 Okay, this is what we see in Psalm 65 and verses 1 to 4, right, Psalm 65, 65, praises awaiting you, O God, in Zion, and to you the wow shall be performed, O you who hear prayer, to you all flesh will come. Iniquities prevail against me as for our transgressions, you will provide atonement for them. Blessed is the man you choose and cause to approach you, that he may dwell in your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, of your holy temple. And verse five also, by awesome deeds in righteousness, you will answer us, O God of our salvation, you who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of the far off seas. And then it goes on to say what else the Lord does, right? So it says, blessed is the man who you choose and cause to approach you, that he may dwell in your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, of your holy temple. And verse five, by awesome deeds, awesome deeds in righteousness, you will answer us, O God of our salvation, you who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of the far off seas. So as we look to him, you know, and pray as we start this day, just be mindful of the fact that he's the one who hears prayer, right? He hears our prayer. And as the psalmist writes, that we draw near to him with praise and with our prayer, with our petitions. And he answers by awesome deeds in righteousness, with awesome deeds in righteousness, which means, you know, works that are awesome or inspiring. And these are works of righteousness, because he is righteous. And it's very clear that he answers. So let's go before him today with our praise. Let's go before him today with our prayers and with our petitions. And may the Lord answer with awesome deeds in righteousness. Let's pray, Father, we thank you, Lord, that you are the God who always hears Lord, always hears our prayer, Father God, we thank you. We come before you this morning with praise. We come before you this morning lifting up your name and exalting your name for you are worthy of our praises. Lord, you are worthy of the praises of the entire earth of Father God and the entire universe of Master. Yes, Lord, even as we see in your word of Father God in the heavens and on the earth and under the earth of God, that every tongue shall confess and every knee will bow and every tongue confess that you are indeed Jesus, the Lord. And Lord, we come before you in praise. We come before you having experienced your hand, having experienced your goodness and your grace, Father God. So we give you praise, Father God, this morning. We give you thanks for all that you do God. And this morning we drawn you with petition with our prayers of Father God prayers for ourselves. Lord, Lord, we pray for our own spiritual lives that it may be enriched. Lord, we pray for our own walk with you, God, that we may walk closely. Lord, we pray the Lord that every, every decision, every choice that we may undertake, we may take up Lord, may be made in you, Father God, as led by your spirit of Father God. And Lord, may our life Lord reflect your glory, Father God, because you have called us to proclaim your virtues, to proclaim, declare who you are, Lord, through our lives, God, to what, what we, how we live our lives and what we declare through our mouths of God. And so may we do that, Lord. And Father God, even as we bring our petitions, God, personal needs and requirements and, and everything, Father God, the breakthrough breakthroughs that we need, the directions that we need, Father God, Lord, we bring them before you, Lord, because you're the one who answers prayer. And Lord, even as we read in your Psalm, read in your word, God, we see that by awesome works of righteousness, God, you will answer awesome deeds in righteousness. Lord, we thank you that you will answer. And so we, we stand on your promises, we stand, Lord, in faith, Lord, that it will be an awesome deed in righteousness, God, it'll be all inspiring, it will be so noticeable, but it will be a work of righteousness. We thank you, Lord, we thank you for this promise. And we receive it in our lives, God, in all the areas, Lord, that, that need, Lord, these awesome needs, God, awesome deeds of Father God, and all areas that that need that require you to step in, Lord, we invite you and may your awesome deeds and righteousness, Lord, change those very things, God, that we've been praying, that we're asking you and inviting you, Lord, and yes, Master, have your way. We give you praise on all the glory in Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay, welcome back. Welcome once again. Okay, let's turn to Ephesians. And we are looking we've finished with Galatians. So, so there will be a quiz. I'll I'll post it. And now you can do that quiz, take up that quiz, right? Now, we've been looking at Ephesians, we looked at how Paul went to Ephesus, and how he spent time in his initial visit was a very brief visit, but the second visit he spent close to three years established a church, a strong work was established there. And the work seemed to have spread because people came from the surrounding regions to be taught by him in at the school of Tyrannus. And, and he trained them, he seems to have been a very, very, very powerful work because a lot of people were trained who went to the surrounding regions and who shared the gospel as well. Right? So, we've been looking at chapter one, chapter one, you see that it's, it's talking about who what the believer has, when he has come, when he or she has come to Jesus, what the believer has received, what the believer has become in Christ, in receiving Christ, in becoming a believer as a new creation, what the believer has received, you