Adding To Your Faith
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Adding To Your Faith
Alive By Grace, Ready For Good Works ("Threads" Day 1)
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We are God's workmanship. Think of the beauty and the purpose in that one simple word: workmanship. The implications cannot be overstated for those who are "in Christ." In our first day using the "Gospel Threads" Bible study method, Matt and Rachael revisit this familiar passage in Ephesians that we explored last week using the "From their home to our home" method. Now, look with fresh eyes at this text and see the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ take center stage.
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BEFORE this episode: Complete day ONE homework (Ephesians 2:1-10)
AFTER this episode: Complete day TWO homework (Luke 8:26-39)
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Why Life Feels Ineffective
SPEAKER_00Do you ever feel like your life just isn't as productive or effective as it should be? As followers of Jesus, we want our short time on earth to have eternal impact, but often we feel like we're falling
The Promise Of Fruitful Faith
SPEAKER_00short. The good news is that Scripture gives us a promise, a life that's never ineffective or unproductive in knowing Jesus Christ. In 2 Peter 1, we're told to build on our faith, adding goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, mutual affection, and love. As these qualities grow, they keep us fruitful and effective for God's kingdom. I'm Matt Morrow, and my wife Rachel and I have spent nearly 20 years teaching God's word and walking with people in every stage of faith. Our passion is to see lives permanently and radically transformed by Scripture applied. Adding to your faith is here to help you understand biblical truth, practice it daily, and grow to look more like Jesus. We're glad you're here. Let's walk this journey together.
Meet Matt And Rachel
SPEAKER_01Welcome, I'm Rachel, and I'm here with Matt, and we are starting day one of our homework on the method of studying the Bible called the gospel threads. And if you were with us last time, this is a method of studying the Bible that looks at the threads of the gospel. So the story of God's redemptive plan for humanity that runs from Genesis to Revelation. And what we do in this method is we look for those elements of the gospel, which are the sinfulness of man, the character of God, the sufficiency of Christ, the necessity of faith, and the urgency of eternity.
What Are Gospel Threads
SPEAKER_01And so as we read the scriptures, we're asking God to show us his character. We're asking God to show us about ourselves and our own sinfulness. We're asking God to show us who is Christ and His sufficiency for our salvation. And then how we activate in that in our lives by believing God and by walking in faith. And then the urgency of eternity, that all of this matters because Jesus is coming again for his people. And one day he's going to separate the wheat from the chaff. And so this matters. What we do matters. And so this is just a way to study God's word, to look for his eternal message in that. And so we're going to dive in. We're in Ephesians 2, verses 1 through 10 today.
Five Lenses For Reading
SPEAKER_01If you have not spent some time in that passage looking at it through the lens of gospel threads, press pause now. Go get your Bible, spend some time in Ephesians 2, in the first 10 verses, and just ask God to show you his gospel as you read through those verses. Then if you want, you can come back and join us. We'd be happy to talk, talk about it with you, and we are eager to hear from you. But in the meantime, do the work yourself because that's really where transformation happens, where God speaks to your heart and shows you how to apply his word to your life and
Homework In Ephesians 2:1–10
SPEAKER_01shows you what he wants to change about you to make him more like himself. So do that work first. But we are going to talk about what we have seen in this passage today. And so, uh Matt, before we dive in, would you like to open us in a word of prayer?
