 Okay, so any, so any questions so far in Ephesians 1, Ephesians 2 that we have seen, any questions at all that you might have, or any phrase that needs to be explained, anything that is still not clear, any questions, just feel free to ask, or you can post it on the chat as well. Okay, yeah, so the beauty of this, you know, in Ephesians 2 what we see is that, you know, all these riches, all these, or all these changes, wonderful changes that have been brought, you know, for humanity, right? It's not just for, you know, one person to, but it's for the entire world, it's for the entire world that, you know, a person's spirit, which is dead in trespasses and sins, is made alive, that a person who's, you know, living according to the sinful nature, according to the way of the world, led according to the, you know, the powers, the prince of the power of the earth, whose end is destruction, right? So that is something that we see that, that Satan does not have good plans, right, for the people and the way he manipulates and forces and challenges, intimidates people to live. It's just for people's destruction, right? So like the whole world feels trapped, unable to come out of certain things, certain, certain patterns, lifestyle patterns, certain addictions and so on. Well, Christ has actually made a way, he has set people free, he has made a life quickened spiritually. But the thing is, all this comes into reality in a person's life, the minute that person gets saved, right? So that's the thing. So it is already done. So just because it's already done on the cross, one cannot assume that, okay, you know, now the whole world is saved. No, because that is another, you know, that's another heresy, you know, that is in the world, which is in some circles, it's, they just say, okay, Jesus has done this, and, and that's it. You know, it's automatic. It's done. I'm saved. It's done. No matter what, no matter what I'm doing, I'm, this is, I'm, this Christ has already done. There's nothing no more powerful than that. So it's already done. It's already, you know, I've already saved, etc. But the thing is this, you know, what we see in verse eight is very important. Okay, so that is what we are going to look at now. Verse eight is very important. See, all this is done for us, for entire humanity. Okay, it's all this is done for entire humanity. But how does it come into force? Or how is it? How does it become a reality in our lives? It is when we read verse eight, we get the understanding says, for by grace, you have been saved through faith. And not of yourselves. It is a gift of God. Okay, so it talks about the grace of God, something that is freely given, something that is not earned. Right. It's something that we do not deserve. So far, far by grace, we have been, we have been saved. Just one second, I'm just seeing the privates. Yeah, so we have been saved through faith. Okay, so if grace by grace, this work is done by grace, it is extended to us, we do not have to do anything. But how do I have access to it? How do I receive it? It is through faith. So which means that I come and I believe, yes, this is what Jesus did for me. And I receive his gift of salvation. So the minute I receive him, the minute I receive this into my life, into receive him into my life, receive the gift of salvation, then everything changes, then this becomes a reality. This spiritual truth becomes a reality in my life, in the life of any person who becomes saved through faith. Okay, so it is very clear it says it is by grace that it is through faith. And it's not of yourselves. You know, it is a gift of God. It's a free thing that has been given. It's not your work. It's not a work of the self. And verse nine, it's not of works, lest anyone should boast. Because if it's a work, there is always a tendency to boast. Why? Because you can say, okay, this is how I did it. This is how I planned for it. And this is how I executed it. And this is how long I worked at it. And because of my continuous effort, now I am saved. Because of my continuous effort, because of the hours that I spent doing this and the other and now I'm saved. Well, no one can boast. It is not a works, lest anyone should boast. So everything that we have received is by grace. But it's through faith. Yes, the one thing that was required of us, or required of you and I is to believe in what he has already done. Believe that it's a free gift. Believe that it's a gift of grace and to see it by faith. That's it. So the thing is beautiful thing is that it's by faith. So it's anyone can have access to it. No matter what background it is from, what education, what financial background, what education or even lack of education. Riches, lack of riches, whatever social standing, nothing, everything is made equal because it is by faith. Every person can actually believe. And every person can believe in this, understand this, believe in this. So it has been made totally impartial. Otherwise, we would say, okay, I need to have this training. I need to have this kind of a thing, a position in life. And then I can be saved. No, which is what someone says, right? You need to be born in a certain, certain caste. You need to be born in a certain way. And then you will have, you know, you have access to God. And if you're, you know, born in a certain other cast, then you don't have the rights or the privileges of, you know, another cast, you don't have the rights of privileges, you are only this, that is not so. Here it is through faith. So when you access these riches or this, this is what he has made us, he has made us to sit with him in the heavenly places. It's for everyone. Right? It is by grace through faith, which means that if I come to him in faith, it is for me. My past, everything, that doesn't