June 20, 2025 • 26 mins
Today on Bold Steps … Pastor Mark Jobe helps us understand God’s transformative power. People are often in search of three things … riches, power … and hope. And on the program, as we move forward in our brand-new series, When You Believe … Everything Changes … Mark is going to show us how we can find those three things … and so much more! We’re in the book of Ephesians … chapter one, and our message is titled, What You Know Will Change You.
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Today on Bold steps. Mark Jobe helps us understand God's
transformative power.
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So don't tell me you can't quit a habit. Don't
tell me you can't have victory over this. Don't tell
me you can't forgive. Because the same power that raised
Jesus from the dead is there to give you power
to do whatever God has called you to do. It's
already there. The power of God.
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Welcome to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe. Mark is the
president of Moody Bible Institute and the senior pastor of
New Life Community Church in Chicago. I'm Wayne Shepherd. People
are often in search of three things riches, power, and hope.
And today, as we move forward in our brand new series,
when you Believe everything Changes, Mark is going to show
us how we can find those three things and much more.
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We're in the book of Ephesians, chapter one. Our message
is titled what you know will change You.
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So then Paul says, for this reason. For what reason?
Because you're chosen and predestined. Because you're sealed, and because
it is a deposit within your spirit. For this reason,
ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord
Jesus and your love for all the saints, I haven't
stopped giving thanks for you. Now let me clarify two
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things one. When you have faith in the Lord Jesus,
you're going to love the saints. You say, well, pastor,
I thought you didn't pray to saints. No, no, I'm
not talking about those saints. You're not talking about Saint
Jude and Saint Paul and Saint Peter. And I'm not
talking about those saints. You know who are the saints
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we talked about last week? You're the saints. Anybody that's
been washed and cleansed in the deposit of the Holy
Spirit inside of them We are the saints of God.
We are the saints. He's writing to the saints. The
beginning of the of Ephesians. He says to the saints
in Ephesus, to all the believers in Ephesus. We, friends,
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are the saints. Saints means to be set apart unto
God called out ones. We are the called out ones.
We are the people of God. When you have faith
in God, you will love the people of God. You
cannot have faith in God and hate the things that
God loves. Once in a while I'll run into someone
that says, well, I love God and me and me
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and the man upstairs. We got a thing going on.
But you know what? I don't like church. And I
don't like organized religion. I always tell em, hey, don't worry,
join us. We're disorganized religion. You may like us. But.
But here's the point. You cannot love God and worship
God and hate the church because God has put you
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in the. It's the family of God. It's the people
of God. Oh, you can be aggravated with them. You
can be irritated with them. But you cannot hate what
God loves. You will be a part of the church.
You will be integrated in it. You will grow in it. Why?
Because as you have faith in God, you will also
love the people of God, or the family of God,
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or the church of the Living God. And then he
goes on and he says, listen, I haven't stopped giving
thanks for you. I mean, every time I think about you,
I give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.
I love that Paul has a heart of a of
a pastor, of a shepherd. Think the way it should be.
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I've been a pastor here for a long time. I
love pastoring this church. Oh, sometimes it aggravates me. Oh,
sometimes you frustrate me. Oh, sometimes I'm like. Mhm. But
you know what? To be honest with you, when I
think of this church, when I think of Chicago, when
I think of what God has called us to do
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more than anything, what comes to my mind is gratitude.
I say, thank you, God, because my joy is to
see you grow. And so Paul says, listen, because God
has done all this for you. This is what I
want to remind you of and I keep praying for you.
Paul says, every time I think of you, I thank
God for you. But I pray this for you because
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I don't want you to get stagnant. I don't want
you to stop growing. Here's what I pray. Verse 17
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the glorious father, may give you the spirit of wisdom
and revelation. Why? One version says in the knowledge of him,
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and Ivy says, so that you may know him better.
The spirit of wisdom and revelation. Wisdom is applied knowledge.
