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Scriptures for upcoming sermons:
God's Blueprint for Thriving Marriages
Ephesians Sermon Series Continued
September 5, 2010: Pastor James Kim
Ephesians 5:21 - 33 "Marriage A Sacred Rite"
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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives and Husbands
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Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
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For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
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Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
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to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
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and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
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In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—
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for we are members of his body.
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"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
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This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
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However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
August 29, 2010: Pastor James Kim
Ephesians 5:25 - 33 "S-H-M-I-L-Y"
Wives and Husbands
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Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
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to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
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and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
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In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—
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for we are members of his body.
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"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh."
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This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
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However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
August 22, 2010: Pastor James Kim
Ephesians 5: 21 - 24 "Submission"
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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives and Husbands.
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Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
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For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
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Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
God's Blueprint for the Church
Ephesians Sermon Series Continued
August 8, 2010: Pastor Cheryl McClanahan
Ephesians 5: 3-20 "Light or Darkness"
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But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people.
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Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
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For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a man is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
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Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient.
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Therefore do not be partners with them.
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For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light
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(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)
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and find out what pleases the Lord.
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Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
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For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.
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But everything exposed by the light becomes visible,
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for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said:
"Wake up, O sleeper,
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you."
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Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise,
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making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
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Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
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Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
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Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,
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always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
August 1, 2010: Pastor James Kim
Ephesians 5: 1-2 "Becoming Jack Bauer for Christ"
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Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children
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and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
July 25, 2010: Pastor James Kim
2 Samuel 24:20-25 "Why Do We Do What We Do?"
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When Araunah looked and saw the king and his men coming toward him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground.
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Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?"
"To buy your threshing floor," David answered, "so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped."
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Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take whatever pleases him and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
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O king, Araunah gives all this to the king." Araunah also said to him, "May the LORD your God accept you."
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But the king replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing."
So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.
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David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the LORD answered prayer in behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.
God's Blueprint for the Church
Ephesians Sermon Series Continued
July 18, 2010: Pastor James
Ephesians Sermon Series:
God's Blueprint for the Church -
Ephesians 4:11 - 13 "Member Ministers"
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It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
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to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up
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until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
July 11, 2010: Pastor Cheryl McClanahan
Ephesians 4:14 - 32 "Grow Up"
Unity in the Body of Christ
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Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming.
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Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.
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From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Living as Children of Light
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So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
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They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
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Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.
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You, however, did not come to know Christ that way.
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Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.
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You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
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to be made new in the attitude of your minds;
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and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
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Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body.
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"In your anger do not sin" Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry,
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and do not give the devil a foothold.
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He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need.
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Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
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And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
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Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
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Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
July 4, 2010: Reverend Brad Epperson
Sermon: "Spies Like Us"
Old Testament Scripture: Numbers 13:25 - 14:4
Numbers 13
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At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.
Report on the Exploration
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They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.
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They gave Moses this account: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit.
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But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.
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The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan."
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Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it."
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But the men who had gone up with him said, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are."
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And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size.
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We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."
Numbers 14
The People Rebel
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That night all the people of the community raised their voices and wept aloud.
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All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, "If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this desert!
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Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt?"
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And they said to each other, "We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt."
Also for July 4, 2010 "Spies Like Us"
New Testament Scripture: Hebrews 3:7 - 14
Warning Against Unbelief
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So, as the Holy Spirit says: "Today, if you hear his voice,
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do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,
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where your fathers tested and tried me and for forty years saw what I did.
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That is why I was angry with that generation, and I said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.'
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So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'
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See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
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But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
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We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.
June 27, 2010: Pastor James
Psalm 3: "Greater Than God!"
A psalm of David. When he fled from his son Absalom.
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O LORD, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me!
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Many are saying of me, "God will not deliver him."
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But you are a shield around me, O LORD; you bestow glory on me and lift up my head.
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To the LORD I cry aloud, and he answers me from his holy hill.
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I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me.
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I will not fear the tens of thousands drawn up against me on every side.
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Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
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From the LORD comes deliverance. May your blessing be on your people.
June 20, 2010: Pastor Kim
Mark 5:21 - 24, 35 - 43 "Dads"
A Dead Girl and a Sick Woman
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When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake.
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Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came there. Seeing Jesus, he fell at his feet
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and pleaded earnestly with him, "My little daughter is dying. Please come and put your hands on her so that she will be healed and live."
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So Jesus went with him.
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While Jesus was still speaking, some men came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue ruler. "Your daughter is dead," they said. "Why bother the teacher any more?"
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Ignoring what they said, Jesus told the synagogue ruler, "Don't be afraid; just believe."
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He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James and John the brother of James.
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When they came to the home of the synagogue ruler, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly.
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He went in and said to them, "Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep."
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But they laughed at him.
After he put them all out, he took the child's father and mother and the disciples who were with him, and went in where the child was.
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He took her by the hand and said to her, "Talitha koum!" (which means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up!" ).
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Immediately the girl stood up and walked around (she was twelve years old). At this they were completely astonished.
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He gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this, and told them to give her something to eat.
God's Blueprint for the Church
Ephesians Sermon Series Continued
June 13, 2010: Pastor Kim
Ephesians 4: 1-6 "Worthy Unity"
Unity in the Body of Christ
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As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
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Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
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Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
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There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called—
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one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
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one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
June 6, 2010: Pastor Kim
Ephesians 3: 14-21 "The Greatest Prayer on Earth, Part II"
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For this reason I kneel before the Father,
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from whom his whole family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name.
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I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
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may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
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and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
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Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
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to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
May 30, 2010: Pastor Kim
Ephesians 3: 14-21 "The Greatest Prayer on Earth!"
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For this reason I kneel before the Father,
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from whom his whole family[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name.
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I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
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may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
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and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
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Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,
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to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
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