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We are all unique. We are all different. We are all created in Gods Image. Our individual uniqueness, our individual differences all have a purpose in Gods Amazing Plan! The book of Ephesians gives us a look at who we are and what we are purposed towards. Ephesians starts out with telling us that we are faithful. In Christ, we are trustworthy and trust full. We believe. We are convinced. We are pacified. We are tranquilized, conciliated, won & gained by Jesus Christ. We are evidenced and authorized. We rely on, have confidence in, and are content with Jesus. We obey, are persuaded, trust and yield ourselves to Him and are engaged by the moral influences of Gods Favor and Gods Affection. We are faithful, loyal and steadfast in Christ. We belong to Jesus. He chose us with the Father, from the beginning of creation to be set apart and complete in Gods Presence. We are accepted because it pleases Him to do so! Paul beseeches us in Romans by the mercies of God that we present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service. Because we belong to Jesus, giving Him our whole selves, our entire being is the least we can do. We can rest in this: that if there isnt any one who ever sees our potential, if no one ever sees anything good in us, if there is never a single, solitary person in this world who can love us as we are, its okay because Jesus and our Heavenly Father do! We are blessed. We are adorable; we are able to receive adoration in heavenly places in Christ. We are well-spoken of, thanked, prospered, and addressed for help in the heavens, by our Heavenly Father. Our Heavenly Father speaks well of us and shows us His appreciation as well as shows us how valuable we are to Him by allowing us to help each other by extending the invitation He so freely gave to us to be a part of His Kingdom/His family. Our Heavenly Father desires to be in the beautiful relationship of partnership with us! We are appreciated, treasured and successful in Christ. We are being invited to help, to be a part Gods Plan. We are given the ability to give adoration in return. When we speak well of each other, when we show each other appreciation, when we help each other in any way we can, we are extending the invitation to be a part of our deepest, most inward, core part of our being. We are inviting other people to take part in our regenerate, sensitive, animate vitality everything we are the same invitation Jesus gives to us with Him. This is the beauty of relationship. We are blessed with fine speaking / elegant language. We have the ability to speak well towards each other. We are blessed with Gods commendation. We are blessed with His adoration. We are blessed with His ability to adore and appreciate each other. We are called. We are invited to help to be a part of Gods Plan, extending the invitation to others to be a part of His Plan, too. When we give our stuff to Jesus, He gives His stuff to us. This is the beauty of relationship with Jesus.

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When we give Jesus our irrational, we receive His Rational. When we give Jesus our insignificance, He gives us His Vitality. When we give Jesus our messed up mental disposition, He gives us His Righteousness (His Right way of being/His Right Disposition). We exchange our mess for His Righteousness; our hopelessness for His Hope. This imperfect progress we call our life here on earth is our Hope being discovered daily. That Hope is one breath, breathed/spoken by our Heavenly Father. We are chosen to be holy, without blame, in love. We are selected from the beginning to completion. We are laid forth, related systematically. We are a set discourse. Each one of us is an individual expression of God breaking silence. We are each one, simple, single, solitary breath breathed by God. God broke through the silence when He chose to speak, breathing us into existence for the purpose of being holy, without blame. God desires and designed us to be physically pure, morally blameless, ceremonially set apart, and unblemished. We cannot be any of this on our own because of sin, but we are not left abandoned, without hope. Our Hope is in Christ. Because of our relationship with Jesus the Father says we are physically pure, morally blameless, set apart and unblemished. In Christ, the impossible becomes possible! We are predestined. We are limited to advance. We are predetermined. It is determined by God, before it ever happens what we are to do and where we are to be. Prior to the circumstances we created because of our own choices God already marked out the boundary line/ the limit for each and every one of us. He already declared, determined and limited the frontier (region) for us to be in. If we are inquisitive in nature, it is because God predetermined us to be so. If we love digging in and studying anything, if we love sharing what we discover & learn with others, its because God determined it to be so! Whatever we love to do, whatever we dont like doing, our personality, it all is what it is because God determined it to be so! When we get outside of His Boundaries, when we move out of the position He determined for us to be in we find ourselves positioned in a world of mess. In Christ we are positioned in Grace. Our position of Grace was determined long before we ever even thought to consider life or the Lord, long before we thought about where we were going to be or what we would be doing. God was already preparing a place to position us in Christ. He did so for no other reason then His own determination. God chose, He was inclined to decree our position to be so, on purpose, because it satisfied and delighted Him to do it. In other words, God did it because He wanted to! Our position in Christ, as Gods own, is already defined and determined for us (Vincents Word Studies). Our position of Grace is a position of adoption. Adoption is all about position. The position of adoption graciously allows us to be in relationship with our Heavenly Father. This is only possible because of Jesus Christ and the redemption He provided. Because of our position of relationship with the Father in Christ we are able to dig into His Word and discover who He is and how we are able to be in relationship with Him. In Christ we are accepted. We are graced. We are endued with special honor. We are highly favored. We are gratified and given gratitude. God influences our heart and our reflection in life so that we will pursue Him passionately, whatever it takes! Gods influence changes us. We cannot change ourselves, no matter how hard we try. He makes the unacceptable able to be accepted. He causes the unfavorable to be favored. Those who are disgraced and regarded as trash, in Christ find themselves full of grace and treasured. Gods influence dispels the sadness and breaks in with joy. Gods influence gives pleasure where there was none to be found. Gods influence causes the ungrateful to be thankful. Gods influence turns our world completely around!

