Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Our dear Heavenly Father, I pray that we could, we could understand the depth of your commitment to us.
[00:00:15] And as we understand the depth of your commitment to us, we could love and trust you more than we ever have.
[00:00:24] I pray that your spirit would guide us into the truth. This morning, in Christ's name, Amen.
[00:00:33] We're studying the first chapter of Ephesians.
[00:00:40] When I visited Ephesians, there is a beautiful gray stone street and on both sides of the street are the ruins of shops.
[00:01:02] When Paul was in Ephesus, on both sides of this street there were shops and most of them had an arched front.
[00:01:16] And what would happen is people would hang their stuff on the front of their shop and then if you liked it, you would come in and see what else they had.
[00:01:28] And this street goes on and on and on and on.
[00:01:33] It is the equivalent to a modern mall, just a strip mall, not a south side or whatever our mall is called.
[00:01:50] Ah.
[00:01:52] And as Paul walked down the street, he would run into people who was doing everything they could to get his attention, to sell him something.
[00:02:08] They, they couldn't imagine that in our lifetime their wonderful city would be nothing other than ruins.
[00:02:23] They couldn't imagine that only 20% of the city has been excavated and 80% of it is still under dirt.
[00:02:34] When they, when they considered what the world would be like after them, they couldn't imagine what it really turned out to be.
[00:02:47] It turns out human beings aren't very good at predicting the future.
[00:02:55] We are better at making a future than we are at predicting it.
[00:03:01] I want you to think about your own life.
[00:03:05] I can remember being a 16 year old kid and going to high school and thinking that 1972 was 100 years away.
[00:03:20] The four years in high school, you know, I couldn't imagine when I was 16 ever surviving the next four years that they would take forever.
[00:03:32] Anybody remember feeling that way?
[00:03:37] Ah, well then I had children and somebody switched everything into high gear and time, just time just rocketed by.
[00:03:52] Paul wrote a letter to the church at Ephesus and he said God is very blessed in and of himself and he blesses us with spiritual blessings.
[00:04:07] Last week we saw the first spiritual blessing was election. This week we're looking at Ephesians 1, 5 and 6. And the second spiritual blessing is predestination.
[00:04:18] This is what Paul wrote.
[00:04:23] He blessed us with adoption through Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good thoughts of his plan, unto the praise of his glory, which he graciously gave to us in the beloved.
[00:04:45] Now New Testament Greek isn't like English in English, the word order is very important.
[00:04:57] In Greek, the word order gets shuffled around for emphasis. So I would like to translate this just a little bit differently, and I think put the emphasis where Paul wants it. He predestined us unto Himself, unto adoption and unto the glory of his praise of his grace.
[00:05:25] Unto the praise of the glory of his grace. Maybe I should learn how to read this. What do you think?
[00:05:31] I'm gonna start over.
[00:05:33] He predestined us unto Himself and unto adoption, and unto the praise of the glory of his grace, according to the good thoughts of his will through Jesus Christ, so that we are graciously given by him to be among the beloved.
[00:06:03] Now, I'd like to take this apart thoughtfully.
[00:06:08] The important word here is predestination.
[00:06:12] And predestination is a word that the Church has fussed about for 2000 years.
[00:06:20] So what exactly does the word predestination mean? It comes from a Greek word called pro horizomai. And it literally means to decide beforehand to determine.
[00:06:36] And if I took the two words apart, pro means before, and horizo means I create boundaries. You've heard the word horizon. Horizon is the boundary between the earth and the sky.
[00:06:54] So horizo means I make boundaries.
[00:06:59] When God predestined us, he made boundaries for our life, and our life flows through these boundaries.
[00:07:09] All right? Predestination doesn't mean that God determined every sneeze you will ever make.
[00:07:17] All right? He knows you will sneeze. That's foreknowledge. But predestination doesn't have to do with every single thing you will ever do.
[00:07:28] In fact, it has more to do with what God says He will do than it has to do with what we will do.
[00:07:37] Predestination is an absolute commitment of God to do certain things for us. All right?
[00:07:47] So your life flows through boundaries. You can bounce around in these boundaries, but you can't ever go through the boundaries. Why is that?
[00:08:01] I'm not a bowler, but I've watched people bowl.
[00:08:06] There are bowlers who don't need gutters.
