 Okay. Let's pray. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father God. Thank you for this morning time. Father God, thank you for this new day that you've given us, Lord. Thank you for this opportunity to gather around, Lord, your presence together around your word. Thank you for this privilege that you've given us, Lord, each one of us to look into your word, Father God, to study your word, Lord, to understand your word. Thank you for the ability that you've given us, Lord, to understand your word, Master. Lord, we just want to thank you for you are with us, to teach us, Lord, and thank you for the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Lord, we just welcome you this morning. We pray and ask that you would come and, Lord, open our eyes, Lord, to see you, open our ears to hear you, Father God. Yes, Master, we just want to say that we love you. We adore you. We worship you. Lord, we bless your name, God. We give you praise. We give you praise, Father God. You are the high and exalted one. You are the one who's worthy of all our praise. You are the one who's worthy of all our worship, Lord. Yes, Lord, we come before you. We bow down before you, Lord. We revere your presence, Father God, and all honor and respect. God is due to you, Father God, and you alone, Master. So we come before your presence in all humility, God, acknowledging who you are, acknowledging your greatness, acknowledging, Lord, your goodness, Father God. We thank you. We bless your name, Jesus. We bless your name. Thank you for being with us, Lord. I pray that you would lead us into all that you have for us, Lord, today, even as we look into your word, Master. All that you have for each one of us, Father, we know that you would meet with each one of us, God, that you would speak to our hearts, Lord. I pray that, Lord, you would even as you give us understanding, even as you give us revelation, Lord, I pray that our spirits would be edified, Lord. There will be, Lord, spiritual progress, Lord, something that will be built up in the inner man. Lord, maybe we just submit ourselves, we surrender ourselves that you will do this for each one of us, God. We thank you. We give you all the praise and all the glory. In Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. All right. So we'll start and okay. So we're looking at Ephesians. So we stopped at Ephesians chapter three and verse seven, right? Yeah. Okay. Chapter three and verse seven. Okay. Just one second. I just want to open up a document here. Okay. Let's just go ahead and read Ephesians three again from what we just review what we quickly looked at and review what we looked at in Ephesians three and then we'll go into verse eight. Right? Let's read verse three. Sorry. Let's read chapter three. Verse one onwards. Okay. So 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, which was given to me for you, how that in how that by revelation, he made known to me the mystery as I have briefly written already by which when you read, you may understand my knowledge in my knowledge in the mystery of Christ, which in the other ages was not made known to the sons of men as it has now 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 Jesus, in Christ, through the gospel 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. So this is what we read. This is what we looked at in the last class. Right? So we see that, you know, Paul is saying that how he's he's referring to himself as a prisoner of Christ, that he is a prisoner of Christ, meaning that he is actually, you know, he cannot but do what God wants, what Lord wants him to do. And he cannot but be in the prisoner has no way of, you know, doing his own, his own thing, right? He is boxed in, he is in the prison, and he he does not have the freedom to do whatever he wants to do. Right? So in a sense, Paul is like that in a sense, whatever Christ will is, and that is what I want to do. Or that is what in the sense here, you know, he's saying this is my will also. This is my desire also. This is what I want to do. Right? So he's saying I'm the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles. If indeed you heard of the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given to me for you. So I was saying, you know, this grace that was given, you know, like again, when we review, when we look at the grace of God, we see that it is divine favor, divine character is the empowering of God. And it's also the divine gifting, right? All the gifts, the free gifts of the Spirit is given for us. These are, this is also the grace of God. So grace of God, you know, encompasses includes all these things. Right? So God extends His grace to us, and we can become recipients of the grace of God. And we also become stewards of the grace of God. That is what we saw. Right? So Paul is actually the steward. So he's saying this grace of God, which was given to me for you, the purpose of the grace of God, just shown to him shown to us as believers is so that we might extend the same, or we might steward the same, whether it's gifts or, you know, whether it's character in our own lives or, you know, empowering of the, the empowering that we receive that we might actually use it for the edification of others to bless others. Right? So that's the, that's the purpose. And Ephesians 3.3, you see that Paul says, by revelation, he made known to me the mystery. So which means that this revelation, which was by the Spirit of