Revelation is the unveiling of things that you did not
know before. I pray that God gives you the spirit
of wisdom so that you can apply the knowledge that
you know so that you can navigate the things of God,
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but also of revelation, because there are things right now
that you do not know, that when God reveals them
to you will change your life. Revelation. And I'm not
talking simply about a new truth that you write in
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a notebook, but sometimes that revelation has to be spiritual revelation,
that that your eyes have to be opened spiritually to
see it, that you never saw it before. And suddenly
the revelation of God comes forth and you realize something
that you never knew before that literally changes the course
and destiny of your life. Spiritual revelation. But listen, that
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spiritual revelation can come to you and maybe you cannot
receive it. So Paul prays. The second thing he says
in verse 18, I pray also that the eyes of
your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know.
Sometimes God can be giving wisdom and revelation, but if
our heart is hard and darkened, then we will not
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receive what God is giving to us. Hello. Did you
realize that your heart has eyes? It says that the
eyes of your heart will be enlightened. Do you know
you can be in the same service? And the Word
of God comes. And someone, someone walks out of this
place thinking, whoa, I got so much. God spoke to
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me so much. And you're like. Really? I felt like
the seats were a little too hard. A little warm
in there. Was it me or did he go long? Man,
am I hungry? Where's Giordano's again? I mean, were you
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in the same service? Absolutely same service. The problem is
that although wisdom and revelation was going out, one person's
eyes or their heart were open and receptive and hungry
and the other had was not. And so you get
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what you're willing to receive. You receive what you're willing
to get and what expectation you come with. And when
your heart is soft and sensitive to God, there is
wisdom and revelation that will come your way more than
you can handle. But when you harden your heart, then
you receive less and less wisdom and revelation, less and
less truth that can change your life. And after a while,
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it's just the humdrum of some talking head that doesn't
make very much sense to you as your mind wanders
in some other direction. That's an issue of the heart.
So Paul prays, hey, I want you to grow in
wisdom and revelation. And so he prays for three things
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in their life. I pray that the eyes of your
heart may be enlightened in order that you may a
no hope, no riches, and no power. Three things. I
pray that you know the hope to which he has
called you. Oh, if you if you're spirit could understand
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the hope that's in your calling. What is hope? Hope
is the expectation of a better future. Hope is the
knowledge that there is good coming to you from the future.
The only way we can have hope is if we
trust in the God who holds the future, whose sovereign
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and omnipotent, and because we know that he works all
things together for his good purposes, we have hope. And
because we know that he has written the final chapter
of the story. We have hope. And because we know
that what he started, he is faithful to continue. We
have hope. We are a people of hope. Listen, one
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of the things that characterizes us is the sense of
positive expectation about the future. Why? Not because we're engaged
in some mindless, just positive thinking. But our positive thinking
is rooted in the positive character of the God that
we serve. So therefore, we have hope. Hope that God
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is in control. Hope that God is doing a work.
Hope that he has begun what he's going to finish
and that we have. We haven't seen the best days
yet because God is taking us from glory to glory,
to glory to glory, to glory to glory. That's our hope.
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Learning to be sensitive to the things of God. You're
listening to the Bible teaching of Mark job, and this
is bold steps. We'll take a deeper look at the
hope and power we have in Christ when we return
to today's message in just a moment. So keep listening.
Just a reminder we are listening to you, to your
testimonies and questions and prayer requests mean the world to us,
and we sometimes share them right here on the program.
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In fact, Mark hears a voice message we recently received
with a question. Well, we may smile when we hear
the question, but, uh, this is something on the heart
of a lot of people.
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Hi, my name is Darlene, and my question for Doctor
Jobe is this. And I'm sure you get asked it
many times, but I just want to hear it from
him because I respect his opinion so much and I
follow him all the time, and I and I, I
just love him. He's been working so much in my life.
My question is, do you, Pastor Joe, believe that we
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will see our dogs again in heaven one day? And
if we do, will we recognize them and will they
recognize us? I just have so many different opinions on
that and I would really love yours. Thank you so much.
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Inquiring minds want to know. Mark.