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In Christ we are redeemed. We are fully ransomed. We are completely ridded of, loosened off, dissolved, destroyed, broken up, melted, put off, broken, wrecked, cracked, sundered, separated, shattered, reduced, disrupted, lacerated, convulsed (with spasms) and given over to joyful emotions FREE from the rule of sin! We dont have to live under its domination any more! Redemption is imbued, influenced, and supplied by Jesus. Redemption is fulfilled, accomplished, full and furnished by Jesus. Through His Blood poured out on the Cross we have freedom (pardon). We are delivered and forgiven. We have liberty. We are in remission just like a cancer recovery patient. In Christ we are abated, relaxed, moderated, released, discharged, and relinquished from the disease and pain of sin! In Christ we are sent forth. We are forsaken, laid aside, left, let alone, let be, let go, omitted, put away, and remitted from our sinful, selfish desires and determinations as well as what we suffer (allow) our desires and determinations to have control of. We give up our sinful, selfish desires and determinations. This enables us to embrace, cling to, and possess Gods desires and determinations towards every one knowing Him intimately in relationship, whatever it takes.

Sin is what we are redeemed from. The slide-slip, the lapse, the deviation, the unintentional error, the willful transgression, the fall, the fault, the trespass, the offense all of these, no matter what it is that weve done, it makes us guilty of apostasy, falling aside from, falling away from, failing, falling from beside Jesus. It causes us to lose our position of relationship with Jesus as well as with our Heavenly Father, making everything Jesus did for us all for nothing. This places us under Gods wrath, positioning us under the rule of sin again only worse then what we were before.

In Christ we are redeemed, fully, abundantly, richly in every area of our lives! In Christ we are free from the mess of sin!
In Christ we have wisdom and prudence. In Christ we are clear, reined in, and curbed in our feelings, in our understanding, in our discretion, caution, practical skills and intelligence. In Christ we are able to mentally put things together. In Christ we have insight. In Christ all our sentiments, opinions, and mental dispositions, all our interests, affections, everything we savor and regard, all of our thoughts are clear, reined in and curbed not just a little but super abounding, in excess, in quantity and quality enabling us to excel! In Christ we are able to abound more, able to have abundance, able to be better, able to have enough to spare; we are able to exceed and excel, to increase, to remain over and above and beyond in quality as well as in quantity. In Christ we are able to be superior in quality, excessive, violently preeminent Complete. In Christ we are complete.

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In Christ we have obtained an inheritance. We are all allotted and assigned a privilege. We are broken for the purpose of drawing chances to secure a portion of the privilege to be in the position of relationship with our Heavenly Father that we have acquired. There is no greater position, no greater privilege then this. In Christ we trust. We hope in advance of any other confirmation. We expect, confide, and anticipate with pleasure. We place our expectations and confidence in Him prior to, before seeing or hearing the confirmation. This is the Faith we have in Christ. Faith is something we have, something we do, and something we are. Faith covers aspect of our lives. The faith we have is pisteuo, the credit we entrust to Him. The faith we do, the faith we put into action is pistis. It is our persuasion, our credence, our moral conviction, our reliance, our constancy, our assurance, our fidelity that we hold to. The faith we are (faithful) is peitho. We are convinced, pacified, conciliated, assented, relied on, agreed, assured, believed, confident, content, made a friend, obey, persuaded, trusted, yielded to Christ. In Christ we are sealed with the Holy Spirit. We are stamped with a signet or private mark for security and preservation. We are fenced in, impressed, enclosed, blocked up and silenced; we are reined in and curbed in our feelings (our sensitive nature), and in our mind (our cognitive faculties/understanding). Jesus, through His Holy Spirit, reins us in / fences us in for the security and preservation of our selves and those around us. In Christ we are given wisdom. We are given understanding, caution, practical skill, and mental intelligence. We are put together in comprehension and consideration. We are also given revelation. We are given disclosure, the cover is taken off what was hidden, stolen, concealed is now found, recovered, and exposed in Christ. What was separated from our knowledge is now a part of it. Whatever we did not understand completely, will one day be completely understood in Christ. In Christ our vision, our sight, the jealous side-glance of our understanding, the deep thought of our mind, our mental disposition, our imagination, the channel of our action, our intellect (mind thought, feeling, will), our meaning, what we absolutely know, what we allow, are aware of, what we feel and perceive are resolved of, can speak, and be sure of. Our breath, our soul, our vitality, our heart is enlightened and illuminated; having rays shed on it, shined on it, and is brought to light / made luminous (manifested/revealed) so that we can perceive / be aware of / look on / see / be sure of / tell and understand as we gaze with wide eyes at something remarkable, voluntarily, mechanically, passively, casually expressed vision while inspecting, watching from a distance, discerning, staring at physically or mentally, attending to experiencing the Hope, the expectation, the anticipation, the confidence we have in Christs invitation with pleasure and fullness, the abundance, the richness, the valuable gift given in the filling, the influence, the supply and the accomplishing of the apparent dignity, honor, praise, and thought of our possession concerning our position of relationship with the Father. Philippians 1:9-10 shows that our love is expressed in words and deeds. that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ. We can confidently know, trusting Jesus in all things because He is far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but in that which is to come; and has put all things under His feet and gave Him to be the Head over all things to the Church, which is the body, the fullness of Him that fills all in all (Ephesians 1:21-23).