God, by the Holy Spirit. You know, if you look at chapter one, he prays that, right? He prays that for the believers. He says, you know, that Ephesians 1, and when he says, you know, 16 onwards, when he prays, he says, you know, I make mention of you in my prayers, that that Father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. So this revelation about the dispensation of Christ and about the dispensation that we're living in and the grace of God and everything, he, you know, everything, he, this mystery that he talks about the cross and everything, he received by revelation, okay, from the Holy Spirit, from, from God, the Holy Spirit. So he prays that in the, in in chapter one. So here he's saying that, you know, he, by revelation, the Lord made known to him, okay, he made known to him the mystery, which was, you know, he says, you know, you, when you read, you understand my knowledge came, my knowledge in the mystery of God, and, and how it was given to me so that I can share with others, I can steward it to others, right? And, and he also says that in the other, the previous ages, or in the times past, it was not made known, okay, the, the full understanding of this was not there in the, among the disciples or in the church. So the full knowledge of it was not there. So he says that in the other ages was not made known to the sons of men, verse five, as it is now been revealed by the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets. So now it is not only Paul, but also the others, right? Everyone, the apostles and the prophets, it is also the others who have been, who have received this revelation. Okay, so it's not only Paul, right? What is that revelation? He goes on to say that Gentiles should be fellow heirs and partakers of his promise in Christ through the gospel, that the salvation is for all Jews and non-Jews, and, and the Gentiles also should be fellow heirs with, with Christ, right? They should also be fellow heirs of the same body. They're all part of the same spiritual body, just Christ himself, right? And verse seven, he says, of which I became a minister, I became one who serves, that is, he's talking about the gospel, I became a minister of the gospel, according to the grace of God given to me by the effective working of his power. Okay, effective working of his power says, again, you know, if you, if you see previously also, he makes a reference to the, the working of the power of God, the working of the power of the Holy Spirit, right? Where do we see that? Again, if you, if you turn back to chapter one, we see some of the things that you might know. Okay, that is what he's praying, that the spirit of revelation and wisdom that he might give you revelation, understanding about the call of God, about the inheritance, and the third thing that he says is that, that you will know what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us, that you might know what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us. Now, this is something that, that he wants us to be familiar with, he wants the believer to be familiar with, to know, to, to receive an understanding of, right? So, this power of God, this creative, this miracle, miracle working supernatural power of God, the dunamis of God saying, you know, that you were, you may know, that you may experience, like know by experience, not just, you know, I read about it, but he is saying, you know, you the believer needs to know through experience, right? He needs to experience this power, miracle working power of God, right? So, so here in verse, sorry, chapter three and verse seven also, he talks about the same thing. This grace of God was given to him by the effective working of his power. Okay, so, again, the same word is used there, dunamis, which means the miracle working power of God, the, you know, creative power of God. So, the dunamis, the supernatural power of God is what actually, because of the supernatural power of God, he was given this gift of grace, like to be the minister of the gospel. Okay, let's read from verse eight, okay, eight onwards, to me who am the, 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 had been hidden 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 him through faith in him. Therefore, I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. Okay, so here verse eight Paul says, then, you know, to me who am less than the least of all the saints and who are less than least of all the saints. So he's referring to himself as not as someone who's a super celebrity or not as someone who's a super minister, what he's saying, and I'm less than the least of the saints and in another place where he says, why, right, because he persecuted the church of God. So he doesn't see himself as someone who's you know, someone who's above everyone, someone who was on a pedestal, but he sees himself as in all humility as someone who's less than least of the saints. And so to whom this grace was given. Okay, so which means that God releases his supernatural grace is a miracle working power, right, to ordinary people. Okay, very, very important. Sometimes we might, we might come to the conclusion that okay, that must be something, someone special, because God has given them that ability, or God has graced them with this gift. Now, when you look at the Word of God, we see that he gives this grace to ordinary people, working, effective working of his power to ordinary people. So sometimes