The Believer’s Glorious Inheritance

i want to draw your attention back into the first chapter of ephesians and i i want us to look at verses 11 through 14 and that is the final blessing we have already talked about the fact that in verse 3 we have that amazing promise blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in christ then we said the primary and first blessing was election verses four through six we were chosen in him before the foundation of the world and predestined to be adopted the second blessing was redemption in verse 7 in him we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace and as we come to verse 11 we come to the final blessing election happened in the past redemption is going on in the present this is the future verse 11 also we have obtained an inheritance having been predestined according to his purpose who works all things after the council of his will to the end that we who were the first to hope in christ would be to the praise of his glory in him you also after listening to the message of truth the gospel of your salvation having also believed you were sealed in him with the holy spirit of promise who has given us a pledge of our inheritance with a view to the redemption of god's own possession to the praise of his glory while redemption goes on in time redemption is only complete in eternity and we know it is not only the redemption of those who belong to the lord but it is the redemption of everything as verse 10 says the fullness of times the summing up of all things in christ things in heaven and things on the earth so we're laying a foundation for what this marvelous epistle of ephesians is going to teach us in the months ahead and it begins with this doxology of praise for what god has done in the past election what he is doing in the present redemption what he will do in the future glorification it was about a dozen years ago that a popular book came out written by joel osteen the title of the book was your best life now and it sold about 8 million copies at the time it's been 12 years since then and 12 rather dramatic years particularly the more recent ones such a jarring disturbing shift has taken place in the social order that we have in our country and around the world that i think few people are convinced that this is their best life right now that would be a hard sell probably good that the book came out before the current stress began or it might not have been very popular in fact there may be a number of those eight million who would like to get their money back since this didn't turn out to be what they had hoped we are now living under dominant deception dominant lies hatred crime anger selfishness immorality a pandemic wickedness that most of all hates the truth and will assault the truth every possible way it can and that means that the church of jesus christ is going to experience things that we haven't experienced in this country or even in the west ever perhaps the noble experiment of america to have a just and civil society based on biblical morality and firm legal control by government exercising the threat and the reality of punishment to those who violate the law is essentially over it's essentially finished even the revered constitution has become irrelevant and subject to whimsical manipulation so that it no longer offers any strong barrier to the forces of evil and civil destruction we are watching our country free-fall into godless darkness sexual perversion gender insanity crime of all kinds the breakdown of law and order family destruction and above all the constant flood of lies and efforts to silence the truth many of us feel this is the end of what we have hoped for when we hope for the best for our place in history the final step the final step in the demise of any society is when the truth is under assault and you can almost tell what is true because if it's true they cancel it if it's not hard to figure out what is true if it's true they attack it freedom to do evil evil in fact is now legal in many cases and righteousness is criminalized so our nation has succumbed 81 million people voted for a president who supports abortion lies childhood sexual transition transgender homosexuality in every form 81 million people voted him into office then you ask how could a society fall so fast what is it about human nature that allows them to be so easily victimized by corruption wickedness and sin well the same question was asked and has been asked ever since the second world war the question was how could hitler be so easily able to persuade normal german people to murder hostages send people into forced labor camps euthanize people starve them to death kill them medically terror bomb them let them die in camps so that as many as 31 million people were killed outright in that regime including a million children at least six million jews how does that happen how can a whole population turn so easily from normal life to being murderers you could ask the same question of russia how could stalin convince the russian people to slaughter something over 20 million people so collectively 50 million people are slaughtered you might think the answers are complex actually they're not the ansel's answers to those two questions are pretty simple all the unredeemed are of their father the devil who is a liar and a murderer unless you restrain that in human life it will run amok it's easy to get people to do evil it's the way they're hardwired it's their bent when the restraint of government is loosened at all taken off or perverted or when government no longer acts to punish evil and reward good all kinds of sin will explode whether human government allows evil or commands evil in the case of hitler and stalin people will come together to do evil because they are evil you don't see any people amassing in the streets to rush someplace to do good they don't run to do good it's easy to gather people to do evil that's their natural bent in case