IN HIM

Why does he care about all things being united in him, unheavened on earth? There's a time I was really sitting with this and thinking about Lord, like why do you care? Why does it matter to you that the majesty of your plan is uniting things in you? And I just felt him gently speaking to me and saying, "Because I'm good." And that because he's good, his heart is that everything would be encapsulated in his goodness. Because anything that's outside of him is not experiencing goodness. So if he is good, he is love, he is life. Anything that's not united to him is not experiencing life, goodness, love. So his desire is the creator of all things is to bring all things back into himself. Howdy everyone, welcome back to the Braveheart Podcast. It is Seth Church here. If you have been listening to the Braveheart Podcast, we're going through our courses online, or even read one of our books and would like to be more connected in an even deeper way, both to the gospel and with Braveheart. We want to invite you to the Braveheart Summit. The Summit is not a conference, it's a launching point, and honestly, it's more like a family reunion. Believers from all over the world coming to communion with one another, around the faith of the gospel and around Jesus Christ himself. It's the most beautiful three days of the year and we want you to come. Let it be a place where you can rest from your good works and receive strength to return home ready to run. If you want to join us, there is a link in the show notes below to register. And I would encourage you to register now. Miami is a very busy place in November, and you'll want to secure your spot and your stay soon. We love you and we can't wait to see you at the summit. This episode is a teaching from gospel hour led by our dear friend Wesley Fagan. And he leads us through God's role and our role in salvation and how everything that we participate in is in him. The nature of this gospel hour is very conversational so you'll hear voices of those participating here and there. Enjoy the episode. Yeah, Jesus. Thank you that you are the author and perfector of our faith. And Lord, this morning we put down our own pens and we let you pick up yours. Lord, would you come this morning and author faith in our hearts? Lord, that is we hear the gospel as we hear your word Lord, let faith rise up in our hearts. That we would be full of faith and that we'd be those that take you at your word that we would believe who you are. And who you say that you've made us to be. So Lord, I ask for any heart this morning or this afternoon this evening, wherever we're watching from Lord any heart that's coming in heavy or discouraged or disillusioned Holy Spirit. I ask that you would come and speak you would bring clarity you would cut through the noise and bring truth and Jesus name amen. Amen, amen. Okay. Here's what we're going to do this morning. We're going to dive in to Ephesians. I've been just sitting in Ephesians a little bit and just loving it. And I want to do something and I need a scribe. So somebody who has a notebook with them raise your hand. If you have like a notebook or something that you're taking notes with right now, I'm scrolling through looking at everybody. And I do want to volunteer to be a scribe. It's not going to be hard, but I just we need to like write some stuff down. Alright, the hard coughs. Beautiful. Okay, can you all be off mute for a minute? Is that okay? I know sometimes it can be hard when there's tons of noise, but. Okay, beautiful. Okay, so here's what we're going to do. Let me preface this. We're going to read Ephesians. We're going to dive into it. And I want us to dissect. What God is doing, what his role is and what we're doing and what our role is. And this is a group conversation. I'm going to dive into something that comes up that you want to add to it. Feel free. But the reason why we're doing this is because I think we're in a day and an hour where the Lord is moving and the Lord is moving powerfully. And I'm super thankful for that. And a lot of us are getting stirred to even pray and intercede for the work of God and what he's doing. And that's beautiful. But it comes at the risk that sometimes we think that we are the initiator that we're the author that we are the one that we think it rests on our shoulders. And and in Ephesians, I want to dive into this and dissect and show us what is the role of God and what is the role of us? What is our role? So if you're a scribe and it can be more than just the heart cost. I mean, all of us can do this. I just realized at first I was going to write and then I realized that would be a disaster trying to write this while reading this and trying to do it all. So it's going to be super good. This is going to be very encouraging. I believe that literally through us doing this, our faith is going to be built up. So get ready for that. So if you are a scribe, let's have two columns. One column is you can just put God or you could put God's works. What God is doing, however you want to put that and the other column put us, the people of God. So you have God and you have us. And we are going to read Ephesians. I'm going to unpack it a little bit, but really my goal is mostly to to divide out what God is doing what we're doing. And then I've finished that actually. I would love to partake in communion together. So if you have the ability, if you have little communion cups nearby, also if not. Kate taught us how to take communion mystically praise guys. You don't need the elements to participate, but if you do have them or if you want to get them right now, and actually I'm going to get mine right now because I left my name over here. I think Ephesians for me is one of