it's the most unlikely of people who can, who are, you know, given the grace to release something very, very powerful, something that is extraordinary. And so Paul also says in verse eight, he says that, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. Okay, the unsearchable riches, meaning, you know, one way to look at it is that, okay, by my own human understanding and effort, I cannot search it out. Okay, now the riches of Christ, first of all, the fact is that there are, there is so much more, okay, for us to receive, for us to know, for us to understand, like in Christ, through Christ, there's so much more. The second thing that we see is that it is unsearchable, okay, in the sense that I cannot figure it out by my own human understanding or ability, but it comes through revelation, or through the work of the Spirit, and the Holy Spirit reveals this to us. So the ministry of the Spirit to the believer is what releases these riches, right. See, these are unsearchable. Another way to look at that word unsearchable is also that it is, you know, it is limitless, right. It is, you cannot keep track of it, or you cannot count it, it's limitless. So it's without limit. So Paul talks about this saying that, okay, this is, you know, without limit, it's unsearchable, it's limitless. The riches of Christ, immeasurable wealth of what God has for us, it's so great. So he became a minister of that, to bring that revelation to the church, okay, whatever was revealed to him, to bring it to minister it, to give it to the church, okay. Now look at verse 9, and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the ages had been hidden in God. So this mystery, you know, about what we have in Christ, and what we become in Christ, and this mystery or, you know, the word mystery is, you know, something that is hidden. It has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ. And so what is the fellowship of the mystery, which means that what is our fellowship, our participation, our partnership, right, in this mystery, and what is it? It has been, it was hidden in God in Christ. So which means that, you know, which was not revealed, right, which was hidden in God, and who created all things, you know, talks about the deity of Christ, right, talks about the pre-existence of Christ. You know, this verse again talks about, you know, if someone asks, you know, where does Paul talk about it, or, you know, is there any other reference to the deity of Christ in several places? You know, we read in Colossians, and Colossians 1 and verse 15, 16, and we also see in, you know, in this verse that here it talks about how everything was created through Christ, right, so verse 10, sorry, verse 9, who created all things through Jesus Christ. Verse 10, 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. So God's will is that, you know, the wisdom of God, His wisdom, His the knowledge of God, the knowledge of the understanding of God, God is actually displaying it through the principalities and powers, through the angels, and for them, He's actually putting it on display through the believer, through the church. So you see the, you know, what role that the believer plays, what role corporately the church plays, right, so saying this is what it is that God puts on display, that He might reveal the wisdom, glory of God, to the principalities and powers. The manifold wisdom of God may be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places. Okay, then we go on to verse 11, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, so it was not an arbitrary thing, not a random thing, but it's something which was an, you know, eternal purpose, which means something that God, initiated God planned and in which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, you know, this is what was planned, and scripture talks about how He is the Lamb of God that was slain before the foundations of the earth. So, you know, we see that God, this is God's eternal purpose, right, even before He stepped into time, and it was there in eternity, that this would be accomplished through Christ Jesus our Lord. Okay, verse 12, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him, so we have boldness and access to the Father, through faith in Christ Jesus, so we can come before God, we have been, you know, there has been, we have been given access, meaning that, you know, you have the permission, you have the freedom, there is nothing stopping us, right, there's nothing hindering, so we have been given access to come before the Father, we have been given access to complete, you know, freedom and permission, and the privilege to come before the Father, right, we have access, which was not there earlier, right, so we can have boldness, we can come with boldness and confidence, we can come before Him, we can, you know, draw near to Him through faith in Him, right, so another thing for us to understand is that we need to come before Him with boldness and confidence because of what has happened on the cross and because of how that has affected us, how that has changed us, how that has made us, you know, righteous and given us the permission that made a way for us to come, okay, so that's something for us to, for us to walk in, you know, this, if God has given us this privilege, if God has given us this permission, then if He's desiring that we should walk with boldness, that we should draw near with confidence, then we should do so, right, we