<TITLE>04. Par 16-20</TITLE>L-16 Now, for a few moments to find out positionally what we are in Christ Jesus... And I think if the church now can find out what they are, and how to enter, and what to do after they enter, why, it'll be a glorious thing when we learn these things, don't you think so?
Now, in the Book of Ephesians, I want to read Paul's letter just a portion of It, don't know how far we're going, 'cause I'm timing myself by this watch here.
Paul, an apostle, of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
An apostle... A word "apostle" means "one that's sent." I've often wondered why the missionary ever wanted to be called a missionary. A missionary is an apostle. The word "missionary" means "one sent." "Apostle" means "one sent." A missionary is an apostle.

L-17 When people says there is no more apostles and that same church send missionaries and say there is no apostles, I don't get it. But apostle is one that's sent, so is the missionary is one that is sent, sent by God.
And Paul, not by desire, not by choice, not by the will of man, or his own humanly desires, but by the will of God, he was an apostle. We need some more like that.
By the will of God, he was on his rode to Damascus to arrest, (think of it), was going to arrest the very group that he was sent to be an apostle of. Now, you see how upside down it looks like in the human element, that God does things. Just the very things that you think that you won't do, that may be the very things you have to do.

L-18 When I first seen the Full Gospel people, and I seen a girl, one night get up on the floor when the music was playing, begin dancing up and down the floor. I never danced in my life, wasn't on a dance floor, and didn't believe nothing in dancing.
Well, selfishness here, not out loud, but in my heart I criticized the girl. I said, "There's nothing about God about that." Just a young Baptist preacher setting there, and I said, "There can't be nothing to that, that woman out there on the floor. She's only just making a--a show. She just wants somebody to see her." I wouldn't say it out loud for nothing, but in my heart I was thinking it.

L-19 Some of them said, "What did you think of the meeting?"
I said, "It was fine." But in my heart I--I didn't believe in that.
So you know, one New Year's night I was sitting in my own tabernacle and they started playing this song, "There's Going To Be A Meeting In The Air." And you know what happened? I done the same thing. So you see why. So just the things that you say you won't do, you may have to do it sometime.
So I guess Paul said he'd never get down and get in the dust like some of those other people, and yell, and scream, and carry on like they were doing, but God showed him he had to do it. So just sometimes when you say you won't do anything, just be careful. God may make you do it.
All right. He was an apostle then by the will of God. He had no willing into it. His... God did it, made him an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ.
 ... by the will of God to the saints,
Watch this is not addressed now to sinners, unbelievers. This is addressed to saints or sanctified ones. The... Write what the word "sanctify" mean--means "the cleaned and set aside for service."

L-20 The Old testament, it's a compound word, don't only mean clean but it means "set aside for service." See? It's be cleaned and set aside for service. The altar sanctified the vessel, and he set it aside for service.
To the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Jesus Christ:
See who he's addressing this for? Let me read it quietly, now listen.
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, To the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:


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