We read Ephesians chapter one last week. Today we're gonna read Ephesians chapter 2.
I don't know if you listened to last week. At the end, I talked about you know, that there's a lot of missing pieces that are starting to fall into place for me that I'm understanding from studies and why certain things worked, why certain things didn't work, what I'm learning from the secular world spiritually and how it ties into the Bible.
One of the things I said was that we are supposed to be living with power.
When you really look at what happened in our world during the pandemic in the Christian world, just the Christians, we were completely powerless.
And that shouldn't be according to the Bible, if we get bit by a snake, it shouldn't even bother us.
Now, of course, we're not perfect people and so many things happen. And I'm not judging anybody. I'm trying to walk and learn what God really has put in place for us in this world.
And there are a lot of things coming together right now. And I don't know if it's because we're close to the end times.
I really don't know. I just know that it's such a bubbling up something, for me that I can't shake it.
We are supposed to be living like, they were in the book of Acts. And at the very end of last week, I said that I feel like we need to get this information out so that if we are gone, or even eventually we will be gone, there's going to be people left here who don't know Jesus.
I want to make sure that I clarify. I feel like we need to do this for the people that are alive now. Because we can be walking with power and with peace and with total contentment in this world, and being able to heal people just like they did in the book of Acts and ourselves so that it could be for now, not just for the people that don't believe and for later.
So there's that. All right, I'll shut off now and I'll read. All right, Ready? Ephesians chapter two.
And you hath he quickened (and quicken means made alive). And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins, wherein in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air (the devil), the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience, among whom also, we all had our conversations in times past in the lust of our flesh, fulfill the desires of the flesh and of the mind.
And were by nature, the children of wrath, even as others.
Now, when we hear about things like lust and desires of the flesh, we immediately think of things like pornography or something super evil. But honestly, it's not that.
If we could just see that even the slightest contemplation of, “I'm not worthy.” or “I can't do this.” “I'll never be able to” or “I'm gonna die!” “There's something wrong with me”
That's the conversation and time passed in the lust of our flesh because it is lust. We're lusting after something. We want something. Otherwise, we wouldn't feel like we're not okay. If we knew we were okay, would we be saying, There's something wrong with me? or those things listed above? We wouldn't be saying that kind of thing.
So it is the lust of the flesh, the desires of the flesh, and of the mind.
Mind is a big thing here because we are people, we are human beings. Human beings are the only ones that have a mind like we do. We can imagine things. We can create things. We can do things that animals can't do.
Scorpions, scorpions, scorpions, scorpion. There is no going back from that. A frog is a frog is a frog is a frog.
A lion is a lion is a lion is a lion. There’s only so much that training can do that would alter behavior of a lion for example.
But a lion is going to be a lion. You can’t befriend a lion and think that he's not going to eat you if he gets hungry.
We have this ability, we have a mind. A mind is a wonderful thing and it's a bad thing too because we don't know how to use it. Remember what Jesus said?
The sower sows the word, And some of the seeds fall on stony ground.
Some fall on really wonderful ground, and some falls on the wayside, Like just as you're walking kind of thing.
And so each place that seed is sown, something happens to it. Jesus said that the heart is the ground.
It's, it's who we are. We sow seeds of the word in, in who we are, who we were when we were born, and who we are with God.
Now, what are we gonna do with that ground? Because we've inherited certain parts of our hearts.
If you were born to a very, very wealthy family and you have an inheritance then, and you were trained in what to do with money and all of that, and it's just part of what you were born into, well then it's kind of like you were born to an orchard. All you have to do is maintain it. It's the trees that are already grown. You just picked the fruit.
But if you were born to poverty, then you were born to maybe rocks and stuff that, now your seed that your sowing of abundance can’t take root.
That ground needs to be worked on in that area. If you were born to a family of people who was always feeling like they were sick all the time, then, your heart may have been in a place that always thinking about illness.
And so you have to work that ground because, in that area of your life, the ground isn't so good.
So the seeds have to be able to germinate and grow.
But it talks about the good ground. And I think that's where most of us are. The word is sewn in good ground and it grows, but it says that the deceitfulness of riches and the lust of the flesh and the desires of the mind come in and choke the word and it becomes unfruitful.
The mind is such a big deal because it's our thoughts that emanate faith, and it's our faith that connotes our actions, and it's our actions where we see the results.
Continuing the reading… Among whom we also had conversations in times passed in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. https://donorbox.org/what-does-god-say-to-you
We read Ephesians chapter one last week. Today we're gonna read Ephesians chapter 2.