can, we don't, we don't like worship Him from a distance or we don't, you know, do anything that is contrary to this, you know, this is what He desires, this is how He wants us to approach Him with boldness and confidence through faith in Him, right, so this is what we see and yeah, so verse 13 says, therefore I ask that you do not lose heart at my tribulations for you, which is your glory, okay, so saying don't lose heart, don't be discouraged because of, you know, because of where I am or the things that I go through, you know, we need to remember that, you know, this is one of the prison epistles, right, this is one of the epistles written by Paul when he was in prison, so he's actually in prison and he's encouraging the believer, the church epistles and he's saying that, you know, you don't be discouraged now because of all that I'm going through, of the tribulations that I'm going through, for the sake of the gospel and for your sakes, even in ministry as I'm ministering and as I travel, I'm going through these difficulties, I'm going through the tribulations but I don't want you to be discouraged, okay, now that's a great perspective, right, so especially if you see that it's coming from a person who's in prison, it's coming from someone who is, who's a prisoner and here he is encouraging others who are not prisoners and encouraging others who are actually free, right, so the kind of faith he had and the kind of relationship that he had with saviour, the reality of his faith and it's very inspiring, okay, let's read from 14 till the end of the chapter, right, for this reason, I bow my knees to the father of our Lord Jesus Christ from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God, now to him who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever, amen, okay, so here again is a prayer just like how we prayed in chapter one for the church, here in chapter three verse 14 he's again praying saying for this reason, what reason, all the verses before that talk about the reason, the fact that God has given me this revelation, God has made me a minister of this gospel and that to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery of God, the church is making the manifold wisdom of God on display for the principalities and powers to see and know God has done that according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished, so for all this, for this reason he says I bow my knee to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, okay, so he's praying this prayer and he's saying, the Father, I bow my knees to him, to God from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, so there are people on earth who are part of the family of God, there are people in heaven who have already, which means people have received Christ and who have gone on to be with Christ in heaven, so they are also part of the family of God, so he's saying that, okay, now they're all part of the family and so this family is, we don't see as being part of the family when we go to heaven, we are still part of the family of God and here on earth, yes, we are part of the family of God, we are sons and daughters of God when we receive Christ, so that is what we become, so we see all that and here he says, this is what he's praying, verse 16, okay, what is he praying? He's praying that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man, okay, so that's the first thing that he prays, there are almost around five things, five things that he, let me just share the document here so you can also see and follow, okay, so the first thing that he prays is that this, that you would be strengthened, that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory, okay, according to the riches of who he is or according to the, you know, the abundance of who he is and what he can do, you know, there's no limit to it, so according to that may you be strengthened with might, okay, and again the word used there is Junimus, may you be strengthened with Junimus with this power, you know, so you see that Paul wants the believer, or God, I should say this way, that God wants the believer to, you know, to be strengthened with God's power, okay, according to his riches, right, in the glory, according to what he has, you know, his, he is immeasurable, he is infinite, and God is immeasurable, God is infinite, but he wants the believer to be strengthened, to be made strong, to grow strong, to increase in strength, you know, that's what it means, to be strengthened, to increase in strength or to grow strong, and with what, right, with the Junimus of God, right, miraculous power, supernatural ability, might, right, so he's praying, he's praying that God would actually strengthen you, right, by his Holy Spirit, by his spirit in the inner man, right, in the inner man, that in your spirit, in the inner man, in your inner most being, that you would be strengthened with this kind of power, so which means that, you know, this is for us as a church, this is for us as individuals, as believers, right, so this is for us to pray, receive, be strong in, okay, so we don't have to be apologetic, we don't have to be praying this with any kind of hesitation, right, we don't have to pray this with any kind of doubt, no way, we can pray with confidence, because this is something that Paul prayed for the church that we would be strengthened with God's miraculous supernatural power in our inner man, okay, so that we would, we would