back to indexEphesians Bible Study Lesson 25

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Hello everyone, welcome to our final session in the study of the book of Ephesians. 00:00:10.320 |
Today we're going to be concluding with a review, a final exhortation from this book. 00:00:17.560 |
Let's go before the Lord in prayer as we jump into the study. 00:00:24.440 |
God we are so grateful that in many ways Lord you have sent your truth, you have sent your 00:00:34.080 |
grace, your servant in so many different ways. 00:00:39.040 |
You have reached out to us so to speak and we're so grateful for that. 00:00:44.120 |
I pray Lord that the truth that you have for us, that these things we would take to heart 00:00:52.240 |
And Lord what's more by understanding and Father God by believing that we would truly 00:01:00.720 |
What's more Father God we would be strong in every way. 00:01:03.480 |
Lord we just want to thank you again for the study and pray that you would help us to be 00:01:10.360 |
We thank you it's in Christ name we pray, Amen. 00:01:14.320 |
Okay what I'd like to do is take a moment to read for us the final concluding section. 00:01:22.480 |
Now although we could take time to dissect and analyze each section, what I would like 00:01:30.240 |
to do is just review this and then also review the whole book. 00:01:35.080 |
So there are going to be certain elements about this section of the scripture that I 00:01:38.400 |
won't cover today but I'll leave that to you for your own independent study. 00:01:48.640 |
Ephesians chapter 6 verse 21 it says, "But that you also may know about my circumstances 00:01:55.680 |
Such a case the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord will make known everything 00:02:03.840 |
I have sent him to you for this very purpose so that you may know about us and that he 00:02:11.600 |
Peace be to the brethren and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:02:17.200 |
Grace be with you with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an incorruptible 00:02:23.480 |
Okay as we take a look at that passage there is something that I like to highlight here 00:02:32.920 |
that in terms of the picture of the book you can typically summarize a book by the emphasis 00:02:46.120 |
Now what's interesting is as you look at this last portion of the passage there isn't necessarily 00:02:52.160 |
There isn't necessarily a specific exhortation of thou must do this. 00:02:57.680 |
But nevertheless there is a desire of the author Apostle Paul that he wants to be in 00:03:06.880 |
And likewise anytime we write people letters and things like that what we're doing is more 00:03:15.400 |
And what he describes is that he wants them to be in the know. 00:03:26.240 |
But more than anything he says peace be to the brethren and love with faith from God 00:03:33.920 |
Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an incorruptible love. 00:03:39.240 |
So if you summarize and think about what Apostle Paul wants for them he wants there to be peace, 00:03:45.480 |
love, faith and grace and this love that is also coming from them. 00:03:51.080 |
So as we think about that we actually realize that has been Apostle Paul's tone and is I 00:03:58.680 |
guess the content the whole time through the letter. 00:04:02.760 |
And the way that I'm going to review is going chapter by chapter. 00:04:06.120 |
And what I'll try to do is emphasize for you what I would like to boil down this review 00:04:17.320 |
What is the running ongoing content that has been the pattern of Apostle Paul's prayers, 00:04:23.480 |
the content of his teaching, but also even in this last concluding address. 00:04:49.440 |
He says, recall that in chapter one a significant key verse in chapter one that you should kind 00:04:57.360 |
of have in your memory bank says chapter one is mostly about this which is, "Blessed be 00:05:04.600 |
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing 00:05:13.200 |
The idea here then in chapter one is that there has been what I like to call a bucket 00:05:20.640 |
Apostle Paul wants to bless God and have every single one of us bless God because we have 00:05:25.440 |
received, another way to say it, is a truckload of blessing. 00:05:30.720 |
He describes that we have in Christ every spiritual blessing. 00:05:34.840 |
And that's why actually when I started the study a long time ago, already a while ago, 00:05:40.840 |
I started by saying that this book is all about every blessing in Jesus Christ. 00:05:45.960 |
