September 6, 2025 • 26 mins
Today on Bold Steps Weekend, Pastor Mark shows you the depths of God's power in your life. In part one of this message Mark gave you the first point related to seeing the depths of God's power in your life. He said you need to be looking closely at your diet, to see what you are feeding your inner person. This message is from the third chapter of the book of Ephesians, verses 14-21.
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S1 (00:00):
Today on Bold Steps weekend, Mark Jobe shows us the
depths of God's power in our lives.
S2 (00:06):
When the power of God opens up your eyes, you
start realizing, I knew in my head that he loved me.
But now I know the depth and the power and
the height. And I really understand that God loves me
and who I am in God. I mean, this is incredible.
You need power to do that.
S1 (00:38):
Welcome to Bold Steps Weekend with Mark Jobe, president of
Moody Bible Institute and the senior pastor of New Life
Community Church in Chicago. I'm Wayne Shepherd. We gave you
the first point related to seeing the depths of God's
power in our life. And Mark said we needed to
be looking closely at our diet to see what we're
feeding our inner man. We'll pick up that point as
we turn to the third chapter of the book of Ephesians,
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where in verses 14 through 21. Let's join Mark Jobe
right now for today's message called The Power at Work
in You.
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The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak, right?
Isn't that what the Scripture says? The spirit can. But, but,
but sometimes our flesh is weak to follow through. And
if you find yourself feeding the flesh, I can guarantee
that you'll constantly experience defeat in your life if you
keep feeding the flesh. What's on your iPod? Well, you know,
(01:34):
I like Eminem. I mean, he's, you know, he's a
nice guy. A lot of his stuff is pretty good.
You know, he's misunderstood. You know, he's he's a really
good artist, though. All right. Maybe he's a good artist.
But you know what kind of really do you think
that blankety blank this and blankety blank that and blank
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this and blank that and blank that person and blank
that other person. You really. You really feel like your
spirit's getting strong with that? Seriously? So are you listening
to that all day? You're gossiping with people at work,
laughing at all their jokes, hanging out with people that
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don't really know the Lord. And and you say, well,
I don't do what they're doing. No, no, no, no,
I'm not doing it. Hey, you know, I'm going I'm
hanging out with them just because I want to have fun. But,
you know, I go to the club, but. But I
order a Diet Coke. Okay, so you're hanging out clubbing
for three, four hours with a Diet Coke, and you
don't think that atmosphere people are bumping and grinding and
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going to town, and everybody's there to find who they're
going to hook up with and get a little fringe
benefits on the side. At the end of the night,
you don't think that atmosphere is affecting you at all.
So you live that. Listen to B96 all day, watch, um,
R-rated movies and, and, and Desperate Housewives is your favorite program.
And then and then you wonder why you're so weak.
(03:03):
And you say, pastor, I just don't understand it. I
just want to say, but, but, but hey, I do
come to church on Sunday. Yeah, and you get a
45 minute message a week. But you've been feeding your
soul garbage. Garbage most of the week. And you come
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on Sunday and have a big glass of carrot juice,
and you think that it's going to fix your diet
when you've been eating fries and and and garbage all
week long and you think one big glass of carrot
juice is going to fix you up. Come on. No
wonder you're struggling. Whatever you feed the most is what
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will have victory in your life. And some of you,
you have the Spirit of God inside of you. But
you live your Christian life constantly struggling because you feed
your flesh much more than what you feed your spirit.
When your flesh and your spirit go to battle, which
they will often go to battle, they'll be constant battles
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between your flesh and your spirit. Your flesh wins because
your flesh has more food than your spirit does, and
your flesh is pumped up and strong and fighting your spirit.
And you just say, I don't know how to overcome. Well,
I know, begin to feed your spirit and begin to
starve your flesh. And I can guarantee you're going to
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see much more spiritual victory than you do flesh victory
in your life. And Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith. And I pray the second prayer is. And
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I pray. I love this that you, being rooted. And
established in love may have power. By the way, he
uses a mixed metaphor here. Rooted is what a tree does.
Grounded is the image of a building that has a
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good foundation. The general idea is that you have a
strong foundation. You have to be rooted and grounded in love.
What love? The love of God. And I pray that you,
being rooted and grounded in love. May have. There goes again. Power.