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We are redeemed and reconciled into the position of right relationship with our Heavenly Father. We are changed from being walking corpses, the living dead or zombies to being awakened, resurrected. We are able to see, hear, feel and be consciously aware while we are busy and active (Ephesians 2:1-3). In Christ we are able to experience life! God is wealthy, abounding with wealth, fully and abundantly, ready and able to give mercy (compassion) (tenderness). Because of His large love (social and moral benevolence and affection) He breathes after us. The deepest sense of longing within Him is long for relationship with us! He is a friend like no other. He is so fond of us, longing to be affectionately, personally attached, deliberately. His Choice, His Passion, His Intention, His Intellect, His Determination are all turned toward us, like a kiss, as a mark of tenderness that is His Love for us!!! Christs finished redemption is made reality by our faith, our confident belief in Him. There is nothing we could ever do to deserve or earn His Redemption. His Grace covers us. Grace is charis, the gratifying manner or act, the influence [of God] on our heart and on our reflection in life. It is the element that causes us to be acceptable, favorable, gifted, joyful, pleasurable and thankful. Grace is what enables us to be calmly happy, content and well off. Grace satisfies our Heavenly Father to divinely influence our heart and perspective of life so that we can have the ability to accept, favor, be joyful, take pleasure and be calmly happy (content) with Him in return! Because of Gods Acceptance, Favor, Joy, Pleasure, and Contentment we are saved (sozo). We are able to be safe, saved, delivered, protected, healed, and preserved. We are able to do well and be whole. We are able to be roused from death. Our walking corpses become revived so that we can be in company with Jesus. There are no zombies in heaven. Gods Grace enables our faculties to be collected: our minds, our hearts and our wills (whatever we determine) are aroused from sleep, from sitting, lying down, from disease or death, from obscurity, inactivity, or nonexistence. Gods Grace enables us TO STAND in union with Christ; standing closer than mere association, companionship, resemblance, process, possession. Gods Grace enables us to stand in union with Christ completely. Jesus is One who sticks closer then a brother. We are a product, a fabric of Gods Workmanship. We are a product, a fabric, fabricated, founded, formed originally, gotten, acquired, obtained, possessed, provided and purchased in Christ to benefit, to bring beauty, to bring value and virtue to our work, our efforts, our occupations whatever it is we do. God fit it up in advance, He prepared, provided, made ready, adjusted, and thoroughly equipped down in us as His vessel, His implement, His equipment, His apparatus, prior to, superior to, in front of all else so that we can tread all around, walking at large as proof of His Ability, living, deporting ourselves to His way, following Him as a companion. We are to be occupied, through, all over, around, pierced through and across, trampling underfoot a path as if by a single blow, in our upright, standing position in Christ. This is how we are designed to be. This is how we are to have dominion over everything that creeps on the earth. Lets not forget that the biggest creeper creeping about the most is the enemy of our souls and we are designed to be in dominion over it. In Christ we are all constructed and composed together to be a house builder, to construct and confirm with Christ a place for God, our Heavenly Father to dwell, occupy, inhabit, remain, and cohabit (like family) with us in fellowship. The Greatest part of Salvation is being able to be in the greatest relationship of partnership with Jesus Him living in us while we get to live for Him! There is no greater honor, no greater privilege than to be so close to Him that

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sometimes we need to step back so that we can gaze on Him and appreciate His Beauty, His Glory and His Splendor and remind our frail minds and weak hearts that He is there and we cannot be trusted, we are unable to move and do anything without Him. In Christ we are fellow-heirs. We participate and partake. We get, we share, we possess, we parcel out, we use, we regulate; we all have a part, a portion, and a purpose secured: we all have a chance broken off for us. Our inheritance that we have together is the Law of Moses and the Principles found in the Gospels. Nothing is too hard for Gods Grace. His amazing, wonderful, mighty treasury of mercy, grace and love is for all of us! This is our position, our walk, our destiny in Christ. Studying, digging in, memorizing, meditating is how we learn and come to know God. I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget Your Word. Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live, and keep Your Word. Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.-Psalm 119:16-18 In Christ we have boldness and access with confidence by faith. We hold, we possess, we have the ability to speak out, to be frank, to be blunt, to be public and assured; we are confident, free, open and plain as we pour forth, utter, speak, command, any and every expression. We hold, we possess, we have the ability to access, have admission, lead towards, conduct near, approach, bring, draw near, drive, go, pass, induce forward, toward our Heavenly Father, before His Throne, having relationship with Him with confidence, reliance, and trust - experiencing, sensing, being impressed (passion) through our persuasion and reliance on Christ. Being able to dig into Gods Word, memorizing, meditating on His Word helps us to learn His Word and enables us to possess, holding the ability to speak Gods Word frankly, bluntly, publicly, and culturally plainly from pouring forth everything God pours into us with confidence, trust, and reliance on Him to shield, protect, and keep me sensitive, passionate and deeply impressed for and with Him! Studying, memorizing, and meditating on Gods Word enables us to stand in the middle of our tribulations, whether self or otherwise imposed. Ephesians 3:13 faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. If we cant stand at the mere thought of someone elses tribulations, then we will never be able to stand through our own. On our own, we are bad, we are weak. We fail in our heart. On our own, we are intrinsically worthless, effectually hurtful, depraved, injurious, harmful, noisome, and wicked from the beginning, not able to stand under pressure, in affliction, in anguish, under burdens, or in trouble. When life crowds us, when everything around us narrows in on us, on our own, we fail. This doesnt have to be reality. In Christ we are able to be strengthened, empowered, increased in vigor, and made powerful, mighty, and in dominion with force the miraculous power by which a miracle is made reality. In Christ we have the ability abundantly, with meaning, and power, violently working. Our ability in Christ is the ability of passion. In Christ we are strengthened and empowered to eagerly take, to seize, to possess, to apprehend, to attend, to attain, to find, to perceive and overtake while overseeing, looking diligently, being aware, regarding, and spying from a concealed place like a scout or sentry on watch, marking a goal, gazing with wide eyes at something remarkable from the distance, determined to take eagerly the width, the length, the depth, the height to absolutely know, be aware of, perceive, be resolved, speak, be sure of, and understand the love, the affection, and the