Every blessing that we're seeking, every blessing we could potentially even want, it comes in 00:05:53.680 |
Now as a challenge and as an exhortation for us thinking about this, can you fill this 00:06:04.040 |
Can you describe what is contained in this truckload? 00:06:08.400 |
Can you go from the broad categorical summary that you've been really, really blessed, can 00:06:17.200 |
you go from there to describe the specific ways that you've been blessed? 00:06:22.960 |
Another way to put this is sometimes I have seen within scripture a pattern where it gives 00:06:43.040 |
And what's more our scripture uses the word richly. 00:06:51.760 |
So those are all actually summary conclusions and my challenge and question to you is can 00:06:58.760 |
Because sometimes we may say large categorical summaries but if we do not have the specific 00:07:06.160 |
details then all of a sudden people will call your bluff. 00:07:09.760 |
If you say you are a massive, massive fan of a specific team, let's say the LA Dodgers 00:07:22.600 |
"Oh, don't ask me questions because I don't really know who's on the team." 00:07:27.240 |
It's kind of like the specifics matter because it goes from specifics to the conclusion otherwise 00:07:32.840 |
But I just want you to recall with me because this is such a significant point and there 00:07:37.720 |
was so much contained in the book, in the chapter one just alone, we have thoughts of 00:07:43.960 |
that God has chosen us from before the foundation of the earth, that God has chosen us to be 00:07:53.680 |
God has adopted us, God has given us redemption, he's given us forgiveness in the name of Christ 00:08:00.760 |
and that forgiveness is in accordance with the riches of his grace. 00:08:04.600 |
He's given us the knowledge and the mystery of the gospel. 00:08:10.600 |
A seal, ignore that what's on the screen there, a seal of promise is what it's supposed to 00:08:18.280 |
Yeah, what's more we have the pledge of the Holy Spirit for our inheritance and most of 00:08:22.640 |
all that first chapter was actually talking a lot about the fact that if you have Christ 00:08:27.880 |
then you have a glorious, holy, loving, all-sufficient head. 00:08:41.600 |
We know that we need good models and examples. 00:08:53.920 |
That is Christ himself and that to us is to us our great, great blessing. 00:08:59.800 |
So I want to take a moment to say chapter one it began with such, I guess you can just 00:09:07.560 |
Okay, so if you pick up the picture here those are gold bars. 00:09:17.040 |
To say that you have someone who loves you so much that he desires you to be a part of 00:09:22.560 |
his home, to adopt you, to redeem you and again there's so much to say about all those 00:09:30.160 |
But the truth of those things are to us gold meaning they're riches and if you don't understand 00:09:38.280 |
this then that means you're going to live a life constantly thinking you're poor, constantly 00:09:44.520 |
living in scarcity, feeling like you have to fight for scraps and if you've ever met 00:09:49.840 |
somebody who is constantly competitive, always designed to compare, you've met somebody so 00:09:55.720 |
insecure about their own well-being and therefore feeling the need to make sure that they're 00:10:13.920 |
Apostle Paul's great prayer and Apostle Paul's exhortation is to remember this and to know 00:10:21.440 |
If we do not, we live life acting like we're beggars. 00:10:36.800 |
So this is an incredible starting point that we study in the book of Ephesians. 00:10:43.960 |
In chapter 2 it says, verse 4 and 5, "But God being rich in mercy, because of his great 00:10:50.560 |
love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our transgression, made us alive 00:11:01.400 |
Chapter 2, if chapter 1 was a bucket of blessing, or you can say every blessing in Christ, right? 00:11:08.040 |
So just think of chapter 1, blessing, blessing, blessing. 00:11:20.040 |
Chapter 2 was a before and after description of you as an individual. 00:11:24.000 |
You were dead in your transgressions and sins. 00:11:28.720 |
But God being rich in mercy made us alive together with Christ and raised us and seated 00:11:36.000 |
That's you as an individual receiving the great transformation, the great change, the 00:11:47.520 |
But likewise, the Apostle Paul describes the community. 00:11:50.800 |
That as a community he says, you Gentile people, you are separate and excluded. 00:11:55.240 |
You are a stranger, you are without hope, without God, and you are far off. 00:12:02.880 |
But he was emphasizing the community aspect of it. 00:12:09.320 |