[00:08:10] They can throw the ball straight. All right?
[00:08:14] But for people like me, without gutters, nobody else could play around me because my ball would be going two or three lanes either direction, right?
[00:08:28] Those gutters allow me to play my game in my lane and for you to play your game in your lane. And without those gutters, neither one of us will be happy being around each other.
[00:08:44] I want you to imagine the super bowl tonight, except this year, we're playing it differently. There aren't going to be any sidelines marked, there aren't going to be any end zones marked, and there aren't gonna be any yard markers on the field.
[00:09:02] But we're gonna play the game of football. You can't play football without boundaries and markers, right? In fact, you can't play any game without boundaries and markers. And you can't live life without boundaries.
[00:09:19] God ordained that all of us live a life, and we live in our lane. We live in our boundaries.
[00:09:30] These boundaries make it possible for God to strategically meet us as we move through life.
[00:09:40] When I was a boy, God strategically met me and somebody explained to me that Christ died for my sins and if I would trust him, he would be my savior. All right, I didn't find God.
[00:09:58] I was simply walking through the boundaries of my youth and God met me there.
[00:10:05] When I was 18, God met me and said, thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth and called from the remotest parts thereof, and said unto thee, thou art my servant. I've chosen you and cast you not. In a way fear thou not, for I am with you. I will help you. I will strengthen you. Yea, I will hold you with my righteous right hand. God met me and called me into my life work.
[00:10:32] And time and time again, as I have passed through the boundaries of life, God has strategically met me and moved me along and moved me along.
[00:10:44] This is what predestination means.
[00:10:48] Predestination means you aren't wandering aimlessly through life.
[00:10:55] Predestination means there's some boundaries that you're going to move down through these boundaries and God is going to direct you in the direction he wants you to go.
[00:11:06] Predestination is the absolute commitment of God to meet with you throughout your life and make you complete in Christ.
[00:11:17] You see, I believe with all my heart it was God's purpose for you to be here today. You didn't come here randomly. It was God's purpose for you to be here today. He wants to work in your heart and in your mind, and he wants you to understand this topic better so that you can be more of the person he created you to be. Amen.
[00:11:40] Predestination is a gracious gift of God.
[00:11:45] It is his holy commitment.
[00:11:48] It is his promise that you will have all the guidance you need to arrive where God wants you to be. Church.
[00:11:59] If you're wondering, it isn't because God hasn't done his good work.
[00:12:06] It's because when he shows up in your life, ah, you're not making room for Him.
[00:12:16] You're not listening to his whispers when he shows up and wants to redirect you. You're arguing with him and saying you want to go your own way and do your own thing.
[00:12:28] God has committed Himself absolutely to meet you at strategic points in your life.
[00:12:36] But it matters immensely how you respond as God meets you in these holy moments.
[00:12:46] To what are we predestined?
[00:12:49] Listen to what Paul says. We're predestined to two things. Primarily, we are predestined unto Him.
[00:12:58] He destined us for Himself.
[00:13:03] The divine boundaries lead through life and death to God himself.
[00:13:10] If you say to me, doc, these, these boundaries that I'm walking in, where do they end?
[00:13:17] They end in the presence of God Himself forever.
[00:13:25] God said he's creating boundaries in your life and you're going to walk through these boundaries. Ah, he's going to meet you strategically. He's going to help you to pass through the valley of the shadow of death. And someday the boundaries are going to take you inevitably to the very presence of God Himself. He predestined you for Himself in His infinite wisdom, power and love. God draws Himself to us from before the creation until the ages and ages of time. We are predestined to live most near to the Almighty.
[00:14:14] Remember last week I told you before God created anything, he imagined you.
[00:14:23] He didn't create the world and put you on it. He imagined you and created a world for you to live on.
[00:14:34] You came before everything else.
[00:14:37] And when God imagined you in ages and ages ago in the divine creative imagination, he imagined the day when you would be perfectly his forever.
[00:14:53] And he said, I destined this soul to abide with me forever and ever. And I'm going to meet them in their life and do whatever I have to do to get them to myself.
[00:15:10] Church.
[00:15:11] That is a spiritual blessing, and it's far more valuable than a lot of other things that we wish we had.
[00:15:21] The blessed God is a spiritual magnet, and he draws us by the bonds of invisible love nearer and nearer to the heart of God.