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benevolence of Christ. The limits of Christs love and affection cannot be known in the perspective of our own limits; from our perspective, His love and affection is limitless. We will never be able to see the edge, any edge of His limits . In Christ we understand that there is nothing wider, nothing stretches greater or covers more, nothing is higher, nothing is longer, nothing is deeper, more profound then the Love of Christ. When we comprehend this, when we are able to grab a hold of, seize, possess and perceive this when we are able to know absolutely (without a doubt so much as shadowing), when we are able to be resolved that there is nothing wider, higher, longer, or deeper than Christs Love then we will find ourselves filled. In Christ, we are filled. We are crammed; the hollow is leveled up, furnished, satisfied, executed, finished, accomplished, completed, fulfilled, perfected and supplied. Thats what Gods fullness, Gods completion, Gods Contents and Supplement, does to us. We are His vessels, His performance, and His work. Each and every one of us are His Pieces that He fills up! In Christ we are walking, treading all around, walking at large as proof of ability; we are living, deporting ourselves to follow Christ as a companion or one devoted, consecrated, or engage by a vow to a particular service, worship, study or way of life). We are trampling a path, treading underfoot by a single blow, stinging like a scorpion, cudgeling, and pummeling, with repeated blows with our feet through every matter, circumstance, subject or occasion. We tread all around, walk at large as proof of the ability that was placed in us by the Holy Spirit with all lowliness keeping the passion and thoughts low, holding them tight and keeping them corralled. In Christ we are made suitable to lead, bring, drive, go, and pass through the invitation we received from Christ. Our Vocation, our calling, our invitation is the work of the Holy Spirit on the human heart (Barnes Notes). In Christ we are gentle and mild, patient, and passionate. We hold each other up against whatever seeks to take us down we help each other to endure, making every effort, speedily, being prompt and earnest, diligent in laboring and studying as we watch, keep an eye on and guard carefully, detaining, maintaining and withholding ONENESS - unanimity, one rational soul, vital principle, mental disposition jointly tied like a ligament, united in completeness. In Christ we are prospering, quiet, and at rest. We are incited and ordered in one expectation, one anticipation with pleasure and confident of our invitation. In Christ we are ONE Whole with many parts each and every one of us is a part of Christs Whole! We are One Whole and there is One Controller, One Supreme, One Persuasion , One Credence, One Moral Conviction, One reliance, One constant, One overwhelming fully wet, wholly covering stain covering us the One Whole Body of Christ. In Christ we are all given Grace (charis). We are all given graciousness. We are all being gratified with the divine influence on our hearts and our reflection in life. We are all given acceptance, benefit, favor, gift, liberality, pleasure, and thanks to the portion, to the degree of the gratuity, gift, present and sacrifice of Christ. We all have Complete Grace because Christs gift of sacrifice is complete. He gave all. Because of Jesus we can have our entire heart, our complete reflection in life, completely gratified, accepted, benefited, favored, pleasured and grateful. Jesus gave all so that we could receive all so that we could give all! There are four gifts gifted to us, the body of Christ. We are not all in the categories of these gifts, but we are all blessed by these people that God places in these positions. These gifts are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.

