WEBVTT - The Power at Work in You – Part 2 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:04.280 Today on Bold steps, Mark Jobe shows us the depths 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.239 of God's power in our lives. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.520 When the power of God opens up your eyes, you 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:13.000 start realizing, I knew in my head that he loved me. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.400 But now I know the depth and the power and 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:20.600 the height. And I really understand that God loves me 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:24.120 and who I am in God. I mean, this is incredible. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:26.279 You need power to do that. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.320 And welcome to Bold Steps with pastor Mark Jobe. Mark 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.640 is the senior pastor of New Life Community Church and 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.919 president of Moody Bible Institute, both in Chicago. And I'm 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.279 Wayne Shepherd. Well, yesterday on the program, we gave you 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.760 the first point related to seeing the depths of God's 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.080 power in our life. And Mark said we needed to 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.120 be looking closely at our diet to see what we're 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.160 feeding our inner man. We'll pick up that point as 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.840 we turn to the third chapter of the book of Ephesians, 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.440 where in verses 14 through 21, let's join Mark job 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.600 right now for today's message called The Power at Work 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:11.360 in You. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:17.839 The old Jew doesn't like Jesus presence in your life 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.919 to begin to rearrange the furniture. The old you likes 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.559 to keep the furniture where you want it, the old 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:25.640 you likes the locked doors and say, hey, don't get 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:28.160 in this door. This is my door. The old you 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.280 tries to make the Spirit of God feel like a 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.880 guest in the house, and the only way to overcome 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.880 it is the power of God. Paul says, I pray 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.840 that you would have power, that Christ may dwell in 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.680 your heart, may be at home in your life. You 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:49.440 need power to do that. Listen, you can't. You cannot 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:54.120 overcome the flesh without the power of God. You cannot 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:58.520 white knuckle it to change yourself. You need supernatural power 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.170 of God to begin to defeat the power of the 0:02:02.170 --> 0:02:05.810 flesh in your life. Your flesh is strong, and the 0:02:05.810 --> 0:02:10.410 more you feed it, the stronger it gets. Okay, so 0:02:10.410 --> 0:02:13.530 you're hanging out clubbing for three four hours with a 0:02:13.530 --> 0:02:16.610 Diet Coke, and you don't think that atmosphere people are 0:02:16.650 --> 0:02:20.010 bumping and grinding and going to town, and everybody's there 0:02:20.050 --> 0:02:22.050 to find who they're going to hook up with and 0:02:22.050 --> 0:02:23.970 get a little fringe benefits on the side. At the 0:02:23.970 --> 0:02:26.290 end of the night, you don't think that atmosphere is 0:02:26.330 --> 0:02:29.370 affecting you at all. So you live that. Listen to 0:02:29.410 --> 0:02:34.929 B96 all day, watch R-rated movies and and, and, and 0:02:34.930 --> 0:02:39.370 Desperate Housewives is your favorite program. And then and then 0:02:39.370 --> 0:02:42.770 