[00:15:37] Right now, today, this very moment, the eternal God is drawing you in some way. He's whispering to you in some way.
[00:15:51] He's. He's tugging at you in some way so that he can draw you nearer and nearer to Himself. That's what predestination is.
[00:16:02] God said, I am the magnet of your soul, and I'm going to draw you and draw you and draw you until it makes perfect sense for you to abide with Me forever.
[00:16:20] He also predestined us to be his children.
[00:16:25] God said I'm not content to draw you to myself, to just be a big crowd of people who hang around me. I want you to be closer than that. I want you to be my very family.
[00:16:40] He predestined you to be one of his children.
[00:16:47] And he adopts us into his family church. Heaven is not a random community. It is a family.
[00:16:56] And the blessed God gives us the rights and privileges of a family member.
[00:17:03] God predestined you to be something more than just a large crowd that hung around him. He predestined you to be his very family.
[00:17:20] He said, when this is all said and done and you abide with me forever, you're going to know the love of a perfect father.
[00:17:30] And he said, more than that. We'll get to this in a minute. You're going to go. You're going to know the love of perfect brothers and sisters.
[00:17:39] There is no imperfection in heaven.
[00:17:46] Listen what Paul said to the Church of Rome.
[00:17:52] If children, then heirs.
[00:17:55] Heirs of God.
[00:17:58] Fellow heirs with Christ.
[00:18:01] Listen. Listen to what Paul said. This destiny is. God makes us his children, and then we become the heirs of everything that he has created.
[00:18:15] And listen to what he says. He says, this is, this is.
[00:18:20] This is only understood if you can conceive of yourself as a joint heir with Jesus Christ himself.
[00:18:32] In the very same way that God worked in Jesus Christ. And God prepared Jesus Christ to be the visible representative God throughout all eternity. And God invited Christ to sit with him on a heavenly throne in heaven. God invites us to be joint heirs with Jesus Christ.
[00:18:58] Ah, a throne awaits you. That's all I can say.
[00:19:04] As Christ received a throne from His Father, he will share a throne with his joint heirs.
[00:19:15] I'm also predestined to the praise of the glory of his grace.
[00:19:23] We are destined to be the ones who praise God.
[00:19:33] In Revelation 5, John the Apostle got a look into heaven.
[00:19:40] If you read it, he says that a great door was opened in heaven. And he got a look in heaven.
[00:19:48] And then he described what heaven was like. I'll read it to you.
[00:19:56] They sang a new song saying, worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals.
[00:20:05] This is about Jesus Christ.
[00:20:08] For you were slain, and by your blood. You ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you made them a kingdom and priests to our God. And they shall reign on the earth.
[00:20:29] Then I looked and behold, looked and I heard. And around the throne the living creatures and the elders and the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and wealth, wisdom and might, honor and glory and blessing. And I heard every creature in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and in the sea and all that is in them, saying to him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb, be blessing, honor and glory, might forever and ever. And the four living creatures said Amen. And the 24 elders fell down and worshiped.
[00:21:28] When I read that, I think to myself, I don't have anything to add to that.
[00:21:38] I mean, best I can do is stand in the back on the top bleacher, look down at the beauty of it all and clap my hands. That's what I feel. But it turns out God in His wisdom said, I get to make a contribution to all that. You get to make a contribution to all that. We get to make a contribution to the praise of his glory, that of his grace that nobody else gets to make.
[00:22:10] See, the angels can praise God for many things, but they know nothing of the grace of God.
[00:22:19] The four living beings who cry, holy, holy, holy, they make a contribution. They, they, they praise God. They are the nearest ones to him, but they can't praise him for his grace. They know nothing of his grace.
[00:22:37] We are predestined by God to make a contribution to the praise of heaven because we know what his grace is and so we are capable of praising the glory of his grace.
[00:22:51] Only the elect and only the predestined of humanity can praise the glory of God's grace.
[00:23:00] We were elect because God treated us better than what we deserve and we praise him for it. We were predestined because God treated us better than what we deserve and we praise him for it.
[00:23:15] We know and praise the blessed God's glory because we are the ones who have experienced his grace.
[00:23:23] Do you understand this?
[00:23:26] Everything you do in life that is a mess up, God has grace for that.
[00:23:32] God has grace for that.
