Please turn into the book of Ephesians. Good evening, and God bless you. Thank you so much for joining this livestream broadcast this evening, wherever you are across the world in his 737 here within the UK. May God bless you tonight, wherever you may be across this. We're going to turn very quickly into the book of Ephesians Ephesians chapter one, verse three onwards, and if you can grab yourself a Bible, let's get straight in. And let's just get straight into the text tonight. May God strengthen you and bless you. May God just guide you and lead you in paths of righteousness wherever you are this evening. Thank you so much for joining us here. You can find us on Buzzsprout, Spotify I Heart Radio, Alexa and so many other platforms. But as you join us this evening, I pray that wherever you are, that you will find peace that you will find peace for your hearts, your mind, your body, and your thinking and your innermost being. Thank you so much. Yes, God bless you to God bless you to wherever you are, this evening. Wherever you are, this evening, may God strength for you and bless you. I hope you can hear me I gather that you can. Wherever you are at this hour, whatever you may be doing, may God just lead you in paths of righteousness for his namesake. God is with each and every one of us. And we are in Ephesians chapter one. And we're going to go from verse three Ephesians chapter one, verse three through to the end of roundabout, verse 14. And then we will be going into the book of Romans, chapter eight, I have to read that this evening with the way that I am being led. So I just pray that you will find strength, and you will find the energy and you will find everything that you need to continue to keep walking and never give up wherever you are, you know. So let's just get straight into Ephesians chapter one. And as I said earlier, you can find us on so many platforms in the world of podcast and we thank you so much for joining us this evening. May God be with you. It's good to have you with us this evening. Verse three of Ephesians chapter one Praise be to God the Father, our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ first for verse four. This is really important for so many of us tonight. This is just refreshing me as I see. And as I lock my eyes onto this Ephesians chapter one, verse four, four, he chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in its sights in love He predestined us for adoption, to sonship through Christ Jesus in accordance with His pleasure and his will, to praise the God of grace and mercy which he has freely given us. The ones that he loves verse seven, of Ephesians chapter one, in Him, we have redemption, through his blood, thank you, Jesus, we have redemption, through his blood and forgiveness of sin in accordance of his riches of God's grace, which He lavished on us, we've always done understanding, he made known the mystery of His good purpose and His will and His pleasure, the purpose of Christ, but to be perfect, sorry, but to be into effect every time or the fullness of his riches, to bring us into unity, in all things in heaven, and under Christ. Verse 11, verse 11, I pray, I pray that right now. You just seek Him right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, as you call him, as you look for him. And I just pray that you will just find the love of God through this text Ephesians chapter one, verse 11. In Him, we were also chosen, having pre being predestined according to His plan of him who works out everything in conformity to His purpose and His will, in order that who we might be put under our hope in Christ might be praised for his glory. And you also who have included in Christ, have heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation, which you believe you were marked in him with a cell the promise of the Holy Spirit, thank you, Lord, who is the deposit guaranteed our inheritance until the redemption of those who God has, apportioned and according to His grace and glory, there are a couple of areas that I just want to backtrack up for this moment and in verse four, of Ephesians chapter It says, For He chose us in Him, for He chose us in Him before the creation of the world. Now you are chosen, you are loved. God loves you unconditionally. And as the screen says, up on my top shoulder, God is with you. God loves you. He predestined you. He called you he chose you before the very beginning of time in existence of itself. And Ephesians chapter one, verse four, it says, For He chose us, he chose us in him. So there was a choice, there was a choice, and he chose you. He chose you because of his unconditional love. I'm just going to keep this simple. I'm just going to keep this easy tonight. Wherever you are, this evening, however you feel whatever your body, your mind and your spirit is telling you. However, you may be dividing yourself out within yourself, you may be beating yourself up in many different ways. God loves you with unconditional love. And he chose us it says he chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy, and to be blameless in a sight. What a statement that the New Testament writer writes in the in the book of Ephesians, Paul writes, the apostle of Christ Jesus, he makes something so clear, in verse four, he says, he chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy. Lord, I feel far from Holy at this moment, when you look at this scripture, when you see what it is saying. And you really draw into this, this text is so big, and it's so powerful. It says for us, he chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy, and