know, it's very powerful. Because we see that we've been chosen, we see that we are blessed, right? That we've been blessed beyond measure in Christ, blessed with every spiritual blessing, right? Which means that the entire list, whatever is that we can say as, you know, okay, that's a blessing, that is a blessing, the entire list of blessing, you know, we have been blessed with in this, in the heavenlies, and we have been every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So we are blessed, and we are chosen, it says that we chose us in him. So that, you know, chosen meaning that he did not choose our choice, you know, because he's given us free will, we know that. So he cannot make us do what we don't want to do. He always gives us that choice. So he's given us the choice. And when a person receives Christ, you know, then, you know, he, the Lord, of course, being omniscient, he knows the choice that we make. So, so when a person receives Christ or chooses to follow Christ, then it says that, you know, we are chosen in him. We are chosen. And the word we see there that chosen to be holy, chosen to be blameless, chosen chosen in him to be holy and blameless before him in love, the ones who have made the choice to follow Jesus, right? That is verse four. Then we see in verse five that we have been predestined, okay, that word predestination, predestined meaning that what are we predestined to be? We are predestined, which means that he has already decided that this is what will happen to a child of God, right? When a person becomes a child of God, how does a person become a child of God or family come into the family of Christ? It is only through Jesus. Excuse me, sorry. It is only through Jesus, right? Only when a person receives Christ, like we see in John chapter one. Okay. So when that happens, then we are predestined. What are we predestined? We are predestined to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to himself. Okay, this is we are predestined to be adopted as his children, as the family of God. And then talks about redemption. And then what he made us, you know, the wisdom, the grace that he made to abound towards us and all that we saw, you know, and we went up to chapter, I mean, to verse 14, I think, right? So let's look at verses 13 onwards, 13, and then 13 and 14, and then, and then go forward, right? So 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. Okay, so what we what we see here is that Paul saying that you trusted and you believed. Okay, in whom you trusted in Christ, you trusted. And, and after you heard the word of truth, and the gospel of your salvation, so you trusted, you heard the salvation message, you heard the word of truth, and you trusted. Okay. Then is a second part of the words he said, in whom having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. So this is what happens to a person who puts the trust, and who believes in Christ, who believes because of hearing the word of truth, who trust in Christ, hearing the salvation message, who believes. So what happens is when a person believes in Christ, that the person is sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, there is a mark of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit, you know, the viewers of the mark of possession, like saying that, okay, you are mine. You are mine. We belong to God. It's a mark of ownership. Right. And then verse 14, who is the guarantee of our inheritance? He's the guarantee. He's the, he's the earnest. He's the title deed. Right. He's the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession to the praise of his glory. So the Holy Spirit in dwelling us is a guarantee of more things to come. Right. Is a guarantee, which means it's an earnest just like how we would say, okay, it's the down payment that has been made. Now, what is going to happen is that there's going to be a full redemption of the purchased possession, redemption of the purchase. So the, so the price has been made, the purchase has already been made, and the Holy Spirit in dwelling us is the guarantee. Right. Is the, is the, the earnest, right, is the earnest or the down payment of what? There will be a full redemption, meaning that we will receive a glorified body that that this, it won't be earthly, fleshly body anymore. It'll be a spiritual body and it'll be, it is not something that'll be prone to weakness. Right. So we read about that. So we see that that is what, you know, we will receive that is the, that is what we will, that is what we will, we will become on the redemption is complete until the redemption of the purchase position to the glory of, to the praise of his glory. That's verse 14. Okay. So, so the thing is the Holy Spirit in dwelling us is, is this is the guarantee. Okay. So we see another powerful truth that we are blessed, we are chosen, and we, we are indwelled by the Holy Spirit, indwelled by the Holy Spirit, and we are, of course, we are redeemed. Okay. Let's, let's look at verse 15. I just put this. Okay. So it's coming up. Yeah. Okay, verse 15. Okay, verse 15 onwards. Let's read. Therefore, I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe according to the working of his mighty power, which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. So we'll stop there. So here, Paul begins to pray for the efficient church, for the believers in the church in Ephesus. So he says, therefore, after I heard of your faith, and your love for all the saints, not only your faith, but love for all the fellow believers, when I heard of the faith and love, I do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. So I've not stopped praying for you, I've not stopped