But we were made to be one holy household, a temple, the dwelling of God. 00:12:16.320 |
Chapter 2 is showing us the depth of the difference, the comparison of where you were before. 00:12:26.640 |
And we have to understand this because if we do not, then not only are we weak, we're 00:12:39.400 |
And therefore if we don't have a depth of understanding, then that means every activity 00:12:46.200 |
And Apostle Paul recognizes this to be a foundational truth that every single person in any community 00:12:53.520 |
If your understanding of your faith and the appreciation you have for the gospel is shallow, 00:13:08.240 |
There is no unity if you're not sharing any joys. 00:13:12.880 |
There is no shared unity if you're not sharing the kind of, wow, gratitudes, the adorations, 00:13:20.480 |
You think about individuals who have incredible camaraderie because they've survived something 00:13:27.040 |
Whether it be some kind of disaster, they survived a natural disaster or an act of terrorism 00:13:34.160 |
and they came out of that realizing we could have been dead. 00:13:41.360 |
Well if you don't have that kind of depth of experience, you're not going to have any 00:13:47.960 |
And so for the sake of the unity of the church, for the sake of peace, it has to be an understanding 00:13:55.040 |
Now in chapter 3, Apostle Paul says this, and this is a lengthy portion of the text 00:14:04.960 |
Apostle Paul in chapter 3 is talking about the amazing love and grace of God. 00:14:09.160 |
And he says, "For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family 00:14:15.000 |
in heaven and on earth derives its name, that he would grant you, according to the riches 00:14:20.760 |
of his glory, to be strengthened with power through his Spirit and in the man, so that 00:14:27.520 |
Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and that you, being rooted and grounded in 00:14:33.600 |
love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breath and the lame and 00:14:39.600 |
the height and the depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, 00:14:44.360 |
that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God, that in him who is able to do far 00:14:50.360 |
more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within 00:14:55.120 |
us, to him be the glory of the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever 00:15:02.640 |
Considering the work of God, the mystery that was hidden, but now has been made known, the 00:15:09.400 |
administration of his grace, of how he's giving it out. 00:15:13.720 |
He says, "I want you to understand all this, because I want Christ to fill you completely. 00:15:21.920 |
This is going to cause you to be able to stand. 00:15:27.320 |
I asked this question as a Bible study question, "What is the prayer of the book of Ephesians?" 00:15:35.600 |
God wants you to have true power, real strength, real empowerment and change. 00:15:45.360 |
And that's not going to come because there were some platitudes given to you. 00:15:49.760 |
That's not come because there were some small encouragements given to you. 00:15:53.400 |
That wasn't going to come because there was some kind of pat on the back. 00:15:56.600 |
That wasn't going to come because, "Oh, those bad guys out there, take some of them out 00:16:01.640 |
The change of your circumstances, the mitigations of your pains, everything else, parallel in 00:16:08.840 |
comparison to having Christ reside right here fully. 00:16:14.880 |
Apostle Paul says, "By faith, I want you to have it." 00:16:18.760 |
The one true source of true power in our lives. 00:16:25.600 |
And so, from there, he is able to give the application, the exhortation. 00:16:35.240 |
Recall that in chapter 4, he begins the whole section of application starting from chapter 00:16:43.440 |
"As therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of 00:16:49.040 |
the calling with which you have been called." 00:16:52.840 |
So I remind you, you see now, the theme, yes, is blessings and grace, the gospel. 00:17:04.360 |
Because what Apostle Paul is saying is through the indwelling of the Spirit, through the 00:17:10.040 |
faith that you have, this powerful faith that God gives to you, you're going to be able 00:17:25.120 |
And so, one of the passages that you recall is within the first section of chapter 4, 00:17:36.280 |
And you think about it, the challenge for us to walk in a manner where we are exercising, 00:17:44.280 |
It's going to require strength, it's going to require effort, it's going to require long 00:17:50.600 |