you wonder why you're so weak and you say, pastor, 0:02:42.770 --> 0:02:45.410 I just don't understand it. I just want to say, but, 0:02:45.410 --> 0:02:49.690 but but hey, I do come to church on Sunday. Yeah. 0:02:49.690 --> 0:02:53.130 And you get a 45 minute message a week. But 0:02:53.130 --> 0:03:00.450 you've been feeding your soul garbage. Garbage most of the week. 0:03:06.690 --> 0:03:09.050 And you come on Sunday and have a big glass 0:03:09.050 --> 0:03:11.570 of carrot juice. And you think that it's going to 0:03:11.610 --> 0:03:15.410 fix your diet when you've been eating fries and and 0:03:15.410 --> 0:03:18.329 and garbage all week long and you think one big 0:03:18.330 --> 0:03:20.609 glass of carrot juice is going to fix you up, 0:03:20.610 --> 0:03:29.169 come on. No wonder you're struggling. Whatever you feed the 0:03:29.169 --> 0:03:32.690 most is what will have victory in your life. And 0:03:32.690 --> 0:03:35.770 some of you, you have the Spirit of God inside 0:03:35.770 --> 0:03:40.330 of you. But you live your Christian life constantly struggling 0:03:40.330 --> 0:03:43.890 because you feed your flesh much more than what you 0:03:43.890 --> 0:03:48.130 feed your spirit. When your flesh and your spirit go 0:03:48.130 --> 0:03:51.330 to battle, which they will often go to battle, they'll 0:03:51.370 --> 0:03:54.850 be constant battles between your flesh and your spirit. Your 0:03:54.850 --> 0:03:59.369 flesh wins because your flesh is has more food than 0:03:59.370 --> 0:04:02.620 your spirit does, And your flesh is pumped up and 0:04:02.620 --> 0:04:05.500 strong and fighting your spirit. And you just say, I 0:04:05.500 --> 0:04:08.620 don't know how to overcome. Well, I know begin to 0:04:08.660 --> 0:04:12.620 feed your spirit and begin to starve your flesh. And 0:04:12.620 --> 0:04:15.540 I can guarantee you're going to see much more spiritual 0:04:15.540 --> 0:04:27.620 victory than you do flesh victory in your life. And 0:04:27.620 --> 0:04:32.620 Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I 0:04:32.620 --> 0:04:42.020 pray the second prayer is. And I pray, I love this, 0:04:43.540 --> 0:04:53.220 that you, being rooted. And established in love, may have power. 0:04:53.220 --> 0:04:55.980 By the way, he uses a mixed metaphor here. Rooted 0:04:56.220 --> 0:04:59.620 is what a tree does. Grounded is the image of 0:04:59.620 --> 0:05:03.500 a building that has a good foundation. The general idea 0:05:03.500 --> 0:05:07.060 is that you have a strong foundation. You have to 0:05:07.060 --> 0:05:10.060 be rooted and grounded in love. What love? The love 0:05:10.060 --> 0:05:13.820 of God. And I pray that you, being rooted and 0:05:13.820 --> 0:05:21.979 grounded in love. May have. There goes again. Power. Power 0:05:21.980 --> 0:05:25.700 for what? Power together with all the saints. Who are 0:05:25.700 --> 0:05:29.780 the saints? We are the saints. Some of you have 0:05:29.779 --> 0:05:33.180 been listening. Who are the saints? We are. Some of 0:05:33.180 --> 0:05:35.540 you are having a problem with saying that. Like, ah, 0:05:35.980 --> 0:05:38.900 I don't know if I can call myself a saint pastor, 0:05:38.940 --> 0:05:40.580 you know. No, no, no. If you have the Spirit 0:05:40.580 --> 0:05:43.700 of God inside of you, you're a saint called apart 0:05:43.700 --> 0:05:50.820 unto God. That we may have power together with all 0:05:50.820 --> 0:05:54.500 the believers or all the saints. To do what? Power 0:05:55.580 --> 0:06:01.670 to grasp how wide and long and high and deep 0:06:01.830 --> 0:06:07.110 is the love of Christ. We need power to grasp 0:06:07.230 --> 0:06:14.910 the multi dimension of God's love. Uh, week and a 0:06:14.910 --> 0:06:17.750 half ago I went to see a movie with my 0:06:17.790 --> 0:06:21.510 11 year old son and one of his friends. It 0:06:21.510 --> 0:06:25.110 was about wolves. And we went to an Imax. We 0:06:25.150 --> 0:06:28.150 went to and it was just a regular theater. But 0:06:28.150 --> 0:06:31.909 as we walked in, they said, this is a 3D film. 0:06:32.870 --> 0:06:35.390 It was a cartoon film. And so they give us 0:06:35.390 --> 0:06:39.390 these little, uh, glasses as we walk into the theater 0:06:39.430 --> 0:06:42.750 and they're 3-D glasses. And so we put these glasses on, 0:06:43.470 --> 0:06:47.190 and when the movie starts in 3D, if you don't 0:06:47.190 --> 0:06:50.110 have the glasses on, you see things kind of fuzzy, right? 0:06:50.150 --> 0:06:52.830 Have you ever done that? Taking off your glasses? 3-D theater. 