you question that let me remind you of what the word of god says in romans chapter 3 and we'll look at verse 10 there is none righteous not even one there is none who understands there is none who seeks for god all have turned aside together they have become useless there is none who does good there is not even one their throat is an open grave with their tongues they keep deceiving the poison of asps is under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness their feet are swift to shed blood destruction and misery are in their paths and the path of peace they have not known there is no fear of god before their eyes that is biblical anthropology that's a biblical definition of humanity people run to do evil and unless they are restrained by conscience by family discipline by government authority all hell will break loose because that's the most natural expression of the children of satan he is their father and he is a liar and he is a murderer so many times we've gone back to romans chapter one but just a reminder verse 28 just as they didn't see fit to acknowledge god any longer god gave them over to a depraved mind to do those things which are not proper being filled with all unrighteousness wickedness greed evil full of envy murder strife deceit malice their gossips slanderers haters of god insolent arrogant boastful inventors of evil disobedient to parents without understanding untrustworthy unloving unmerciful and although they know the ordinance of god that those who practice such things are worthy of death they not only do the same but also give hearty approval to those who practice them they not only do those things they make them legal now i understand that you know all this i'm just encapsulating a little bit because i understand also how discouraging this is we have been an incredible beneficiary of god's kindness haven't we here because we've been able to go through this horrible time and be together and worship and proclaim the gospel and the word of god while at the same time we enjoy this wonderful island of sanity in the midst of the sea of insanity we're not unaware of what's going on around us nobody really seems to care to hide any wickedness anymore hearts are unmasked while faces are masked this cannot be our best life and it's not going to get better evil men grow worse and worse this is a free fall not temporary we're going down and we're going down under the sheer force of unbelief and sin unprotected and unrestrained by the judgment of god can we fix it no should we join it of course not we can't join the hate and the anger and the racism masquerading as virtue we understand what the bible says let me just remind you of first john 2 15 do not love the world nor the things in the world if anyone loves the world the love of the father is not in him for all that is in the world the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life is not from the father but is from the world and then this the world is passing away and also it's lusts but the one who does the will of god lives forever that's what we wanted to hear right the world is passing away but we live forever also in 1st john chapter 5 we are reminded that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one the whole world lies in the power of the evil one and it is passing away in contrast to that philippians 3 tells us that our citizenship is in heaven from which we wait eagerly for a savior lord jesus christ who will transform us into his own likeness this is not our best life not by any means to all who are in christ our best life is yet to come our best life is the glory of heaven and what you have in the verses that i read verses 11 to 14 is the promise of god about that life to come we have an inheritance and that inheritance was predestined from before the foundation of the world according to the purpose of god who works all things after the counsel of his will to the end that we who were the first to hope in christ would be to the praise of his glory we have an inheritance this is not our best life the only question is can we trust god's word well hebrews 10 23 says he is faithful that promised and romans 4 21 says what god has promised he is able to do the god who is truth who defines truth who speaks truth and only truth promises to all who are in christ every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in christ that is summed up by the past act of election the present act of redemption and the future act of glorification the first blessing was to be chosen the second blessing to be redeemed the final blessing to be glorified so let's look at verses 11 to 14 and at least get a little bit of an insight into this incredibly wonderful promise you'll notice the key word is inheritance it appears a couple of times in these brief verses once in verse 11 and then down again in verse 14. is the greek verb it basically means to obtain as inheritance the idea is what you read in the nas apparently on the surface is we have obtained an inheritance but the idea is really more we are an inheritance we are an inheritance so let's think about that or another way to translate it would be we have been made an inheritance this is remarkable language it doesn't discount the fact that we have an inheritance and this can be translated that way as it is in the the nas but it also can be translated we have obtained or we have been made an inheritance as well as have obtained an inheritance so it's got two sides to it and i i just want to point that out to you we have been made in inheritance what does that mean whose inheritance are we we are christ's inheritance he purchased us at the cross he inherits us we are his offspring to use the language of isaiah 53 we are christ's inheritance the father has given us as we saw in john 6 and john 17 to the sun as love gifts the reason we are redeemed is that we might be the son's inheritance that we might be his bride that the father gives him out of eternal love