blameless in his sight, holy and blameless in the sight of the God of glory, he chose you, he chose me, he picked us before the creation, he he brought us he spoke us he, he he brought us into existence. However, we look at this, however, we think about this, however, we try to articulate this however, we tried to think this, however, we try to apportion this to our lives, however, we try to bring this into some form of understanding. You know, however you feel this evening, I just want to let you know that you are loved and you are blameless. And you are loved beyond human under such understanding, you are seen to be holy, and blameless in the sight of the living God, no matter how I feel about myself, how you may feel about yourself, however, you may look at yourself, however you think about yourself. However, I think about myself, whatever I think about myself, however, I look at myself and whatever I may be looking at, at this moment in time, the Scripture is so clear. In verse four, it says, For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight in love He predestined us for adoption, to sonship through Christ Jesus, in accordance with His pleasure and his will. And then if you look in verse seven, it says, In Him, we have redemption through his blood. So when you look at redemption and salvation and justification, and you look at the power of the will of God, and the spoken word of God, he chose us before the fabric of the world, he chose us before existence became existence, he chose us before creation became a creative place before creation was even thought of in the human mind before existence, even came into existence. When you look at the depth and the understanding of the text that we are in this evening, you was chosen before you as loved before you was thought of before you was predestined before before what it says there in verse four, it says he chose us in him. So we was chosen in him in the creator of heaven, on earth, in the God of all glory, in the God of all creation in the great I am in Christ IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT in him in Jesus. When you look at this scripture, it says, For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy Lord, I feel far from holy. And then it goes on it says, Am blameless in his sight. How can this be this can only be through the redemption plan through the blood wash, and through the blood washing of the redemption of Christ Jesus through redemption through being redeemed through being set for Read through been bought with a price the price of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, we understand 30 pieces of silver were handed back and forth. But the ultimate price we know the ultimate price was the blood and the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ, the unblemished lamb of God. So I, when I look at this scripture, I see that before all creation, and you gotta run, I've got to understand what it means about creation and how big creation is, it says, For He chose us for we was chosen. In him we was chosen that seems to be such a bold, such a powerful, such a deep text for he chose us. Not only did he choose us, but he chose us, in him. So when you look at the strength of that text, when you look at the power of that text, when you look at the gravity, when you look at the depth for the text, when you look at the enormity of the text, when you look at the power of the text, when you look at the arching power of that text, that that text stretches from God's throne of grace, the stretches through redemption through salvation, it stretches through everything, justification through the sovereignty through to power, that Christ that the fullness of God, stretch that out, and we was redeemed before he even committed any sin. So when you look at his good pleasure, and he's good purpose, and he's good will, you know, before I even thought I was redeemed before I even acted, I was redeemed before I even stretched across this earth. I was redeemed before I even had an action of living before any area of my being came into physical existence. The Redemption plan was already in place. When you look at creation, what do you mean creation? God, what do you mean? When I understand creation, I look in Genesis when I read about Genesis when I read about the beginning of time, when the creation of time, when the formation of time when the spoken word, put light into being when when when the spoken word put humanity onto the earth, when the spoken word put the stars in the heaven when the spoken word said, Let there be light, and there was before the great power and they're great spoken word was even spoken before creation, before any existence of the understanding of the word existence on its own, came into being before light became, before the earth was formed before anything in all creation that we know in existence, I find this text is beyond human reasoning, beyond human understanding, beyond philosophy belong beyond thinking, beyond science, beyond the mathematics of life beyond the great reasoning beyond the beyond anything, when you look at the strength and the depth of the text, let's just read that again. And it says, this can actually blow your mind to pieces, when you really try to grasp this and the only way it can be grasped, it cannot be grasped through human thought, it cannot be grasped through the cognitive processing of the mind, it cannot be understood, it cannot be grappled with science. And it cannot be worked out through thinking and and reasoning it cannot come to an you cannot come to an understanding