those books that like I kind of always just come back to. Yeah, there we go literally yesterday. Yeah, it kind of just feels like everything kind of get weaved in because to me Ephesians is like the big picture of what God is doing and where we fit into it. So if you're ever feeling discouraged, there's a lot of places you can go to the Psalms. There's a lot of obviously the word of God is alive and active. But like I find Ephesians to just be like it's kind of like a recalibrating, recentering kind of an epistle. All right, Katie's in Romans. Yeah, that's good. Romans is y'all know, I think no me, you know, I love Romans and it's always going to preach out of all right. Our communion hall is over. So here we go. So is anybody else scribes? I know we got the heart cost. But again, if you have your notebook, you can do this. And if there's things that also. If there's things that we don't capture put on here, you can make your own list. Part cost are already. All right, let's go. Okay, so Ephesians 1 verse 1. We're going to really start in three. I'm just doing this. So Paul and a possible of Christ Jesus by the will of God. First of all, it is so good when you know that you're walking in God's will for your life. Just to say like if it's so nice when you're like, wow, I'm walking you what God has for my life. And. And he loves to reveal that. And so praise God that he gives us. He gives us the knowledge and revelation to know what his will is. To the saints who are an Ephesus and are faithful in Christ Jesus grace you and peace from God our Father in the Lord Jesus Christ. All right, here we go. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. All right, so our first role who God is what he's doing. He's our God and our Father two things in the God column. He's also the God of Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, but he's our Father to us. And just a note on this. If you've heard Peter talk about this or anyone else like the fact that God relates to us as our Father is one of the. Craziest things. throughout the gospels. Guide could He could relate to us in any way. He could say that he's the cosmic CEO. He could say that he's the owner and ruler, he's king, and all those things are true, but he reveals himself as father, which is the it's the deepest, most core thing that we need as believers, as people, as humans, and especially in today's day and age. I mean, if ever there was a time where we need fathers now is the time. And that's who he is. He's the God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in Christ Jesus with every spiritual blessing. That's another thing in the God column, blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. Also interesting, he's blessed us in what? What does it say in Christ? You know, every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places is accessible through being in Christ. You know what? You know, the other things that doesn't say that I think sometimes we think it says is and I have to be honest, there's times I've read this, blessed to be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us for those that are in ministry with every spiritual blessing. For those that are in leadership, for those that are in the know, for those that are in the what know in Christ. For those that are in Christ, you have access to every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places and I'm going to be honest, I'm not even going to pretend to understand or that I know what that means. Every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, I mean, who? That's crazy. That's crazy. Okay, even as he chose us in him, there's another in him, before the foundation of the world. That's another thing in the God column. Chose us before the foundation of the world. That we, oh, here's us, should be holy and blameless before him. All right, so our response to all of that, holy and blameless. Now, here's something that's crazy. Whose idea was it that we would be holy and blameless before him? Was that our idea or God's idea? Yeah, God's idea. I think sometimes we can get some flag, especially in environments that actually believe in true actual righteousness. It's like, I don't know why people think that God doesn't want us to be holy and blameless before him. And the idea that we would stand blameless before God seems absolutely ridiculous until you realize that it was his idea. Not only was it his idea, but actually that he did what he did on the cross unto that goal. So us walking holy and blameless is the response to his works. So if ever you're getting pushed back or you yourself feel like man, it's impossible to walk holy and blameless before God. Nope, it's right there. It's his goal since the foundation of the world. And not only that, but like, can we just talk for a second? Can we just take a step back blameless before God? I think the idea of holiness is easier for us to comprehend because we think of this like, yes, holiness, God is holy, but we're talking blameless. We're talking that you stand before the Alpha and the Omega from the beginning and the end. The judge, the only judge, and he looks at you and he says, blameless. That's his goal. Wow. Okay. Before him, here we go, that we should be holy and blameless for in verse 4 still, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love. Wow. We're not holy and blameless before him through striving, through working our entire lives to achieve it. No, it's through love. It's our union of love that actually produces us, the fruit of holy and blameless before God. He predestined us for adoption to himself. There's another work of God, predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ. Now, yeah, predestined us for adoption, that's