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Power for what power? Together with all the saints. Who
are the saints? We are the saints. Some of you
have been listening. Who are the saints? We are. Some
of you are having problem with saying that like, ah,
I don't know if I can call myself a saint pastor,
you know. I don't know if you have the Spirit
of God inside of you. You're a saint called apart
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unto God. That we may have power together with all
the believers or all the saints. To do what? Power
to grasp how wide and long and high and deep
is the love of Christ. We need power to grasp
(06:28):
the multi dimension of God's love. Uh, week and a
half ago I went to see a movie with my
11 year old son and one of his friends. It
was about wolves. And we went to an Imax. We
went to know it was just a regular theater, but
(06:49):
as we walked in they said, this is a 3-D film.
It was a cartoon film. And so they give us
these little, uh, glasses as we walk into the theater
and their 3-D glasses. And so we put these glasses on.
And when the movie starts in 3D, if you don't
have the glasses on, you see things kind of fuzzy, right?
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Have you ever done that taking off your glasses? 3-D theater?
It's kind of fuzzy. It's not really focused, but you
put the glasses on and suddenly you see everything in 3-D,
and it literally looks like images are like coming out
of the screen at you. Right? In fact, I looked
over to my son and his friend and they're going
like this, you know, kind of like, you know, and
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trying to touch the image there because because it looks
like the image is coming out. Well, what Paul is
saying is that some of you know about the love
of God, almost as though you were seeing the love
of God through a ten by ten, black and white
old fashioned TV. And you know about God's love. And
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if someone were to ask you, does God love you?
You say, So, yeah, you know, God is love. You know,
I guess he loves everybody, but but but but you're
seeing it in black and white. And technically, you know,
he loves you. And technically, you know God is love.
But you need power. You need supernatural power of the
Holy Spirit that opens your eyes and reveals to you
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the incredible beauty and depth and power and multi dimension
of God's love. And so when the power of God
opens up your eyes, you start realizing, wow, I knew
in my head that he loved me. But now I
know the depth and the power and the height. And
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I really understand that God loves me and who I
am and God I mean, this is incredible. You need
power to do that. Let me tell you why that's
so important. A lot of what we struggle with in
life has to do with our identity. When we do
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not understand the love of God, we will struggle with
our own identity, our own worth. And when you struggle
with your own worth and your own identity, you will
struggle with making good decisions in your life. Because however
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you see yourself will determine most the decisions that you
make in life. If I do not realize how precious
and valuable I am to God, and that I have
worth and dignity, because God loves me and he's sealed
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me with His Holy Spirit, and he's called me his own.
And when I know that God loves me in this way,
then when people start treating me in ways that aren't
in line with God's love. When I start dating and
a guy, a young woman, starts dating and she's treated
like dirt and called names and not respected, which she
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knows who she is in the love of God, she says,
hey buddy, to the curve with you because I'm not
going to live with that or accept that. You know why?
Because she knows who she is. But if she doesn't
know who she is, if she views herself, if she
hasn't grasped the love of God and she views herself there,
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then she accepts and takes and lives with stuff because
she feels like that's what she deserves, or that's all
she can get. And so she lives being treated in
the way that she sees herself. The same with a man.
If a man does not understand who he is, and
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his dignity and value that he's made in the eyes
of his creator, then he begins to live low. He
begins to act low, he begins to talk low. He
begins to conduct his life in a way that's well
beneath his power and his potential. Why? Because that's the
way he sees himself. When he begins to understand who
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he is, when he begins to understand his value, his identity,
his fullness of God, that he's made in the image
of his creator, and that God has empowered him to
be something well beyond what others around expect of him.
Then he rises to be a man of God. He
rises to speak in a different way, walk in a
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different way. He he rises well beyond the norm. Why?
Because he knows who he is. And so the Bible says,
you need power to grasp, to grasp the multi dimension
of God's love for you. You need power, supernatural power
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to be able to do that. And then he goes
on to say the third request it's all about power.
The third request is power to experience this love and
allow it to fill you. Notice what it says in
verse 19, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge,
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that you may be filled to the measure of the
fullness of God.
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Power at Work in You with Mark Jobe on Bold
Steps weekend.
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And then he goes on to say the third request.