thanking God for you, ever since I heard of your faith and love, right? So he says, this is what he prays. This is the prayer. So that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. So he prays here for, he says, for the spirit of revelation and wisdom. He prays basically for the Holy Spirit. He's called the spirit of revelation and wisdom for a reason because he brings revelation and he brings wisdom. And so he's called the spirit of revelation and wisdom. So Paul is praying and saying, you know, let there be wisdom, let there be revelation. I pray to the spirit that the Father, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. So a few things that he prays for, you know, in the list, we see that he prays for the people to receive revelation, wisdom in the knowledge of Christ. So simply put it says that we may know him, that we may know him, that we may come to a place of knowing him. And that word used there, you know, that spirit and revelation and the knowledge of him, that means epigenoses, which means, you know, exact, accurate knowledge that you may know him accurately by the help of the Holy Spirit. With the help of the Holy Spirit that you may know him accurately so that they may not be a wrong understanding about him. The Holy Spirit when he leads, he gives us accurate understanding, right? He gives us the correct picture. He gives us the true nature of God himself. Right. So that is why, you know, we need to depend on the Holy Spirit. So he prays, and he says, may the spirit of revelation and wisdom give you, give to you revelation, sorry, they give to you spirit, the spirit of revelation and wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. So the Holy Spirit will enable us to know him, that we may know him. And the second thing he prays is the eyes of your understanding, being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the same. So we pray for two other things. One is, what is the hope? What is the expectation? The hope is expectation, like it's a healthy expectation. So what is the hope of his calling? What is the expectation in his calling? What can you hope for? What can you expect? In other words, the details of his calling, his purpose in all this, why is he calling? What is he calling you to do? And so he's saying that you may know the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened, like that you may know in the inner man, that he may give you understanding. So it won't be something that is hidden anymore. It won't be something that is vague, something that is unclear, but something that is accurate, as that the spirit of the Holy Spirit, the revelation and wisdom, may he give you knowledge of him. And may he also give you, may he open the eyes of your understanding, may it be enlightened, which means, you know, let there be light, light always talks about knowledge and understanding, and and dispelling darkness, right? So darkness, meaning there is ignorance or lack of clarity, right? It's not something that we cannot see. But here he's saying, may you, may you see, may you see, may you understand, may you let it be clear. And, you know, let there be, you know, in other words, he's saying the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, meaning let it, let it brighten up, let it illuminate and make you see what are the one is the hope. The second thing is what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. Okay, so that's the second thing, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. So now, so which means that what is the, you know, riches, the wealth, the blessing, the inheritance that you have as a child of God. Okay, so may he give you understanding. The other way to look at it, some of the translations also see, look at it another way where see, what is the inheritance that God has in us as saints in us as believers. If you read it, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. So you know, people have looked at it that way also, which is just fine. But the thing is that the Holy Spirit enabling us, giving us understanding, giving us wisdom about the hope about the inheritance. Okay, what is the inheritance? What does God promised what, what, what, what is mine because of how I've come to be in Jesus, right? Because of my relationship with the Lord, because of my covenant with me. Okay, then the fourth thing that he lists is that what is the verse 19, what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us? Okay, what is the exceeding greatness of his power? So that's another thing that we, we are called, or he's praying for the believer to know. Okay, what is the greatness, you know, what is the immense magnitude, okay, the quantity of what his power can do really. So the what is the greatness of his power and the word used there is dunamis, which means miraculous power, supernatural power. Right. So what is the magnitude or what is the greatness exceeding greatness, right, exceeding greatness, meaning, you know, it's like saying great greatness, right, which is exceeding, which is going beyond every measure, like every restriction, right, it's exceeding and greatness, exceeding greatness of his dunamis, which is miraculous, wonder working power. Okay, so who is bringing it into our realm or who is opening our eyes, giving us that understanding is the Holy Spirit. So he prays that may you receive that right, may you know this exceeding greatness of his power. You know, the thing that we see there is that, you know, what is the exceeding greatness of his power towards us? Who believe? That's the thing, you know, the ones who believe the ones who place confidence in the ones who trust in God. Right. So, so only then, you