the work of God. Being a son, that's the work of us. Being sons through Jesus Christ. According to the purpose of his will, wow. So even though the only thing in all of the universe I could ever hope to be would be a son of God, like that would be, that is one of the craziest claims, is that he's our father and where his sons and daughters, but he did this according to the purpose of his will. It's not that he, it's not that he doesn't want to fulfill the desires of our heart, but he did it because it's what he desires. He desires for us to be his sons and daughters. So, so our faith does not rest in what I desire from God, but our faith rests in what God desires for us. It's what he desires. That's what my faith is in. My faith is in what he desires because he's going to he's going to get the desires of his heart and and we're going to get the desires of our heart when we're in him and anyways, that's another sermon for another day. Okay, man, we're only at verse what do we have verse five. Okay, here we go. We predestined us according to the purpose of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace. So the response to that is that we praise his glorious grace. You can put that as a role. I don't know if that's an official role, but if you want, you can put that in the us column. Praise his glorious grace. With which he has blessed us in the beloved. So actually, this glorious grace is something that he's blessed us with or we're praising him for the grace that he has blessed us with. So in the God column is blessed us with grace in the beloved. All right, are our scribes keeping up? Are we good? We're good. We're good. Okay, verse seven in him. Thank you, Jesus said it's in you. In him, we have redemption through his blood. Okay, another thing in the God column redeems us through his blood. Redemption through his blood. The forgiveness of our trespasses, there's another thing in the God column forgives our trespasses. So he deems us through his blood. Forgives our trespasses. According to the riches of his grace. So he does all of this according to the riches of his grace which he lavished upon us and all wisdom and insight. Okay, so another God thing lavishes riches of grace upon us. Lavishes riches of grace upon us through wisdom and insight. Wow. So God does not give his grace begrudgingly. He does not give grace to you out of hope. I don't that sounds funny. He doesn't give it out of a hopefully if I give them more grace, this will work out. Does that make sense? He doesn't he doesn't give grace out of I don't know, I've never done this before, but hopefully this works. He gives the riches of his grace out of all wisdom and insight. So the wisdom and insight of God is to give us the riches of his grace. Wow. Making known to us the mystery of his will. So that also goes in the God column. He makes known to us the mystery of his will. But the mystery of his will is that he would be able to give us the riches of his grace according to his purpose which he set forth in Christ. This is big. We're about to unpack this. This is the mystery of his will according to the purpose which he set forth in Christ. Verse 10, "As a plan for the fullness of time." So this is God's plan for all time. This is this is the plan uppercase T uppercase P the plan. man. To unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. Ta-da, there you go. Things in heaven and things on earth to be united in him. That's the plan of God. No, that's also the work of God. So yeah, you can put that in the God column. Y'all probably take notes that I'm not I'm probably missing like half of these, but he is uniting all things in him and heaven and on earth. Why does he care about all things being united in him on heaven and on earth? There's a time I was really sitting like this and thinking about Lord. Like why do you care? And I just I just felt him gently speaking to me and saying because I'm good and that that because he's good, his heart is that everything would be encapsulated in his goodness because anything that's outside of him is not experiencing goodness. So he is good. He is love. He is life. Anything that's not united to him is not experiencing life. Goodness. Love. So his desire is the creator of all things is to bring all things back into himself because he is life. And so he wants all things to be alive in him. Does this make sense? Sometimes the idea of him uniting all things back to himself were like, well, great. Love that. But that doesn't necessarily connect with like, what does that actually mean in my like, what does that mean for me? What does that mean for you? Or does that mean for us as humans and as believers and as people who are in creation? He's uniting all things in himself. Verse 11, here we go. In him also just to say, does y'all know that in him slash in Christ is the most used phrase of the New Testament? It is the most used to letters to letters to words. It's the most used phrase of the New Testament is in him or in Christ. That's just a side note. Verse 11, in him we have obtained an inheritance. So work of God is to give us inheritance. You can put that in the God column. I guess you could put into us column, obtain inheritance also. So yeah, God column is given inheritance. Us column is obtained inheritance. Having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will. There's another thing in the God column is work all things to the counsel of his will. You can put works all things together, works all things to the counsel of his will, to the purpose of the counsel of his will, is actually what it says. And why does he do this? Why does he work all things to the court of the counsel of his will? Verse 12, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. So