[00:23:34] And someday I will be able to say, as I walked through the boundaries of life, when I was at my worst, God met me and showed me grace. He treated me better than what I deserve.
[00:23:52] I will be able to join in the praise of the glory of God by saying, I am a recipient of the inexplicable and unlimited grace of God Church.
[00:24:08] No other beings can make that, that, that contribution except you and I, the elect people of God, I believe the better you recognize his grace in your life today, the better you'll be able to praise it in the future.
[00:24:30] I want to appeal to You.
[00:24:34] Would you try to have a new awareness of the grace of God in your life?
[00:24:40] Would you try to pay a little bit closer attention every day of how God is treating you better than what you deserve?
[00:24:50] Some things are very, very small things, but they're still beautiful gifts from the blessed God.
[00:25:00] Some things are very huge things.
[00:25:04] It's easy to see their gifts from the heart of God.
[00:25:09] I will be better at praising God and making my contribution if I am more aware in my daily life that day by day God treats me better than what I deserve.
[00:25:25] How did God, how did the blessed God predestinate us? How did he do it according to the good thoughts of his desires? That's what Paul said.
[00:25:39] When God decided to create these boundary lines in my life, how did he do it? Well, first of all, he did it based on his own good thoughts. Now this is hugely important.
[00:25:52] You are not able to pre think your way through life.
[00:26:00] Can't do it.
[00:26:01] We can make. Every year I make plans. Every single year I make plans. And I've learned over my lifetime, if I can get about 60% of what I planned on, I'm doing good.
[00:26:15] Stuff happens, church stuff. I can't predict things that are unexpected, challenges I couldn't predict, opportunities I couldn't see.
[00:26:29] I cannot pre think my way through life.
[00:26:33] Ah, but there is an infinite God who can exactly do just that for me. He can pre think his way through my life and he can say, I am creating boundaries in your life for the purpose of expressing My good thoughts to you as you move through life.
[00:27:00] From God's first thought of you in his divine imagination, he contemplated good thoughts about you. I need to tell you, I want you to be open to how God thinks about you.
[00:27:13] From the very moment he imagined you, he imagined you in a, in a contemplation of, of good thoughts. When God imagined you, he didn't go, oh no, this is gonna be a mess.
[00:27:34] When God imagined you, he didn't go, yeah, this one's gonna keep me busy forever.
[00:27:41] That's not how God thought about you. He thought just the opposite.
[00:27:47] He thought good thoughts about you. And he said, oh, how I am going to delight in moving through the boundaries of life with this soul.
[00:28:01] Every day of your life, God thinks well of you.
[00:28:06] Do you understand that?
[00:28:08] Every single day of your life, the Almighty thinks well of you.
[00:28:15] I don't think well of myself. Every day I have been known to say some pretty rude things to myself.
[00:28:24] God has never. God has never thought about me in the ugly way I have thought about myself.
[00:28:32] He predestined me based upon his good thoughts in the unaccountable ages to come. God's thoughts of you will always be good in the eternity of the future that we cannot, cannot imagine. We can imagine one thing.
[00:28:58] That God, who predestined us, made a commitment. I am always going to think well of my beloved church.
[00:29:08] From the first thought in his imagination to the endless ages of time. God looks at you and contemplates you and thinks well of you.
[00:29:20] These are my beloved children in whom I am well pleased. That is the. That is the predestining God's thoughts about you.
[00:29:33] When you have your worst day, when Mr. Ugly is in charge, it doesn't change God's good thoughts about you.
[00:29:46] When you have your very best day and you feel like you could sprout wings at any minute, it doesn't change God's thoughts about you. He always thinks well of you. It is his holy heart to do is an expression of the blessed God blesses and he begins all his blessings with good thoughts about who we are.
[00:30:13] The second reason, the second element of predestination is it's the good thoughts of his will. The blessed God predestined us by his own sovereign will.
[00:30:32] And this is where we have a clash with God.
[00:30:37] I've heard from many people that God did something that allows human will to be equal to his will.
[00:30:50] Surely you know that cannot be true.
[00:30:53] Human will can never be equal to God's will. Amen.
[00:30:59] You can't ever believe that you're. You have the right to will that is greater than God's divine will.
[00:31:13] All right. God permits us to disobey his will.