be strengthened, so what does it mean to be, you know, strengthened with this power that the Holy Spirit works in us, the Holy Spirit causes us to go out and do the works, right, but first of all, we need to be strengthened ourselves, and God, it's God's will that we be strong, it's God's will that we be strong in the inner man, right, that we be a conduit, that we be an instrument, so that he can flow through, but also that we experience his strength in our spirit, and we become strengthened ourselves, okay, so strengthen with might in the inner man, okay, secondly verse 17, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, right, that Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith, now you know, the thing is the Christ already dwells in us, right, he already dwells in the believer, we read in fact in the same chapter 1 when we see, so we have obtained an inheritance being pring-distant, chapter 1 verse 11, and then we go on to chapter, I'm sorry, we go on to verse 13 and 14, we see that the Holy Spirit, we've been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, and he is the guarantee of our inheritance, et cetera, so you know, we've been sealed with the mark of the Spirit, and we see that he actually dwells us, right, so what is Paul talking about, right, so Paul is talking about that Christ's likeness be seen in us, right, Christ being formed in us, and we see in Galatians, you know, we saw that he said, you know, that I am going, I labor, I go through labor, so that Christ be formed in you, right, I labor and birth, that's what he's Paul says, I labor and birth, meaning his brain is, it's as if he's going through, you know, labor pains and so that to bring to birth something, right, so saying I'm laboring in birth till Christ is formed in you, so this is something that he's praying for that, there will be, there will be Christ's likeness seen in the believer, right, secondly, second thing, to be strengthened with might in the spirit in your inner man, that's the first thing, secondly, Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, third one, that you being rooted and grounded in love, okay, so he says, you know, that's something that I want you to be, want you to have that, or want you to become being rooted and grounded in the love of God, so meaning that you be strong, let that be your foundation, the love of God, so when we are strong in the love of God, you know, the kind of love that God has for us, we understand that God loves us, God, you know, he, he love, you know, the love of God has been poured out into our heart, and it is the God kind of love that has been given to us to put on display to others, to show to others, to extend to others, right, so he's saying, you know, let that be your foundation, let that be something that you're strong in, that you be rooted and grounded in love, okay, and fourthly says, you know, after being rooted and grounded in love, he says that you may be able to comprehend, which means understand with all the saints, what is the width and depth and length, sorry, with length and depth and height to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, okay, so to be able to understand, to be able to, and to come to that place of understanding with the body of Christ, right, so he's saying that now you come to know this love, but he says, you know, which, which the love of Christ which passes knowledge, which goes beyond knowledge and understanding, okay, which is, which is something, you know, he's saying, okay, you come to know it, but it passes knowledge, you see, it seems like something that's contradictory, right, you come to know the love of God, but at the same time, it's passes knowledge, you know, it's passes all ability to know, know things, so that is the love of God, you know, it's, because it's, we know, it's, it is, you know, God's characteristic, because Scripture says in one John, we read God is love, so that is his character, that is his nature, in other words, he's saying that you may come to know God himself, right, to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, and the last thing that he prays, in the same, you know, verse is that, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God, that you may be filled with the fullness of God, the fullness of God, which means, again, the character, the nature, the power, who God is, may you be filled with his fullness, may be filled with his fullness, and the reason to be filled with his fullness is to display, you know, is to manifest, that's the only reason, right, that you may be filled with the fullness of God, and then go on to verse 20, where it says that, now to him who is able to do, okay, now to him who is able to do, he has the ability to do, okay, to carry out, and it goes on to say how he carries out, which is exceedingly, abundantly, above all that we ask, or think, you know, now that is the, that is the capacity, or that's the ability that he has, so he says, now to him, which is God himself, now to him who is able to do, okay, and he does exceedingly, abundantly, okay, exceedingly, meaning without measure, abundantly again, in abundance, above all that we ask, or think, above all that we ask, or maybe we have, we have not even voiced it, we are thinking, now he is able to do that, and he is able to do that according to the power that works in us, now that's the beautiful thing, according to the power of the Holy Spirit who is operational