It's all about power. The third request is power to
experience this love and allow it to fill you. Notice
what it says in verse 19. And to know this
love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to
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the measure of the fullness of God. Hold on. How
can you know something that is too great for your
knowledge to grasp. He says, I want you to know it,
but it surpasses your knowledge. Like someone saying to, you know,
the the trigonometry professor saying to the student, listen, I
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want you to know this, but it's way beyond you.
I want you to know this, but it's indescribable. Your
mind cannot grasp it. Listen, what God is saying is,
I don't want you to know this merely intellectually, because
your finite mind cannot comprehend the depth and the power
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of God's love. So the only way you can know
it is by experiencing it. You know, there are certain
things that you can't describe. You just have to experience, right?
You know, you try to describe it just like, yeah,
just how do you describe a rainbow to a blind
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person that's never seen color. Seriously? Someone that's never seen black, white, blue.
Never seen light. They've been blind all their life. How
do you describe the colors of a rainbow to a
blind person? I mean, think about it. Try to do
it in your head a little bit. Come on. I mean,
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it's really hard to describe someone to something, to someone
that has no reference to grasp it. And what God
is saying is that, listen, you have no reference to
grasp how powerful his love is. Oh, yeah, we can say, well,
you know, it's like the love of a man and
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a woman that is so bland compared to the love
of God. I mean, it's not even a reference. I mean,
you can say, well, it's like the love of a
mother to a son and daughter. No, no, no, it's
too bland. It's not even a reference there. It's so big.
It's so much bigger than that. It's so much undescribable
than that. It's something that you cannot really grasp with
your intellect, but you can only experience with your spirit.
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As God ever worked in your life where people were
trying to say, well, what happened? And you just can't
explain it? I just don't know how to explain it.
I just know that he has. Well, what would happen? Well,
tell me about it. Well, I just I don't know
how to describe it. I don't know how to articulate it,
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but God is working and touching in my my life
in such a way that I cannot articulate it or
describe it. You know why? Because it belongs to the
spiritual world, and the spiritual world cannot fully be articulated
by our physical world, by our physical words, because it
happens in the spiritual realm. And the spiritual realm cannot
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be comprehended by the physical realm completely. The spiritual realm
cannot be understood fully in the physical realm because it's
another realm. And what God is saying is, I want
you to experience the power of God inside of you
in such a way and listen to what he says
in verse 19, that you may be filled to the
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measure of all the fullness of God. That you may
be filled to the measure of the fullness of God.
That you're going to be filled in a way not
to your own fullness, but to the fullness of God,
that God's going to be filling you in such a
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way that his fullness in you. It's almost like taking
a person and submerging them into something. When you begin
to understand the love of God, it's like God taking
you and submerging you in that, in the love that
cannot be understood or comprehended, ended in the physical realm.
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You need the power of God to understand it. It
changes your life. When you begin to understand how much
God loves you, you rooted and grounded in that love.
It's a spiritual dimension and it can only happen through
the spiritual realm. That's why you can be one of
the greatest intellects in the world, and still not begin
to even grasp the infinite part of God, because your
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finite mind cannot understand the infinite nature of God Almighty.
And then he closes with this, and I'll close with this.
Verse 20 now to him who is able. Oh, I
love this. Now to him who is able, who is able.
God is able. Now to him who is able to
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do immeasurably. How much is immeasurably beyond measure? Can't even measure. Can't.
I can't take a tape measure and measure it. I
can't take a scale and weigh and weigh it. I
can't measure it. It's beyond measurement. Now, to him who
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is able to do immeasurably. Way, way, way, way, way
beyond your comprehension. Way, way, way beyond your ability to
measure it. Now to him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all that we ask or even imagine. Say, well,
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I'm going to ask God for this. God says, you
don't even know. And your little petty prayer. I'm going
to blow you out of the water because you don't
even know how to articulate what I'm going to do
to you. You don't even know how to ask what
I'm about to unleash in your spirit. Your little prayer
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to ask of it wouldn't even, wouldn't even describe half
of what I'm going to do. In fact, you can't
even imagine. Gin. You can't even imagine what I want
to do in your life and in your spirit and
in your destiny. To him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all that you can ask or even
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imagine to that God, to that God that is way
beyond what you could ask or imagine. Have you ever
talked with a little kid when they're little? They're young
and they say. Ask for something and they think they're
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asking for a lot. I'm going to be rich. I'm
going to have $100. They're like blowing you away. Like
I'm going to be rich one day. I have 100
hundred dollars and that's the biggest they can think of.
