Ephesians 1 and 19, we're going to go read it from the Amplified Bible here. And so that you will begin to know what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His active spiritual power is in us who believe these are in accordance with the working of His mighty And that's what James says in the book of James also. He calls him El Shaddai, which he produced in Christ when he raised him from the dead, seated him at his right hand in heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, whatever angelic or human, far above every name that is named above every title that can be conferred, not only in this age, and world, but also in the one to come, and put all things in every realm in subjection under Christ's feet, and appointed him as supreme and authoritative head over all things, even in the church, which his body, the fullness of him, fulfills and completes all things and all believers." Psalm 8 and 6 of Colossians 1 and 18. Let's go to Colossians, the first chapter, also. Start with verse number four. For we have heard of your faith in Christ. He's talking to the church at Colossus. Christ Jesus, how you lean on Him with absolute confidence in His power, wisdom and goodness, and of the unselfish love which you have for all the saints because of the confident hope of the experiencing that which is reserved and waiting for you in heaven. You previously heard of his hope and the message of truth, the gospel regarding salvation. which has come to you indeed, just as in the whole world the gospel is constantly bearing fruit and spreading by God's power, just as it has been doing among you ever since the day that you first heard of it, and understanding the grace of God in truth, becoming thoroughly and deeply acquainted with it. You can see what Paul wrote to the church at Colossus, what he wrote in what we call the Ephesian letter. You learn from your representative, Epaphras, who beloved fellow bondservant, who is faithful and minister of Christ Jesus on our behalf. And he also has told of us of your love and grounded and nurtured in the Holy Spirit. For this reason, since the day we heard about it, we have not stopped praying for you, asking specifically that you may be filled with the knowledge, same subject that we're talking about here in the book of Ephesians. and fervent love for his precepts. We pray that you may be strengthened and invigorated with all power, what we're talking about in the book of Ephesians, might attain every kind of endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints, God's people in light, for he has rescued us and has drawn us to himself through dominion of darkness from the dominion of darkness and has transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved son in whom we have redemption because of his sacrifice resulting in the forgiveness of sins and cancellation of sins and penalty. Do you realize how great the power of God is to remove you from your sins? He is the exact living image of the essential manifestation of the unseen God, the visible representation of the invisible, the firstborn, the preeminent one, the sovereign and the originator of all creation. For by him and in him all things were created in heaven and upon the earth, things visible and invisible. whether thrones or dominions, rulers or authorities, all things were created and exist through him, that is by his activity and power and for him. He himself existed and is before all things, in him all things are held together. He is a controlling cohesive force of the universe. He is also the head and the life source and leader of the body, the church. And he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will occupy the first place, that He will stand supreme and preeminent in everything. For it pleased the Father for all the fullness of Deity, the sum total of His essence, and all His perfection and powers and attributes to dwell permanently in His Son. And through the intervention of the Son to reconcile all things to Himself, making peace with believers through the blood of His cross. To Him I say, whether things on earth or in things of heaven. And although you were at one time estranged and alienated and hostile and minded toward Him, participating in all evil things, yet Christ has now reconciled you to God in His physical body through the death, in order that to present you before the Father holy and blameless and beyond reproach. And He'll do this if you continue in the faith and well grounded and steadfast and not shifting away from the confident hope that is the result of the Gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which Gospel I, Paul, was a minister. Beautiful words, huh? Beautiful words. Beautiful truths also. Beautiful truths. Now, the strength of God. The power of God, the mighty power of God. El Shaddai, the all-powerful one. Jehovah Savioth, the Lord of armies. The Lord that loves us. John 3.16, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. That's the only way that God could redeem you back to Himself, because no man could do what Jesus did. And I said in a former class, The disciples that knew Jesus, they honored Him. They did obeisance to Him. They praised Him. They loved Him because they knew Him. And if you are saved today, you know Jesus. You know Jesus, too. He's the same Jesus that called Paul, the same Jesus that calls you. 119 now. The strength and mighty, and might and power of God. Now this is a hyperbole