[00:31:21] But that doesn't mean that my will is greater than God's.
[00:31:25] I am not predestined because of choices I make.
[00:31:31] I am predestined because of the sovereign will of God.
[00:31:36] Listen.
[00:31:39] The will of God chooses only that which is consistent with the good thoughts of God. His will is never arbitrary.
[00:31:49] Why should you trust God more, God's will more than your own will? Because God's will is consistent with his good thoughts. Why wouldn't you trust somebody who thinks better of you than you think of yourself?
[00:32:05] Why do I think my will is better when I think ugly thoughts of myself than I think God's will loves me when he thinks only beautiful and good thoughts? God's will is never arbitrary. God is not rolling dice about the future of humanity.
[00:32:27] The will of God chooses only that which is consistent with the purpose of God. God is not pragmatic God has a purpose. I talked to you about it last week. And his purpose is to stand you in his presence, holy and faultless. That's his purpose. And his will always expresses that purpose. What is God's will in your life? To do everything he has to do to make you holy and faultless in the presence of God.
[00:33:03] That's his will. And he's going to choose every time that which pushes that agenda forward. God is never pragmatic. Pragmatic says, what's the easiest thing to do right now?
[00:33:19] God never wills the easiest thing to do right now. He always wills this higher purpose. How can I perfect this soul that I love with an infinite love?
[00:33:33] The will of God chooses only that which is consistent with his character. God is never unjust because God's character is perfectly just. His will is perfectly just. Will not the God of all the earth do what is right.
[00:33:52] The will of God is perfect.
[00:33:55] You can trust the will of God.
[00:33:58] Now let's remind ourselves of what our will looks like.
[00:34:05] I've made some pretty arbitrary choices in my life and I've grown to regret some of them. Anyone else ever had buyer's remorse? I don't want this junk anymore. Can I want. I want my money back.
[00:34:21] I have made arbitrary choices that I have grown to regret.
[00:34:28] God never made an arbitrary choice and he never regretted any choice he ever made.
[00:34:35] I've been pragmatic. I've said to myself, what is the easiest way to get this done?
[00:34:45] Not what is the best way. Not what is the healthiest way. What is the easiest way.
[00:34:51] I've made choices that weren't in my best long term interest. They were only in my short term interest.
[00:35:01] I've made choices that are straight out unfair.
[00:35:04] I wonder if you can admit the same thing. I've made choices in my life that were selfish and unfair. All right. When I contrast my will to God's will, I see God's will is absolutely perfect. And I see my will is absolutely tragically flawed. Can you hear this?
[00:35:25] So when it comes to will, I'm never going to pit my will against the will of God. It's stupidity.
[00:35:35] I'm never going to say God has to respect my stupid choices. I'm always going to have to say. I'm always going to say it is the very best thing I can do to trust the wise and loving will of God.
[00:35:54] I am predestinated. Not based upon my will, but based upon the perfect will of God.
[00:36:05] How does God predestinate us?
[00:36:09] Sorry, I have to have a Drink of Gatorade if I don't spill it all.
[00:36:21] He predestines us through Jesus Christ.
[00:36:26] The blessed God works out his plan in the boundaries of life through Jesus Christ.
[00:36:35] Every day. God is at work in you. He has in his mind an image of Jesus Christ.
[00:36:42] Everything he does is to mold you to be a little bit more like Jesus Christ.
[00:36:49] Jesus Christ is the model that God is using to mold every single one of us in these boundaries of life.
[00:37:02] Thomas Goodwin said, I love this.
[00:37:06] Listen what he said.
[00:37:10] Jesus is more beloved by the Father than sin is or can be hated by him.
[00:37:20] Now let's think about that for a minute. Let that wash over your mind.
[00:37:27] Does God hate sin? Yes.
[00:37:31] Does God love Jesus Christ more than he hates sin? Yes.
[00:37:38] So what does that look like? In my life, I don't. I don't know what I do I will do this week, but I'll do something ugly that offends God. It's a. You can bet on that. You don't have to bet on the Super Bowl. You can bet on. I'll do something stupid and I'll find myself saying to God, I'm so sorry. All right, can you hear this?
[00:38:06] Everything I've ever done that offended God, God loved Christ more than he hated what I did.
[00:38:18] And so you know what he says? For Christ's sake, I forgive you.
