Who Do You Think You Are? You Are HIs Work Ephesians 2:10

Every man, woman, boy, and girl who has been saved. You were saved not to get a ticket punched, not to get a reservation made. You were saved as the poem of god for good works. That's why you were born again. And when something uses and does what it was made to do, it does it so well. [01:14:28] (52 seconds)  #SavedForGoodWorks

But if a person tries to do something it wasn't made to do, inevitably, it just doesn't work out and oftentimes with disastrous results. For every born again believer, you were created for the sole purpose of serving and glorifying God. And unless that is your aim in all the things you do, it's just not going to work as it should. [01:15:20] (41 seconds)  #CreatedToGlorifyGod

If you read the bible two to three days a week, the study revealed a slight effect but it was still rather negligible. But now get this, they found that if you read your bible four times a week or more, you are 59% less likely to view pornography. 228 times more likely to share your faith and at least 30% less likely to struggle with loneliness, depression, or anxiety. [00:53:07] (40 seconds)  #Bible4Life

And way back before then, while Abraham was living in the land of Ur worshiping the son with all the other people who live in the land of Ur, the bible says God came to him and said Abraham get out of your land, get away from your family, take your wife, take this, take that and you start walking and you go to a place that I will tell you about later and in both instances, Abraham believed God. How do I know that? Because in both instances he started walking. [01:04:21] (35 seconds)  #FaithStartsWalking

They're they're all the time saying silly things. They're all the time doing silly stuff and when push come to shove for all of their talk, for everything they had going on, man, they ran. They they got out of dodge. They they they were nowhere to be found when Jesus got arrested. But if you read the book of Acts, you're you're reading about totally different guys and Jesus isn't even on Earth anymore. [01:12:47] (34 seconds)  #ResurrectionTransformedThem

We are not self made is what the bible is saying there but we are very much God made. We are saved and we are saved with intention. God has plans. Not in the cheap generic way where we just say, oh I know God has a plan. No. Specifically, God has a plan and you and I as born again believers, we are that plan. [00:49:10] (26 seconds)  #PartOfGodsPlan

Now very often times, let's let's face it. Let's just let's just say that the truth that that we all experience on a on a very regular basis. Very often times, the greatest hindrance to god's work in us is us. Very very often, the biggest hindrance, it's not the world, it's not politics, it's not Washington, it's not Frankfurt, it's not some other place, it's not some other people. Very very often, more often than not in fact, the biggest hindrance to the work of God in me is me. [00:51:27] (33 seconds)  #TheObstacleIsMe

Paul began his letter to the church at Ephesus in a very familiar way. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the saints who are at Ephesus. This letter is not written to and for the population at large. This letter is written to saints, to believers, to the body of Christ, to those who are his workmanship. That's the audience. [01:16:26] (38 seconds)  #EphesiansToTheSaints