here, which means an exaggeration. It shows you, it just exaggerates. And there are hyperboles in the Bible. One of them is, it's easier to swallow, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle. You can't go through the eye of a needle. He also told Israel, he said, you strain out the gnash, but you swallow down whole a camel, which that's a hyperbole. You can't swallow down whole a camel. You got to kill him and cut him up in pieces and eat him. But it says they followed them down whole. It's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. Those are hyperboles. Kai, Conjunction, page 208, and what the exceeding, excelling, surpassing, greatness. Nominous things in the present participle acting exceedingly. Hyperbole. This word is where we get the word hyperbole. It's hyperbolo. Hyperbole. surpassing, beyond reality, excelling, greatness, megathase. You get a mega shake, you get a mega hot dog, you get a mega french fries, it's some of these places, that's where it comes from right there, that's it. The greatness, megathase, megathus. The greatness of the dynamis, of the power. This is where we get our word dynamite. of the power of Him, belonging to Him, and the power belongs to Him and comes from Him. It's a genitive and obligative word also. Possessing it and the origin of it also. The power of Him toward us, the ones believing, toward us. That word ace there, that's extension of the limitation of the thought of verbal action, page 119. I got to get out a little Greek grammar here one of these days and give you the idea of an ace out of here. It's the same thing, extension of the limitation of the thought of verbal action. If I can find it. I won't do it right The greatness of the power belonging him unto the ones believing. That's accusative plural masculine, present participle active. And girls, even though it's masculine, it means you too. The ones believing. Constantly believing. You know, once you come to the knowledge of God and you believe and you accept Jesus Christ as your savior, you continue believing. Because the Spirit of God is in you, guiding you into all truth. Guiding into all truth. Unto the ones believing. Unto the believing ones according to Kata, Thane, and Nanageon. The one energizing. We got a word energy right out of this. You know, coal has got energy in it. Light's got energy in it. Oil's got energy in it. They used to go whaling, and the whale oil had energy in it. Kerosene, you get an Aladdin lamp. An Aladdin lamp is a kerosene lamp, but it has a mantle in it, and the mantle glows. A candle has one count in candle power, which is one watt, okay? Aladdin lamp with a mantle on it, it puts out 60 camel power, 60 watt light. And it puts out 7500 BTUs of heat. And it comes from the kerosene, and there you have light and you have heat, both. Now he said, the ones believing, according to the energizing, the operation, enacting, you know, you can have a car out there in your yard, Unless you've got a key to it, when you get in it and you say go, it won't go until you put a key in it. God is the key to our spiritual energy. We've got the key. All we have to do is put it in and turn on the ignition. That's it. And God energizes us, the energy of His might, Kartus, of His might, of the strength, the isthus, it's using all kinds of every Greek word available for strength here. Here, we'll look at it, dynamos, the word greatness, hyperbolo, overbounding, we have the word energizing, we have the word kratos, we have that word isthus, of the strength of him. Paul uses every Greek word to describe the power of God. The power of the resurrection. You know, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is in the gospel. I say there is only one mode of baptism. I've got a little book over here that tries to tell you that baptism is just a rite, the word baptizo here. And it was written in 1700-something by Peter Baptist to try to say that that pouring and sprinkling is as valid as Calvin did, as the real thing of baptism. All people agree that baptism by immersion was the original form. It was not sprinkling, it was not pouring. The word baptizo means to immerse. The word, if you go into the Latin Greek lexicon here, This thing is written in 1766. And written in Old English too, by the way. There it is. The word baptizo in Latin is mergio. Right there. Right there. Mergio. Now we get our English word. emerged from the Latin word Mergio, which means to dip. Now let's look at the word baptism for just a moment while we're looking at this. Baptism portrays a death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. It portrays the gospel. You die. As Jesus Christ died and was buried and raised again, then we die, we're buried, and we're raised again unto the newness of life. That's it. That's baptism. in which He has operated, He has energized, third person singular, perfect, indicative, active, perfect tense, He has energized us in the Christ. He energized us in Christ. Christ in you energizes you. Christ in you makes you want to see other people believed and saved. You want to see them believed and saved. Energizes him, accuses singular mass in third person pronoun, out of the dead ones. Ek nekrom. When you go down here about ten miles from here we have a graveyard. The Fish Lake Valley Graveyard. And in that graveyard is a necropolis. It's a city of the dead. Now, all those people are going to stay dead in there until Christ raises them. In the rapture, he