900 --> 00:14:55.420 Now he changes the metaphor slightly. 00:14:56.160 --> 00:14:58.259 And talks about a building, a temple. 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:00.440 A people who come together. 00:15:00.900 --> 00:15:01.600 Verse 22. 00:15:01.740 --> 00:15:02.379 Let me read. 00:15:02.379 --> 00:15:10.240 In him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his spirit. 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:12.500 So God has made us a family. 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:18.960 But God is in the process of building us up and into a family. 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:22.439 So we are not yet the perfect family. 00:15:22.580 --> 00:15:24.220 We're not the finished article. 00:15:24.620 --> 00:15:27.059 He is still working in us and through us. 00:15:27.419 --> 00:15:31.419 So we will struggle with our sinful nature. 00:15:31.419 --> 00:15:35.360 That means with our sinful nature we'll fail each other. 00:15:35.699 --> 00:15:37.799 At times we'll disappoint each other. 00:15:37.979 --> 00:15:40.819 We'll even hurt each other because we say the wrong thing. 00:15:42.579 --> 00:15:55.839 But God by his spirit is working on us and in us and building us together like blocks in a wall together to be the family that he calls us to be. 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:01.180 So he says this is what it looks like. 00:16:02.120 --> 00:16:05.399 And this is what I'm building you towards. 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:10.759 That's why we are to be compassionate to one another. 00:16:11.160 --> 00:16:12.740 Forgiving of one another. 00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:15.840 Seeking to build one another up. 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.860 So what are we saying in all of this? 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:24.899 Well, if I am saved by Christ, that's one side of the coin. 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:30.379 And the other side of the coin is I am saved into the community of Christ. 00:16:31.259 --> 00:16:32.820 Yes, we're saved individually. 00:16:33.259 --> 00:16:36.500 But we are always gathered into a family. 00:16:36.500 --> 00:16:46.620 So if I am a Christian, the church is not something that I somehow later on decide, I wonder if I'll join it. 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:50.679 No, I am saved into the church by Christ. 00:16:50.779 --> 00:16:52.340 You can't separate the two. 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.539 Christianity is not a lone experience. 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:01.299 It is a united family from all walks of life serving, sharing and supporting together. 00:17:01.299 --> 00:17:18.019 And so if you are a Christian here today and you're not baptised, well, baptism is that outward expression that I belong to Christ and that I belong to the church family. 00:17:19.299 --> 00:17:20.059 Membership. 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:29.559 Membership is that outward expression of saying, yes, I'm committed to the family that Christ has saved me into. 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:36.919 And if I am not yet a member, then that is something that we should be thinking through seriously. 00:17:37.179 --> 00:17:41.740 If I am saved by Christ, I am saved into the community of Christ. 00:17:43.579 --> 00:17:45.339 They cannot be separated. 00:17:46.879 --> 00:17:48.619 So let me ask us a question. 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:55.619 If we are Christians, how are you seeking to live out being in God's family today? 00:17:56.619 --> 00:17:59.159 Do you wait for others to serve you? 00:18:00.059 --> 00:18:04.519 Do you sit at home waiting for somebody to come and visit and complain when they don't? 00:18:06.579 --> 00:18:14.179 Do you sit here on a Sunday morning thinking, well, I wonder if somebody's going to do this for me instead of first going to them? 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:25.339 We are to be an outward focused people, not looking at myself, but seeking to serve and encourage and help one another. 00:18:25.339 --> 00:18:29.220 So we are saved by Christ. 00:18:29.699 --> 00:18:31.799 We are gathered into community. 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:38.939 And then the last part is, we are displaying God's eternal purpose. 00:18:38.940 --> 00:18:42.380 Look at chapter 3, verse 6. 00:18:42.380 --> 00:18:46.800 Chapter 3, verse 6. 00:18:46.800 --> 00:19:01.000 This mystery, this great big plan of God, this cosmic plan of God, is that through the gospel, the Gentiles, that is those who are not Jews, are heirs together with Israel, those who are Jews. 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:16.700 So Gentiles, Jews, Irish, English, European, wherever we may come from, through Christ, we are members together of one body and sharers together in the promise of Jesus Christ. 00:19:16.700 --> 00:19:19.819 He unites us together as one people. 00:19:20.120 --> 00:19:23.580 There's no inferiority, no superiority. 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.700 We share in the promises together. 00:19:26.059 --> 00:19:27.620 We all have access to God. 00:19:27.880 --> 00:19:31.120 We're all equally loved and treasured without distinction. 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:33.580 That is what Christ does for us. 00:19:34.340 --> 00:19:35.759 But that's not the end of it. 00:19:36.140 --> 00:19:37.600 There's a purpose for all of this. 