we are his inheritance the father expresses his love to the son by giving the son a redeemed humanity who will love him and serve him and honor him and praise him forever and ever and ever it also gives the ultimate compliment by making them in some way reflect his very image so yes we have an inheritance that we will receive but to begin with we are an inheritance and the language allows that and in fact i think that's the way the legacy standard bible accurately translated so we are his inheritance but on the other hand we don't want to discount the fact that we have also obtained an inheritance you can look at it in the way the hymn writer wrote many many years ago i am his and he is mine he inherits us we inherit him that shouldn't be surprising not in the language of romans 8 17 we are joint heirs with christ all things belong to you first corinthians and you belong to christ again christ is in us and we are in christ we are christ's inheritance and it is christ who grants us an inheritance and then the inheritance that we receive is what the father promises to his son in the fullness of summing up everything in him i just want you to see the breadth of this you are a love gift given from the father to the son you are in that sense the inheritance that christ gained from his father for his work the bible is clear about this we could take a lot of time to cover many scriptures but let me just give you a few to think about first peter chapter 1 verse 3 blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of jesus christ from the dead to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fight away reserved in heaven for you so we will obtain an inheritance we are an inheritance we are christ's inheritance given by the father to the son as his inheritance but we also because we are joint heirs with christ receive all that he is given by the father as well that inheritance verse 5 of first peter 1 says is protected by the power of god through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed at the last time in colossians just a few scriptures chapter 1 verse 12 giving thanks to the father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light for he rescued us from the domain of darkness transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved son in whom we have redemption the forgiveness of sins so we have redemption and beyond redemption we have the inheritance we are qualified by the work of christ to share in the inheritance of the saints in light over in the third chapter of colossians just one more text there i think it's verse 24. knowing that from the lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance so just to stress the idea that this goes to ways we are an inheritance and we receive an inheritance this is literally summing up all that could possibly be said about future glory we are christ's inheritance that is why you will notice down in verse 14 that redemption has made us god's possession god's possession god owns us purchased us with his own blood says acts 20 and then gives us to the son as his inheritance in response to which the son gives all of us back to the father as first corinthians 15 points it out and wrapped up in our being an inheritance is the fact that we also receive an inheritance we are joint heirs with christ and god promises in christ peace love grace wisdom eternity with him joy victory strength guidance all our needs met power knowledge mercy forgiveness righteousness gifts from the holy spirit the holy spirit himself fellowship with the trinity instruction from the word illumination truth spiritual discernment heaven a room in the father's house eternal riches all of this and we begin to taste this in this life but i has not seen nor has there heard the things that god has prepared for them that love him as wonderful as the enjoyment of our christian experience is here it can't be compared to what is yet to come again in second peter chapter 1 says that god through his divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness everything verse 4 he granted to us his precious and magnificent promises so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust he promises that we will escape we will escape the corruption in the world and become partakers of the divine nature this is our inheritance all the promises says paul all the promises of god are in christ yes so i just want to start by pointing out that this inheritance idea goes two ways we are or have been made an inheritance and we will also receive an inheritance it's god's way of just sweeping everything up and saying it's all going to belong to christ and christ belongs to you and you belong to him and it's all yours this is not our best life now the only way this could be your best life now is if you're going to hell that's the only way and then this is your best life so let's look at this inheritance just three things to consider number one the ground of our inheritance and you know this we have obtained or been made an inheritance and how did this happen what is the ground of this on what basis having been predestined according to his purpose who works all things after the council of his will that's where it all started and we go right back don't we do verses four through six chosen predestined the ground of our inheritance is the fact that we were predestined to this end predestined verse 5 to adoption as sons according to the kind intention of his will adopted as sons of god through jesus christ to himself again speaks the fact that we belong to christ we are his heritage his inheritance because god determined that when he chose us as verse 4 says before the foundation of the world that is the ground of our inheritance and please notice how many times it says in this section in christ verse 3 in christ verse 4 in him verse 6 in the beloved verse 7 in him verse 9 in him verse 10 in him verse 12 in christ verse 13 in him in him all of this is tied to our union with