0:06:52.830 --> 0:06:56.070 It's kind of fuzzy. It's not really focused, but you 0:06:56.070 --> 0:07:00.430 put the glasses on and suddenly you see everything in 3D. 0:07:01.310 --> 0:07:05.310 and it literally looks like images are like coming out 0:07:05.310 --> 0:07:07.790 of the screen at you, right? In fact, I looked 0:07:07.790 --> 0:07:09.550 over to my son and his friend and they're going 0:07:09.590 --> 0:07:12.630 like this, you know, kind. Of like, you know, I'm 0:07:12.630 --> 0:07:16.630 trying to touch the image there because because it looks 0:07:16.630 --> 0:07:19.510 like the image is coming out. Well, what Paul is 0:07:19.510 --> 0:07:22.630 saying is that some of you know about the love 0:07:22.630 --> 0:07:27.270 of God, almost as though you were seeing the love 0:07:27.270 --> 0:07:32.110 of God through a ten by ten black and white 0:07:32.150 --> 0:07:36.750 old fashioned TV. And you know about God's love. And 0:07:36.750 --> 0:07:38.670 if someone were to ask you, does God love you? 0:07:38.710 --> 0:07:40.430 You say, yeah, you know, God is love. You know, 0:07:40.470 --> 0:07:42.990 I guess he loves everybody, but but, but but you're 0:07:42.990 --> 0:07:46.070 seeing it in, in black and white and technically, you know, 0:07:46.070 --> 0:07:49.070 he loves you. And technically, you know God is love. 0:07:50.070 --> 0:07:55.750 But you need power. You need supernatural power of the 0:07:55.750 --> 0:08:00.680 Holy Spirit that opens your eyes and reveals to you 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:06.600 the incredible beauty and depth and power and multi dimension 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.960 of God's love. And so when the power of God 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:15.160 opens up your eyes, you start realizing, wow, I knew 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.560 in my head that he loved me. But now I 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.400 know the depth and the power and the height. And 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:25.960 I really understand that God loves me and who I 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:30.240 am and God, I mean, this is incredible. You need 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.680 power to do that. Let me tell you why that's 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:38.920 so important. A lot of what we struggle with in 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.320 life has to do with our identity. When we do 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:49.240 not understand the love of God, we will struggle with 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:53.560 our own identity, our own worth. And when you struggle 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.000 with your own worth and your own identity, you will 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:03.080 struggle with making good decisions in your life because however 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:09.079 you see yourself will determine most the decisions that you 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:13.920 make in life. If I do not realize how precious 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:20.440 and valuable I am to God, and that I have 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:25.040 worth and dignity, because God loves me and he's sealed 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:29.000 me with His Holy Spirit, and he's called me his own. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:32.480 And when I know that God loves me in this way, 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.840 then when people start treating me in ways that aren't 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.280 in line with God's love, when I start dating and 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.679 a guy, a young woman starts dating and she's treated 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:48.400 like dirt and called names and not respected when she 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.640 knows who she is, in the love of God, she says, 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.400 hey buddy, to the curve with you because I'm not 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.280 going to live with that or accept that. You know why? 