SPEAKER_00Yes, let's go to the Lord. Father, thank you so much for your word. Thank you for the intentionality that you have with just ensuring that that there is a there is a beautiful, glorious story being being played out in the text of Scripture over thousands of years because you have this wonderful redemption story in mind the whole time. God, give us eyes to see your your character, our sinfulness, the sufficiency of Christ, the urgency of eternity, and the necessity of faith and all of it, Lord, at different points in different ways. I just pray that you will open the eyes of our hearts so that we will see that story and that that will emerge from the from the text of your word. And in it, Lord, we will just grow deeper into intimacy with you, personal relationship with you, by knowing you better because of the of the good news that you have given us. Lord, we trust you with this. We know that you want it for us, and so we pray these things confidently in the name of Jesus. Amen. Well, today we're going to pick up in Ephesians 2, and if this sounds familiar to you, it should, because last week, this is one of the passages that that you studied using that model that we were using last week, which is from their home to our home. And I think what you'll you'll notice is that, and we wanted to start in a familiar passage so you could you could know how this how this technique or this method lays next to some others sometimes. So I'm going to read the text. I'm going to ask you, as you, again, as you have read this, hopefully you've made some notes, either in the margins of your Bible or on your in your journal, or in some way you've made notes really pointing out where the character of God really is referenced or or noted or assumed even in the text, or where the sinfulness of man seems to emerge, or the sufficiency of Christ, or the necessity of faith, the urgency of eternity. For me, I've color-coded with different highlighters, is kind of how I've started with this, but but I'm going to read the text. I want you to listen for it. Read along with me, check your notes where
Opening Prayer
SPEAKER_00you see these gospel threads emerging, and then we'll talk about where we saw it as well. So Ephesians 2, verse 1 through 10. And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived, in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. By grace you have been saved,
Reading Ephesians 2 Aloud
SPEAKER_00and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace and kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not of your own doing, it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. So that's Ephesians 2, 1 through 10, and we're looking for threads of the gospel in this text. Uh Rachel, are there a couple that just emerged to you? You want to just walk through the text uh sequentially, or what what's the best way to tackle this, do you think?
SPEAKER_01I don't I don't know that there is a best way to tackle it.
SPEAKER_00Why don't you tell me about some of the some of the things?
SPEAKER_01I mean, we could go we could go by the threads or we could go by one of the things that I find really helpful in this method is I will read this passage multiple times, but only thinking about one thing at a time.
SPEAKER_00That's helpful.
SPEAKER_01So I will read through the passage thinking about what does this show me about the character of God or what has to be true about God for what what they're writing to be true. So I'll read through it first five times, really. You know, only looking for the character of God, and then I will read through it again and ask those same questions and ask the Holy Spirit to just show me what is this revealing about the character of man or the sinfulness of man or the disobedience of men and
How To Trace The Threads
SPEAKER_01what sin behaves like. So that's how I approach it. And so I think that you can take it verse by verse and say, does, you know, what which one does this tell me most, you know, or kind of fit best.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I like how you describe to me, that makes a lot of sense. It's the kind of thing where I mean, it can be it's hard to, it's hard to watch for five things all at the same time.
SPEAKER_01It is for me. So I think that's a good thing. I don't know about you, but it is for me.
SPEAKER_00I like what you're describing. Yeah, I like that.
SPEAKER_01That's not to say, you know, the more practice you get at this, and I think as you do this for a week, it will you will start to kind of see those things uh more readily as you read through it. And so they will stand out. But for me, it is still beneficial to to just ask about each of those questions as I'm reading a passage.
SPEAKER_00So, where do you see the character of God start to emerge in this text?
God’s Character Bursts Through “But God”
SPEAKER_01I mean, first it it's all over the text. So, like God is rich in mercy, he has saved us by his great love, he is gracious, he has incomparable riches, he's expressed those in his kindness to us, um, that we are the object of his love and mercy and grace, which indicates a desire for relationship and and to be personal, which it which you don't find anywhere outside of the God of the Bible, that his his character is also directed in toward toward relationship with man, and so his his creator nature is also evident here, right?
SPEAKER_00It says at the end we're his workmanship created for a purpose.
SPEAKER_01Right. So all so he he is the one who creates the purpose too, right? He's the he's the sovereign planner.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so so I I mean I same same thing. I think if you're reading through this and you're looking for the character of God and for where that really emerges, I would say not that you can't see it referenced or at least at least I think implied in other other parts, but really about the time you get to verse four, it starts to come, it really starts to emerge as this big theme in the text. Where and the and the trigger there is the phrase that you've heard before, uh heard us talk about before, which is but God. That's that turning point where we turn right into the character of God, and there's a whole bunch of it that follows. And again, there are other threads in this as well, but that's really where it starts to turn. Okay. So we see the character of God on full display. He's rich in mercy, he's he has great love with which he loved us, he made us alive together, he has demonstrated grace to save us, he he shows his immeasurable riches of his grace through that salvation. He's a creator who created us as his workmanship for good works that he also created.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we're transgression or in trespass.