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Well, Darlene, first of all, let me say I love
the fact that you care so much about. I'm assuming
it's a dog. I don't know what pet it is,
but you know, the Bible actually talks about people that
are kind to animals in a positive way. And so
I love that because it indicates a a love and
compassion in your heart. So I love the fact that
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they are close to you. The Bible doesn't Explicitly say anywhere. Yes, dogs, cats,
pets will be in heaven, so it doesn't say that. However,
there's some things that are implicit a bit. You know,
God created all of heaven and earth, and when he
created animals, he said they were good. The Bible does
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say that in the Millennial Kingdom, which is not heaven,
but it is God's reign here on earth. It does
speak specifically about animals. It actually talks about them in
an interesting way. The the lion and the lamb will
be together. And in other words, the animals will get
along that perhaps, uh, at other times we're eating each other.
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They will get along. So and the millennial is a
reflection of the power and the glory of God. And
so if I were to guess, based on earth reflecting
the glory of God, the millennial kingdom reflecting the goodness
of God, there's a good chance that we will have
some sort of animal form in heaven now I can't
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the Bible doesn't say that specifically or explicitly. And so
where the Bible is silent, I don't like to guess
about it. Uh, but I do believe that there everything
good that God has created. It's a reflection of him.
And he tends to create his his dwelling place with
that which is good. I do know this, Darlene, however,
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that you will be so infatuated with the goodness of God,
the love of God. I know that there's nothing that
will bring sadness to your heart. No tears, no disappointment,
no lack of joy. So I know that you will
be absolutely fulfilled. Full of his joy, full of his glory.
And there's not going to be a longing in your
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heart when you're in heaven, or a sadness because of
something that you lost or you don't have. That will
be completely erased. You will be in bliss over all
that God has provided for you in that place of glory.
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Wonderful answer. Thank you, Mark, and thank you, Darlene. Hey,
if you've never reached out to us before, we encourage
you to take a moment today and send us a
letter or a message online and share your story. Maybe
a question or a prayer request with us. Just go
to our website. Org or you can leave your message
on a recorded line as Darlene did. (312) 329-2011 again, (312) 329-2011.
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And you can drop us an email. Bold steps at Moody's.
Thank you for that, Mark. But let's go back to
your message now called what you'll know will change you.
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There's something very devastating when people lose hope. You lose hope.
You fall into depression. You lose hope. You no longer
look for solutions. You lose hope. You become cynical. You
lose hope. You lose energy. You lose hope. You just
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hang on. There is no sense of a future. When
people lose hope. Secondly, not only that, you may know
the hope of your calling, but that you may know
the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, that
you may know the riches of the glorious inheritance in
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the saints. Oh, that you may know what God has
in store for you, what is coming your way. All
the riches that God possesses and wants to grant you,
because they're his first of all, and he can give
it to whomever he well pleases to give it. If
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you knew the riches that God has, if you knew
the the wealth of his mercy and grace and goodness,
if you knew the resources that God has and his
willingness to give him to you and what is coming
your way, what is your inheritance? If you knew that,
it would change the way you live? If you understood it,
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the depth of it, the power of it, the greatness
of it. If we don't understand eternity. And we don't
understand what's waiting for us on the other side of
this life, then we will live a life in which
we seek to be fully fulfilled just here on earth.
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And we become consumers, not God followers. Listen, if your desire,
if you think that all of your payment, all of
your fulfillment will come just in the 60 years that
you live, or 70 years that you live, then you
live for yourself. But if you understand that life is more.
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If you understand what the Bible teaches? The Bible teaches
that everyone, everyone will live eternally. Your body will die,
but your spirit and your soul continues into the next round.
Some will live eternally. Some will die eternally according to Scripture.
Those that have put their trust in Jesus and are
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following him and are walking in him. There's this incredible
wealth that God that that is coming our way. And
we need to understand that we live our life has
eternal consequences, that it's not all over when our obituary
is read, but that the beginning of our eternity has
just begun. Amen. Need to understand that it's huge. The
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older I get, the more I think about it. And lastly,
so our call is about the. The hope of our
call is about our past. The riches of our glorious
inheritance is about our future. This is about the present.
And he says in verse 19, and his incomparably great
power for us who believe. The word power there is
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the word dunamis, which is where we get the word
dynamite from, and the incredible dynamite power at work within
us who believe. What is this power? Oh, this is
power that you already have. A power that is latent
within you because the Holy Spirit lives inside of you,
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and this power is already in your being. You possess
it already. Once in a while, you run into someone
that just feels like they have no power. Living defeated.