the glory of God, the glory of God is that we would hope in him and that he would do these things. This is all according to his glory. Verse 12, we're going to read again so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. We praise his glory because of all of these things that we just talked about. And I guess that's another thing in here. For us is what we do is we hope in Christ. That goes in the us column, hope, hoping Christ and praise his glory. I guess if you depend on how you read that might be to the praise of his glory. In him, verse 13, you also when you heard the word of truth, the truth of your salvation and believed in him, we're sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. Okay, there's, you could maybe draw a few things from this. I was going to say that we are one of our roles is to hear the word of truth, but actually that's kind of passive. You hear the word, but the gospel of your salvation, he saves us. That's, that's in the God column. Save us. And in the us column is that we believe we heard the word of the truth, the gospel of our salvation and believed in him. We believe and we're sealed with the promised Holy Spirit. That's what he does. And the God column is seal us with the Holy Spirit. Who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it to the praise of his glory? Wow. That's a crazy verse right there. The, the Holy Spirit is the guarantee of our inheritance. So I'm going to just super, super, super briefly touch on this. I wish I could talk about this for like an hour straight, but I've been out for a thought about how I just actually preach on this at Pentecost. The, that the Holy Spirit is proof of the sufficiency of the work of Christ. Because if it were not for the work of Christ and the Holy Spirit were to come into fill you, you would explode, you would die. It would, it would not work. Like he would, the God-filling sinful man is not a good equation for man. So, so the work, the, the filling of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2 and in Acts 10 is proof of the sufficiency of the work of Christ on the cross. Now, now that is our inheritance is that he's actually changed us and now we receive him. We receive Christ. So this is saying that the Holy Spirit that we've received, it's, it's just the down payment. It's just the beginning. It's a guarantee of a future inheritance that we will acquire in him. And I believe him like, well, what is the inheritance? It's him. It's that we've received him now, but we will receive him in full. We will receive the fullness of him and again, all of this is to the praise of his glory. So our response again praises glory. It's, it's wow, Lord. You are glorious. Your plan is greater than my plan. I couldn't have thought of this. I didn't know this was possible. It's thank you God for your glory being revealed, which in this context is Christ in us is the hope of glory. All right, verse 14, verse 15. Is this good? Is everybody following? Yeah, is this encouraging? Maybe give a little thumbs up a little something? Okay, that's good. In a second, we're going to go through this and talk through our columns. For this reason, Paul says in verse 15, so what reason, Paul? Well, the reason of all of this together, but I believe specifically that we have to for this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints. Now, Paul specifically talking about these people, like the people that he's, he's talking about the Ephesians, but you could also put that into us column, that our response to all of this is faith, to think we already wrote faith is to believe and love towards all the saints. Our response, Paul says for this reason, he's praying for them because of their love and their faith, verse 16, this is kind of, this is Paul's prayer, so it's kind of shifting a little bit. right here. So you kind of shifting the tone. Verse 16 Paul says, "I do not cease to give thanks for you remembering you in my prayers that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation and the knowledge of him." That's another thing that Paul's praying that I believe, you know, God has answered, "He's giving us the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him." So that's another thing that God called him. He's giving us the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him. Now, wow, wisdom and revelation are inside the knowledge of Christ. Inside, it says, "In the knowledge of him." True wisdom, true revelation is found in the knowledge of Christ. There may be, there may be wisdom or revelation of the day and age, but eternal true wisdom and eternal true revelation is in the knowledge of Christ. That's beautiful. Having, verse 18, "Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened," that's another thing God does. He enlightened the eyes of our hearts, enlightened the eyes of our hearts, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you. Now, this is interesting because you initially looking at this would say that that's our role is to know the hope, but actually it's that he enlightens it so that we would know. So he's enlightening the eyes of our hearts and revealing to us the hope to which he's called us. He's revealing the hope to which he's called us. Next thing, sorry, scribes, I know your pins are warm as you're writing, "What are the riches of his glorious inheritance? He's revealing to us the riches of his inheritance," which I think we touched on a little bit earlier. So you can write it twice. It didn't hear twice. You know, it's not redundant. I'll write it twice. You can write it twice. He's revealing to us the riches of his inheritance. And, because that wasn't enough, what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe? He's