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Speaker 1: Life Audio.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to your Nightly Scripture, a calming

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Speaker 2: Scripture Center devotional podcast designed to help you end each

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Speaker 2: day with God's word in your mind and on your heart.

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Speaker 2: Right after the short word of our sponsors, will reflect

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Speaker 2: on tonight's scripture, Ephesians Chapter one. Tonight's scripture reflection is

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Speaker 2: written by Sophia Briger and read by Kirie Eateburger.

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Speaker 1: Aphesians chapter one.

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Speaker 2: Paul an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of

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Speaker 2: God to God's Holy people in Ephesus, the faithful.

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Speaker 1: In Christ Jesus.

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Speaker 2: Grace and peace to you from God, our Father and

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Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus Christ. Praise be to the God and

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Speaker 2: Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, who has blessed us

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Speaker 2: in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ,

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Speaker 2: for He chose us in him before the creation of

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Speaker 2: the world, to be holy and blameless in his sight.

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Speaker 1: In love.

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Speaker 2: He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ

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Speaker 2: and accordance with His pleasure and will to the praise

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Speaker 2: of His glorious grace, which He has freely given.

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Speaker 1: Us in the one he loves.

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Speaker 2: In Him, we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness

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Speaker 2: of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace

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Speaker 2: that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding,

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Speaker 2: he made known to us the mystery of His will

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Speaker 2: according to his good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ

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Speaker 2: to be put into effect when the time has reached,

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Speaker 2: a fulfillment to reunity to all things in heaven and

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Speaker 2: on earth under Christ. In Him, we were all so chosen,

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Speaker 2: having been predestined according to the plan of Him who

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Speaker 2: works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will,

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Speaker 2: in order that we who were the first to put

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Speaker 2: our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of

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Speaker 2: His glory. And you also were included in Christ when

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Speaker 2: you heard the message of truth, the Gospel of your salvation,

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Speaker 2: when you believe you remarked in Him with the seal

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Speaker 2: the promised Holy Spirit, who is he deposit guaranteeing our

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Speaker 2: inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession

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Speaker 2: to the praise of His glory. For this reason, ever

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Speaker 2: since I heard about your feet in the Lord Jesus

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Speaker 2: and your love for all God's people, I have not

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Speaker 2: stopped giving thanks for you. Remembering you in my prayers,

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Speaker 2: I keep asking that the God of our Lord, Jesus Christ,

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Speaker 2: the Glorious Father, may give you the spirit of wisdom

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Speaker 2: and revelation, so that you.

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Speaker 1: May know him better. I pray that the eyes of

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Speaker 1: your heart may be enlightened in order that you may

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Speaker 1: know the hope to which He has called you, the

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Speaker 1: riches of his glorious inheritance in his Holy people, and

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Speaker 1: his incomparably great power.

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Speaker 2: For us to believe that power is the same as

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Speaker 2: the mighty strength He exerted when He raised Christ from

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Speaker 2: the dead and seated him at his right hand in

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Speaker 2: the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power

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Speaker 2: and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only

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Speaker 2: in the present age, but also in the one to come.

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Speaker 2: And God placed all things under his feet and appointed

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Speaker 2: him to be head over everything for the Church, which

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Speaker 2: is His body, the fullness of Him who feels everything.

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Speaker 1: In every way.

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Speaker 2: With another day coming to an end, Ephesians chapter one

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Speaker 2: encourages us to consider anew the reality of who we

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Speaker 2: are in Christ. We need this recalibration of what God

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Speaker 2: says about us because there is so much in our

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Speaker 2: daily lives that attempt to tell us who we are,

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Speaker 2: that we are defined by what we do, the accounts

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Speaker 2: we follow, or the hobbies we pursue. Yet the apostle

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Speaker 2: Paul holds up a tapestry of verses as if to say,

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Speaker 2: this is who you are, and it changes how you live.

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Speaker 2: The picture he gives us is that of loving adoption.

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Speaker 2: Just as a family that decided to open their home

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Speaker 2: to welcome a child as their own, the Father has

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Speaker 2: brought us into his family as beloved children. He lovingly

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Speaker 2: chose us, each one of us, to be his own,

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Speaker 2: and he did so out of love by sending his

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Speaker 2: son to die for us. This was not a whim

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Speaker 2: decision by God, but a pre plainned choice made before time.

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Speaker 2: We were predestined to be his sons and daughters. As

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Speaker 2: we consider the past day, what has influenced our understanding

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Speaker 2: of our identity? Does the ongoing dialogue about who we

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Speaker 2: are make us feel like a beloved child or a

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Speaker 2: forgotten orphan? The passage from Ephesians tells us the truth

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Speaker 2: that we are chosen by the Lord and deeply loved

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Speaker 2: by him. Tonight, as we close our eyes, we can

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Speaker 2: meditate on this reality resting in the identity of who

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Speaker 2: guides as we are. For the voice that really matters

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Speaker 2: is the one that shows us who we are in Christ. Lord,

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Speaker 2: at the end of this day, help me to listen

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Speaker 2: to your word. There are far too many things in

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Speaker 2: life telling me who I should be and what I

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Speaker 2: am worth. May I listen to what you say about

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Speaker 2: me that I was prejestined in love to be your child,

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Speaker 2: redeemed by the pressus blood of your son. Thank you,

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Speaker 2: oh Lord, for blessing me with spiritual riches I do

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Speaker 2: not deserve. Let me rest in this truth tonight, allowing

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Speaker 2: it to grow deep within me as I sleep. I

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Speaker 2: want to awaken to live the new day based on

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Speaker 2: the reality of who I am in Christ. Truly, this

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Speaker 2: knowledge changes everything, and she says same, I pray.

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