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.050 Because she knows who she is, but if she doesn't 0:10:02.050 --> 0:10:04.930 know who she is, if she views herself, if she 0:10:04.929 --> 0:10:09.410 hasn't grasped the love of God and she views herself there, 0:10:09.650 --> 0:10:13.650 then she accepts and takes and lives with stuff because 0:10:14.410 --> 0:10:17.969 she feels like that's what she deserves, or that's all 0:10:17.970 --> 0:10:22.610 she can get. And so she lives being treated in 0:10:22.610 --> 0:10:27.530 the way that she sees herself. The same with a man. 0:10:28.690 --> 0:10:31.770 If a man does not understand who he is and 0:10:31.770 --> 0:10:34.090 his dignity and value that he's made in the eyes 0:10:34.090 --> 0:10:38.530 of his creator, then he begins to live low. He 0:10:38.530 --> 0:10:42.689 begins to act low. He begins to talk low. He 0:10:42.690 --> 0:10:47.730 begins to conduct his life in a way that's well 0:10:47.770 --> 0:10:51.610 beneath his power and his potential. Why? Because that's the 0:10:51.610 --> 0:10:55.410 way he sees himself. When he begins to understand who 0:10:55.410 --> 0:10:59.370 he is, when he begins to understand his value, his identity, 0:10:59.570 --> 0:11:02.730 his fullness of God that he's made in the image 0:11:02.730 --> 0:11:06.050 of his creator, and that God has empowered him to 0:11:06.050 --> 0:11:11.530 be something well beyond what others around us expect of him. 0:11:11.690 --> 0:11:14.050 Then he rises to be a man of God. He 0:11:14.050 --> 0:11:16.890 rises to speak in a different way, walk in a 0:11:16.890 --> 0:11:21.090 different way. He he rises well beyond the norm. Why? 0:11:21.130 --> 0:11:22.530 Because he knows who he is. 0:11:28.130 --> 0:11:30.850 You're listening to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe. We'll continue 0:11:30.890 --> 0:11:33.690 today's message in a moment. Mark, there's something I've been 0:11:33.690 --> 0:11:35.610 noticing lately that I think many of our listeners are 0:11:35.610 --> 0:11:39.010 thinking about. With so many voices competing for our attention. 0:11:39.010 --> 0:11:43.010 There's social media news cycles, workplace demands. It's easy to 0:11:43.050 --> 0:11:45.650 lose sight of what matters eternally. And I find myself 0:11:45.650 --> 0:11:48.650 wondering how many Christians today are investing their best resources 0:11:48.650 --> 0:11:51.050 in things that won't ultimately last. 0:11:51.090 --> 0:11:53.970 You know, Wayne, I remember when my youngest son was 0:11:53.970 --> 0:11:57.530 playing football in high school. It was a big game 0:11:57.770 --> 0:12:00.339 and I went there. I was cheering him on And 0:12:00.340 --> 0:12:02.020 I got a phone call and I thought, well, let 0:12:02.020 --> 0:12:03.900 me pick up this phone call just for a moment. 0:12:03.900 --> 0:12:06.380 So I went down and I got on the phone call, 0:12:06.540 --> 0:12:09.780 and it was right at that time that my son, 0:12:10.100 --> 0:12:15.260 he intercepted a pass. And afterwards he said, dad, did 0:12:15.260 --> 0:12:17.620 you see that? And I had to say I missed 0:12:17.620 --> 0:12:21.100 the moment I was distracted by something. And in the end, 0:12:21.100 --> 0:12:24.540 it wasn't an urgent phone call. Listen, right now, there's 0:12:24.540 --> 0:12:28.940 a lot of distraction. The political environment in our country, 0:12:28.940 --> 0:12:34.180 there's a drama every day. There's a lot that's happening internationally. 0:12:34.340 --> 0:12:39.220 There's wars, there's natural disasters. It feels like we are 0:12:39.220 --> 0:12:42.859 just sucked into it. But I want to say, don't 0:12:42.860 --> 0:12:47.500 miss the moment. I believe that we are seeing more 0:12:47.500 --> 0:12:50.460 people come to Christ at this season at a time, 0:12:50.460 --> 0:12:53.740 especially under the age of 35, than I have ever 0:12:53.740 --> 0:12:57.940 seen in our lifetime. It's happening in Africa and Europe. 0:12:57.940 --> 0:13:00.860 It's happening in the United States of America. We at 0:13:00.860 --> 0:13:06.100 Bold Steps are committed to not get distracted, but to 0:13:06.140 --> 0:13:09.260 make sure that we are proclaiming the gospel of Jesus 0:13:09.260 --> 0:13:12.780 at a time of uncertainty so that people can come 0:13:12.780 --> 0:13:16.540 to know him in this window of opportunity that we have. 0:13:16.740 --> 0:13:20.540 So we want to encourage you. Pray. Don't miss the moment. 0:13:20.540 --> 0:13:23.060 Such an important word, Mark. Thank you. And if you 0:13:23.100 --> 0:13:25.179 would like to become part of this eternal work today 0:13:25.179 --> 0:13:28.100 by visiting us, you can do that at Bold steps.org 0:13:28.140 --> 0:13:31.780 and make a gift or call us at 800 Moody. 