They don't even know. They don't even have the capacity
or the language to ask for what really is coming.
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They think they're asking big hundred. We're like 100. 100? Yeah,
I think that's that's God with us. You say I'm
asking for. Whoa! And God's like you're asking for. Whoa! Really?
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I'll blow that out of the water. Him who is
able to do immeasurably more than whatever we ask or imagine.
How does he do it? According to the power. That
is already at work within us. Oh, it's already there.
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The seed of transformation changed. The seed of metamorphosis. The
seed of your destiny and work in your life is
already deposited within you. It's a power that's already at
work within you. The power of God inside of you
according to his power. That's at work in our inner man,
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or our inner being, or within us. All that we
can say is to him be glory in the church,
because we are the church, the manifestation of that. And
in Christ Jesus, not only in this generation, but through
all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
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Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more
than all we ask or imagine, according to his power
that is at work within us, to him be the
glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations,
forever and ever. From Ephesians chapter three. Mark, thank you
for a great message today.
S2 (22:56):
Yeah. Thank you Wayne. Such a powerful passage.
S1 (22:59):
And next time on the program, Mark, you're going to
move on to Ephesians chapter four with a message about
living up to our God given calling and purpose. How
to walk worthy. Why don't you give us a preview
of where we're headed?
S2 (23:10):
Yeah, this is such a powerful portion of Scripture. And
there's a phrase in this section of Scripture where Paul
urges us to live a life worthy of the calling
that you've received. You know, what does it mean to
live worthy of the calling? It implies, first of all,
that we have a calling, then that we need to
live up to the calling that God has given us.
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And so I know that most of you that are
listening to me right now, you know that you're called.
But the challenge to live a lifestyle that matches the
height of our calling is a powerful challenge.
S1 (23:45):
All right. Thank you Mark. We're really looking forward to that.
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Bold Steps Weekend is a production of Moody Radio, a
ministry of Moody Bible Institute.
Today on Bold Steps weekend, Mark Jobe shows us the
depths of God's power in our lives.
S2 (00:06):
When the power of God opens up your eyes, you
start realizing, I knew in my head that he loved me.
But now I know the depth and the power and
the height. And I really understand that God loves me
and who I am in God. I mean, this is incredible.
You need power to do that.
S1 (00:38):
Welcome to Bold Steps Weekend with Mark Jobe, president of
Moody Bible Institute and the senior pastor of New Life
Community Church in Chicago. I'm Wayne Shepherd. We gave you
the first point related to seeing the depths of God's
power in our life. And Mark said we needed to
be looking closely at our diet to see what we're
feeding our inner man. We'll pick up that point as
we turn to the third chapter of the book of Ephesians,
(01:00):
where in verses 14 through 21. Let's join Mark Jobe
right now for today's message called The Power at Work
in You.
S2 (01:11):
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak, right?
Isn't that what the Scripture says? The spirit can. But, but,
but sometimes our flesh is weak to follow through. And
if you find yourself feeding the flesh, I can guarantee
that you'll constantly experience defeat in your life if you
keep feeding the flesh. What's on your iPod? Well, you know,
(01:34):
I like Eminem. I mean, he's, you know, he's a
nice guy. A lot of his stuff is pretty good.
You know, he's misunderstood. You know, he's he's a really
good artist, though. All right. Maybe he's a good artist.
But you know what kind of really do you think
that blankety blank this and blankety blank that and blank
(01:56):
this and blank that and blank that person and blank
that other person. You really. You really feel like your
spirit's getting strong with that? Seriously? So are you listening
to that all day? You're gossiping with people at work,
laughing at all their jokes, hanging out with people that
(02:16):
don't really know the Lord. And and you say, well,
I don't do what they're doing. No, no, no, no,
I'm not doing it. Hey, you know, I'm going I'm
hanging out with them just because I want to have fun. But,
you know, I go to the club, but. But I
order a Diet Coke. Okay, so you're hanging out clubbing
for three, four hours with a Diet Coke, and you
don't think that atmosphere people are bumping and grinding and
(02:39):
going to town, and everybody's there to find who they're
going to hook up with and get a little fringe
benefits on the side. At the end of the night,
you don't think that atmosphere is affecting you at all.