know, are you going to, you know, are you going to even experience or see the greatness of his exceeding power. So he's praying, you know, let their eyes be understand, let the eyes of understanding be opened, let it be enlightened to know this, right, that you may know, and the word know also, it, you know, it means to perceive with our senses. Okay. You know, to observe something to perceive with our senses. Now, to, to really know this in our through our spiritual senses. Right. It's, it's, and it's both. It is also to understand with our mind to, you know, to perceive it to observe it to study it. Right. And by, you know, to notice, to discover, to, to see it in with us with our senses. So if, which means that, you know, may you receive it, may you know it, in your spirit, the eyes of your understanding being opened. And he says that may you know the exceeding greatness of his power. Now, verse 19, according to the working of his mighty power, okay, and it continues in verse 20, which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. So he's, you know, this is the kind of power. So he's saying, you know, you need to know this. Right. In other words, you need to let the Holy Spirit enable you to experience, experience through your senses, the exceeding greatness of his power. And, and he's saying, you know, this is the same power which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead, which means this, this resurrection power. Right. Christ was raised from the dead. This resurrection power which, which worked in Christ because of which he was raised and he was seated at the right hand in the heavenly places and using the heavenly places far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named only, not only in this age, but also that which is to come. So he's saying, you know, far above is separated far above all principality and power and so on. So this is where he is, you know, he's in the highest place and not only is in the highest place, but he's also, you know, the preeminent one, the sovereign one. He is the head overall. Right. So this power, may you know, you see, so this is God's will for us. And he's praying for the efficient church and he's saying, may you know it, may you understand it or that you may know him. Right. And so these four things he prays. So these are four things that we can pray over our lives also. Right. We can pray over our lives. We can paraphrase this, these verses and then say, oh, God, you know, I thank you Lord and say, Lord, Lord, I need to know. I may you give me, you know, I receive the spirit of wisdom and revelation leading me to give me knowledge in the knowledge of you, spirit of wisdom and revelation to lead you to the knowledge of you and the eyes of my understanding being enlightened that I may know, you know, you change those words and pray it over yourselves that I may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints and what is exceeding greatness of his power towards me who believes in you according to the working of his mighty power and so on. So you know, these are things that we can pray over our lives. Right. Okay. Then verse 22 and he put all things under his feet and gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. Okay. So this is how chapter one ends and he put all things under his feet talking about the authority that Christ has, talking about the headship that Christ has, all things under his feet and he gave him to be head over all things to the church. Right. So church, which means the body of believers, the called out one. So you and I, so we receive Christ who is the head of all things. Right. He's head of the church. He is head over all and this and the church gives us the definition of, you know, what, what, you know, or the spiritual, you know, thing that church is a description of the church, which description says that church, which is his body. Right. It is the body of Christ and that's why we say, you know, church is the body of Christ. Christ is the head of the church. So both ideas are here. The both those truths are here that gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all and in all. Okay. The fullness, so which means every believer is part of the body of Christ and in every believer, the Lord Jesus fills all in all the fullness of him dwells in every believer. The fullness of who Christ is, you know, his deity, his omnipotence is, you know, whatever makes him God, whatever makes him deity, the fullness of him dwells in the body of Christ, right, dwells in the church, all in all the fullness of him who fills all in all. Okay. So that's, that's the thing. So this is the body of Christ, the body of believers, the other body of Christ, the fullness of Christ fills every body, which is part of the body of Christ. Okay. So we understand that and so it is, this is something to be treated with honor, right, treated respectfully because we see that the church is the body of Christ. Okay. It's not the building, it's the people and spiritually everyone, you know, makeup or part of the body of Christ, every true believer, everyone who has received Christ is becomes, is placed, is becomes the body of Christ. So this is what we see. Okay. The other thing is that that Christ is the head of the church. There's no one else. No, he might put others who might be shepherds in the church, but ultimately Christ is the head of the church, but they might be delegated leaders, right, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, but ultimately Christ is the head of the church. Okay. And the church is something that belongs to Christ because it is his body, which is, which is him, right, which is part of him belongs