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Apostles are delegates, ambassadors, commissioners with miraculous power. They are messengers, sent out, set apart, at liberty, and separated. Prophets are foretellers, inspired speakers, poets. They make Gods thoughts known by speaking. Evangelists are preachers of the gospel. They announce the good news, declaring and bringing glad (good) tidings. Pastors are shepherds. They tend and care for Gods people. Teachers are instructors, doctors, masters. They learn and teach. The purpose of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers is for the complete furnishing, the thorough repair, the adjustment, the fitting, the frame, the mending, the preparation, the restoration and the perfection of us. What we are all gifted with is various things that completely furnish, thoroughly repair, adjust, fit, frame, mend prepare and restore each other for the work, the effort, the occupation, the action of the ministry, the attendance of service, the aid, the administration, relief, service to pursue and press toward our position of relationship as well as for the edifying / building up of the structure, the confirmation of the whole so that each and everyone of us can pursue and press toward our position of relationship. In Christ we are perfect. We are complete. We are complete in labor, in growth, in mental character, and in moral character. Completeness is biblical perfection. When we are complete in labor, growth, mental / moral character we are steady, steadfast, stable. Steadfastness enables us to stand against the various doctrines (teachings), thoughts, ideas, and whatever other deceptions men came up with. Steadfastness enables us to speak truthfully in love, growing up into Christ in all things in every area of our life making us perfect making us complete. Weve discovered a lot about the life in Christ lets compare it to the life without Christ. This is found in Ephesians 4:17-19. Without Christ we are treading around, walking at large as proof of ability being occupied with our transient-ness, our moral depravity, our empty, profitless and idol self. We are treading around walking at large as proof of our ability being occupied with manipulation, searching unsuccessfully, occupied with punishment and folly for no purpose. We are handling, squeezing, chewing on and gnawing on things for no purpose in our mind/intellect/thoughts, in our heart/feeling/emotions, in our will/determination with no meaning, knowing absolutely and allowing the empty void to dominate our awareness, our feeling, our knowledge, perception, resolution, speech, sureness and understanding on every level of our life. Without Christ our deep thoughts, our mind, our mental disposition, our imagination and understanding is darkened, obscured, shady and erred. Without Christ we are alienated, estranged, caused to be a non-participant of the zoe God-life. Without Christ we are separated completely in hostility through ignorance, lack of information or intelligence, through the means of our choice, choosing to ignore knowing and understanding Gods Life because of the blindness, the stupidity, the callousness, the hardness, the strong petrified state of our hearts the core part of our being. Without Christ, the void that dominates our life results in our being past feeling. It takes us to grieve past apathy. The void hurts us so greatly that it throws us off and separates us completely from Gods Life and causes us to be surrendered, yielded up, entrusted to, transmitted to, given over to, imprisoned by: Looseness the irregular indulgence of our desires (lustfulness, lasciviousness).

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All impurity (physical and moral) we become occupied completely with profiting, laboring diligently and doing all levels of impurity. Fraudulent extortion (covetous practices) holding and desiring, more eager to gain .Nothing absolutely nothing Jesus does not teach us this at all. Jesus teaches us to put away, cast off, lay apart from, separate ourselves from, completely the prior and previous behavior of the antique, not recent, worn out (old) countenance (person). That way, that behavior is waste, shriveled, withered, spoiled, ruined, depraved, corrupted, defiled, and destroyed. The longing, the desire, the lust, the unlawful and irregular desires, appetites, and enjoyments are delusional, deceitful, deluded and cheat us out of Gods Life (zoe). Gods Cure is found in Ephesians 4:23-24. and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Renovation, reformation, renewal is Gods cure. New, youthful, fresh, regeneration in the breath and vital principle of our mind/intellect/thoughts/feelings/emotions/will/determination. Our meaning, understanding, perception, resolution and knowledge become completely restored. Restoration is accomplished when we sink into, invest ourselves, array, endue, and cloth ourselves, fixing our position in subordination, resting in the new, fresh, youthful and regenerate countenance of Gods Image in justice and innocence, venerating (honoring), revering our Creator and Heavenly Father with love, showing our affection in obedience and devotion to His Will and devotion, being right in our character, laws, and relationship complete rightness (pure), completely set apart and sure. Ephesians 4:25-32 tells us how to do this: Putting away lying telling the truth Being angry but not staying angry letting it go before the sun goes down No more stealing working for what we need No more corrupt communication; no more tearing down and destroying each other with our words only using our mouths to build up and minister grace to those who hear Not making the Holy Spirit grieve bringing pleasure to Him, causing Him to delight in us, instead Letting go of bitterness, wrath, anger, noise, evil speaking and ill-will (revenge & spite)

BEING Kind, Tenderhearted, forgiving just like God is with us

In Christ we are followers and imitators. We mimic and imitate God like a child mimics and imitates a father. We are treading all around, walking at large, as proof of ability to live, follow and be occupied with our Heavenly Father in affection and benevolence, both morally and socially just like Jesus surrendering, yielding up, entrusting and transmitting ourselves for a presentation and a sacrifice to God for a good fragrance, sweet savoring odor or scent to Him. We desire to be pleasant and pleasing to Him. Kindness, Tenderness, and Forgiveness are the first steps to pleasing the LORD. When we are hard, calloused, stuck in the ignorance, bound up we are a stinky stench to Him and cannot be in His Presence. There is no worse place to be then outside of His Presence, unable to enter or be near Him again there is nothing worse than this. Sometimes, in our life without Christ we were obscure and shady. NOW in Christ we shine and are clean and clear. We are luminous in our thoughts and speech. We are treading all around,