matter. Right? Or my privileges, position, all that doesn't matter. My education, my lack of it, all that, my training, everything doesn't matter. Right? It is through faith. So praise God, right? We have such a wonderful, you know, wonderful salvation and wonderful way in which he made it available for the entire world. Right? It's not a works lest anyone should boast. Verse 10. Verse 10. We are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. So says, okay, it's not a works, but the fact is you are a work of God, you know, saying it's not your work that you receive salvation. But I want to tell you something that we are his workmanship. Okay, we are his workmanship. And the word used there is poema. Okay, which literally means you know, something that has been, you know, that is a work of art, you know, something like a, like a painting or a picture or a sculpture or some fabric that is woven or some material that has been made woven. And it's a beautiful thing. So says that we are his workmanship is work of art. And how we are made as work of art created in Christ Jesus, in Christ Jesus, we've been created and we've been created for something. Okay. And what is that something that we've been created? Oh, we are created for good works. Okay, we are created. We are first of all, we are his work of art. And we are created in Christ Jesus. And we are created for good works. And the word work means, you know, it's like any an act or a deed or, or even a business and, you know, some some work, something that is doing some that you do, some labor that you do. So we have been created for good works, like good labor, good things that we can do with our lives have been created for good works. And this is the beautiful thing, right? The last part of our stances, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. So which means these good works, but it's already prepared for each of us. He's already prepared for each of us. So what remains is that we need to be led by him, we need to seek him, pursue him led by him to discover these good works. What is what is the good works that he's showing us? What is the good works that he's asking us to walk in and go do that? He's prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. His desire is that this good works that he's prepared, he wants us to walk in them. Okay, not to neglect them. So for us, we just need to find out, live in communion with him, live in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, be led by the Holy Spirit. Every day, every moment, be led by the Holy Spirit into the good works that he's already prepared beforehand. And we are led into the good works. And, you know, when we seek God and we ask him, Lord, I want to know your will. I want to know your plans and purposes. You know, we do it with the intention of wanting to do the good works that he's prepared. What is the thing in seeking God and God shows, Okay, this is my plan. This is my will. I want you to do this. And then we, we hold back from doing it. Right? Now, this is the will of God, the last part of that verse, verse 10 says that we should walk in them. He wants us to walk in these good works. He has prepared these good works. He has created these good works, which he has already prepared beforehand in crisis, that you and I should walk in them. And we should, we should walk in their meaning. We should discover it. We should complete it. And he's with us. Holy Spirit is with us to empower us with this resurrection power that we may know that supernatural works, you know, all that just flows completely, you know, flows in and through us, right? Okay, verse 11. Therefore, remember that you Yeah, it was 11 to 13. I therefore remember that you once gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by what is called circumcision made in the flesh by hands, that at that time you were without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ, you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. Okay, so he's reminding us, you know, you were, this is how you were, that you were once gentiles in the flesh, called uncircumcision by what is called circumcision, again, by the Jews, this is how you were called, you were, you were gentiles, you were non Jewish people, you were uncircumcised by called as uncircumcised by those who are circumcised. And, and you had, you know, you were without Christ, you were alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise. So you had nothing to do with Israel, you had nothing to do with the, with the covenant, we had nothing to do with the promises of God. And you did not have any hope. And you were without God in this world, without this, without this true God, living God, you did not have anything to do with him, no connection at all. Right. But now in Christ Jesus, you who are far off have been brought me up. Okay. So it's an alienated meaning we are you at distance, excuse me. So you were distanced, you were totally far, far away. You had now no connection at all. You were not even close. Right. But now you have been brought near how by the blood of Jesus, by the blood of Christ, in Christ Jesus, you were who were once far off, you know, now you have been brought near. Now you have become God's covenant people. And you have become God's covenant people because through the blood of Jesus. Okay. Verses 14 and 15 goes on to explain how, okay, for he himself is our peace, who has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of separation. Okay, having abolished in his flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances. So as to create in himself one new man from the two, thus making peace. And that he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. Okay. And he came and preached peace to you who are far off. And