0:13:31.980 --> 0:13:37.020 That's (800) 356-6639. And when you do, we'll send you a 0:13:37.020 --> 0:13:39.220 special gift as a way of saying thanks for partnering 0:13:39.220 --> 0:13:43.179 with us and sharing God's truth that will last eternally. 0:13:43.300 --> 0:13:45.220 More on that later. But let's get back to the 0:13:45.220 --> 0:13:47.340 message now. Again, here's Mark Jobe. 0:13:53.059 --> 0:13:55.260 And then he goes on to say the third request. 0:13:55.260 --> 0:14:01.510 It's all about power. The third request is power. to 0:14:01.550 --> 0:14:05.630 experience this love and allow it to fill you. Notice 0:14:05.630 --> 0:14:09.070 what it says in verse 19, and to know this 0:14:09.070 --> 0:14:14.750 love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to 0:14:14.790 --> 0:14:20.230 the measure of the fullness of God. Hold on. How 0:14:20.230 --> 0:14:24.190 can you know something that is too great for your 0:14:24.230 --> 0:14:28.070 knowledge to grasp? He says, I want you to know it, 0:14:29.230 --> 0:14:34.510 but it surpasses your knowledge. Like someone saying to, you know, 0:14:34.550 --> 0:14:38.590 the the trigonometry professor saying to the student, listen, I 0:14:38.590 --> 0:14:41.510 want you to know this, but it's way beyond you. 0:14:42.630 --> 0:14:47.470 I want you to know this, but it's indescribable. Your 0:14:47.470 --> 0:14:52.390 mind cannot grasp it. Listen, what God is saying is, 0:14:52.750 --> 0:14:56.630 I don't want you to know this merely intellectually, because 0:14:56.630 --> 0:15:01.680 your finite mind cannot comprehend the depth and the power 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.480 of God's love. So the only way you can know 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:12.320 it is by experiencing it. You know, there are certain 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.960 things that you can't describe. You just have to experience, right? 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.520 You know, you try to describe it just like, yeah, 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:25.040 just how do you describe a rainbow to a blind 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:32.040 person that's never seen color? Seriously, someone that's never seen black, white, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.960 blue never seen light. They've been blind all their life. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.400 How do you describe the colors of a rainbow to 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.560 a blind person? I mean, think about it. Try to 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:43.960 do it in your head a little bit. Come on. 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.760 I mean, it's really hard to describe someone to something, 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:53.880 to someone that has no reference to grasp it. And 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:58.160 what God is saying is that, listen, you have no 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:03.720 reference to grasp how powerful his love is. Oh, yeah, 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:05.800 we can say, well, you know, it's like the love 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.920 of a man and a woman that is so bland 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.720 compared to the love of God. I mean, it's not 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.080 even a reference. I mean, you can say, well, it's 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.680 like the love of a mother to a son and daughter. No, no, no. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.640 It's too bland. It's not even a reference there. It's 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.480 so big. It's so much bigger than that. It's so 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:24.800 much undescribable than that. It's something that you cannot really 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:29.760 grasp with your intellect, but you can only experience with 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:35.120 your spirit. As God ever worked in your life where 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:36.840 people were trying to say, well, what happened? And you 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:41.040 just can't explain it? I just don't know how to 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:46.880 explain