SPEAKER_00So that's who he is.
Our Condition Without Christ
SPEAKER_00Now who are we? As we look at this at the same text, going back to the beginning to verse one and just working through it again, where do we see the sinfulness of man emerge?
SPEAKER_01And you definitely see those in verses one and two. Just comes right out the beginning. Right. It's very clear in verses one and two. I think you see echoes of uh of kind of the sinfulness of man all the way through. But he says you were dead in your transgressions. He describes the way you used to live when you followed the the prince of this world and the ruler of this world, the kingdom of the air, and the spirit that's working in all of those who disobey, that you're disobedient, that we were gratifying our own sinful natures and we were following our own desires and our own heart, which made us objects of wrath. So those were just a few of the things I noted out of that passage.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I me too. I I think again, in contrast, if you think of that that phrase, buck God, as being a turning point or a tipping point or hinge in the whole text, then everything that comes before it is really a lot of that is about is about the sinfulness of man. And one of the things that stands out to me is as you're reading those first few verses, is all of what you just described, the text also describes for us and explains to us what it means to be a sinful man. Right. So when when it's describing what the sinfulness of man is, it's not just it's not just us making our own choices or or doing our own thing, which is of course rebellious and sinful if we're not following the Lord, but
Following The Wrong Ruler
SPEAKER_00we're actually choosing to follow someone else. That when we're when we are in rebellion against God, we are siding with a challenger, someone who who tries to who attempts to challenge God's authority, and we're siding with the enemy, the opponent of God when we do that. Right. So that's that's squarely where we are, and explains why we were a child of wrath. Because we were we had chosen to oppose not just to do our own thing, but to oppose God by being by aligning with the with the Prince of Power, the heir, the spirit that's now at work in the sons of disobedience.
SPEAKER_01And we align with the spirit of this world by gratifying our own desires and our and living according to our own thoughts.
SPEAKER_00So when we make that choice, don't think that you're not making a bigger choice. Right? When we when when we choose to do our own thing, to live our own lives, our own way, what we're really choosing to do is to is to enslave ourselves to another king.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00To the to the prince of the what's it called? The prince of the power of the air is what's called here, to to the enemy.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
Christ’s Sufficiency On Display
SPEAKER_00Okay, so so we've we've covered briefly the character of God, covered briefly the sinfulness of man. What about the sufficiency of Christ? Because we know even from yesterday's uh podcast that it's bad news for us and for everyone else, if all you have are the first two threads of the gospel. Absolutely. The character of God and the sinfulness of man equals bad news, but the sufficiency of Christ is next.
SPEAKER_01Yes. And anytime you see but God, that always is going to point you to the sufficiency of Christ. Right. It's going to tell you what God has done to fix the problem, right? And so that's what you see here. He says, but God, who his character is that he's rich in mercy, and his character is because he has great love with which he loved us. So those point to his character. Then you point to the sinfulness of man, that even though we were dead in our transgressions, now you see the sufficiency of Christ, that he has made us alive with Christ.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_01Right. That he has done that. And then it goes on, right? That he has raised us up, he has seated us with Christ in the heavenly realm so that we might show his comparable riches. So you start to see like his kindness expressed to us, and all of that is expressed in Christ Jesus. In Christ Jesus, right? It does not come to us apart from Christ.
SPEAKER_00Right. So that's that to me is the thing. It's right kind of in the heart of this, where you're toward the end of verse five and all the way through verse seven, you're saying a lot about the sufficiency of Christ. This this kindness that we desire and desperately want from God in lieu of being a child of wrath. Instead of being a child of wrath, we desperately want his goodness to us, toward directed toward us. That only happens in Christ.