to those who are near for through him, we both have access by one spirit to the father. So he's talking about Jews, he's talking about non Jews, he's talking about the ones who are circumcised and uncircumcised. And he's saying that, you know, you were without Christ, but now by the blood of Jesus, you're brought near. And Jesus himself is our peace. Okay, Jesus himself, the Lord Jesus himself is our peace. And in the word that he uses this irony, right, which means, which means quietness, rest, and, you know, there is no have no confusion. Right. So he himself is our peace. It also means safety, security, and so on, harmony. So saying he, the Lord Jesus is our peace. And he is broken. So he has made both one in the sense this circumcised, uncircumcised. People who were Jewish, people who are non Jewish. Now both have been made as one. Okay, how? What did he do? Verse 15, verse 14 itself, it says that he has broken down the middle wall of separation. What was separating the Jews from the non Jews, the circumcised from the uncircumcised, that what was separating was taken away. Okay, he has abolished. How did what did he do it? What did he do? Abolished in his flesh, the enmity, that is the law of commandments. Now this law was of course, given to the Jews, right, and they were living by it. And this law which contained the ordinances which was, you know, in which was separating the Jews from the non Jews. Right. So the Jews could say, you know, we have the law, we are the people of the law, we have the law, we have what is required, and we need to keep it in order to be made righteous by God. Now the non Jews did not have it. So that was that was like a wall of separation, right, the enmity between the two. And so he said, he says that in his flesh, he abolished it. In his body, he abolished it. How on the cross? Right. So he created one new man that is a new creation. Whether you're a Jew or a non Jew, now both have been made one. Right. So when they get saved through faith in Christ, now Paul himself was a Jewish person. Now is the efficient church where non Jewish Gentiles, but both have one access to God, and both were saved by grace through faith. Okay, so that is what he's saying, saying that so as to create in himself one new man, okay, so you can you cannot say now I'm a Jewish person, I have the law. Or, you know, you the non Jewish person need not say that, you know, I'm separate or I'm distanced from the law. I'm separated from God. I know, you know, even if he knows that he is the living God, you know, I have no access to him, you know, a person who a non Jewish person cannot say that because Christ has created one new man from the two, thus making peace, right, Ephesians 2 16, and that he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. So what did he do? He reconciled both of them, like both the Jews and the non Jews, he reconciled, okay, to bring them back, to bring them back to a place where probably, you know, they fell from, to bring them back to a back to a place to a state of harmony and goodness, a place of harmony and goodness. He's reconciling them back both to God, whether Jew, non Jew is reconciled because of the cross, because of his death on the cross. Now, because his death on the cross is for everyone, the Jew and the non Jew. So that both the Jew and the non Jew, therefore need to be reconciled to God, right. So we see that salvation is, does not come, the righteousness does not come from the law, but comes through faith in Jesus, right. So he's saying, reconciling them both to God in one body through the cross, therefore putting to death the enmity, that is, whatever was separating the middle wall of separation, everything has been, has been removed, right, has been, has been moved out of the way, has been destroyed. Verse 17, and he came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near through him, we both have access by one spirit to the father. So he came and he preached peace, you were far further away, who are close, you know, for everyone, he preached the message of peace, the message of second, message of reconciliation, right, being reconciled to God, being, you know, being coming back to God, right, and not being alienated from him, not being separate from him, because earlier he says, right, that you, you were dead in your trespasses, in your sins, that's how the worst chapter starts, right, you were dead in trespasses and sins, you were walking according to the prince of the power of the world, and you were by nature, children of wrath, you know, internally, this is what you wanted to do, by nature, you know, your, your internal everything about you was to do sinful things, but now you've come to Christ, and now what he says is that you both, you, both of us, we, that is, Jew and non-Jew, Jew and Gentile, circumcised, uncircumcised, we have, we both have access, meaning we both can enter into the presence of God, we both can access God, we can go closer to God, we can commune with God by one spirit, by the Holy Spirit, and he's also, you know, mentioned that earlier, right, in chapter one we see that, you know, in whom you also trusted, chapter one verse 13, in whom you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, right, so he's again reminding them, you know, that both of us have access by this Holy Spirit to the Father, by one spirit to the Father. Now, therefore, verse 19, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens, okay, you're no longer a stranger, you're no longer a foreigner, but you are a fellow citizen, which means equal rights, equal privileges, you are a fellow citizen of the kingdom of God, right, fellow citizens with all the saints and members of the household of God, so fellow citizens with the saints, the saints is a