revealing the greatness of his power toward us who believe. He's revealing the greatness of his power toward us who believe according to the working of his great might. This is a really funny phrase because it's basically saying, the way I read this, is he's revealing the greatness of his power that's according to his power. Like, it doesn't say the greatness of his power that's according to the fervency of the saints. I'm not saying prayer doesn't matter, prayer super powerful, obviously. But it's the greatness of his power according to his power. What does that even mean? It's the greatness of his power according to the working of his great might. It is great power, verse 20, that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead. So he's revealing to us, he is revealing to us the greatness of the power that he used to raise Christ from the dead. Why does it matter that that power specifically is revealed to us? Not just the power of God. Why does it matter that the power to raise something, someone from the dead is revealed to us through the gospel? This is a Q&A. Why does that matter? He doesn't just want to reveal that he's powerful. I think one of my favorite things about the way that Peter teaches and ministers is that he takes the glorious revelation of the majesty of the gospel and he helps us through scripture, dissect the individual workings of that. It's like, it's like diving into the molecular level and it's like, how does this impact family? How does this impact my finances? How does this impact the way that we parent the way that we teach the way that we lead the way that we live? The way it has actual impact. So the greatness of the power of the work of God with which he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, it's because, as you all said, we are called to walk in the same thing with him and through him that we are raised from the dead and we are seated in heavenly places. So he's revealing to us that he is powerful enough to do it because he wants to invite us into union in those things that we would be raised from the dead. We would be seated in the heavenly places in Christ, as Paul says literally at the beginning of this, that he has blessed us in Christ with every blessing in the heavenly places. Verse 21, what is this place that's in the heavenly places? This is what he answers in verse 21. What are we talking about when we say heavenly places? Verse 21, "Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named." Not only in this age, but also in the one that is to come. That's the place. When he says heavenly places, that's what we're talking about. I'm going to read that again and I want us to, if you're in Christ, this is where you are in him. Ready? This is where we are. This is where our spirits are kept and where we're sealed to the day of promise. Far above. I love that far above. It's not just above. Far above. It's not like, oh look, I'm right next to. No, no, no. Far above. This is when you're flying in the sky at 30,000 feet and you're looking down and you're like, oh, is that the green canyon down there? I can't tell. I'm far above it. Is that the tamed river? I don't know. I'm far above it. Far above. All rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named. Not only in this age, but also in the one to come. Verse 22, "And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church." Wow. So he Christ put all things under his feet and in God gave Jesus, he gave him the position as the head over all things to the church. So that's the role of God is to be the head of the church. Verse 28, 23, I don't know. I have so much stuff boxed and underlined, I can't read these numbers. Which is his body? This is where we're talking about the church. Which is his body? The fullness of him who fills all in all. That's another role of God is to fill all in all. You could say, "Fill all things." All right, the funny thing is I was planning to get all the way through Ephesians 1 and 2, but that's clearly not going to happen. That was a very ambitious goal. Okay, let's do this. I want to have our scribes read to us our two columns and then I want to have a couple minutes and talk about it and then we're going to take communion together. So can maybe the heart coughs? Can y'all read to us the two columns? You want to read it, I mean. Okay. Yeah, two columns. We'll start with God's work. That's great. God's work is God and Father. Bless us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places. He chose us before the foundations of the world, which by the way, we were just talking about this the other night, but like if there's ever there's two scriptures in Ephesians 1 that are like They're like just abolish any idea of man's gospel and like how we can salvation. Like that was done before, before earth was created, before the nations of the earth were created. Like how can we ever think like we can earn it? Because he shows us in him before the foundation world. Predestine us for adoption. - Wow. - He blessed us with glorious grace in beloved, in beloved, in the beloved. Redeemed us through his blood. He forgives our trespasses, lavishes riches of grace upon us through wisdom and insight, makes known to us the mystery of his will, unites all things in him in heaven and on earth. He gives us inheritance. He works all things according to the counsel of his will. He saves us. He seals us with the Holy Spirit, gives us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, enlightens the eyes of our heart, revealing the hope to which he has called us, revealing to us the riches of his inheritance, revealing the greatness of his power toward us who believe. Puts all things under his feet. He is the head of