It's kind of like going in the house of someone
and their lamps and lights are unplugged. And you walk
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in the house and you say, and they walk in
the house and they say, I have no lights. And
they change the light bulb and they rattle the lamp
And then they pull out their candles and they start
lighting candles and putting candles all over the house. And
they're kind of dark and and someone walks in and
they say, what's wrong? And they say, I have no power. Oh,
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there's no power. No, I have to live by candles
and just kind of try to survive on candlelight. And
your neighbor walks in and says, well, why don't you
plug the lamp in? Plug the lamp in. The light
turns on. A lot of us Christians are living in
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candlelight when we have power. It's not that we have
no power, it's that we haven't plugged into the power
that we have. The power is there. The power is available.
The power is at our disposal, but the power has
to be plugged into in order to access it. It's
the same with the power of the Holy Spirit inside
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of us. The power. Listen, what kind of power is it? Listen.
It's the power. Verse 20, which God exerted when he
raised Christ from the dead and seated him at the
right hand of the heavenly realm. Far above all rule
and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can
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be given not only in this present age, but also
in the one to come. And God placed all things
under his feet, and appointed him to be head over
everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness
of him who fills everything in every way. That same
power is yours. The power that raised Jesus from the
dead is inside of you. The power that raised Jesus
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to the right hand of the father is in you.
The Bible says that you are seated with Christ in
heavenly places. The power that has dominion and authority over
the demonic and sickness and disease, that same power is
available in your life as well. That same power that
exercises authority. That is your power. Not an outside power,
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not a distant power, but a power that lives within you.
It's the power of the Holy Spirit. It's already there.
You say, well, pastor, pray for me because this is
really hard to get up on Sunday morning. I mean,
I just barely make it to the 12:00 service. Are
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you kidding me? You have the power that raised Jesus
from the dead, and you can't get out of bed. Seriously?
And we have a serious disconnect in accessing that power.
Because it should be more than just getting out of bed. Hello?
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The power that's inside of you is the same power
that said death. You have no authority over me. It's
the same power that made demons tremble and flee. It's
the same power that exercise authority over the supernatural. It's
that power that is already inside of you. So don't
tell me you can't quit a habit. Don't tell me
you can't have victory over this. Don't tell me you
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can't forgive. Because the same power that raised Jesus from
the dead is there to give you power to do
whatever God has called you to do. It's already there.
The power of God. If we. The church. Walked in
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the power that's already ours. Watch out! We are the
sleeping giant. But when the giant is awakened to the
power it has in God, watch out.
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Today's message was a great reminder of the hope and
riches and power we have through Christ. And next week,
you're continuing this study from the book of Ephesians.
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Ephesians chapter two says, we have been made alive in Christ.
What does that mean? This has powerful, deep implications.
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Today on Bold steps. Mark Jobe helps us understand God's
transformative power.
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So don't tell me you can't quit a habit. Don't
tell me you can't have victory over this. Don't tell
me you can't forgive. Because the same power that raised
Jesus from the dead is there to give you power
to do whatever God has called you to do. It's
already there. The power of God.
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Welcome to Bold Steps with Mark Jobe. Mark is the
president of Moody Bible Institute and the senior pastor of
New Life Community Church in Chicago. I'm Wayne Shepherd. People
are often in search of three things riches, power, and hope.
And today, as we move forward in our brand new series,
when you Believe everything Changes, Mark is going to show
us how we can find those three things and much more.
(00:58):
We're in the book of Ephesians, chapter one. Our message
is titled what you know will change You.
S2 (01:06):
So then Paul says, for this reason. For what reason?
Because you're chosen and predestined. Because you're sealed, and because
it is a deposit within your spirit. For this reason,
ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord
Jesus and your love for all the saints, I haven't
stopped giving thanks for you. Now let me clarify two
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things one. When you have faith in the Lord Jesus,
you're going to love the saints. You say, well, pastor,
I thought you didn't pray to saints. No, no, I'm
not talking about those saints. You're not talking about Saint
Jude and Saint Paul and Saint Peter. And I'm not
talking about those saints. You know who are the saints
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we talked about last week? You're the saints. Anybody that's
been washed and cleansed in the deposit of the Holy
Spirit inside of them We are the saints of God.