consecrated one, so here also, you know, he's talking about the fact that we are all one, you know, the saint is not a title, which is given, it's not a special privilege given to anyone, we are all saints in the kingdom of God, in the body of Christ, right, so we are all saints, so fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, okay, the family of God, we are all in the family of God and we are all members of the household of God, so we see different pictures about the church as well, that we are the body of Christ, right, we are the household of God, we are the family of God, okay, and this family of God, he talks about the church, now fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, verse 20 onwards, right, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone in whom the whole building fitted together grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the spirit, okay, so he's saying you're no longer strangers, no longer foreigners, fellow citizens, but you are fellow citizens, fellow citizens, when we say a citizen, a citizen is part of a country and you say you're a citizen of India or you're a citizen of any country, you're saying that, hey I'm part of this country, I have the rights and privileges of every citizen in the country, the constitution, you know, which applies to me, I, there's no buyers, the respect of who I am, rich or poor, I'm a citizen and the rights of the citizen, the rights and privileges, responsibilities of the citizen are applicable to me, okay, so he's saying that you are no longer strangers or foreigners, you know, then you're not a citizen, then certain rights and privileges are not there, right, for example, a citizen, just when you look at a natural example, a citizen, one person who's not a citizen cannot vote, right, a person who's not a citizen cannot be part of the government, can't get a government job or you can't serve in the government, right, because why you're not, you're not a citizen, so certain rights, certain privileges are not there if you're not a citizen of, of some country, right, so here he says that you are no longer a non-citizen but you are a fellow citizen, like just like me, you are a citizen and with the saints and members of the household, so you're citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, you are, you are a member of the family, you are a member of the family, consider yourself to be a member of the family of the household of God, that this household of God is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, okay, so to God used these, the apostolic ministry, God used the prophetic ministry in order to lay the foundation for the, for the early church and, and so it has been built on this foundation, right, and who's the chief cornerstone, it is Jesus, right, and we are being built up on this foundation and with Jesus as the cornerstone, this whole building being fitted together grows into a holy temple to the Lord or in the Lord, right, so you see another picture, so we saw the picture of the member of the body of Christ, we see the household, the family of God being the church and then here we see that it's a, it's a building, right, it's a whole building being fitted together and growing and, and it just grows into a temple, now it's a building, it's now, you know, it's growing into a temple in the Lord, in whom you are, you also are being built together, in Christ, you are being built together in the Lord, you've been built together, built together with the purpose, right, you're built together to be a dwelling place of the, of God in the Spirit, so which means that we, we carry as a church, as a, as the body of Christ, the Spirit of God dwells in us, we are built together for a purpose, that he might dwell in us, that he might direct us, that he might enrich, empower our lives together as a body, right, so that's why, you know, there's so much importance about unity, right, when there's unity, when there's one accord, and there's one us of, you know, mind and spirit, and the Spirit of God moves in amazing ways because he, he wants that unity in the body of Christ, right, so, so we see that, right, so we have access and we are being built, we have been built as a, as a whole building, we have been built as a holy temple and we are a household, right, we are fellow citizens, so all these are our privilege as children of God, so you see, you know, so many, so many descriptions of the believer, so many descriptions of the people of God, like family and citizens and building and holy temple, and we see all this listed here, okay, and then, and then we move on to chapter three, let's go on to chapter three, okay, so in chapter three, he goes on to say, okay, for this reason, okay, let's read the first few verses, for this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles, if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me for you, how that by revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I briefly, as I have briefly written already, by which when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ, which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it now has been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets, that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ through the gospel, of which I became a minister, according to the gift of grace given to me by the effective working of his power, okay, so Paul now says, he turns his attention, turns his focus, and he says, okay, you know, we see chapter one and chapter two, you know, we've, you know, I've written all the riches of what is there for the believer, I've seen what the believer, you know, I've mentioned what the believer will become in Christ, I mentioned all that, okay, for this