And I believe for a lot of people sometimes think that if I have an objective then I have 00:17:57.960 |
But there's another kind of strength where scripture talks about long forbearance, long 00:18:03.320 |
suffering, love that is patient, kind, intent on the well-being and the good of the person 00:18:12.400 |
There is a kind of extended strength of perseverance that is embedded as a requirement or I guess 00:18:19.320 |
a need and a platform by which we build the unity that we long for in the church. 00:18:27.480 |
Clearly Apostle Paul is challenging us to walk in a certain fashion. 00:18:31.240 |
And what I'm saying is you see this theme that only when you understand the riches that 00:18:36.440 |
you have, only when you understand the comparison between before and after and the incredible 00:18:41.960 |
love of Christ dwelling in us, can you have the power even to walk like this. 00:18:48.800 |
There are some people who think they're strong or they're just like, you know, they're rocks. 00:18:58.720 |
There's a kind of strength that comes with vulnerability. 00:19:02.200 |
There's a kind of strength that comes with sacrifice. 00:19:05.320 |
There's a kind of strength that comes with all that is involved with building unity. 00:19:11.240 |
And so in the next half of chapter four, Christ talks about, Apostle Paul talks about how 00:19:20.120 |
For example, this one I'm just going to read to you. 00:19:24.240 |
Remember that it says, "As a result, you are no longer," so this is verse 14, sorry, verse 00:19:30.400 |
He says that, "We are no longer to be children tossed here or there by waves and carried about 00:19:36.400 |
by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness and deceitful scheming. 00:19:43.000 |
But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the 00:19:48.480 |
From whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, 00:19:53.560 |
according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the 00:20:01.760 |
So this I say, "And affirm together with the Lord that you no longer walk as a dental walk 00:20:08.160 |
So if you take a look there, the challenge again is a walk that is, yes, strong, but 00:20:14.880 |
another way to put it is mature, steady, not being all wishy-washy and being moved by every 00:20:21.720 |
wind of doctrine, being moved by their own lust and preferences. 00:20:30.320 |
You know, sometimes I stray on one side or the other when it comes to strength. 00:20:33.760 |
There are moments when I'm angry about something and I'm just going to bite my tongue and not 00:20:42.720 |
Yes, that is better than blowing up in anger, but that is not necessarily the height of 00:20:49.360 |
Because all I've done is clammed up my anger. 00:20:53.440 |
Do you realize how much fear, how much of our own selfishness and pride you have to overcome 00:21:00.640 |
And then there are these people who are like, "Yeah, I'll speak truth. 00:21:06.000 |
And then you realize, "Well, that's not strong either because that truth is without love." 00:21:12.920 |
God wants truth to be spoken in love and that takes maturity. 00:21:17.240 |
Combating your own pride, selfishness, checking your own preferences, checking the limitations 00:21:33.440 |
Chapter five, the application of knowing chapter one, all your blessings, chapter two, the 00:21:38.760 |
great depth of the comparison between before and after, chapter three, the indwelling of 00:21:52.960 |
Recall that this exhortation, emphatic exhortation, told us, "Therefore, be imitators of God as 00:22:00.640 |
beloved children and walk in love just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up 00:22:06.920 |
for us, but offering in a sacrifice to God as a flagrant," sorry, not flagrant, fragrant. 00:22:15.920 |
Not a flagrant vow, but more of a fragrant aroma that's pleasing to God. 00:22:31.280 |
God's desire for us is to want us to reflect. 00:22:37.400 |
And I want you to understand that because God to us is one of the great, great acts 00:22:41.960 |
of love given to us that we can just meditate and soak in for the rest of our lives. 00:23:01.640 |
So chapter five, there's a lot in there, but chapter five talks about being God-like 00:23:08.840 |
So scripture says in verse eight, "Walk in light, not in the darkness." 00:23:13.520 |
What's more, scripture challenges us to discern what is pleasing to God so that we would be 00:23:20.320 |
And you realize that your depravity has much to do with what is pleasing to you. 00:23:31.360 |
Is what makes you happy all the vices of the world? 00:23:34.560 |
Is what's cool in your eyes the things that are detestable? 00:23:40.360 |