So you live that. Listen to B96 all day, watch, um,
R-rated movies and, and, and Desperate Housewives is your favorite program.
And then and then you wonder why you're so weak.
(03:03):
And you say, pastor, I just don't understand it. I
just want to say, but, but, but hey, I do
come to church on Sunday. Yeah, and you get a
45 minute message a week. But you've been feeding your
soul garbage. Garbage most of the week. And you come
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on Sunday and have a big glass of carrot juice,
and you think that it's going to fix your diet
when you've been eating fries and and and garbage all
week long and you think one big glass of carrot
juice is going to fix you up. Come on. No
wonder you're struggling. Whatever you feed the most is what
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will have victory in your life. And some of you,
you have the Spirit of God inside of you. But
you live your Christian life constantly struggling because you feed
your flesh much more than what you feed your spirit.
When your flesh and your spirit go to battle, which
they will often go to battle, they'll be constant battles
(04:13):
between your flesh and your spirit. Your flesh wins because
your flesh has more food than your spirit does, and
your flesh is pumped up and strong and fighting your spirit.
And you just say, I don't know how to overcome. Well,
I know, begin to feed your spirit and begin to
starve your flesh. And I can guarantee you're going to
(04:35):
see much more spiritual victory than you do flesh victory
in your life. And Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith. And I pray the second prayer is. And
(05:00):
I pray. I love this that you, being rooted. And
established in love may have power. By the way, he
uses a mixed metaphor here. Rooted is what a tree does.
Grounded is the image of a building that has a
(05:21):
good foundation. The general idea is that you have a
strong foundation. You have to be rooted and grounded in love.
What love? The love of God. And I pray that you,
being rooted and grounded in love. May have. There goes again. Power.
(05:42):
Power for what power? Together with all the saints. Who
are the saints? We are the saints. Some of you
have been listening. Who are the saints? We are. Some
of you are having problem with saying that like, ah,
I don't know if I can call myself a saint pastor,
you know. I don't know if you have the Spirit
of God inside of you. You're a saint called apart
(06:04):
unto God. That we may have power together with all
the believers or all the saints. To do what? Power
to grasp how wide and long and high and deep
is the love of Christ. We need power to grasp
(06:28):
the multi dimension of God's love. Uh, week and a
half ago I went to see a movie with my
11 year old son and one of his friends. It
was about wolves. And we went to an Imax. We
went to know it was just a regular theater, but
(06:49):
as we walked in they said, this is a 3-D film.
It was a cartoon film. And so they give us
these little, uh, glasses as we walk into the theater
and their 3-D glasses. And so we put these glasses on.
And when the movie starts in 3D, if you don't
have the glasses on, you see things kind of fuzzy, right?
(07:11):
Have you ever done that taking off your glasses? 3-D theater?
It's kind of fuzzy. It's not really focused, but you
put the glasses on and suddenly you see everything in 3-D,
and it literally looks like images are like coming out
of the screen at you. Right? In fact, I looked
over to my son and his friend and they're going
like this, you know, kind of like, you know, and
(07:33):
trying to touch the image there because because it looks
like the image is coming out. Well, what Paul is
saying is that some of you know about the love
of God, almost as though you were seeing the love
of God through a ten by ten, black and white
old fashioned TV. And you know about God's love. And
(07:58):
if someone were to ask you, does God love you?
You say, So, yeah, you know, God is love. You know,
I guess he loves everybody, but but but but you're
seeing it in black and white. And technically, you know,
he loves you. And technically, you know God is love.