raises people. He raises the dead and the living in the rapture and they're raised. The dead are raised and energized, their bodies are re-energized and that is a fullness of redemption. See, you're not really totally redeemed. You are saved in this life, you're saved forevermore, but your whole person, your body, soul, and spirit are not redeemed until the resurrection. Now, if you're lucky to be here during the rapture, the first thing you see is the dead coming out of the ground, out of these narcopolises. There's probably dead people even in my property here someplace. This is old Indian ground here. you'll see the dead rise in Christ. You'll just see them materialize out of the ground. Even the ocean, can you imagine being out there in the ocean in a ship and all of a sudden you see people coming up out of the ocean, the dead, coming up out of the ocean, just coming up like dolphins, except they don't quit going up, they just keep going up. And then, those that are saved, 1 Thessalonians 4, 16, 17, are chained as we go up Our bodies are changed into the immortal, from the natural, from the mortal to the immortal. Which he has operated, energized, it's perfect tense by the way, in the Christ. God, only one way that God's going to save you. That's in Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ died for you, he was buried and he rose from the dead in a glorified form. He was God in flesh again. He was the God in all glory in flesh. The Christ, having raised him, a Geras, that's Nominee Singular Mass in First Terrestrial Participle Acting. Having raised him, that Auton there is Accusative Singular Mass in Third Person Pronoun, have raised him, out of, ek, page 121, out of, Dead ones, necron. Dead ones means the necropolis, people that are buried, their bones and flesh and whatever there. Whether you're embalmed and where your body looks like it the same way you buried it 30 or 40 years ago, when you're embalmed, basically the body is preserved. It's like preserving peaches or ham or whatever. It's canned. And a coffin is a hope chest. Because one day you hope that that person will come up. But the hope is guaranteed. All men will be raised. The lost and the saved will be raised. The lost will be saved over here. And here at the end of this. And they will be raptured because these people are going to be living in their natural bodies. They're going to be raptured or changed again. And then the dead, the double dead will be raised from their lost bodies. They'll come up corruptible, but forever in a corruptible form. Hell is worse than we can ever imagine. Having raised him out of the dead ones. Oblited plural. And, conjunction, having seated. Nominative singular masculine, first direct part, sublacky. Having seated. in the right side, in preposition, page 137 there, just like our English preposition in our English language. In the dexios, the right side. The right side is the power for all the power and authority is in the right side. Right side of him. in the heavens, in the heavenlies, in and above all heavens. Number 121 now. Hyperanno passeis arches cae exsusias cae dynamios cae chirotetos cae pontas onomatos onazumenu umonon ento AYONAH, TUTOH, OLAH, KAI, ENTOH, NELON, TI. This is quite a verse of Proverbs. Number 21, this is quite a verse. Every title that you can think of, and he's writing it against this. Now, Jehovah Witnesses, you're listening to this, he's writing this against you. You're a Gnostic? He's writing against you. Because this verse right here tells us that Jesus Christ is God. He always was God. And it tells us all of His powers. Jesus is Jehovah Shamanai, the Lord with us. He is Jehovah Ro'eh. He's the Lord Jehovah, our Shepherd. He is El Shaddai, the Lord Almighty. He is Jehovah Ro'eh. Jehovah, all the Jehovah titles that are in Christ Jesus. We read it twice, it's so beautiful, we're going to need to read it all the time. Hyperano. It comes from hyper and ano. It means far above. Of all, passe, genitive singular, of all arcades, of all rules. rulers, rule and rulers, and authority, exousia. By the way, the word exousia, Jesus in Matthew 28, 18 through 20, he said all power in heaven and earth was given unto him. And he told the church, as you've been kicked out, make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to guard with the lives all things that I have taught you. I hand it down to you. And that is a translation from Greek, by the way. far above all rule and ecthoria exousia. Exousia means eck. It means out of it is what it means. Out of it. Out of it. Out of it means that there is no limits. Unlimited power and unlimited rule. No limits. Authority means no limits. Jesus said no limits. All authority, no limits were given unto me in heaven and upon the earth. And power, and dynamis, dynamite power. Here's another word for power. Dynamite power and karyotetos, lordship. This is dominion. This is the word Adonai in the Hebrew language. Adonai ha-Adonaiim. Jesus is called Adonai ha-Adonaiim in Revelation. 