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A moment is on fire up my laptop and get started.

We come today to a passage of scripture in the book of Ephesians and there are several in the book of Ephesians that are outstanding.

If you will, I have a hard time picking out.

Those best is that our most outstanding in the book of Ephesians.

Cuz there are so many but the last week, you remember, we we saw our condition before Christ came into our lives as Believers, and made his members of his family are.

As we have seen already members of the church, that is the body of Christ church members.

If you will not of this local church foot of the church, which is the body of Christ we saw that before.

We were church members, we were dead in press passes and since we were influenced by our own desires and my the work of the adversary and we were without hope.

So, when we saw that message, we were at first, perhaps discouraged and thought will never get out of this while the adversary wants us to believe that.

But yet God's work for us and the accomplishment of his work, force us to a passage of scripture today that Larry is red Ford Taurus.

It's in Ephesians chapter 2, verses 10 through 22.

I don't want to take the time this morning to look at that passage of scripture, the member of the church and the church.

I'm sorry, having been redeemed from the past of Eternal death and spiritual death.

Is now the recipient of certain things, God has redeemed us from the past and he now gives us certain things.

And it's important that we see the encouragement that he is done for his first of all, we have new purpose, new purpose last week.

We were spiritually dead.

There was no point in even living.

But God has given us as Believers, new purpose.

And I want you to see that this morning is, first of all to walk in, Good Works.

Ephesians 2:10.

Good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them, okay?

God before we were even born prepared, good works for us to accomplish, it's not amazing.

He prepared them.

He didn't say well, you try and figure out what it is, that will help you to keep the law on accomplish being a good Christian and so on and so forth.

He prepared The good works for us.

That's the encouraging part.

The dispatches of vision says, because to be quite Frank with you, if God were dependent upon what I planned and what I was able to do and what I could accomplish in my new life, it wouldn't be all that much.

But God has prepared new access.

A new purpose for me, in order that I can accomplish.

Good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

It's important.

We understand that because the scripture teaches is over and over again and you have some additional references in your notes.

I hope you'll take time during this week, as you have time on your Devotion to look at these notes again and see what's in the amount.

I realize that these are a little different.

I haven't commented a great deal about the notes that you get handed out, but you notice that it needs point is only one or two blanks.

There's a reason for that.

I want you primarily to know what I say.

Not spend time writing down and lose track of where I am.

So I just want you to be able to fill in one or two or more words.

And what's interesting is when children are in the car, gation, they are able to fill in those two or three words.

Well, Many times only one word in each point, that's so that they can keep track because the interesting part of it is that young children can absorb more than you can.

Did you know that?

They'll listen even when they don't look like they're listening, they'll be drawing a picture on the back of the note page and they'll hear everything I say.

And when I retired from the church, I was pastor of for 16 years.

I received a letter from several members of the high school and college group, and they expressed appreciation.

That from the time they were three years old.

They had grown up in that church and learn the truth.

I received an email recently from the young man, who'd grown up the same way in that church, and he said that helped me in my married life already.

It help me to choose a new church and it helped establish me in the foundation of God's word.

That's the purpose that you learn the truth and put it to work during the week, you have a new purpose of accomplishing, Goodwill.

Which God has before ordained.

You also, Are part of the evidence on salvation.

Do that was good.

Works.

You have evidence that you have been saved.

Go ahead, Larry 1st, John, 2 3. Now by this, we know that we know him if we keep his Commandments.

By this we know that we know him if we keep his Commandments.

Now it doesn't say by this others will be able to evaluate whether you're really a Christian or not because sometimes worried spend too much time.

Looking at others.

The first job of scripture, the scripture gives us is to look at ourselves God as a result of our faith in the Lord.

Jesus Christ has made a change in us.

That should make a change in our life.

And he wants us to look at our own lives and say, is there really a change there?

Because if not, maybe I better go back and check what I've done, but if we know that we have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ.

As Savior, he will begin teaches those things that we need to have and it will make a change in our life.

That's what the Christian Life Is, You Remember When the Lord was talking Nicodemus, he said, you must be born again.

What does that mean?

It means to be given new life that new life can live within us and doesn't live within this.

Having been safe and it begins to do that which is pleasing to God.

Now so long as we allow ourselves to live like under the old nature and we continued the old nature, we won't see much change, but as we will to God and as we begin to read his word and as we were taught in his word, he accomplishes that which Heat Is Ours in new purpose.

So it's important that we understand that God has given this by his grace.

This conduct is expected as a commitment to God. 1st Peter 2:25 for you were like sheep going astray, but have returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

Okay, I've talked before about watching sheep, which I had offered to do every so often in Owasco and one my brother and I were for me and she need to be watched in order not to wander off.

And God does that with us, and that's why he says, you were like sheep going astray because it's very easy for.

She has his head down eating grass and he kind of walks over here and gets further and further away and pretty soon.

He looks around and nobody's there.

That's the way we are.

But God is the shepherd, the Lord.

Jesus Christ is our chief Shepherd and he watches us, and he guards us, and he protects us.

And because of the change in our lives, he expects us to be committed to God.

We were like sheep going astray just wondering off but now we know who Our Shepherd is, now we are committed to that Shepherd and we are able to follow his leading and hit an accomplished.

His purpose as a result of following God to work in.

Are our laws according to his purpose.

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And you know what?

Good morning.

I come to do it, my eyes for me, for some reason or other or I can't see well, but the Lord knows he will accomplish his purpose to me, just like he will through you.

As a result of obedience to him as a result of Allowing God to work in our lives.

According to his purpose at 10, if he's in chapter 2, For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

There's that verse that Larry ready earlier but it's important to realize that God's purpose.

Was slain before the foundation of the Earth for you and for me.

God knew exactly where we would be at a particular time in our life.

He put us here for a reason.

It always sometimes we think they're well yeah, I moved here to whatever and there wasn't a real reason for it yesterday was God had a reason and he brought you here in order that you might, maybe hear the truth and come to believe in the Lord, Jesus Christ to save her or he put you in Hawaii and you're listening to service on screaming because he had a purpose for you.

Or he, he put you in somewhere back east and one of the states back East, because he had a purpose for you.