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walking at large as proof of ability, living and following as proof of ability, living and following Jesus as a companion. The results of the Spirit are in all goodness, virtue or all practice of doing; all active goodness, kindness and love. The results of the Spirit are in all practice of justice; all practice of innocence and holiness; all principles and decisions rightly executed. The results of the Spirit are every fact and every reality conformed to Gods Word. Testing, approving, allowing, discerning, examining, liking, trying, proving, accepting, accounting for, taking pleasure in, being of good reputation, supposing and thinking we are fully agreeable, acceptable, and well pleasing, to the LORD. The barren work, efforts, occupation and actions of shady obscurity is reproved confuted, admonished, convicted, convinced, faulted, rebuked and reproved. Good brings out and exposes the filthy dirty stench. Treading all around, walking at large as proof of our ability in Christ, living, following Him as a companion, occupying ourselves with Him exactly, diligently, and completely the most exact, the straightest that we can be (circumspectly); being thoughtful, discreet, cautious in character, being practical and intelligent; buying up, ransoming, rescuing, improving, purchasing the occasion, the set and proper time, the opportunity, the season we find ourselves in from beginning to completion owning it from now to the day it is finished. Because this time period is hurtful is evil in effect, influence, and essential character because it is degenerate, calamitous, ill, diseased, morally culpable, derelict, lewd, vicious, mischievous, malicious, guilty and wicked we cannot afford to be mindless, stupid, ignorant, egotistical, rash or unbelieving. We must be put together, mentally able to comprehend, acting piously acting reverently and honorable to God in our hearts, in our duties, in our affection, habitually obeying, being completely devoted to Him and His Work together in union, closer then association, companionship, process, resemblance, possession intimately together with Christ, with our selves, and with others. This is Gods Determination, Choice, Purpose, Decree, Inclination, Desire, Pleasure, Preference, Wish, Delight, Disposition, Intention, and Love. This is Gods Will. In Christ we are not to be intoxicated, to drink with the purpose of intoxication anything that intoxicates us, positioning us, fixing us, causing us to be completely unsaved, in a vicious course of life, abandoned in moral principles and actions living excessively and riotously because we are to be made completely full, crammed our hollow places leveled up, furnished, influenced, satisfied, executed, finished, verified, accomplished, completed, expired, filled, fully preached, perfect, and covered over with Gods Breath (blast or breeze), His Rational Soul, His Vital Principle and Righteous Mental Disposition, His Mind as we talk, utter words, preach, say, speak after, and tell ourselves, laying forth, relating systematically the Lords set discourse; individually expressing and breaking the silence to the Lord in psalms sets of music that rub and touch the surface, that twang and twitches celebrating God (worship) in hymns celebrating, singing religious odes in our thoughts and feelings, the core part of our existence Being grateful, expressing gratitude towards and returning His complete favor with our complete favor towards Him; being subordinate, obeying, putting ourselves under, being subject to each other, being subdued by each other; arranging, assigning, disposing, appointing, determining, addicting ourselves under, below and inferior to each other fully yielded and flexible in the alarm, fright and exceeding fear, the terror of God ( phobos). We are to be more afraid of Gods Judgment and Wrath then mans judgment and wrath. This is reverential fear. Fear of Gods

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Displeasure. When God is displeased we are not able to be with Him, in His Presence; when He is displeased we wont be able to go when Jesus returns. When God is displeased, we are separated and isolated from Him, His Presence forever. There is no worse fate then eternal separation from the Presence of God. That is hell. When we completely yield ourselves and are flexible to each other the result is a victorious walk with sincere worship and successful work. True Christianity does not break up the relations of life and produce disorder, lawlessness, and insubordination. True Christianity confirms every proper authority and makes every yoke lighter, organizing us to all have a part to share in the burden of the work of the Lord. The tenacity of our own will disturbs and destroys the peace we are meant to live and rule in. Submission is the act of giving honor and tribute to another person. Submitting to anothers precepts, teachings, and exhortations (encouragement and correction) restores and maintains peace. Reverential fear of the Lord places us in the position of submission to Him, which is the first step in His Pleasure, allowing us to move closer and closer in relationship to Him every day. Jesus sanctifies us. He makes us holy. He purifies and consecrates us. Consecration is a mental condition. It is a condition of the mind. Jesus venerates us; that is He regards us respectfully and reverently how much more should we be regarding Him respectfully and reverently. Our respectful and reverent relationship with Jesus enables us to be physically pure and morally blameless as well as ceremonially consecrated (sacred). Jesus cleanses, purges, and purifies us, making us clean, clear and pure all the way through our lives by washing, bathing, baptizing, soaking our whole being (mind/heart/will) with His Word, with whatever He says on a matter or topic so that He can stand beside us, exhibiting us, recommending, substantiating us, helping, assisting, commanding, commending, presenting, proving, providing, showing, standing and yielding us to our Heavenly Father. In Christ we do not hold, possess, relate to and do not have the ability to be stained, soiled, defiled, defected, disgraced, folded (like a wrinkle on a face). In Christ we do hold, possess, relate to and DO HAVE the ability to be rescued and delivered from the stained, soiled, defiled, defect and disgrace. In Christ and with Christ we are to be hagios; an awful thing, sacred, pure (morally & physically); clean, innocent, modest, perfect (complete) chaste; a solemn celebration, unblemished, without blame, spotless, without a flaw, without a blot. Jesus takes us from being disgraceful to being full of grace. In Christ we nourish ourselves. We rear up ourselves to maturity. We train ourselves from the beginning to completion. We stiffen, fatten, and pamper ourselves in Christ. We cherish ourselves. We warm, brood and foster ourselves in Christ. This is how we treat each other as well. We do this for ourselves because we are all a melos a limb, a part of the body. We are all members of Christs Body. We are all part of His sound whole (* soma). We are all a part of Christs Sound, Whole Salvation if we choose to be! The body of Christ is complex. It is parts making up parts that make up His Whole. People are parts of families. Families are parts of His Church. Ephesians 6 is the spiritual warfare chapter begins with the proper / right way to be in relationship with each other. In Christ Children, as subordinates, listen attentively, heed, conform to a command or authority and hear (with all the senses), give audience to, be noised with (the command/authority), be reported under, below, through positioned inferior to (covertly/moderately) understand the parents (those who cause you to be (they generate life to you), those who cause you to become, to come into being, to be used with great latitude, to be performed, published, made, married, and shown. God is kurios. He is LORD. He is Supremacy.