[00:38:25] God says, because I love Christ so much, and I am predestinating you through Jesus Christ, I'm ready to forgive every single bad thing you do because I've destined you to be just like Jesus Christ.
[00:38:45] Church. Is that awesome? Does anybody's heart swell with that?
[00:38:51] God is at work, molding me into the image of Jesus Christ. And when I fail in the process, God says, I love Christ more than I hate your sin. And I'm going to forgive you for Christ's sake.
[00:39:09] That's part of predestination.
[00:39:11] I'm predestined to be forgiven for my sin because of Christ.
[00:39:17] The incarnation, the sinless life, the substitutionary death, the resurrection, ascension, and the return of Christ. The final judgment are all the work of Christ.
[00:39:28] And God accomplishes his predestination through these works of Jesus Christ.
[00:39:37] Everything Christ did and everything Christ does is part of God's eternal plan, worked out in our predestination, so that we get to stand before him, holy and faultless, without spot and without blemish.
[00:39:57] Then Paul ended it by saying, we are predestined to receive the complex grace of the blessed God.
[00:40:08] He graced us in the beloved. Do you Realize how complex God's grace is.
[00:40:16] God treats us better than what we deserve in millions of ways. Some we recognize, most we don't.
[00:40:27] God is a God whose default setting is grace. I'm going to treat you better than what you deserve when you are aware of it. I'm going to treat you better than what you deserve when you're not aware of it. I'm going to treat you better than what you deserve when you appreciate it. I'm going to treat you better than what you deserve when you don't appreciate it. I'm going to treat you better than what you deserve.
[00:40:53] This is the character of the predestining God. How is it that you cannot trust him with everything?
[00:41:08] And then Paul says, it's not just.
[00:41:12] It isn't just that God, the heart of God, flows out to us in grace.
[00:41:23] He said, this grace creates a beloved.
[00:41:31] Do you know God is at work in millions of other people to perfect them just like he's perfecting you in every generation. God is at work in millions of people to perfect them just like he's perfecting you.
[00:41:47] And someday he's graciously going to bring us all together and we're going to live. We are destined to live among the perfect.
[00:42:08] Someday, the shackles of this unperfect world are going to give way to absolute perfection.
[00:42:18] Mark's road will be a beautiful place in heaven.
[00:42:22] Although it is the throne of Satan today, it will be. It will be a beautiful place in heaven.
[00:42:32] It is unimaginable what it would be like to live in perfection where everybody is at their best all the time.
[00:42:43] Church God's pathways lead you to the place where everybody is perfect and exists in the image of God. We don't stop being unique. You go on being your unique self. You're just always your best unique self. Mr. Ugly has to get. Mr. Ugly gets locked out at the pearly gates. And only beauty wonder good. Only love and kindness and gentleness and mercy. Only favor and goodness abide their church. I'll take the predestinating love of God that leads to his presence and living in perfection with beautiful people. I will. I will accept that from him wholeheartedly and without, without reservation.
[00:43:40] We are predestined to live among the perfect.
[00:43:48] Perfect in love, perfect in the love of the blessed God and perfect in love for one another.
[00:43:58] We will be perfect recipients of God's love and we will love him. But we will be recipients of each other's perfected love. And we will love each other the way God created us. Originally to love each other.
[00:44:15] Church God is worthy of your trust. He has a good plan. He has a good destiny for you. He's created boundaries in your life. He wants to meet you day by day. He wants to conform you to the image of Jesus Christ.
[00:44:32] He wants to prepare you for to live forever among the perfect.
[00:44:38] Would you please trust him?
[00:44:41] Would you please open your heart to Him? Would you please reconsider his place in your life?
[00:44:47] Our dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this beautiful teaching from the Apostle Paul.
[00:44:57] Oh, how I pray that it would be more than just words.
[00:45:01] I pray that your Holy Spirit would make it alive.
[00:45:06] I pray that your Holy Spirit would make it edgy. I pray that every single one of us would have a new longing for you.
[00:45:15] A new inclination to call upon your name.
[00:45:18] A new inclination to look for your grace in our lives.
[00:45:23] A new and new desire to cooperate with you in conforming us into the image of Christ.
[00:45:33] And I pray that we would begin to live the way we're going to live in heaven right now. In Christ's name, amen.