Grace Accessed Through Faith
SPEAKER_00So the sufficiency of Christ is on full display. As is the necessity of faith. Now we've talked about this before, but but the the sufficiency of Christ is maybe and is absolutely true, but to you or to me, it doesn't mean anything if we don't respond to it. Right? I mean it can exist and be available, but if we don't respond in faith, it it m for me and for you and for anybody who doesn't respond in faith, it might as well not even exist. Because that's how you access it. So the necessity of faith is next. And and that's actually sprinkled throughout this, I think.
SPEAKER_01It is. I think it's sprinkled throughout that, right? It is by grace, right? It is by grace you have been saved, which is the sufficiency of Christ. Right? God uh Jesus has paid all of that debt. He came to rescue us while we were sinners, he has done it. But, right, it is by grace you have been saved, but it is through faith.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So just to just if you're if you're following along, taking verses eight and nine is probably where we're gonna have a lot of focus on for this the necessity of faith. And that's what Rachel just read. By grace, you have been saved through faith.
When Not Every Thread Appears
SPEAKER_00Keep going.
SPEAKER_01So that tells us the necessity of faith. Right? That's how you activate that grace in your life, is through faith that you are saved. And so it's not from yourself.
SPEAKER_00Because it's the the Bible anticipates what we're where we go next, right? We go to works next. We in our mind, we that's not what it is.
SPEAKER_01Or that I deserved it or I did something, and he's like, No, none of this is you. None of this is you. It is completely based on the sufficiency of Christ and what he has done. And by believing that, then you are activating that through faith. And so by believing who Christ is and what he has done on your behalf, that is how how you come into being in Christ.
SPEAKER_00So how you access the sufficiency of Christ. Okay. So so there's there's the first four gospel threads. Now listen, I'm just gonna pause here for a second. We'll do urgency of eternity too, because it's also well represented in this text. But then but I will also pause here to
The Urgency Of Eternity
SPEAKER_00say the point of gospel threads is that you you don't always get all of them in every text, right? You you sometimes you get you get an element or a piece, you get one or two of the threads that really is is front and center in a text, and other times you get others, and taken together you get the full picture of the gospel. In this text, it just so happens that it's pretty well suited for all of them. And so we're gonna go next to the urgency of eternity, which is on full display here as well.
SPEAKER_01And we did for homework, we had the advantage of of pulling out some text that really clearly show some of the threads.
SPEAKER_00But even I will say, even in those, there are some that you'll come to even later this week that that are heavy in one or two. Yes. And not and less heavy in the others. And that's that's normal. It's okay.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00Because remember, they're all part of the same story.
SPEAKER_01Right. And uh as you keep reading, you know, especially if you keep reading a passage or a book, there may be one section that's really heavy in the character of God or really heavy in the sinfulness of man. And then if you keep reading, the next passage will be very heavy in the sufficiency of Christ or the necessity of faith. So, you know, or even just judgment, what happens, right, if you reject God. So you'll see the the judgment or you'll see the reward of the righteous. So as you read it, different passages I think certainly do highlight different threads. And so that's one of the advantages of being able to start to pick those out is is that you you get better at seeing how
Prepared Works And Purpose
SPEAKER_01how that fits into the the overarching story of the gospel.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm. And and so if we want to look in this text for the urgency of eternity, I would say at the beginning, it's kind of it's implied because there's a lot of talk at the beginning, which mostly focuses on the character of God, but there's there's some language in the beginning talking about the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh. This is an eternal enemy that exists and that and that has an eternal presence, right? And it's so this implies. Right.
SPEAKER_01So that's right, which is permanently where we would be an urgency of eternity because without intervention, we are dead and we are under the judgment of God.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And this passage, I think, is clear that that's our state.
SPEAKER_00Now, as we said, as we talked about yesterday, eternity, the urgency of eternity, is not just about hell, it's also about a glorious eternity that awaits us in heaven if we will if we will receive it. And that's and that's how the passage ends. Yeah, that's I mean that's here too. So even in in verse six, it says, raised up with him and what? Seated us with him in the heavenly
Timeless Truths We Can Trust
SPEAKER_00places in Christ Jesus. That's that's the eternal heaven that that awaits us. And eternity goes also in both directions. It goes eternally into the future and eternally into the past. I think that part of what we see here at the end of this text, that we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, also references eternity. It's I mean, it's it's not the eternity of the future it's not the urgency of the future eternity that's in front of us, but it recognizes that this is an eternal quest. It's an eternal story that's happening, and that even what God has for you and for me, he prepared beforehand. He prepared in eternity past for what's ahead of us.