christ we were chosen in him before the foundation of the world we're redeemed in him verse 7. and our inheritance is in him it is our union with him that brings us all spiritual blessings it starts with predestination i don't need to go back over that just to remind you that predestination doesn't cancel out your own responsibility how do you know that let's keep reading predestined according to his purpose it works all things after the council of his will to the end that we who were the first to hope in christ would be to the praise of his glory in him you also after listening to the message of the truth the gospel of your salvation having also believed the ground of our inheritance is that we were predestined and we believed it started with his purpose which is we pointed out some weeks ago in second timothy 1 9 he purposed in pledging to the son of god in eternity past a redeemed humanity predestined is pro or rizzo we get the word horizon from it it's intensified with a preposition at the beginning it means to mark out the boundaries god literally marked out his own people chose them and they were in god's plan and in god's will and in god's purpose and in god's mind eternally connected to his son in their being chosen and in their being redeemed they were there with him they were in christ when he died they were in christ when he rose again they now live in christ and they will be even more intensely and perfectly joined to him in the future all of this is god's plan go back to verse 11. he is the one who works all things after the council of his will in her ghetto he energizes everything so when you think about salvation i want you to think about it as the purpose of god the will of god the plan of god the intention of god he chose you but sometimes people get a little bit confused with this and they wonder well where is the necessary faith in that and it's side by side down into verse 13. you also after listening to the message of truth the gospel of your salvation having also believed salvation doesn't happen apart from faith through the years that's been a question that is asked of me over and over again how do those go together if salvation is all of god if it's monergistic if god does the choosing god does the predestining if god has to give the life to the dead person if god has to do the regenerating if god has to grant the faith if if god has to give the sinner sight and life in order to respond and believe how is it the sinner's responsibility the answer is i'm not sure the dynamics of that but i know that god's purposes in election never come to fruition unless someone believes the gospel and we've been told to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature one illustration of this if you look for just a moment at acts chapter 2 peter's preaching verse 23 acts 2 in his pentecost sermon this man speaking of the lord jesus delivered over handed over for crucifixion by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of god you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put him to death there you have divine predetermination and human responsibility god predetermined it but you're guilty because you killed him god raised him up if it was god's predetermined plan why are they held responsible for doing what they did well obviously god predetermined the death of christ for the salvation of sinners but the fact that god predetermined that doesn't justify the hatred and the rejection of the people who had jesus killed you cannot be a believer without believing basic you say well i still understand how that goes together again let me just push the the issue a little bit john 1 12. as many as received him that would be the same as believing to them he gave the right to become children of god even to those who believe in his name who becomes the child of god those who believe then verse 13 who were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of god there you have the same thing again it's the will of god not the will of man and yet you must believe in fact if you don't believe you weren't elect because election will be confirmed by faith that's not the issue the struggle that people have is why am i responsible for something if only god can do it and my answer to that is i don't have any other answer than what scripture says but let me let me tell you this is a very broad issue and i often illustrate it this way who wrote the book of romans are you struggling with that answer yes you are immediately because you don't know whether to say paul or the holy spirit and you know it wasn't an alternate verse thing paul did one in the holy spirit did one and you know it was not apart from paul's experience in paul's thoughts and paul's vocabulary but every word was from the holy spirit wherever you have in every major doctrine wherever you have god and man combined in a divine act you have that same challenge that same apparent paradox i can ask the question another way who lives your christian life i hope you can figure that out because you're responsible for it aren't you you say well no it's the holy spirit really do you want to blame him for what you have become well i can't do without him that's right if whatever's good happens in your life you give him the praise whatever wrong happens in your life you take the blame there you are again with the same reality that you cannot do anything in the flesh you can only do it by the power of the spirit and yet you are responsible to conduct your life in a sanctified way so when you come to the issue of predestination election sovereign regeneration and human responsibility i don't know what the answer to that is but that should encourage you because it means it's a far more glorious issue than any human being could ever understand but it doesn't happen without believing that's why the new testament is filled with the command to believe to believe faith comes by hearing but hearing the word of god if you confess with your