it. I just know that he has. Oh. What happened? Well, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.920 tell me about it. Well, I just I don't know 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:54.240 how to describe it. I don't know how to articulate it, 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.360 but God is working and touching in my, my life 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.280 in such a way that I cannot articulate it or 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:04.000 describe it. You know why? Because it belongs to the 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:10.480 spiritual world, and the spiritual world cannot fully be articulated 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:14.440 by our physical world, by our physical words, because it 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.959 happens in the spiritual realm. And the spiritual realm cannot 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:22.640 be comprehended by the physical realm completely. The spiritual realm 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:27.120 cannot be understood fully in the physical realm because it's 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:31.760 another realm. And what God is saying is, I want 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.920 you to experience the power of God inside of you 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.199 in such a way, and listen what he says in 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.800 verse 19, that you may be filled to the measure 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:45.800 of all the fullness of God. That you may be 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:52.800 filled to the measure of the fullness of God. That 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.320 you're going to be filled in a way not to 0:17:55.359 --> 0:18:00.010 your own fullness, but to the fullness of God That 0:18:00.010 --> 0:18:02.250 God's going to be filling you in such a way 0:18:03.890 --> 0:18:09.250 that his fullness in you. It's almost like taking a 0:18:09.250 --> 0:18:14.050 person and submerging them into something. When you begin to 0:18:14.050 --> 0:18:16.969 understand the love of God, it's like God taking you 0:18:16.970 --> 0:18:20.090 and submerging you in that, in the love that cannot 0:18:20.090 --> 0:18:24.450 be understood or comprehended in the physical realm. You need 0:18:24.450 --> 0:18:28.410 the power of God to understand it. It changes your life. 0:18:28.410 --> 0:18:30.610 When you begin to understand how much God loves you, 0:18:30.609 --> 0:18:33.450 you rooted and grounded in that love. It's a spiritual 0:18:33.450 --> 0:18:36.330 dimension and it can only happen through the spiritual realm. 0:18:36.490 --> 0:18:38.689 That's why you can be one of the greatest intellects 0:18:38.690 --> 0:18:41.930 in the world, and still not begin to even grasp 0:18:41.970 --> 0:18:45.810 the infinite part of God, because your finite mind cannot 0:18:45.810 --> 0:18:52.130 understand the infinite nature of God Almighty. And then he 0:18:52.130 --> 0:18:55.490 closes with this. And I'll close with this. Verse 20 0:18:57.130 --> 0:19:00.139 now to him who is able. Oh, I love this. 0:19:02.340 --> 0:19:04.220 Now to him who is able, who is able, God 0:19:04.220 --> 0:19:09.060 is able. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably. 0:19:09.900 --> 0:19:16.900 How much is immeasurably beyond measure? Can't even measure. Can't. 0:19:16.900 --> 0:19:20.699 I can't take a tape measure and measure it. I 0:19:20.740 --> 0:19:26.580 can't take a scale and weigh and weigh it. I 0:19:26.700 --> 0:19:31.940 can't measure it. It's beyond measurement. Now, to him who 0:19:31.940 --> 0:19:36.900 is able to do immeasurably. Way, way, way, way, way 0:19:36.900 --> 0:19:40.540 beyond your comprehension. Way, way, way beyond your ability to 0:19:40.580 --> 0:19:43.140 measure it. Now to him who is able to do 0:19:43.180 --> 0:19:54.580 immeasurably more than all that we ask or even imagine. Say, well, 0:19:54.580 --> 0:19:58.820 I'm going to ask God for this. God says, you 0:19:58.820 --> 0:20:03.140 don't even know. And your little petty prayer. I'm going 0:20:03.180 --> 0:20:06.620 to blow you out of the water because you don't 0:20:06.619 --> 0:20:08.860 even know how to articulate what I'm going to do 0:20:08.859 --> 0:20:11.420 to you. You don't even know how to ask what 0:20:11.420 --> 0:20:15.780 I'm about to unleash in your