We are the saints. He's writing to the saints. The
beginning of the of Ephesians. He says to the saints
in Ephesus, to all the believers in Ephesus. We, friends,
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are the saints. Saints means to be set apart unto
God called out ones. We are the called out ones.
We are the people of God. When you have faith
in God, you will love the people of God. You
cannot have faith in God and hate the things that
God loves. Once in a while I'll run into someone
that says, well, I love God and me and me
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and the man upstairs. We got a thing going on.
But you know what? I don't like church. And I
don't like organized religion. I always tell em, hey, don't worry,
join us. We're disorganized religion. You may like us. But.
But here's the point. You cannot love God and worship
God and hate the church because God has put you
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in the. It's the family of God. It's the people
of God. Oh, you can be aggravated with them. You
can be irritated with them. But you cannot hate what
God loves. You will be a part of the church.
You will be integrated in it. You will grow in it. Why?
Because as you have faith in God, you will also
love the people of God, or the family of God,
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or the church of the Living God. And then he
goes on and he says, listen, I haven't stopped giving
thanks for you. I mean, every time I think about you,
I give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.
I love that Paul has a heart of a of
a pastor, of a shepherd. Think the way it should be.
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I've been a pastor here for a long time. I
love pastoring this church. Oh, sometimes it aggravates me. Oh,
sometimes you frustrate me. Oh, sometimes I'm like. Mhm. But
you know what? To be honest with you, when I
think of this church, when I think of Chicago, when
I think of what God has called us to do
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more than anything, what comes to my mind is gratitude.
I say, thank you, God, because my joy is to
see you grow. And so Paul says, listen, because God
has done all this for you. This is what I
want to remind you of and I keep praying for you.
Paul says, every time I think of you, I thank
God for you. But I pray this for you because
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I don't want you to get stagnant. I don't want
you to stop growing. Here's what I pray. Verse 17
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
the glorious father, may give you the spirit of wisdom
and revelation. Why? One version says in the knowledge of him,
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and Ivy says, so that you may know him better.
The spirit of wisdom and revelation. Wisdom is applied knowledge.
Revelation is the unveiling of things that you did not
know before. I pray that God gives you the spirit
of wisdom so that you can apply the knowledge that
you know so that you can navigate the things of God,
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but also of revelation, because there are things right now
that you do not know, that when God reveals them
to you will change your life. Revelation. And I'm not
talking simply about a new truth that you write in
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a notebook, but sometimes that revelation has to be spiritual revelation,
that that your eyes have to be opened spiritually to
see it, that you never saw it before. And suddenly
the revelation of God comes forth and you realize something
that you never knew before that literally changes the course
and destiny of your life. Spiritual revelation. But listen, that
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spiritual revelation can come to you and maybe you cannot
receive it. So Paul prays. The second thing he says
in verse 18, I pray also that the eyes of
your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know.
Sometimes God can be giving wisdom and revelation, but if
our heart is hard and darkened, then we will not
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receive what God is giving to us. Hello. Did you
realize that your heart has eyes? It says that the
eyes of your heart will be enlightened. Do you know
you can be in the same service? And the Word
of God comes. And someone, someone walks out of this
place thinking, whoa, I got so much. God spoke to
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me so much. And you're like. Really? I felt like
the seats were a little too hard. A little warm
in there. Was it me or did he go long? Man,
am I hungry? Where's Giordano's again? I mean, were you
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in the same service? Absolutely same service. The problem is
that although wisdom and revelation was going out, one person's
eyes or their heart were open and receptive and hungry
and the other had was not. And so you get
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what you're willing to receive. You receive what you're willing
to get and what expectation you come with. And when
your heart is soft and sensitive to God, there is
wisdom and revelation that will come your way more than
you can handle. But when you harden your heart, then
you receive less and less wisdom and revelation, less and
less truth that can change your life. And after a while,
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it's just the humdrum of some talking head that doesn't
make very much sense to you as your mind wanders
in some other direction. That's an issue of the heart.