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:38.460 Look at verse 10. 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:40.480 And here's where the purpose comes. 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:56.599 His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:04.360 according to his eternal purpose, which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. 00:20:05.279 --> 00:20:06.740 What a statement. 00:20:06.740 --> 00:20:19.380 God's wisdom, God's cosmic plan, is now on display through the church. 00:20:20.500 --> 00:20:28.339 If you like, the church is God's display piece to the whole world to say, this is what I am doing. 00:20:28.779 --> 00:20:34.019 This is how I am uniting people together so that they live under my rule. 00:20:34.019 --> 00:20:43.779 So as we look at a people, a diverse bunch, a motley crew as we are here, united through Christ, 00:20:44.379 --> 00:20:48.500 as we watch outsiders incorporated into God's family, 00:20:48.799 --> 00:20:53.079 as we experience a forgiven people forgiving one another, 00:20:53.740 --> 00:20:57.700 as we hear of hostilities being healed and grace for the broken, 00:20:57.700 --> 00:21:00.460 as people see the church in action, 00:21:00.460 --> 00:21:05.279 they see God's eternal purpose at work. 00:21:06.500 --> 00:21:14.140 This, the local church, is God's display piece to a broken, divided and hostile world to say, 00:21:14.460 --> 00:21:16.960 come and see what I can do. 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:23.539 Of course we're not blowing our own trumpet to say that we're perfect. 00:21:24.279 --> 00:21:25.340 We are not. 00:21:25.339 --> 00:21:28.000 It's not because we are better. 00:21:28.679 --> 00:21:29.899 We are not. 00:21:30.859 --> 00:21:38.759 It is simply because Christ takes messy, broken, rebellious people like you and me 00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:42.019 with all our flaws and with all our failures. 00:21:43.339 --> 00:21:48.339 And by his grace, he unites us together in love 00:21:48.339 --> 00:21:51.819 to serve him, enjoy him, 00:21:51.819 --> 00:21:55.919 and to serve one another as family. 00:21:57.139 --> 00:22:02.399 God's new community on display to the world. 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:06.380 We're going to pray together now. 00:22:07.580 --> 00:22:11.960 And I want you to leave your Bibles open because we're going to use the prayer in Ephesians 3. 00:22:12.100 --> 00:22:14.320 So if you've just shut it, open again. 00:22:15.040 --> 00:22:20.120 Here's a wonderful prayer to pray for the church. 00:22:21.180 --> 00:22:28.200 Ephesians chapter 3, starting at verse 14 through to verse 21. 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:29.400 So let us pray this. 00:22:29.460 --> 00:22:32.500 So the person you're sitting beside, people around you, 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:35.500 this is what you are praying for one another. 00:22:35.620 --> 00:22:38.319 So let's read together this prayer. 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:43.319 For this reason, I kneel before the Father, 00:22:43.859 --> 00:22:48.559 from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 00:22:48.980 --> 00:22:51.839 I pray that out of his glorious riches, 00:22:52.500 --> 00:22:57.720 he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 00:22:58.159 --> 00:23:01.720 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:06.419 And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 00:23:06.420 --> 00:23:09.960 may have power together with all the saints 00:23:09.960 --> 00:23:15.480 to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 00:23:16.080 --> 00:23:19.400 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, 00:23:19.840 --> 00:23:24.120 that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 00:23:24.920 --> 00:23:30.960 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, 00:23:30.960 --> 00:23:35.240 according to his power that is at work within us, 00:23:35.819 --> 00:23:39.840 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus 00:23:39.840 --> 00:23:44.140 throughout all generations, forever and ever. 00:23:44.799 --> 00:23:45.299 Amen. 00:23:45.299 --> 00:23:52.220 Well, let's join together as God's people, 00:23:53.139 --> 00:23:54.419 as his church, 00:23:55.139 --> 00:23:58.180 as we sing together to pray for God's blessing, 00:23:58.299 --> 00:24:01.440 his renewing, his work in our lives. 00:24:01.440 --> 00:24:03.680 Let's stand together as we sing. 00:24:03.680 --> 00:24:03.759 Amen. 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:03.799 Amen. 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:03.839 Amen. 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:03.879 Amen. 00:24:03.879 --> 00:24:04.359 Amen. 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:04.399 Amen. 00:24:04.399 --> 00:24:04.839 Amen. 00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:05.839 Amen. 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:06.359 Amen. 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:06.440 Amen. 00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:07.440 Amen. 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:08.440 Amen. 00:24:08.440 --> 00:24:09.440 Amen. 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:11.440 Amen. 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:11.500 Amen. 00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:12.440 Amen. 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:13.440 Amen. 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:13.559 Amen. 00:24:13.559 --> 00:24:15.279 Amen. 00:24:15.299 --> 00:24:16.299 Amen.