19 and verse 11 onward. Here we have the glory, the Lordship of Christ. When Jesus Christ rose from the dead, He was over all things. As I told you in a former message, we ought to honor, we ought to reverence Jesus. When we take the Lord's Supper, it doesn't come to us as some blessing doesn't come to us. We are blessing the Lord Jesus Christ that saved us and died for us and rose from the dead. In that Lord's Supper, we thank Him, we honor Him, we glorify Him. We don't get anything back. We remember Him. We praise Him. Exousia, and dynamis, and lordship, dominion, and every onomatopoeia, every name. The word name there is also a word authority. When you sign your name on something, that means that you give your authority and whatever contract it is, you say that I will follow this. In every name, being named, onomatos, that means authority, onomizemon, being named, that's present participle, passive voice, genitive singular, neuter. In every name being named, uc not adverbication 294, only, not only, in the age. In the age, that means the time. This means the season, this season. If you look here, behind me, on all these times, we had the age of innocence, incidentally, with Adam in the garden. And then we had the curse of death, and we had the age of conscience, we had the flood, we had the human government established, And we have the confusion of language and the division of the earth. These are all ages, okay? And then we have the age of promise with Abraham. Israel is called out from Abraham. We have the Egyptian bondage. We have the law given. And then we have the church age. Not only in this age, in this time, this age, Aionia, To-o-ni-o-ni-tu-to. Not only in this age that all of them is locative singular, locative singular, locative singular, demonstrative pronoun. And then we have an ola, that's a strong aversive conjunction. But, also in the one coming, in the age coming. Not only in this age, but in the age coming. In the Church Age, there's going to be a Tribulation Period, there's going to be what we call the Kingdom Age, and then the Eternal Ages. Jesus Christ will be Lord with authority over everything through all of these ages. El Olam, the God of the Ages, the God of Eternity, the God of Mysteries, Misterion, The secrets, the God of secrets. As many people used to say, when you die you go into the great mystery. You go into the great mystery above. Psalm 10 and verse 1, Leviticus 3 and 2, 2 Kings 4, 27, Matthew 13, 11, Ephesians 1, 9 and 10, and 3, 2 through 6. Hebrews 20, Hebrews we have also. All of this, the God of the ages. God's eternal purpose. This chart here shows you God's eternal purpose. And He is the God in every age. He is the God of the Bible. He is the God of Heaven. He is the God of Earth. He is the God of the Church Age. He is the God of the Abrahamic Age. He is the God of all of these. Verse number 22 now. hypetoxin, hypo, toos, podos, auto, chi, auton, edokon, kefalane, hyper, ponta, cane, arte, ecclesia. And all things, the one consummating all the ages, about to come and the ones who were behind, the ones, the ages about to come. And all things, and all things He stood under and subjected. All things will be stood under and subjected to Him. Third Person is He and the First Christ and the Dignity of Active. Hippo, Tosso. All things in all period of time, will be subjected to Jesus Christ under the feet of Him. Hippo, that means under, page 417. And then tus podos, the feet of Him, podos, we have a podiatrist, you go to a foot doctor, that's a podiatrist, that's where you get it right here, podos. Under the feet of Him, belonging to Him, genitive, singular, masculine, third person pronoun, alto, And, conjunction, page 208, and in him, accusative, singular, masculine, third person, pronoun, and in him, he gave, headship, he gave, third person, singular, first person, dignity, and this was at the very point, the very point, when Christ came into this world, he came into this world as a servant, he came into this world to die, he came into this world to live, A life that was perfect so mankind could see what a perfect human would do. That's how perfect you have to be if you're going to get to heaven without it. But since no man ever did that, you can't get to heaven without Jesus Christ. Not the purest Pharisee, Paul. He was unspotted, he said, according to his religion, but he said, I wasn't good enough. And Paul, the apostle, couldn't ever stop praising Jesus, the one that saved him. He said, He saved me, a worthless one, one that was aborted. Born out of time, he was aborted. He was an abortion. He was on his way to hell. And Paul reached and grabbed him up. He reached and grabbed Paul up and set him on his feet and he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, Jesus, whom you persecuted. What would you have me do? When Paul found out that he was going the wrong way, he turned around abruptly, without face. If you go to Damascus, go over there to a man, Ananias, and you go over there and you're going to be baptized. And when you're baptized, you'll be able to see again because God struck him blind because he was blind. All of you out there without Jesus Christ are blind. When God saves your soul, He opens the heart of your soul, the eyes of your soul, so you can see how wonderful and glorious He is. Jesus is God. Jesus is our only one and only Savior. He gave Him the headship, the kafale, the kafale, over, hyper, over and above all things in He gave him over all things in the church. There are many churches out there in the land, but Jesus called out his church in his personal ministry and he said he'd be here always until the end of the age according to Matthew 16 and 18 and 28, 18 through 20, Ephesians 3, 21. Indisputable head of the assembly. Not Calvin, not Luther, not the Pope, none of these here, not Joseph Smith, not Muhammad, all of these did not start God's church. The Lord