But you need power. You need supernatural power of the
Holy Spirit that opens your eyes and reveals to you
(08:22):
the incredible beauty and depth and power and multi dimension
of God's love. And so when the power of God
opens up your eyes, you start realizing, wow, I knew
in my head that he loved me. But now I
know the depth and the power and the height. And
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I really understand that God loves me and who I
am and God I mean, this is incredible. You need
power to do that. Let me tell you why that's
so important. A lot of what we struggle with in
life has to do with our identity. When we do
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not understand the love of God, we will struggle with
our own identity, our own worth. And when you struggle
with your own worth and your own identity, you will
struggle with making good decisions in your life. Because however
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you see yourself will determine most the decisions that you
make in life. If I do not realize how precious
and valuable I am to God, and that I have
worth and dignity, because God loves me and he's sealed
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me with His Holy Spirit, and he's called me his own.
And when I know that God loves me in this way,
then when people start treating me in ways that aren't
in line with God's love. When I start dating and
a guy, a young woman, starts dating and she's treated
like dirt and called names and not respected, which she
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knows who she is in the love of God, she says,
hey buddy, to the curve with you because I'm not
going to live with that or accept that. You know why?
Because she knows who she is. But if she doesn't
know who she is, if she views herself, if she
hasn't grasped the love of God and she views herself there,
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then she accepts and takes and lives with stuff because
she feels like that's what she deserves, or that's all
she can get. And so she lives being treated in
the way that she sees herself. The same with a man.
If a man does not understand who he is, and
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his dignity and value that he's made in the eyes
of his creator, then he begins to live low. He
begins to act low, he begins to talk low. He
begins to conduct his life in a way that's well
beneath his power and his potential. Why? Because that's the
way he sees himself. When he begins to understand who
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he is, when he begins to understand his value, his identity,
his fullness of God, that he's made in the image
of his creator, and that God has empowered him to
be something well beyond what others around expect of him.
Then he rises to be a man of God. He
rises to speak in a different way, walk in a
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different way. He he rises well beyond the norm. Why?
Because he knows who he is. And so the Bible says,
you need power to grasp, to grasp the multi dimension
of God's love for you. You need power, supernatural power
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to be able to do that. And then he goes
on to say the third request it's all about power.
The third request is power to experience this love and
allow it to fill you. Notice what it says in
verse 19, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge,
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that you may be filled to the measure of the
fullness of God.
S1 (12:31):
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Power at Work in You with Mark Jobe on Bold
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And then he goes on to say the third request.
It's all about power. The third request is power to
experience this love and allow it to fill you. Notice
what it says in verse 19. And to know this
love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled to
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the measure of the fullness of God. Hold on. How
can you know something that is too great for your
knowledge to grasp. He says, I want you to know it,
but it surpasses your knowledge. Like someone saying to, you know,
the the trigonometry professor saying to the student, listen, I
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want you to know this, but it's way beyond you.
I want you to know this, but it's indescribable. Your
mind cannot grasp it. Listen, what God is saying is,
I don't want you to know this merely intellectually, because
your finite mind cannot comprehend the depth and the power
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of God's love. So the only way you can know
it is by experiencing it. You know, there are certain
things that you can't describe. You just have to experience, right?
You know, you try to describe it just like, yeah,
just how do you describe a rainbow to a blind
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person that's never seen color. Seriously? Someone that's never seen black, white, blue.
Never seen light. They've been blind all their life. How
do you describe the colors of a rainbow to a
blind person? I mean, think about it. Try to do
it in your head a little bit. Come on. I mean,
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it's really hard to describe someone to something, to someone
that has no reference to grasp it. And what God
is saying is that, listen, you have no reference to
grasp how powerful his love is. Oh, yeah, we can say, well,
you know, it's like the love of a man and
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a woman that is so bland compared to the love
of God. I mean, it's not even a reference. I mean,
you can say, well, it's like the love of a
mother to a son and daughter. No, no, no, it's
too bland. It's not even a reference there. It's so big.
It's so much bigger than that. It's so much undescribable
than that. It's something that you cannot really grasp with
your intellect, but you can only experience with your spirit.
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As God ever worked in your life where people were
trying to say, well, what happened? And you just can't
explain it? I just don't know how to explain it.
I just know that he has. Well, what would happen? Well,
tell me about it. Well, I just I don't know
how to describe it. I don't know how to articulate it,
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but God is working and touching in my my life
in such a way that I cannot articulate it or
describe it. You know why? Because it belongs to the
spiritual world, and the spiritual world cannot fully be articulated
by our physical world, by our physical words, because it
happens in the spiritual realm. And the spiritual realm cannot
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be comprehended by the physical realm completely. The spiritual realm
cannot be understood fully in the physical realm because it's
another realm. And what God is saying is, I want
you to experience the power of God inside of you
in such a way and listen to what he says
in verse 19, that you may be filled to the
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measure of all the fullness of God. That you may
be filled to the measure of the fullness of God.