SPEAKER_01And the work that he wants you to do to build his kingdom has already been prepared for you to do.
SPEAKER_00And that work itself also has eternal significance and eternal urgency to it as well, because the work he has created for us to do is part of building his eternal kingdom. That's right.
SPEAKER_01And so that is the urgency of it because one day he will come back.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so we've so we've run through this text and we've identified, help, helped to identify. Hopefully, you you had these notes as well or similar ones. And again, there are some of the, I will say
Personal Application And Next Steps
SPEAKER_00some of the th the texts even that we referenced here could could speak to more than one gospel truth. So we I may have highlighted something as being about the about the sinfulness of man, but it also heavily implies on uh the urgency of eternity. And there so there's not necessarily an automatic cookie cutter right wrong for some of these, but you get the idea how some of these emerge. And what we're looking for is always in in any Bible study technique is we're trying to drill down to the timeless truths and the personal application. Now, one of the advantages of utilizing gospel threads as a Bible study technique is that. Each of the gospel threads is itself a timeless truth. So once you've identified a gospel thread being being referenced in the text, you've also identified at least one timeless truth, because the character of God is that He is the holy, just, and gracious creator of all things, right? That's timeless truth, and it is his character. And each of these has has that built in. But as you as you look at those, so you can pull timeless truth specifically about those gospel threads, or in some cases, and in some cases, those gospel threads will illuminate other timeless truths that are just as true today as they were at the time they were written and always will be, and that we can order our
From Reading To Prayer And Memory
SPEAKER_00lives around those truths. So, Rachel, what was a timeless truth that emerged to you here?
SPEAKER_01I just kind of summarize the passage in my timeless truth. So I say God is rich in mercy and grace and love. And God did this for us by grace. We did not earn his kindness so that through faith I can learn the work that he has created for me to do.
SPEAKER_00Excellent. Excellent. So I I wrote, I focused probably more toward the very end of the text for my timeless truth, but but it essentially is that if we if you are saved, so if you if you have received this gift of grace, then we are God's workmanship, redeemed for his glory and for his purposes. And those are the good works that are being described here that were prepared beforehand for us. So based on those timeless truths, and we don't ever want to leave a text without identifying a timeless truth or two and some way that you that you or I will respond to that truth. Now the timeless truth is the same for everyone, always. If it's true for you, it's true for me. There's nothing different about it. But the application can vary quite a
Praying For Grace And Compassion
SPEAKER_00bit because you're gonna you're gonna respond to that timeless truth based on where you are and where you're coming from and what kinds of things you're dealing with in your life. And so the application can look different from one person to the next. I I wrote down for mine if if my timeless truth is that we are God's workmanship, redeemed for his glory and for his purpose, that I need to watch for the good works that he long ago prepared for me, and then I need to walk in those. So I need to be alert to those good works. What was an application that you had?
SPEAKER_01I think mine was similar. I I focused on that that I belong to Christ and I didn't earn my salvation through my works, and so I can rest in my salvation until he is showing me the work that he has for me in his time because he created it and it's his work. And especially just right now, I I kind of feel like I'm in a little bit of a holding pattern that I'm kind of in a transition, but I don't really know what's next. And so this was just a good place for my soul to rest that that I wasn't saved by works, and if I'm not doing the kind of works that I think I should be doing or I thought I would be doing, that I can rest in that because all of the work God has created, He created for me to do, and He's already it's
Memorize Ephesians 2:8–10
SPEAKER_01already done, so I can wait on the Lord.
SPEAKER_00Very good, very good. Well, I'd we'd love to hear what some of the some of the applications and the timeless truths are that you've that you've seen. So please don't hesitate to share those. If you're part of the class, we'll have an opportunity to do that uh when we're together again. But but as you as you jot down and make note of of the timeless truths and and the way that you will personally respond to those truths, your application, we want to encourage you to ask the Lord for help, for support in that. And that's where our reading turns from reading to prayer and from reading to meditation and memorization. So, uh Rachel, what are some things that that we might pray as we as we move from reading to prayer?