in us, so the power of the Holy Spirit which is at work in us is also the same power that raised Christ from the dead, right, in other words it's the resurrection power of Christ, one of the same power, the same power that raised Christ from the dead is the same power that is at work in us, is in you, the same power that working in us, working in you, now, which means that the possibility is endless, right, for a person who is submitted, for a person who is walking in faith, for a person who is, you know, walking according to the will of God, and one desiring to see more of God, now this is, you know, the possibilities are endless, because he is able to do according to the power that works in us, and he's able to do exceedingly abundantly, right, above all that we ask or think, now that is his ability, also we know that that is his will as well, okay, now you might think, okay God has the ability but does he have the will, I mean in the sense, and does he want to do it, right, so there are two things, right, having the ability and wanting, desiring to do it, right, but the fact is that according to the, you know, he's able to do above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us, and in fact the verses prior to that also talk about that he would grant us, verse 16, that he would grant you to be strengthened with might through his spirit in the inner man, right, so, which means that he, it is his will, it is his will for you to be strengthened, it is his will for the work, the work of the Holy Spirit to be made manifest, it is his will, he wants to put on display, even to the powers and principalities, the manifold wisdom, you want to put on display the wisdom of his wisdom and through the believer, through the church, so therefore we know that it is his will to do exceedingly, not only does he have the ability, but it is his will, it is his desire to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think, and it is according to the Holy Spirit, power that is at work in us, okay, and then to him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever, okay, so by the church, let there be glory to him, let him be glorified, let him be lifted up, let him be glorified by the church, by the believer, let there be glory by Christ Jesus to all generations, not only in this generation, but to all generations forever and ever, amen, okay, so, so this is something that he prays for the, another of the prayer that he prays for the believer, okay, right, so let's look at next chapter, chapter four, and let's look at the first few verses, right, so chapter four verse one, I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with long suffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, there is one body and one Spirit just as you were called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God, one Father of all who is above all and through all and in you all, okay, so again he here, he refers to him as himself as the prisoner of the Lord and what is he doing as a prisoner of the Lord, he is beseeching, you know, he is literally begging, you know, and, and he is, you know, he's calling, he's coming, coming alongside and literally entreating, right, he's literally, you know, to say that he's requesting and strong request, you know, he's like beseeching, you know, you need to do this, I'd like you to do this, please can you do this, right, so what is he asking in such a manner, what is he beseeching, saying that you may walk worthy of the Lord, okay, that's his thing, that, you know, that you walk worthy, that you live, you make choices, you speak, you do things in everything that you may walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, okay, so in the previous, in chapter one he says that you may know what is the hope of the call, okay, so here is, here is another thing that he's saying, he's desiring, he's really, you know, literally begging the believer that you may walk worthy, okay, that you may walk worthy of the call with which you were called, you know, walk meaning, you know, whatever you do, wherever you go, however you live, let it be worthy of the call with which you were called, okay, so something, some thoughts here about how to walk worthy, you know, in all humility, not with arrogance or pride, to be gentle, to be long-suffering, to bear one another in love, you know, he talks about that, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit, you know, so he talks about that, but so this is something that he's desiring, you know, that you would, in verse two, he talks about that, right, that he would walk worthy of the calling, and verse two says, this is what, with all loneliness and gentleness, with long-suffering or patience, bearing with one another, you know, bearing with one another, you know, just enduring, tolerating, going beyond tolerating, right, you understand and you help one another, bearing with one another in love, okay, endeavoring or trying or putting in effort to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, to keep the unity of the spirit, now endeavoring, meaning that you put in effort, now it's not going to come easy, and it's not going to come just like that, okay, so you need to actually be earnest or diligent to put in some effort in this area, okay, okay, we'll stop here and then after the break we will continue from verse three, right, we'll stop here for now, okay, we'll take a ten minute break and then we'll come back.