reason, I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ for you Gentiles, okay, he refers, he sees himself as a prisoner of the Lord Jesus, and, you know, of course, one thing that we also see is that, you know, he literally, he's, he was in the prison, that we call these prison epistles, because he was, you know, he was in Rome, in prison, when he, you know, wrote some of these epistles, Ephesians, and then Philippi, Philippians, and so on, so he says here that, you know, he's a prisoner of Christ, right, prisoner of Christ for you Gentiles, if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which has given to me for you, okay, so he's talking about grace, so it's good for us to remind ourselves about the grace of God, right, when he says, what is the grace of God, which is, because he especially says, this grace of God that was given to me for you, okay, okay, the first thing we, it's a reminder, we have studied this so many times, so what is this grace, is also divine favor, okay, so that's the understanding, I think all of us have that it's, it's something that we do not merit, okay, it's undeserving, it's a divine favor, okay, undeserving, something that we do not merit, something that we do not deserve, so it's given freely, right, divine favor, second one we see is that it's also divine character, okay, this is God's character, divine character, and he calls us to walk in and grow in this character, okay, let's look at a few verses to talk about that, John chapter one was 14, right, John one, 14, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, okay, this glory was full of grace and truth, so we see that the glory of God, who God is, what he does, right, it's, it's referring to his nature, his character, which is full of grace, okay, word became flesh, we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, okay, another verse which explains that to 2nd Peter 3, 2nd Peter 3 and verse 18, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to him be glory both now and forever, Amen, grow in the grace wise, asking, you know, Peter's exhorting the believer to grow in the grace, to grow up, to not stay in the same place in the grace of God, to grow in the grace, how do I grow in it, because it's, it's divine character, right, it's the glory of God, which is revealed through his grace, so it is divine character who God is, so as believers, we are called to grow daily, grow in the grace of God, and grow in this character of God, just Christ likeness, right, the third thing we see is that, is also a divine empowerment, grace is also divine empowerment, okay, 2nd Corinthians 12 and verse 9, okay, turn to 2nd Corinthians 12, 9, right, okay, it says, okay, concerning this thing, I, 12, 8, I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me, and he said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness, my grace is sufficient, so it talks about God empowering all, saying this is more than sufficient for you, sufficient to end your, sufficient to overcome, you know, so you're saying the second part of that verse, therefore, most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me, so what is the grace of God, saying the grace of God being the power of Christ, my grace is sufficient, for my strength is made perfect in weakness, so he's noticing my grace, my strength, and the power of Christ, okay, so it is divine empowering as well, and the 4th part is, 4th aspect of grace is that it's a divine gift of free gift, the word carous, and which we see in Romans 12, 6, 1 Corinthians 12, 4, I won't get into it because, you know, we've studied it so many times, the gifts of the Spirit and the membership gifts of the body of Christ and so on, so Charisma, right, Charisma, it's a free gift, right, so when we understand the grace of God, we see that God extends this, God gives this, this entire thing, right, you know, when we talk about grace, we're talking about something that we do not deserve, we're talking about this character, we're talking about his power, we're also talking about, you know, the gifts of the Spirit and so on, right, so, so God gives us this, so Paul is saying that when we, you know, look at, he says, if you indeed, you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given to me for you, dispensation, meaning stewardship, or, you know, this administration of the grace of God, which was given to me and for your purpose, so this grace of God is given to us, so that we might steward this well, right, we might administer it to others, a grace of God, it could be the empowering, it could be the Christ likeness, and it's for others, so Paul is saying this grace, which was given to me, dispensation of the grace of God is given to me for you, so the same would apply for us as believers, as disciples, that you would give us the grace for, you know, others, to, for that to be impacting others, for that to bless others, okay, so that is the grace of God, he says, and he goes on to explain how that by revelation he made known to me verse three, the mystery as I've already briefly written, I've written already, by which when you read you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ, okay, so as Paul being one of the founding members of the church, you know, he was not part of the 12 apostles, whom we refer to as apostles of the Lamb, whom the Lord called out, but we definitely, you know, the Lord used Paul to write two-thirds of the scripture of New Testament and to lay the foundation, the foundational doctrines and so on, and also by divine revelation, he made known to Paul the mystery, okay, the mystery which was, you know, the mystery of the cross, the mystery of grace, the mystery of, you know, how one, one has salvation by faith and through faith, sorry, by grace through faith and all this where