That you're going to be filled in a way not
to your own fullness, but to the fullness of God,
that God's going to be filling you in such a
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way that his fullness in you. It's almost like taking
a person and submerging them into something. When you begin
to understand the love of God, it's like God taking
you and submerging you in that, in the love that
cannot be understood or comprehended, ended in the physical realm.
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You need the power of God to understand it. It
changes your life. When you begin to understand how much
God loves you, you rooted and grounded in that love.
It's a spiritual dimension and it can only happen through
the spiritual realm. That's why you can be one of
the greatest intellects in the world, and still not begin
to even grasp the infinite part of God, because your
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finite mind cannot understand the infinite nature of God Almighty.
And then he closes with this, and I'll close with this.
Verse 20 now to him who is able. Oh, I
love this. Now to him who is able, who is able.
God is able. Now to him who is able to
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do immeasurably. How much is immeasurably beyond measure? Can't even measure. Can't.
I can't take a tape measure and measure it. I
can't take a scale and weigh and weigh it. I
can't measure it. It's beyond measurement. Now, to him who
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is able to do immeasurably. Way, way, way, way, way
beyond your comprehension. Way, way, way beyond your ability to
measure it. Now to him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all that we ask or even imagine. Say, well,
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I'm going to ask God for this. God says, you
don't even know. And your little petty prayer. I'm going
to blow you out of the water because you don't
even know how to articulate what I'm going to do
to you. You don't even know how to ask what
I'm about to unleash in your spirit. Your little prayer
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to ask of it wouldn't even, wouldn't even describe half
of what I'm going to do. In fact, you can't
even imagine. Gin. You can't even imagine what I want
to do in your life and in your spirit and
in your destiny. To him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all that you can ask or even
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imagine to that God, to that God that is way
beyond what you could ask or imagine. Have you ever
talked with a little kid when they're little? They're young
and they say. Ask for something and they think they're
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asking for a lot. I'm going to be rich. I'm
going to have $100. They're like blowing you away. Like
I'm going to be rich one day. I have 100
hundred dollars and that's the biggest they can think of.
They don't even know. They don't even have the capacity
or the language to ask for what really is coming.
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They think they're asking big hundred. We're like 100. 100? Yeah,
I think that's that's God with us. You say I'm
asking for. Whoa! And God's like you're asking for. Whoa! Really?
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I'll blow that out of the water. Him who is
able to do immeasurably more than whatever we ask or imagine.
How does he do it? According to the power. That
is already at work within us. Oh, it's already there.
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The seed of transformation changed. The seed of metamorphosis. The
seed of your destiny and work in your life is
already deposited within you. It's a power that's already at
work within you. The power of God inside of you
according to his power. That's at work in our inner man,
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or our inner being, or within us. All that we
can say is to him be glory in the church,
because we are the church, the manifestation of that. And
in Christ Jesus, not only in this generation, but through
all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
S1 (22:38):
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more
than all we ask or imagine, according to his power
that is at work within us, to him be the
glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations,
forever and ever. From Ephesians chapter three. Mark, thank you
for a great message today.
S2 (22:56):
Yeah. Thank you Wayne. Such a powerful passage.
S1 (22:59):
And next time on the program, Mark, you're going to
move on to Ephesians chapter four with a message about
living up to our God given calling and purpose. How
to walk worthy. Why don't you give us a preview
of where we're headed?
S2 (23:10):
Yeah, this is such a powerful portion of Scripture. And
there's a phrase in this section of Scripture where Paul
urges us to live a life worthy of the calling
that you've received. You know, what does it mean to
live worthy of the calling? It implies, first of all,
that we have a calling, then that we need to
live up to the calling that God has given us.
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And so I know that most of you that are
listening to me right now, you know that you're called.
But the challenge to live a lifestyle that matches the
height of our calling is a powerful challenge.
S1 (23:45):
All right. Thank you Mark. We're really looking forward to that.
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