I don't know if you listened to it last week. In the end, I talked about, how there are a lot of missing pieces that are starting to fall into place for me that I'm understanding from studies and why certain things worked, why certain things didn't work, what I'm learning from the secular world spiritually and how it ties into the Bible.
One of the things I said was that we are supposed to be living with power.
When you really look at what happened in our world during the pandemic in the Christian world, just the Christians, we were completely powerless.
And that shouldn't be according to the Bible, if we get bit by a snake, it shouldn't even bother us.
Now, of course, we're not perfect people and so many things happen. And I'm not judging anybody. I'm trying to walk and learn what God really has put in place for us in this world.
And there are a lot of things coming together right now. And I don't know if it's because we're close to the end times.
I really don't know. I just know that it's such a bubbling up something, for me that I can't shake it.
We are supposed to be living like, they were in the book of Acts. And at the very end of last week, I said that I feel like we need to get this information out so that if we are gone, or even eventually we will be gone, there's going to be people left here who don't know Jesus.
I want to make sure that I clarify. I feel like we need to do this for the people that are alive now. Because we can be walking with power and with peace and with total contentment in this world, and being able to heal people just like they did in the book of Acts and ourselves so that it could be for now, not just for the people that don't believe and for later.
So there's that. All right, I'll shut off now and I'll read. All right, Ready? Ephesians chapter two.
And you hath he quickened (and quicken means made alive). And you hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins, wherein in times past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air (the devil), the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience, among whom also, we all had our conversations in times past in the lust of our flesh, fulfill the desires of the flesh and of the mind.
And were by nature, the children of wrath, even as others.
Now, when we hear about things like lust and desires of the flesh, we immediately think of things like pornography or something super evil. But honestly, it's not that.
If we could just see that even the slightest contemplation of, “I'm not worthy.” or “I can't do this.” “I'll never be able to” or “I'm gonna die!” “There's something wrong with me”
That's the conversation and time passed in the lust of our flesh because it is lust. We're lusting after something. We want something. Otherwise, we wouldn't feel like we're not okay. If we knew we were okay, would we be saying, There's something wrong with me? or those things listed above? We wouldn't be saying that kind of thing.
So it is the lust of the flesh, the desires of the flesh, and of the mind.
Mind is a big thing here because we are people, we are human beings. Human beings are the only ones that have a mind like we do. We can imagine things. We can create things. We can do things that animals can't do.
Scorpions, scorpions, scorpions, scorpion. There is no going back from that. A frog is a frog is a frog is a frog.
A lion is a lion is a lion is a lion. There’s only so much that training can do that would alter behavior of a lion for example.
But a lion is going to be a lion. You can’t befriend a lion and think that he's not going to eat you if he gets hungry.
We have this ability, we have a mind. A mind is a wonderful thing and it's a bad thing too because we don't know how to use it. Remember what Jesus said?
The sower sows the word, And some of the seeds fall on stony ground.
Some fall on really wonderful ground, and some falls on the wayside, Like just as you're walking kind of thing.
And so each place that seed is sown, something happens to it. Jesus said that the heart is the ground.
It's, it's who we are. We sow seeds of the word in, in who we are, who we were when we were born, and who we are with God.
Now, what are we gonna do with that ground? Because we've inherited certain parts of our hearts.
If you were born to a very, very wealthy family and you have an inheritance then, and you were trained in what to do with money and all of that, and it's just part of what you were born into, well then it's kind of like you were born to an orchard. All you have to do is maintain it. It's the trees that are already grown. You just picked the fruit.
But if you were born to poverty, then you were born to maybe rocks and stuff that, now your seed that your sowing of abundance can’t take root.
That ground needs to be worked on in that area. If you were born to a family of people who was always feeling like they were sick all the time, then, your heart may have been in a place that always thinking about illness.
And so you have to work that ground because, in that area of your life, the ground isn't so good.
So the seeds have to be able to germinate and grow.
But it talks about the good ground. And I think that's where most of us are. The word is sewn in good ground and it grows, but it says that the deceitfulness of riches and the lust of the flesh and the desires of the mind come in and choke the word and it becomes unfruitful.
The mind is such a big deal because it's our thoughts that emanate faith, and it's our faith that connotes our actions, and it's our actions where we see the results.
Continuing the reading… Among whom we also had conversations in times passed in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. https://donorbox.org/what-does-god-say-to-you