of it. Because when you think about the size of creation, and the power of the spoken word, when God said let there be light and there was and when what the worlds were framed by the spoken word, when the worlds were brought into existence, by the power of the Word of God, when I understand that the power of the spoken word, the power and the enormity of the spoken word, just just to think about that for a moment. The gravity that that brings the enormity of it the, the the mass that that opens up the conversation, the dialogue, the the stretching, in of understanding about creation alone, and even before creation. It says verse four of Ephesians chapter one, four, he chose us in Him before the creation of the world. So before life began before existence began, before the first atoms and and the molecules of life before oxygen was put into existence before daylight was separated from the darkness before the darkness was separated from the light before satin before, before all the planets before every planet, every atom every molecule every every understanding of science before the greatness of Korea. creation came into existence. When you look at Genesis, and you understand Genesis before any of Genesis came into existence, this happened to you. And to me before God said, Let there be, and there was before God put the streams and the rivers in process before, the first human being was brought from the dust of the earth before the Garden of Eden was scattered across the planet. Before God spoke creation before God brought the stars into the universe before any of the universes before the the worlds were framed before anything came into existence. This scripture was into existence before the Word became flesh, and made his dwelling. And it says, For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world, to be before the creation of the world, before the framing of the universe is before the stretching out, as Isaiah says, of the world of the of the heavens above, before the north and the east and the south before the polar caps were placed in there, before the sun was put into existence before the moon was placed into the heavens above, before God breathed the word let there be before the spoken word, even came into any formation of existence, this text is alive and moving. Before the spoken word became the rhema word, the spoken word, the power of His word before the existence of existence, before any atoms before any oxygen, before any fire before any light, before any darkness before any depth of the earth before the core of the Earth before the gravitation was put into existence before the stars were flung across the universes, before anything before the sun rose, before the moon, even came out of God's spoken word before all of this, you was, you was chosen, beyond human understanding, beyond thinking, beyond reasoning, beyond logic, beyond mathematics, beyond the science of life, beyond philosophy, beyond the great thinkers beyond, articulating beyond the great discussions beyond what we understand as existence that is in existence at this moment, before anything came in to being this scripture was on God's heart. So if this was on God's heart, the love of God for humanity for you and for me, was abounding in his plan. And it says in verse four, four, he chose us in him. So you was chosen, we was chosen in him, before anything came into being. For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and to be blameless in his sight in love. He predestined the US for adoption to sonship through Christ Jesus in accordance with His pleasure, and his world, according to His will, according to His pleasure, according to His purpose, according to His sovereignty, according to His power, according to the love of God, according to redemption, according to justification, according to from Genesis to Revelation, before all this came into formation, and before light began, before the understanding of the purpose of God, before any human being, was placed onto this world before Adam was brought into existence before Eve was brought out of the side from the rib of this man before anything came into anything, from any reason in from any understanding from any formation of anything that is in existence, before existence came into existence before the word was given before anything, as the as the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the deep, however long that was, however, the time, even the word time when you understand and when we try to grapple with time, and the formation of time when you think of seasons, in season out of season, when you think about our lives when you look at the prochiral stretch we have when you understand who we are in God in Christ when you try to grapple with all of this, our lives were in full formation sorry, my voice went before our lives were in In physical formation, we was in that spiritual realm we was in them realms when we look at that it says, verse three, praise be to God our Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us, in heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For each shows us in Him before the creation of the world, to be holy, not only chosen, but to be chosen to be holy, holy, and to be blameless in his sight, in love, in the love of God in the power of love. Now, let's turn let's turn to the book of Romans, let's go to Romans, what can we say about love? Do you feel there is a separation, there is no separation, you have never been separated, even through redemption, even when you understand and you look at that, because if you look at the beginning