mouth jesus says lord believe in your heart god raised him from the dead you'll be saved you you can't think for a moment that you are supposed to figure out whether you're elect that's absurd as spurgeon said we can't run around and see if people have an e stamped on their back but you are commanded to believe and you'll die in your sins if you believe not on me jesus said the the reality of all of this is you have an apparent paradox in every major doctrine in scripture that brings god together with man so we have an inheritance the ground of that inheritance is basically predestination verse 11. but the ground of that inheritance is also according to verse 13 believing your responsibility is not to figure out god's predestined plan your responsibility is to believe in whoever believes the lord will never turn away right so that's the foundation understanding the ground of our inheritance is bound up in god's predestined plan and our response of faith the second point that i would just direct you briefly to is the guarantee of our inheritance verse 13 at the end it says having believed you were sealed in him in christ with the holy spirit of promise who is given as a pledge of our inheritance with a view to the redemption of god's own possession what is the guarantee of our inheritance the guarantee of our inheritance is the holy spirit you were sealed in him in christ with the holy spirit you can go all the way back to ezekiel and back to the promises of the new covenant ezekiel 36 and ezekiel 37 and you will find that one of the promises that god gave in the new covenant is that he would give his spirit that he would take away the stony heart give you a heart of flesh and put his spirit within you and one very essential ministry of the holy spirit is sealing sealing with the holy spirit of promise i love that title the holy spirit of promise all that the holy spirit does is not just now in the immediate in the moment the holy spirit does illuminate us the holy spirit is our resident teacher the holy spirit does convict us of sin the holy spirit does an ongoing work in our lives of enabling us to minister through spiritual gifts but he is also the holy spirit of promise and that is to say he guarantees the fulfillment of the future inheritance now it says the seal of the spirit you were sealed in him what is what does this notion of sealing mean well let me see if i can just give you some illustrations of it in in looking at it maybe from different facets first of all we would say sealing is a sign of security just borrowing from jewish culture a little bit back in daniel chapter six you don't have to go there i'll just refer to it back in daniel chapter six a man had a a signet engraved as his identifying mark sometimes a ring or or some kind of signet that he would use to identify anything that was his any legal document this was his stamp it might have been on his finger it might have been around his waist around his neck it was his mark and when the king commanded daniel to be confined and the king wanted everybody to do exactly what he said that they were supposed to do he gave his signet to be affixed to the seal on the lion's den it only meant that no one could break that seal unless they had greater power than the king you remember that christ's tomb was sealed with a roman seal which meant that no one could break that seal no one had the power to break that seal unless they had more power than rome that was a way to secure something and that is exactly what the seal of the spirit is we are secured and we are secured secured by the holy spirit and no one has greater power than he no one can break the seal the seal also in jewish culture was a sign of authenticity you remember back in first kings 21 when ahab wanted nabas vineyard and through jezebel's deception she got it for him by writing letters and sealing them with ahab's seal this was the official mark of authenticity the royal signature so god seals us to secure us and he seals us so that it is labeled that we belong to him we are legitimate authentic sons of god we find a seal also in jeremiah chapter 32. god instructs jeremiah to purchase a piece of property that he wants him to have and his descendants will have it much later in time after the return from captivity the seal indicated ownership ownership so the seal of the holy spirit means that we are secure we are authentically the children of god [Music] we are his and in the end we will be long to him in the old testament we find a seal also used as a sign of authority you remember the story of esther when hazawaris wanted to give to haman the delegated power to kill the jews he sealed it with a signet ring later on when things changed and he was confronted with what haman was going to do chapter 8 he gave to mordecai and to esther his pledge and promise to protect the jews and to destroy haman and he again sealed it it is a symbol of authority you can carry out this action you have authority delegated from me i think that's a marvelous way to think of the holy spirit he is the one who grants to us delegated authority to access all divine resources jesus said ask anything in my name and what i'll give it to you anything according to my will being sealed with a spirit is a sign of security authenticity ownership and authority and we exercise all those things as believers so the ground of our inheritance is predestination and faith the guarantee of our inheritance is the promise the holy spirit of promise who secures us and our inheritance one other comment on verse 14. the holy spirit is given as a pledge not only a seal but a pledge what is a pledge it's a greek word arab on it it's used a couple of ways one is a down payment the holy spirit is the first installment on our inheritance yet to come the holy spirit is god's down payment on our eternal inheritance and every believer has the holy spirit if any man have not the holy spirit is none of his romans 8 9. so the fact that