It is to our benefit, it is to our sanctification, holiness, and transformation to delight in 00:23:48.640 |
Scripture also talks about having the mind of God, verse 15. 00:23:55.480 |
Think about this, most of us, we lack of willpower. 00:24:02.480 |
Honestly, like, I'm just confessing to you, there are days you just tell and you're like, 00:24:07.640 |
"Dragging your knuckles, I don't want to do it." 00:24:10.840 |
There are things you know you ought to say and do, just don't want to do it. 00:24:15.760 |
I mean, diets, exercise, work ethic, things you should say and do for your family. 00:24:23.640 |
Everything I know up here is good and Godly and profitable. 00:24:31.040 |
Scripture says He wants us to be like God in His intent and will. 00:24:34.920 |
But what's more, you recall all the relationships of husband and wife, parent and child, and 00:24:40.040 |
you recognize God wants us to be like Him, relationally. 00:24:59.720 |
Sincerity, consistency, unchanging, unwavering, kindness, compassion. 00:25:12.560 |
And that to us is amazing love upon amazing love. 00:25:16.560 |
And so, really we want to take this kind of mentality upon us. 00:25:23.840 |
Sure, in the moments when we're not sober, we're like, "I just don't want to do this 00:25:31.680 |
But actually we can perceive of it as God's love to us. 00:25:36.160 |
And He wants us to be like Him in all motive, in all work ethic, in all of that He is doing 00:25:43.200 |
Because truly, there's nothing greater than to be like our Heavenly Father. 00:25:50.320 |
In chapter 6, Apostle Paul challenged us and said, "Finally, be strong in the Lord and 00:25:57.080 |
Put on the full armor of God so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes 00:26:03.200 |
One of the small group guys in my group just kind of keenly noticed, initially, there seems 00:26:09.720 |
You go from, "Hey slaves, make sure that you are also exhibiting godliness, even if you 00:26:16.560 |
And, "Hey masters, make sure you're exhibiting godliness, even if you're a master. 00:26:20.160 |
You think you're a peer, you know you have a master in heaven." 00:26:24.360 |
And so, he says, those relational interactions, "You have to be godly. 00:26:31.800 |
And then there's this big jump, and it says, "Finally, brethren, be strong." 00:26:37.040 |
And so, my case in that exhortation to you was, although it may seem like there was a 00:26:43.120 |
quick transition to go from those relationships to an exhortation to be strong, what you realize 00:26:50.720 |
is that that was the theme of the book so far. 00:26:58.000 |
That the Christian message to us is Christ in us. 00:27:02.760 |
And therefore, we have the enablement and the power of Christ. 00:27:11.000 |
So why and how is a slave, a slave, able to be godly in the circumstance of his oppression 00:27:29.040 |
You have your liberty, your victory, your voice, everything in Christ. 00:27:37.520 |
Power that the owner cannot take away, no slave master can take away, no government 00:27:47.200 |
Don't succumb to the kind of oppressions that the world tries to put upon you. 00:27:55.560 |
In our faith we know Christ in me is true liberty. 00:28:05.920 |
And so if Apostle Paul is challenging us, you need to be strong in every way. 00:28:10.480 |
You need to be strong and put on the full armor of God. 00:28:13.600 |
And you guys recall that the full armor of God included so many pieces that I'm not going 00:28:18.720 |
to review today because we did two weeks of it last time. 00:28:21.800 |
But you recall, those were first objective truths. 00:28:31.040 |
But what's more, there's the subjective experience. 00:28:40.440 |
All those things point to what we have in Christ and the blessings that we have in Christ. 00:28:44.360 |
And I made the argument to you that if you do not have those things in clarity, in regularity, 00:28:54.720 |
You're susceptible to all the attacks of the devil. 00:28:58.120 |
Now, I do want to talk about this, which is, even in the putting on of the armor, I recognize 00:29:05.560 |
we should pause a moment to think about God and his love for us. 00:29:11.160 |
I am talking about this, you think about who wants you to put on your helmet. 00:29:19.360 |
And of course, it's typically our loving parents. 00:29:23.160 |
It's dad, it's mom, about to go out for a bike ride. 00:29:25.920 |
It's like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, gotta put on that helmet." 00:29:30.880 |
Clearly, God as our Heavenly Father wants us to walk like him, imitate him, as children. 00:29:39.680 |