of the text that we were looking at, he chose us in Him before the worlds were formed. So before the fall of humanity in the Garden of Eden before the fall, before the word redemption was even understood before redemption, was even spoken about before the redemption plan, even came into physical formation, through the living Christ, even before all of this, God's love was there for each and every one of us. We was in spiritual formation, in the layers of of before even existence came into being. So there was no particular point could we ever been separated, so this froze open, so much, nothing can separate us. When did this separation, how could separation nothing before time existed before the worlds were framed, before the world came into being before anything that you see before your eyes or understand with your mind, and the concept of life and the thinking, doesn't matter about the educational stretch, it doesn't matter about academics, it doesn't matter about financial stretch across the earth, nothing matters, because God's love is so strong, the book of Ecclesiastes makes it so clear, there is a time and there is a season. And when you look at the structure of the world, when you look at what the world is trying to do, and the speed and the and the pace of life, it is meaningless, it is completely meaningless to that degree, because when you look at everything that is going on, before all that is going on, that has has gone on. And before the spoken word was even spoken across the world before God said, Let there be light and there was before the worlds were formed before the power and before the universe's moved at the power of his voice before the stars came into existence through the power of his voice. God's love was in existence, because it tells us very clearly before the foundations, before creation of the worlds you was I was chosen in his sight before the foundations were brought into existence. So if we was chosen in existence before existence, sorry, before creation, and before we before what we see before our very eyes, if we was already brought into before the into ever was spoken into being, there could be never a separation, there could never be a separation because he chose us before the worlds were framed before they were formed. But we aren't when you look at the power of redemption, when you look at what redeem means we have been bought back with a price. So we have only fallen because humanity fell in the garden. So when you look at the fallen world, when you look at the catastrophic slip of the spiritual worlds that was torn, when Adam was told very clearly about mortality, if you take off that you will surely die. So death was in the conversation. So nothing has been taken. And nothing has been taken God by surprise what I that's what I should say. So when I look at the power and the gravity and the strength before the formation of the world, we was you was chosen in his sight. You was chosen before in all creation, to be blameless and to be holy in his sight. So if I was chosen and you was chosen to be blameless and holy in his sight, there was a chasm that was created by the fall of humanity in the garden but Redemption was always in existence before The physical world was spoken into being. So when you look at the power of God's word before the worlds were framed, everything was in position before the worlds were framed, everything was before. When you when you when you try and understand when we try and bring some, some form of reason in tennis before the worlds were called before the stars were put, Redemption was already there. Because if he called if he chose us to be blameless in his site before all this came into being with this is so enormous this text is literally just throw me off my purchase. And I gotta tell you, this is just not me. For six to understand that the power of creation, the power of understanding of creation, the power of logic, The Power of Thinking, the power of reasoning, the power of understanding. So before he said, Let there be light. Before any of that came into existence, the spoken word was given before that, as the SIR as the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the date before all that you was already in the plan, the plan of redemption before the word redemption was even understood. And the redemption plan was already there sit in in the spiritual worlds that was not formed in position, because it says before the creation of the worlds before the creation of existence and understanding what existence means that is too big for the mind. That's why the writer writes, it is a mystery to the human mind. It is a mystery to science, it is a mystery to the mathematicians to the great equation of life. The question is why? No one will understand that why? What that what it means because it can only be acquainted and looked at, because we have been brought into existence for his goodwill, and His good purpose and His pleasure, we will never understand his will fully we will never understand His pleasure fully because you was chosen before the worlds were formed. Before the worlds were formed. Redemption existed before existence existed before redemption even came into the language of humanity. There was a redemption plan, before the worlds were formed completely be armed, be ons beyond, you are redeemed. Before the worlds were formed, before the spoken word was formed, he chose you to be blameless and holy in his sight before the creative Earth that we understand that is in existence. Now. Before the universes were scattered by his word before the