the spirit has taken up residence in us and we are the temple of the spirit of god means that god has given us the first installment on our eternal inheritance our bond was also used another way was used for an engagement ring so the holy spirit is for us not only the down payment to our future inheritance but the the engagement ring that means we are the bride and we will be married to the bridegroom jesus christ as a believer i think you know that your best life is yet to come right paul is really calling on these troubled believers living in the worst life of their day to suffer patiently and wait with hearts full of praise for the eternal inheritance that was promised to them he's calling for them to understand the spiritual heavenly blessings that were already secured for them by the redemptive work of jesus christ and the elective purpose of god in eternity past and they were just waiting for the full realization of them when they entered glory you are a children you are a child of god you are the temple of the holy spirit you are an heir of god you are the heritage of christ you have a heavenly inheritance you are joint heirs with him heaven is preparing for your arrival jesus said i go to prepare a place for you the best is yet to come far and away incomprehensibly but sometimes we're like a child prince who before his years of maturity can't grasp the enormity of his inheritance we have little understanding really that is why down in verse 18 for a preview of what's to come paul says i pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you will know what is the hope of his calling what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints i am praying for you that your understanding the eyes of your heart may be enlightened illuminated so that you will know the hope of your calling the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints that would be my prayer for you don't get caught up in this world we can't fix it it's not going to turn around this is it get ready for it to be less than what you want it to be you're waiting for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time to borrow peter's words fix your affections on things above not on things on the earth the ground of our inheritance is predestination and faith the guarantee of our inheritance is the holy spirit the spirit of promise who is both a seal and a down payment engagement ring a pledge finally the goal of our inheritance what is the purpose in all of this end of verse 12 to the praise of his glory end of verse 14 to the praise of his glory god is going to finally redeem us into glory as his own possession verse 14 to the praise of his glory that is always the reason for everything it's not about us it's about him this is what's remarkable and i want you to grasp this as a final thought if you're like me you wonder why the lord even tolerates you after all he is perfect perfect in every way it's incomprehensible to imagine a situation where you are all together in every way exactly what he wants you to be so that you have capacity for only one thing and that is to bring praise to his glorious name that's what heaven is all about it's not about you getting your own mansion it's not about you traversing the new jerusalem and counting the jewels it's about god having made you like his son so that you fully satisfy his holy desire you are to him as his own son is to him that's your best life father we thank you for your word so much could be said about all of this and we're scratching the surface in so many ways to grasp the wonders of eternity thank you for revelation in your holy word it's incomprehensible to us that you would ever ever save us from our wretchedness and sin wickedness and corruption lust of the flesh lust of the eyes pride of life that you would ever save us out of the kingdom of darkness that you would ever deliver us from bondage to the liar and the murderer satan who is the father of all sinners we are unworthy we thank you for your grace we thank you for the grace of election the grace of redemption and the final grace of glorification we can't even imagine being in your presence and being as perfect as your son but we know you've said we'll be like him when we see him as he is that's our best life anything short of that we thank you is very very brief a vapor that appears for a little time and vanishes away help us to get through this life enjoying the four tastes of heaven enjoying the reality of our being in christ but longing from the depths of our heart for the day when there will be no sin no transgression no iniquity no trespasses no shortcomings all will be holiness and holiness and holiness nothing but holiness and we will be as holy as your son is and we will be to the praise of your glory until that time may we cleanse ourselves from all the filthiness of the flesh that still remains perfecting holiness in the fear of god sanctify us until the time when we are fully sanctified my father we are overwhelmed that we have been chosen before the foundation of the world that christ redeemed us by name by identification personally in his death on the cross and rose for our justification and that you in predestining us predestined us to an inheritance laid up for us as peter said undefiled untarnished for us and that that inheritance is that we will be the inheritance of christ himself you give us to him as the inheritance passed down from you the father to your son and at the same time we will receive the full inheritance of all that he possesses as joint heirs with him may we set our affections on things above and not on things on the earth may we not get caught up in all the disappointments all the distractions may we see christ clearly keeping our eyes fixed on him being transformed into his image from one level of glory to the next that is our prayer in his name who asked us to come boldly the lord jesus christ amen you

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