spirit. Your little prayer 0:20:15.780 --> 0:20:19.300 to ask of it wouldn't even, wouldn't even describe half 0:20:19.300 --> 0:20:22.020 of what I'm going to do. In fact, you can't 0:20:22.020 --> 0:20:27.340 even imagine. You can't even imagine what I want to 0:20:27.340 --> 0:20:29.740 do in your life and in your spirit and in 0:20:29.740 --> 0:20:35.060 your destiny. To him who is able to do immeasurably 0:20:35.060 --> 0:20:39.540 more than all that you can ask or even imagine 0:20:39.540 --> 0:20:42.740 to that God, to that God that is way beyond 0:20:42.740 --> 0:20:48.740 what you could ask or imagine. Have you ever talked 0:20:48.740 --> 0:20:51.460 with a little kid when they're little? They're young and 0:20:51.460 --> 0:20:59.859 they say. Ask for something, and they think they're asking 0:20:59.859 --> 0:21:01.900 for a lot. I'm going to be rich. I'm going 0:21:01.940 --> 0:21:06.060 to have $100. They're like blowing you away. Like I'm 0:21:06.060 --> 0:21:09.300 going to be rich one day. I have 100, $100. 0:21:10.859 --> 0:21:14.940 And that's the biggest they can think of. They don't 0:21:14.940 --> 0:21:19.139 even know. They don't even have the capacity or the 0:21:19.140 --> 0:21:24.260 language to ask for what really is coming. They think 0:21:24.260 --> 0:21:36.260 they're asking big hundred. We're like 100. 100? Yeah, I 0:21:36.260 --> 0:21:39.860 think that's that's God with us. You say I'm asking for. Whoa! 0:21:40.020 --> 0:21:46.900 And God's like you're asking for. Whoa! Really? I'll blow 0:21:46.900 --> 0:21:51.980 that out of the water. Him who is able to 0:21:51.980 --> 0:21:56.220 do immeasurably more than whatever we ask or imagine. How 0:21:56.220 --> 0:22:02.270 does he do it? According to the power. That is 0:22:02.270 --> 0:22:08.030 already at work within us. Oh, it's already there. The 0:22:08.070 --> 0:22:12.950 seed of transformation changed. The seed of metamorphosis, the seed 0:22:12.950 --> 0:22:17.270 of your destiny and work in your life is already 0:22:17.270 --> 0:22:21.590 deposited within you. It's a power that's already at work 0:22:21.590 --> 0:22:27.830 within you. The power of God inside of you. According 0:22:27.869 --> 0:22:31.389 to his power that's at work in our inner man 0:22:31.390 --> 0:22:35.390 or our inner being or within us. All that we 0:22:35.390 --> 0:22:40.550 can say is to him be glory in the church, 0:22:40.670 --> 0:22:43.710 because we are the church, the manifestation of that. And 0:22:43.710 --> 0:22:47.710 in Christ Jesus, not only in this generation, but through 0:22:47.710 --> 0:22:52.869 all generations, forever and ever. Amen. 0:23:01.150 --> 0:23:03.710 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more 0:23:03.750 --> 0:23:06.869 than all we ask or imagine, according to his power 0:23:06.869 --> 0:23:09.310 that is at work within us. To him be the 0:23:09.310 --> 0:23:13.350 glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, 0:23:13.350 --> 0:23:17.790 forever and ever. From Ephesians chapter three. Mark, thank you 0:23:17.790 --> 0:23:19.510 for a great message today. 0:23:19.869 --> 0:23:22.590 Yeah. Thank you Wayne. Such a powerful passage. 0:23:22.830 --> 0:23:25.830 Now coming up tomorrow, the 4th of July, by the way, here, 0:23:25.830 --> 0:23:28.189 we're going to move on to Ephesians four with a 0:23:28.190 --> 0:23:31.270 message about living up to our God given calling and 0:23:31.270 --> 0:23:33.950 purposes how to walk worthy. Give us a preview, Mark. 0:23:34.150 --> 0:23:36.590 Yeah, well, first of all, happy 4th of July. Yeah, right. 0:23:36.630 --> 0:23:39.230 We want to pause and just say we live in 0:23:39.230 --> 0:23:42.870 a nation with all its faults, all its issues, one 0:23:42.869 --> 0:23:45.429 of the greatest nations in the world. And God has 0:23:45.430 --> 0:23:49.830 truly allowed us to be a blessing to many nations. 0:23:49.869 --> 0:23:50.550 Happy birthday to. 0:23:50.590 --> 0:23:54.150 Us. Yeah, happy birthday to us. In Ephesians, the apostle. 0:23:54.150 --> 0:23:57.550 Paul tells us that we are to walk worthy of 0:23:57.550 --> 0:24:00.639 our calling. In other words, you have a calling upon 0:24:00.640 --> 0:24:03.560 your life and so step up and walk worthy of 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:07.720 that calling. That's what this message is about. Ephesians chapter four. 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:11.000 When you believe everything changes, walk worthy. 0:24:11.040 --> 0:24:13.560 All right. Thank you Mark. 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