first star was thrown across the universe is before any black holes before any other universes was spoken into being brought up before he stretched out the universe, as Isaiah says, He is stretching out the universe as we speak before existence became existing, before time was created time started, when God said let there be so before time, before the understanding of His will and His purpose. You was blameless you was chosen you as before you as on his heart use in his mind us in the process before? What anything that we see and understand through articulating. And when I mean articulating in the conversation, and bringing into been through the power of understanding and the power of reasoning. Before any of these worlds were formed. We have to understand you was in existence but not in physical formation. The Bible makes it very clear. I believe in the Psalms when the psalmist says God knows every word before any word has been spoken. God knows every footstep before any human being has been created and been brought into any physical motion and existence. So he understand everything. He sees everything. He has spoken everything and everything is in existence before we understand what existence actually means. The worlds are looking for For the big button in the heavens above, what is the concept of life through the power of the Hadron Collider, sitting on the borders of France and Switzerland out there, and the ones in the other parts of the world, deep under the earth, trying to find the formation of the first existence of life. Imagine, just try and imagine for this moment, before anything was spoken, you was in a plan, a plan C, we understand that a plan can only be through the human mind and the human concept of thinking, and formation, the world is always met, measuring business world measures through measures, and through case studies. And through what it sees, the Bible says, The chest shall live by faith, we are living in very powerful and very spiritual times. But I just want to let you know tonight you as loved, you are loved, and you will be continually loved. First you was loved before the world was even put into formation. But then as the world came into formation, and as humanity fouled in the Garden of Eden, you was I was still love before we came into existence. How do we know because God put into physical existence, the formation of redemption through Christ Jesus. So before existence existed before the planets existed, before all the worlds existed before the framing of the world, before the human mind started to think, before anything came into anything. And as we understand what anything and the, and when, when we understand how we have to have the three elements, the basic elements you find in Genesis, space, time and matter, to produce anything. So before space, before time, before any matter came into being. You was I was already in the process of God's understanding in the redemption plan before Redemption was even needed through the physical formation of Christ. The Bible says in the book of John, And the Word became flesh, and he made his dwelling among us. So we understand by the formation of the world that by by faith, we understand by faith, so when I look at my life and my procross Stretch, why do I, why do I limit? Or what should I say I limit God in the way that I think he cannot be limited. Because when I look at the power, and the stretch on what he has brought in, and how he has done through the power of the word, when I say I limit, I limit myself in the way that I think about God. But when I look at this text that we are in tonight, and I haven't even got to the book of Romans, I'm just gonna go back because I need to read it again. And it says in verse four, four, he chose us in Him before the creation of the worlds to be holy and blameless in his sight. So before creation, before the formation of the world, before the atoms before the protons before oxygen before, before the air, before the wind before the sea, before the stars before the core of the Earth by edit before any volcanoes volcanic eruption before any stars before any daylight became before anything was formed. You was already in a plan, when a plan was not physically in existence, too big for me tonight. But I just want to let you know, God loves you. And his love is unconditional. So his love was in existence before the creation of existence, his love for you, and us already in the plan and the purpose of His will, before we understand what Earth and how earth came into existence. So before existence was spoken into being as we know it before, space, time and matter. You was chosen before the worlds were formed in no man's land in nowhere, and just nothing before nothing even existed in the spiritual realms, in the heavenly realms, in the spheres that God had before. We understand the universe, the formation of a universe, before the protons before the atoms be For a space, time, and matter was brought into being before anything began, you was already chosen to be blameless and holy. But then we find that from creation, from creation coming into existence through the spoken word, through the fall in the garden, we understand what we know as redemption. Now, the redemption plan was in physical formation, not that God had to put a redemption plan in because Adam and Eve caught him off guard, it was already in process because it says in the scripture, before the creation of the world, us already fought less holy, blameless in his sight. So the fall of man and you can imagine what happened, and that the, the stretching of, and the