the church and he fills all things. And I might have missed one or two more. - That's good. That's so good. - Oh, okay, and now us. - Yeah, here we go. Here's our response. - Our response. Our response to be holy and blameless. Some effort required. Praise of his glorious grace to give him praise, to obtain inheritance, so receive the gift of inheritance, the truth of that. Hope in Christ have hope. The praise is glory that praise him. To believe, love toward all the saints. - Do you have more than that? - That's all I've got to. - Oh, we got it. I love that. - I do too. - I'm to believe in body, right? - What was that? - Do you have body? - Yeah, be his body. Yeah, that's the list. Yeah, does anybody else have, is anything else that, like I said, I'm sure I missed some. I'm sure the Lord is probably revealing other things. Are there things in this that are not on this list that y'all are like, wow, I just saw this too. - I also put receive his Holy Spirit. - Hmm, yes. - That's so good. This is all in Christ through the Spirit. Who else? - I've got something Wesley. - Yep. - As you were reading that, Jason, I realized that when I think about the difference between man's gospel and the gospel of Jesus Christ, like these columns, you know, I would have either have not seen God's column. I haven't only seen mine, but not have it connected. - Yeah. - Do the work of God? Or I would have been trying to like put his things in my column thinking I can give them when that is never possible. - Mm-hmm. - Wow. - And like this is just such a beautiful right order and like a right response between an uncreated God and a created child of God. - Yes. It's so good. Something that has really been hitting me as I've been taking this meal is realizing that this meal is more than what I know it to be. And that means that by faith, we can receive more than we understand. Now, what do I remember that? Could you imagine a child only receiving from their parent that what they understood? Could you imagine a baby only receiving from their parents that what they had knowledge of? The reality is that God as our father and as God, He gives us things that we know not of, that we do not understand, that we do not comprehend. All of these things that we just read in Ephesians were true yesterday and they've been true, they've been true, but you may just now be receiving knowledge of it. But through this meal, through the work of Jesus on the cross, we actually can tap into and receive that which we do not comprehend through faith. And this is a meal and I was just thinking about like literally, there's so many meals that I eat like Thanksgiving dinner at hand in the States, we celebrate Thanksgiving. You do not have to know what's in your grandma's castle and order for it to taste good. And you also don't need to know what's in your grandma's castle for it to nourish you. You can receive a meal that nourishes you and feeds you and strengthens you and you just eat it by faith that it's good. And it literally works on your behalf without you even being aware. Now of course we want to have the knowledge of God. We want to know what the cross did. Like of course, that's the glory, like the glory of Kings is a search out of matter. And we want to know, I'm not saying be oblivious, but what I'm saying is this morning, this afternoon evening wherever you are, let's receive this meal and the works of God that we just read by faith regardless of our comprehension or understanding. Amen? Yeah. So, let's. Yeah, let's do this. So Jesus. Thank you. Thank you. What can we say, but thank you. We praise your glorious grace. And thank you for the grace that you've given us in the form of your body and your blood. Thank you, Lord. We receive, Lord, today. In faith, we receive the work that you did. We receive who you are, Lord, who you've made us to be, we receive it. And Lord, I ask that as we receive your body today, Lord, that all of these things that we just read in Ephesians and even the things that aren't in Ephesians, Lord, that as we receive your body, we're receiving that truth. And we thank you for the cross, we thank you for your sacrifice, we thank you for the price that you paid and we take of your body and we eat. And Lord, we thank you for your blood. We thank you for your blood. We thank you for your blood that was poured out, that was spilled out. We'll rethinking that you've made us part of your blood line. We'll rethinking for the power that rests in this meal and in your work to accomplish what you have desired to accomplish that the cross was a success. Now we thank you that you were successful. And that through this meal, your love is displayed to us and we can truly live as those who are holy and blameless. So Lord, we receive your blood and say, we take and we drink. And Lord, I thank you for each and every person that's on this call and those that are not on this call. I ask that you would strengthen our faith in you. And Lord, that even as we read the word, I pray any lens that we have of man's gospel would be replaced with the true gospel. Lord, that as we read your word, we would read through the lens of your works in our response. And Lord, I ask that you would give us this faith and the ability to walk out and to articulate your glorious gospel in Jesus name, amen. Yeah, amen, amen. That's good. Guys, you can, I wanted to say this, this is a lens. I believe this is the right lens, but this is a lens. And when you read the word, read it through a lens, read it through the lens of Christ and what he's done and it will transform a lot. So anyways, blessings to all of you. I love you. Have an incredible week and come join us in one of our gospel nights. We'll see you next week on Gospel Hour.