SPEAKER_01I mean, I think there are a lot of things that we can pray out of this, but one is just resting in grace. We are so hardwired for works that we want to feel worthy, we want to be worthy. Some of those come from a genuine place that we we want to be,
What’s Next: Luke 8 Preview
SPEAKER_01you know, we we want to be worthy of our calling, which we're called to do. But it's so easy, I think, to slip into to what we're doing and the boxes we think we're checking instead of just resting in grace. And I think then also just praying for that compassion, right? That that we were all dead in our transgressions when Jesus came and saved us. He pulled us out of darkness into light, he made us alive. And while we were dead, he did that. And so just to be encouraged and compassionate and to have our eyes open, as you said, for the work that he has for us to do, because he has work for all of his children.
SPEAKER_00That's a good word. And if you were to zero in on a portion of this text for memorization or for meditation, anything immediately emerge from from your notes on that?
SPEAKER_01I love uh like two, eight through ten. So that is one I actually have on a necklace that, you know, that just as we you know, even just as we read our like raised our children, this was one that I would come back to that that our children are the workmanship of God, and that God has work that He has created for them to do, and we discover it, we don't create it. And even as a parent, that was a great place to rest.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I it absolutely has been for us. Well, we want to we want to pray for you as you go into God's Word again tomorrow. Hope that this one has been a blessing to you in Ephesians 2. Tomorrow we will be picking up in a different text, a different location, will be in the Gospel of Luke. That's Luke chapter 8, verses 26 to 39. That's where we'll be tomorrow. So I hope that you'll uh get a chance to really do that homework before we come back together and and and review that on the podcast tomorrow as well. So, uh Rachel, any parting words or anything you'd like to say before you pray for uh for those who are listening as they go back into the Word tonight and tomorrow?
SPEAKER_01No. I mean, this is just a glorious place to meditate. So you can you can swim in these ten verses for a long time and never reach the bottom, I think.
SPEAKER_00Well, why don't you pray for those who are listening and who are walking alongside us with this that uh that they will be able to fully explore the depths of what of what is available for them.
Closing Prayer And Blessing
SPEAKER_01Our most gracious Heavenly Father, we just praise you because you are a God who is rich in mercy. And Father, you do have such great love for us, and we know that, Father, it is just love that we will we will never fully comprehend or understand this side of eternity. And Father, we just pray, Father, I know even in my own life, I am so prone to follow my own desires. I'm so prone to live according to my own thoughts and and to slip out from grace, just to slip out from under it, even though I know that it is by grace I have been saved. It is not of myself, so that I cannot boast. But Father, I know that sometimes in in my thinking and in my actions, I slip out and start depending on myself and start trying to earn your favor. And so, Father, I just pray for your forgiveness in that and pray that you'll help me and help your people to rest in the grace that you have given us because of your great love, that you have raised us up, that you have seated us in the heavenly places with Christ Jesus. You have shown us immeasurable kindness and you give us the riches of your grace, which is every undeserved mercy and kindness. And that is all available to us because of what Jesus has done for us. And so, Father, I pray that we will live in that because that is a yoke that is easy. And Father, I pray that we will live in that because that is the place that we have a heart for those who are still dead in their trans in their trespasses. Father, that we have a heart to share you and the mercy and grace that is available. And so I pray that these truths will transform our hearts and minds. I pray, Father, that you will remind us that you have called us all to work. And as Matt said, just keep our eyes open to the work that you have for us, that we would be constantly seeking you and asking you what you have for us instead of relying on ourselves. And so, Father, we ask that you do this work in us because it is only work that you can do. And Father, we pray that you will do that to your glory and to the growth of your kingdom. And we ask that in Jesus' name. Amen.
SPEAKER_00Amen. So uh tomorrow we'll be back here in Luke 8, 26 to 39. Hope that you'll go uh ahead of us into that text, and we will gather back here again tomorrow for more exploration of gospel truths in Luke 8.