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*Soma is from the root sozo, the word for salvation. Our salvation in Christ provides safety, deliverance, protection, healing, and preservation, being able to do well and being whole. He is the Supreme Being in authority. He is the Controller. He has complete control and gives control to those He chooses. In Christ we hear in every way we can, we hear with our ears, our eyes (our perception), our hands and feet (doing and going/ actions), our mind (intellect), our will (determination), and our mouth (speech / or lack of speech) being subordinate to, giving audience to, listening attentively, heeding, conforming, being overwhelmed with / full & overflowing with the commands and authority while staying under, below, positioning ourselves inferior to our parents we are equally regarding their rights and equally distributing justice to them as Gods People. In Christ we prize, fix a value on, revere, esteem them to be valuable, costly, and precious, we give dignity to our father and mother. This is the first commandment, injunction, the first authoritative prescription (precept); it is the first thing we are given, the first thing enjoined to us. This command is the first fixed position, the first instrument, the first rest it is the first goal, the first thing we are set out to achieve. It is the first limit (boundary) given to us. In Christ we fix ourselves in the subordinate position we fix ourselves in the position of assurance of good. We will become good, well done, and we will be good and will do well. We will have good things. Our life will be experienced for a long time. Fathers in Christ are not to bring anger alongside their children. They are not to enrage or provoke their children to wrath. Fathers are not to be the cause of their children being provoked, enraged or exasperated (angry). Fathers are not to be the cause of their children desiring, reaching for or having excitement in their minds, having violent passion or justifiable abhorrence (punishment, anger, indignation, vengeance, and wrath). Fathers are not to be moving their children into doing Gods part; punishment, anger, indignation, vengeance, and wrath belong to God no one has a right to touch this. Fathers in Christ are to bring up their children. They are to rear them up to maturity; to cherish them, to train them, to nourish them. Fathers are to stiffen, fatten, cherish, pamper, bring up, and feed their children from beginning to completion. Fathers in Christ are to nurture their children. They are to do this in the tutorage, the education, the training, the correction, chastening, chastisement, instruction, discipline, learning, teaching and calling attention to, mild rebuke, warning and admonition. Fathers in Christ are to admonish their children. They are to place, position upright, conceive, commit, purpose, sink down in their mind, the intellect, the thoughts, feelings, and will, the understanding, feelings, and will, the knowing and knowledge of the Lord. In Christ servants (doulos), whether voluntary or involuntary, those who are in subjection/subservience, are bound to, knit to, tied to their master (kurios). They are to be obedient, to hear under as a subordinate, to listen attentively, to heed or conform to the authority or command with understanding, being noised with, giving audience to, being under, below, inferior in position or condition, covertly (undercover) moderately, intensely opposing the human nature which is our physical, moral, and passionate frailties. Having this attitude accompanied with fear and alarm, fright and trembling, quaking and dread being fixed in position sincerely, generously, bountifully, liberally, simply, folded together, clearly concerning the thoughts or feelings in that manner that pleases Jesus NOT man. Man-pleasers are man courters that fawn exciting emotion, being agreeable to humans (people) in sight, labor. Man-pleasers need to be watched, gazed upon with wide eyes at

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something remarkable from a distance Man-pleasers need to show self off. This is slavery (bondage). This is what slaves do. This is what Jesus rescues us from. Intimacy comes through obedience. We are to be voluntarily subject to Him binding ourselves, knitting, tying ourselves to Him as we make and do these things: abide, agree, appoint, band together, commit, continue, perform, provide, purge, purpose, secure, raise up, show, work, and yield to Gods Determination completely in the rational and immortal soul (our vitality) (psuche). In Christ, obedience is accompanied by kindness (benevolence). Kindness is the yoke that enables us to belong to someone. Kindness enables us to be in relationship and dutifully maintain that relationship, to be well minded, in reconciliation and agreement. Kindness allows us to be good in the intellect (mind/thought), feeling (heart/emotion), and will (determination/spirit). Kindness gives us the ability to understand. In Christ, we serve. We voluntary enslave ourselves, subject ourselves, binding, knitting, and tying ourselves to Him knowing, being aware of, considering, perceiving, looking on, seeing, and understanding that whatever the condition, the case provided, the indefinite uncertainty is a good thing (a benefit) that is made or done, performed, provided, purposed, secured and shown by any one is intended to be the care needed, provided for from the Lord. In Christ we serve, we give mercy, acceptance, grace and kindness, helping and being tender and gentle to each other, willing to bend and bow, lifting each other up so that Jesus can be found, seen and reached. Those who serve in this manner find themselves in positions of supreme authority and need to continue serving in this manner without delay, exercising, gaining, fulfilling, observing, performing, providing, purposing, raising up, and securing those who work for you sending, letting up, slackening, deserting, loosing repeatedly and intensely the menace, the threatening expression, disposition, or determination to inflict punishment or other evil (harm/hurt); just as Christ does for us. Jesus does not show partiality. He has no favorites. He doesnt accept one person over another; neither should we. Ephesians 6:10 encourages us to be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. In Christ we are empowered, increased, strengthened with dunamis (the power in Acts 1:8). We are enabled with miraculous power (a miracle itself). We are fixed in position being subordinate, resting in Him and His great vigor (physical strength and active force), resting in His mighty dominion and ability. We are told in Ephesians 6:11 to put on the whole armor of God that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. In Christ we sink into the garment, we invest ourselves with clothing, endue ourselves, fixing ourselves in the subordinate position, resting on, setting the WHOLE implement/utensil/tool/instrument/weapon of God enabling (dunamai), making it possible to stand, to abide, appoint, bring, continue, covenant, establish, hold up, lay, present and set up our selves against facing forward to, toward, the trickery/methods/travel/journey/mode/ journey from the one who blames, condemns, defames and misrepresents that accompanies/associates/follows us. We do not vibrate, throw, arise, cast out, strike, throw down, or thrust in a sudden motion, flinging, tossing, deliberately hurling, dispersing and scattering abroad forward/towards our frailties (physical, moral and passions), our kindred (those like us) BUT We do vibrate, throw, arise, cast out, strike, throw down, and thrust in a sudden motion, flinging, tossing, deliberately hurling, dispersing and scattering abroad forward/towards commencements, chiefs, magistrates, precedence (principalities)