But he also wants us to put on the armor because he is our Heavenly Father who loves us. 00:29:46.680 |
He's given to us all the essential pieces so that we will be strong in Christ. 00:30:01.640 |
This is just a picture of a good father putting on a helmet for his young daughter. 00:30:05.280 |
But God, remember I showed you this picture, God's putting on this incredible armor that 00:30:12.640 |
But what's more, he has entrusted to us a powerful weapon in the word of God, the scriptures. 00:30:21.160 |
And therefore, we must take full responsibility. 00:30:24.360 |
And he also said, not only are we to put on the armor, but we're supposed to be praying 00:30:28.520 |
in every way at all times, in all types of prayer and petitions, praying, praying, praying, 00:30:49.520 |
And so I think about the book of Ephesians and clearly, Apostle Paul is in the circumstance. 00:30:58.720 |
Just recall, and you guys all know this now because we've talked about it multiple times, 00:31:04.720 |
And the people are thinking, oh no, what do we do now? 00:31:11.520 |
And there was this confidence in Apostle Paul that the word of God is going to proceed in 00:31:17.840 |
And what's more, that even if he's not there, clearly, he's not going to be able to be present 00:31:26.520 |
These people are going to find strength in God. 00:31:32.720 |
And what's more, he challenges us to then respond. 00:31:36.480 |
And I want us to meditate and think about this, okay? 00:31:39.480 |
I thought from a perspective of somebody who is just a downer. 00:31:47.120 |
Perhaps somebody who is always playing the devil's advocate. 00:31:54.240 |
If God still wants us to be strong, and he's putting on armor, and he's putting a sword 00:31:59.840 |
in our hand, and we're like children, why doesn't he just go ahead and eradicate the 00:32:06.480 |
Why not just get rid of the hospitals and oof? 00:32:11.440 |
And there's so many times people in the midst of growing, in the growth process, they're 00:32:18.760 |
Why can't we be this alternate universe where we do the major thing, we stick the USB into 00:32:23.880 |
our head, we get the maturity, we get the wisdom, we get the discipline. 00:32:28.760 |
Why can't we just be mature without all this suffering? 00:32:32.640 |
Now sometimes I too say that because of my own stupidity I learned the hard way. 00:32:39.480 |
And I think those kind of why, why, why, complaining and whining sometimes actually needs to be 00:32:52.760 |
And what I recognize, number one, is number one, you are the hostile. 00:32:57.920 |
Apostle Paul is teaching you, you are hostile and mild. 00:33:02.720 |
You are in transgression, running with the rest of them, you are sons of disobedience. 00:33:10.520 |
Only by which of his own volition and his own promise. 00:33:19.120 |
So if you imagine an alternate universe, yeah, you could get rid of the hostiles, right? 00:33:25.120 |
But the other part of it is I keep thinking, wow, what love of the Father. 00:33:31.720 |
God is not just simply making things be without consideration of the growth of his children. 00:33:40.760 |
That we would be able to learn how to love like he does. 00:33:45.760 |
He wants us to love with faith and then he wants us to have an incorruptible love in 00:33:59.240 |
I think about that, I'm like, my love is fickle. 00:34:13.120 |
It's sometimes naive, has no energy or like, you know, awareness. 00:34:21.440 |
But what God is building into us through his Son and his Spirit and his Word is his kind 00:34:30.680 |
And that to me is the amazing love of the Father. 00:34:35.800 |
To tell his children, I want you to learn like I love. 00:34:42.840 |
And so be it that we're left in this world to love the brethren. 00:34:52.640 |
What a good exhortation for us as we end this book. 00:35:04.760 |
And as we take a step back to look at what you've done. 00:35:14.480 |
This is, this is the incredible treasure of treasures that you have been working for generations 00:35:22.680 |
upon generations to call people to yourself who were wretched. 00:35:31.760 |
And to take them, to wash them, to purify them, to cleanse us. 00:35:41.680 |
This to us, Lord, is the bedrock upon which we stand. 00:35:49.400 |
And so I pray God that every single one of us, if we're lacking strength or lacking motivation 00:35:56.680 |
or lacking willpower, help us to come back to this. 00:36:01.520 |
Through Christ Jesus, our Lord, we have you as our heavenly father. 00:36:09.920 |
Teaching us, guiding us, and leading us to your likeness. 00:36:16.680 |
And we commit ourselves to you, to follow you in every way.