to him. The church is Christ's body. Okay. So this is what we see in chapter one. Let's move on to chapter two. Okay. So we see that over and over again, you know, Paul talks about who you and I have become because of who we are in Christ. He talks about that over and over again. It gives more and more revelation, more and more understanding to who we have become, what we have received. Okay. So that's why in chapter one also you see, you know, you are blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. You know, that you, he chose you in him before the foundations of the earth and so on, right. In him, you have redemption that you've been redeemed, you've been bought out, right. And in that prayer, we see, you know, what God's will is for every believer, for the believer to know the, know Christ, right. The, for the believer to, to receive the Holy Spirit and know what is the, you know, what is the inheritance, the riches of the glory of the inheritance in the saints, to know that and also to know the greatness of God's power. Because sometimes people might say, okay, that is for someone else, or I'm not comfortable with that, et cetera, right. But here we see that God's will, God's desire, his wish is that the believer after having received the Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee, right, for the redemption that's going to happen, this is God's desire that we may know him in all these ways, right, which includes the greatness of his power, which is the greatness of his resurrection power that we may know him, that we may experience him firsthand in all these ways, right. Okay, let's read chapter two, okay, chapter two, maybe we can read the first 10 verses, right. And you, he made a life who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the cause of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and whereby nature, children of wrath, just as the others. But God, who is rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ, by grace you have been saved, and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come, he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus, for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast, for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. So another amazing revelation of what has happened to us. So what does he say? Verse 1, you he made alive. You he made alive, which means that you he has quickened, brought life, and you he has made alive. You were actually dead, okay, lifeless, in your trespasses and sins. He uses two words trespasses, which means to, which is a deviation from the truth, right, a misdeed, an action. And of course he uses the words sin, which is, which is missing the mark, right, missing the mark to, to fall short of God's law, and something offensive, an action that is offensive to God. So, so what is the, so what is he saying that you were actually dead, you were lifeless, in trespasses and sins, right? You were deviating from the truth, and you are missing the mark, and you were dead in it, right? You were lifeless in it, you did not have life, okay. But the first part of that verse says that you he made alive. So he quickened, he brought in, and he made alive you, you know, like in the sense, he's talking about spiritual life here, right? Because the man is alive, physically. But though being alive physically, the person is lifeless with regard to his spirit, because the person is dead in trespasses and sins, it's not alive, or not responding to the things of God, but to the things of the flesh, right, or sins. So he's saying you, he made alive, he quickened, he did something to your spirit, because you were dead in trespasses, okay. So he's saying trespasses and sins, in which you once walked, okay, you once walked according to the course of this world, okay. So you walked in trespasses, which means this is how you lived. You made choices, you had a lifestyle, which was sinful, which was not according to truth, which was missing the mark, falling short of God standards, you once walked like that, you know, day in and day out, you lived like that, according to the course of this world, you know, according to, if you were to say that there was a pathway that the world, generally, you know, people in the world were taking, that is what you were taking to, that is the route that you were taking, right. The course of this world, part of this world, the whatever the world was doing, whatever the world was indulging in, that is what you were doing, right, according to the course of this world. Now, according to the prince of the power of the air, so that is another thing, according to the course of this world, in a sense, okay, whatever the things were worldly, whatever the people of the world were doing, that is what you were also doing, that is how you were living. And it was also according to the prince of the power of the air, you know, referring to Satan, referring to the, and, you know, the powers of darkness, and primarily referring to the devil, referring to Satan, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience. Now, this spirit is at work, either influencing, either possessing, either demonizing, to whatever degree, right. But it's at work in the sons of disobedience, it means that people who do not know Christ, people who are rejected Christ, now the spirit of this spirit, which is Satan, the prince of the power of the air is at work, he works in them, he influences them, he ensnares them, traps them, all that, right, whatever Satan does, stealing, killing, destroying, trapping, accusing, tempting, all that, you know, who now works in the sons of disobedience. And verse three, among whom