started his own church. And some of these churches, you'll hear some truth. But if you want to hear all truth, you've got to go to the truth. Because all of it is kind of, it gets a little foggy here, a little foggy there. But I pray that God will open up the eyes of your soul to see the truth. Because the truth will set you free. The administrator of God's kingdom today are His true New Testament churches. The administrators of God's kingdom today are His true New Testament churches. And they are the ones that have the keys to the kingdom. It's not the Pope. It's not anybody else. The keys to the kingdom were given unto the church, the Ecclesia. The undisputable head of that church is Jesus. And that church will be, from now on, that church will be in close contact, immediate contact with her Savior. Now, in the world today, we have the church, we have the family of God, and we have the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is what the church is doing, the administrator in the kingdom right now. The family of God are all of those that are saved. There are many saved people in many churches. I have a hard time in Jehovah's Witnesses, the assembly halls, and in the Mormons to find a saved person. But there possibly is. Possibly, but you've got to believe that Jesus Christ is God. You've got to not believe that He is a God, but He is God. And that He died for your sins, and He rose again, and there's no other God beside Him. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit dwelled in Jesus on this earth. 123 now. Hētis estin tō soma, autu tō plērōma, tū tā pānta en pāsēn plērōmenu. This assembly, this ekklesia, is the body of Him, the body of Christ. Let's go to the word church there, ekklesia, for just a minute. It comes from ekk and kalio. It comes from two Greek words, the preposition ek and kalio. Ek and kalio. Kalio means I call. I call is what it actually is. And when it's called the ekklesia, it means the one's called out. When did Jesus begin calling out His church? When did He do it? At the seashores of Galilee. He called that church out there. had a treasurer in it and it had a clerk in it. It had members in it. That church baptized believers. That church took the Lord's Supper with the Lord before the day of Pentecost. A lot of people start the church on the day of Pentecost but the church was already there. What happened on the day of Pentecost is that the church was empowered. The church was there already. And it says Hathas here. That is a strong relative pronoun, which she is, third person singular present, the body, the soma, the body of him. The church is the administrator of God's kingdom in the world today. We have the saved, the family of God, we have the church, the legitimate churches out there that are really administrators of God's kingdom, and then we have the kingdom. The kingdom is that which God rules over. We have the kingdom of Satan now and we have the kingdom of God. The kingdom of Satan is ruled by Satan and his emissaries wherever they are in false religion, whatever they are in the world today. But the kingdom of God is ruled by his church today. They are responsible for it. The fullness of the pleroma, the fullness of the all things, the things all, ta ponta, the things all, in all things, He is fulfilling. Genitive, singular, masculine, present, participle, passive voice. If anybody is saved in God's churches, if you are saved out there by listening to these messages, which I preach the gospel in every one of them, if you are saved by that, it is not me. It is Jesus Christ working through His church There are so many religions in the world today, people are so confused. Satan's done a good job of confusing, just making it look like a mess. One of them's got to be right, huh? One of them traces its lineage back to Him. One of them that practices the right kind of baptism, with the right kind of authority, the baptism, dipping, not rontizo, not sprinkling, not nepto, pouring, but baptizo, a baptizing to dip. You dip him. You dip someone in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and you do it in the name of Jesus Christ, and you're dead. It's a death, burial, and resurrection. You don't get a death, burial, and resurrection in sprinkling porn. You get a death, burial, and resurrection only in immersion. The body, the church, is his purchased possession. It's a twice-blooded people. You've been blooded as you are in the family of God, and then you're double-blooded in the church. The church is only of the Lord Jesus Christ, the only ones that can practice the Lord's Supper in all reality, and the only ones that can practice real baptism. And when you practice the Lord's Supper, you're not getting anything from it. It is not a rite that transfers grace to you. It is not a vehicle of grace. You worship God. You praise God when you take this cup and this bread. You take the cup and remember His body. You take the cup and remember His blood and you take the wafer or the bread, morsel of bread, and you remember His body. He died for you. That body was dead, and he went into a grave, and then he rose again. Death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our Father, we send this message out for your honor and glory today. Please use it wherever it goes. Please honor yourself in it. Please, we lift up our Savior. We praise and we honor Him in everything we do. Please forgive me where I fail you. In Jesus' name I pray, amen.