which Paul very faithfully, he was revealed to him and he very faithfully stewarded that grace by writing to people, by teaching, by, by traveling, by ministering, so he, this is how he stewarded the grace of God, which is upon his life, right, by laying a foundation there, so whatever the Lord revealed, these were foundational truths, which was, you know, Paul says, verse five, in other ages it was not made known to the sons of men, you know, it was virtually unknown in the other ages, in the previous dispensation, right, before the cross, but now it has been revealed to not only to Paul, but to his holy apostles, by the Holy Spirit, to his apostles and prophets, right, and one major revelation, like which God spoke to Peter and, you know, God used even Philip, right, the Ethiopian eunuch and so on, so we see that this whole thing of the Gentiles being fellow heirs with the Jews, fellow heirs with Christ through this gospel, okay, so this was something that has been made known, so it was, it was not the only thing, but it was, it was part of all the other mysteries that were revealed, you know, about the cross and so on, this was also one other thing that the Jews and the non-Jews are made fellow heirs, so there's no one who's got the upper hand or who's, you know, who's got the lower hand, whatever, we're all of the same body, we're all people of the covenant and we have salvation, we receive salvation by grace through faith, right, so this is the, this is the salvation which is just there, which has been made known, which God worked out in the fullness of time, right, now this understanding was not there for the New Testament saints, like New Testament, believe, a New Testament, I'm sorry, for the Old Testament saints, like people in the Old Testament, in the Old Dispensation, they did not have this understanding, but now by the Spirit of God, the early church, you know, to the early church, it was revealed and to the people following that, so this is what he says, you know, verse 7, Paul says, so verse 6, the Gentiles should be fellow heirs of the same body, partakers of his promises in Christ through the gospel, so we become partakers, we become partners or we become people who receive, who have access to this promise and who can, you know, who can partake of this promise in Christ because of the gospel, okay, now that's, so that's another thing that we are partakers of as fellow heirs, joint heirs with Christ, okay, verse 7, of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of his power, and then Paul goes on to say, to me, verse 8, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in him therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you which is your glory, okay, so so amazing things that are mentioned here though it says okay that he became a minister according to the gift of grace right given to him by the effective working office power, okay, so so for us to understand what is that gift of grace what is the grace or gift of grace that he has given us what is it gift or the divine empowering or the charisma you know which is the the gifts of the spirit and the gift of grace what is that gift of grace that he's given us now that's an indicator that's an indicator because when we or something that is to be noted because when our life becomes aligned to that or or we should say that you know our life should be aligned to that because that is where the power of God is poured out, okay, so he said he says I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of his power so the working of his Holy Spirit power was happening and it was in line with the gift of grace that he had received by the Holy Spirit and because of which he was a minister so as a minister and having received the gifts of the gifts of grace he experienced the working of his power through his life in the gifts of grace right so he's saying I became a minister according to the I became a servant I became one who would serve others according to this according to the gift of grace and the effective working of his power given to me by the working of his power so that's a that's a signpost that's an indicator of the areas in which God wants you to work God wants us to work in right so that points to us okay and then we see to me who I'm least less than least of the saints he says you know I'm less than least of the saints because he says this because he persecuted the church right and he says I don't consider myself to be a superior saint or superior to anyone right in another place like he says you know all the learning and everything is nothing like all his training in Judaism it's all nothing when he said when he says that in philippines right philippines three so he says to you know to me who I'm the least of the saints this grace was a given what is what was it given for his favor you know there's something that he did not deserve this empowering this character and divine character and the gifts of this why he was given so that he should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable searches of Christ right so Paul walked with humility he recognized the work of God's grace in his life he says you know this is all because of the grace of God and it was given to me so that I might preach the unsearchable riches of Christ you know unsearchable meaning it's you know you just cannot one one thing is you cannot find it on your own you need the work of the Holy Spirit the other thing is it's it's limitless right it's just inexhaustible unending because God is infinite there's no there's no end to what he will continue to reveal now the riches of Christ unsearchable riches of Christ okay so we'll stop here as we're at verse eight and and then we will continue on the next class okay okay so see you take care God bless bye