we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh, and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the other. So he's reminding them, you know, we were dead, but now we have actually been made alive, right. And you once walked like this, you once this is what this was your life, this was your lifestyle. According to the course of this world, according to the worldly ways you once walked, according to the power, according to the prince of the power of the air, according to, you know, what Satan would want us to do, you were doing it. And who works in the sons of disobedience, which means that okay, we were once children of disobedience, so he was working in us, and we were living according to his leading, right. And he says among whom, like among the sons of disobedience, we lived and we conducted ourselves, you know, we lived a life in which we conducted ourselves, we lived like this, we lived like them, right. We also conducted ourselves, you know, the other translation is conversation, which means we were busy, we were, you know, having conversations or, you know, we were living our lives in such a manner. And how was it, he says that according to the lust of our flesh, we conducted ourselves in the lust of our flesh, which means whatever the fleshly appetites were, whatever the fleshly pull was, desires were, desire was, we lived according to that, okay. And also fulfilling, we, you know, this, this lust was actually, you know, this was pulling us to fulfill the desires of the flesh and of the mind, right, the fleshly appetites, bodily appetites, and of the mind, which was obviously unrenewed to the truth of God. So we were pulled to do that. And we lived according to that, according to that pull, according to that desire, right. And he also describes how were we, we were by nature, children of wrath, just as the other. So he's talking about, you know, our nature itself was unrighteousness. Like spiritually, we were dead. And our spirit was not born again. Now it was, it was dead. It was lifeless. And it was dead in trespasses and sins, like fully into sin, into trespasses. And my spirit, our spirit was not born again. And so he's saying by nature, inherent quality, inherent ability to live was as children of wrath. We were not children of righteousness, children of wrath, you know. I think we see this in John chapter one, right, John chapter one says, but as many, John chapter one and verse 12, and as many as received him, to them, he gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in his name. So here he's talking about children of God. And here Paul mentions in verse three, children of wrath. Now, if you go further down, or maybe we need to, let me just go to among us and we have received. Okay. Let me just get that verse. I think it's John three then. Yeah. Sorry, John three, verse 18, right, John three verse 16, 16 talks about, 16 talks about, you know, what was 16 is the God's love of the world. Verse 17 says that God did not send the Son to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. And verse 18, we see that he who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already because he is not believed in the Son of the, so in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Okay. So saying that they have not believed that they are condemned already. So he's describing the position, describing the condition of the children of wrath. People who are condemned already. And by nature, which means that internally, by nature, our spirit was sinful. There was nothing done to change it. So by nature, our inherent quality was to live according to the flesh, live according to the desires of the mind and to conduct ourselves in trespasses and sins. So this was a condition. Okay. Our nature was corrupt. Okay. Verse four, but God who is rich in mercy, okay. God was rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. So even when we were dead in trespasses, the Lord Jesus died on the cross, right? He died. He was buried. He rose again. And he died on the cross and he died. One died that all might be represented in that one death, you know, the entire world. So we see that he died for all as a substitute. Right. So here verse four says that God is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us. Even when we were dead in trespasses, he made us alive together with Christ. And how did this happen? This happened on the cross. And he died when he was nailed to the cross. We were nailed to the cross when he was buried. We were buried when he rose again. We rose again. So that is why, you know, we can say that we were made alive in Christ, made us alive together with Christ. But this reality becomes this, this whatever Christ did becomes a reality in our lives when we receive by faith. Right. Because it says by grace you have been saved. The last part of verse five by grace you have been saved, which means that it's something that you did not merit, something that you did not deserve. Right. But he made it possible. He made it possible. He even though we were not deserving, we were undeserving, he made it possible. So that is why it is by grace that you have been saved. Okay. So what happened? Verse six says, he raised us up together, made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So when Christ rose, you know, we were raised up to, we were raised along with him when he took his place in the heavenlies. And he made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So spiritually, this is our position. We are with him. Verse seven, that in the ages to come, he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. Okay. So we'll take a break now. Okay. And then we will get back.