tear in the spiritual tower that had happened, when, when the fall of Adam and Eve in the garden, not just in the natural world, that we see it, but the the catastrophic reaction, through complete existence, the tearing of the universe is the tearing of the world. You can imagine the power and the ripping of the universe is right the way through. And what we understand about the universe isn't the what though the world is looking through through science and an understanding that there is devastation in creation, not because God created it in a in a devastation because it was perfect, in its fullness. So what brought the fall, what what caused the devastation, what caused the the universities to tear was sin, not only the sin of the taking of the tree of life, but that the ripple effect that is ripped right through the universe, the devastation of the planets, the devastation, but then we have redemption. So this is enormous. I just want to let you know tonight, you are loved. You are cherished, you are blessed and highly favored. Before space, time, a matter came into formation. Before the spoken word was spoken. You was on the redemption plan, before the physical redemption came into being and what is the physical redemption, we understand Christ, we understand the sovereignty of God, we understand. It is just too big tonight, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna say, I'm out of here. But I just want to let you know, wherever you are tonight. I didn't even get into the book of Romans. Because I just feel that this is just so, so important. And I just want to wrap this up with just this reading again. Ephesians chapter one, verse four, four, he chose us in Him before the creation of the world, to be holy and to be blameless in his sight in love, He predestined us for the adoption of sonship through Christ Jesus, in accordance with His pleasure and his will. So before, before the remission, and the shed blood of Christ through the physical action of the cross of Calvary, before all that came into being his pleasure and His will and His purpose, before the formation of space, time and matter. We was already in unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, to the human mind, unbelievable to the concept of living, and believe it unbelievable. So when you look at the world at this moment in time, when you look at everything, forming, and ramping up for one world government, one world order 111 monetary system. One when you look at everything, you can see everything where we sit. So there is a spiritual break at this moment you can feel the realms you can feel the heavenlies you can feel the the exhaustion of the world you can fill the world is breathing. And as the scripture says, you can fill the groans The Earth is groaning. Why is it groaning it is groaning because of where we sit in, in the catastrophic power of the the formation of the sin, that he's on the knees around the world, but you are loved to be on human reasoning. You are loved beyond human understanding. You are loved beyond anything you are loved by the God that said, let there be the God of Israel before creation was before space time a matter the three major elements of physics and life, quantum physics, physics, however you want to break that down and look at the formation and The equations of life and when you break all that down, when you come back and you draw a conclusion of, we can't work this out, when you get to the Blackboard of life, beyond that, is God. So God is that side of it. God is this side of it. He is before time, he is time. He knows the end, from the beginning, the beginning from the end. And this bit in between this bit in between, that we are in at this moment, I just want to let you know, you know that you are loved, you are loved, you was loved, you are loved, you still are loved, before existence, space, time, a matter you was before that was spoken. And when the fall of humanity in the Garden of Eden, when the heavens were wrecked, when the universes were torn, when that spiritual cry that that scream of sin, ricocheted and is still traveling at the speed of light moving across the world, before anything came into anything of existence of what we know of existence. You was in his sight. You as in his plan, you as in an on his heart, his mind, his pleasure, His will His purpose, because of unconditional love. Wherever you are tonight, I pray, I pray from the depths of my innermost being, that you will just stretch out to God to like never before because God loves you. God loves you so much. Study creation, look at Genesis, look at the formation of creation. Look at how the universes are accelerating right now. The Bible tells us all this stuff before science, even come into existence into complete being you already was before was was understanding what was made. You are loved. That is it. Just a simple stretch across the fabric of the text tonight. Ephesians chapter one, verse four, we didn't stretch out any further. We just stayed there. May God bless you. And I pray that wherever you are tonight, you will just feel the magnitude, the enormity, the sovereignty, glory of the love of God. You are loved. You was always loved. Before existence came into being you will always be loved. And you will never nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. So you as in before the word in came in to human understanding. God loves you. It is that simple. God loves you. God bless. Have a wonderful evening. Apply to me. Jesus Christ. Take care. We'll see you soon.
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