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privileges, forces, capacities, competency, freedom, mastery, potentate, delegated influences, authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power, right, strength (powers; exousia) a world ruler, an epithet of satan, an orderly arrangement, a decoration, the world, an adorning provided for, carried off, obtained, brought, or received to use strength, to seize, or retain great dominion (rulers) of the darkness, shadiness, obscurity, shade, shadow error of this world and non carnal, ethereal, supernatural, regenerate, spirit, religious, rationale, vital principle, mental disposition as well as depravity, malice, plots, sin, iniquity, hurtful/evil effect or influence (the essential character), degeneracy, calamitous, illness, disease, culpability, derelict, vicious, mischief, guilt, lewdness in the heavens. Our battle is not here on earth with each other (other people) but rather in the heavens with forces we cannot see. God has a protection system for us. We find it in Ephesians 6:13-18. GPS: Gods Protection System for this battle: Taking up, receiving up, taking in/to, getting a hold of, seizing, repetitively, intensely several times to ourselves Gods whole implement/utensil/tool/instrument/weapon that we would be able to, that it would be possible for us to be empowered to stand against, oppose, resist, bring requital substituting the fixed position of subordination of the hurtful, evil, influence of this time period. Once we have worked fully, accomplished, finished, fashioned, performed intense opposition toiling, effecting then we stand; we abide, appoint, continue, covenant, establish, hold up, lay, present, set up, stand by, stand forth, stand still, stand up with our hips, our procreative power girt all around, fastened up, bound around completely with truth; sinking into, investing our chest into the practice of justice (innocence, holiness) in character and action (righteousness). Our feet are bound, knit, tied with preparation provision, readiness, adjusted thoroughly, externally equipped, internally fit, constructed, created, built, made and ordained to announce the good news (evaggelion) and declare / bring glad tidings; to preach prosperity, quietness, and rest being set at one again (being made whole). We take up, receive, take into our hands, get a hold of, seize repetitively, intensely several times the large shield (door shaped), the portal, entrance, door, gate of faith (our persuasion, credence, moral conviction, reliance on Christ, constancy, assurance, belief; how we are convinced, pacified, conciliated, assented, agreed, confident, content, persuaded, yielded, & where we place our trust). That door/gate/shield of faith in Christ makes it possible, enables, empowers us to quench/extinguish the kindled, ignited, glowing, refined, inflamed fire (anger, grief, lust) darts/missiles/spears/arrows thrown violently, intensely, cast out at us, laid up, poured up, sent, thrust at us by the hurtful, evil effects/influences. We receive, accept, take the encirclement of the head (helmet) of the defender, the defense (soterion). This is our rescue, our safety (moral and physical), our deliverance, and health (soteria). The deliverer (Christ / soter) keeps us in safety, deliverance, protection, healing, preservation and wholeness (sozo) around our head (mind). This is all about salvation. Jesus Himself is the protection, the healing, the complete wholeness of our mind the most vital part, where the battle starts. And the sword, the knife, the dirk, the judicial punishment battling, controversy, fighting, striving, quarreling, disputing the rational soul, the vital principle, the mental disposition; the individual, collective and specific Word about the matter, topic,

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narration, command, and dispute of God. His Matter settles all matters! Whatever God utters, whatever He pours forth, whatever He speaks or says - thats what is! We pray, we supplicate, we worship and we wish forward to God through all occasions, every set or proper time, every opportunity, every convenience, every due season, every short while. Every worship, every supplication, every thing uttered/expressed oratorily, every petition, every request, every begging, every bond fixed positionally in subordination under the rational soul, the vital principle, the mental disposition of God While we are being sleepless, keeping awake, watching with all perseverance, persistence, constantly diligent, attending assiduously to all the exercises, adhering closely to Christ, continuing with petitions, requests, begging for all saints(hagios)(all believers) and continually waiting on Him.

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