So Paul prays, hey, I want you to grow in
wisdom and revelation. And so he prays for three things
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in their life. I pray that the eyes of your
heart may be enlightened in order that you may a
no hope, no riches, and no power. Three things. I
pray that you know the hope to which he has
called you. Oh, if you if you're spirit could understand
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the hope that's in your calling. What is hope? Hope
is the expectation of a better future. Hope is the
knowledge that there is good coming to you from the future.
The only way we can have hope is if we
trust in the God who holds the future, whose sovereign
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and omnipotent, and because we know that he works all
things together for his good purposes, we have hope. And
because we know that he has written the final chapter
of the story. We have hope. And because we know
that what he started, he is faithful to continue. We
have hope. We are a people of hope. Listen, one
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of the things that characterizes us is the sense of
positive expectation about the future. Why? Not because we're engaged
in some mindless, just positive thinking. But our positive thinking
is rooted in the positive character of the God that
we serve. So therefore, we have hope. Hope that God
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is in control. Hope that God is doing a work.
Hope that he has begun what he's going to finish
and that we have. We haven't seen the best days
yet because God is taking us from glory to glory,
to glory to glory, to glory to glory. That's our hope.
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Learning to be sensitive to the things of God. You're
listening to the Bible teaching of Mark job, and this
is bold steps. We'll take a deeper look at the
hope and power we have in Christ when we return
to today's message in just a moment. So keep listening.
Just a reminder we are listening to you, to your
testimonies and questions and prayer requests mean the world to us,
and we sometimes share them right here on the program.
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In fact, Mark hears a voice message we recently received
with a question. Well, we may smile when we hear
the question, but, uh, this is something on the heart
of a lot of people.
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Hi, my name is Darlene, and my question for Doctor
Jobe is this. And I'm sure you get asked it
many times, but I just want to hear it from
him because I respect his opinion so much and I
follow him all the time, and I and I, I
just love him. He's been working so much in my life.
My question is, do you, Pastor Joe, believe that we
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will see our dogs again in heaven one day? And
if we do, will we recognize them and will they
recognize us? I just have so many different opinions on
that and I would really love yours. Thank you so much.
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Inquiring minds want to know. Mark.
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Well, Darlene, first of all, let me say I love
the fact that you care so much about. I'm assuming
it's a dog. I don't know what pet it is,
but you know, the Bible actually talks about people that
are kind to animals in a positive way. And so
I love that because it indicates a a love and
compassion in your heart. So I love the fact that
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they are close to you. The Bible doesn't Explicitly say anywhere. Yes, dogs, cats,
pets will be in heaven, so it doesn't say that. However,
there's some things that are implicit a bit. You know,
God created all of heaven and earth, and when he
created animals, he said they were good. The Bible does
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say that in the Millennial Kingdom, which is not heaven,
but it is God's reign here on earth. It does
speak specifically about animals. It actually talks about them in
an interesting way. The the lion and the lamb will
be together. And in other words, the animals will get
along that perhaps, uh, at other times we're eating each other.
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They will get along. So and the millennial is a
reflection of the power and the glory of God. And
so if I were to guess, based on earth reflecting
the glory of God, the millennial kingdom reflecting the goodness
of God, there's a good chance that we will have
some sort of animal form in heaven now I can't
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the Bible doesn't say that specifically or explicitly. And so
where the Bible is silent, I don't like to guess
about it. Uh, but I do believe that there everything
good that God has created. It's a reflection of him.
And he tends to create his his dwelling place with
that which is good. I do know this, Darlene, however,
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that you will be so infatuated with the goodness of God,
the love of God. I know that there's nothing that
will bring sadness to your heart. No tears, no disappointment,
no lack of joy. So I know that you will
be absolutely fulfilled. Full of his joy, full of his glory.
And there's not going to be a longing in your
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heart when you're in heaven, or a sadness because of
something that you lost or you don't have. That will
be completely erased. You will be in bliss over all
that God has provided for you in that place of glory.
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Wonderful answer. Thank you, Mark, and thank you, Darlene. Hey,
if you've never reached out to us before, we encourage
you to take a moment today and send us a
letter or a message online and share your story. Maybe
a question or a prayer request with us. Just go
to our website. Org or you can leave your message
on a recorded line as Darlene did. (312) 329-2011 again, (312) 329-2011.
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And you can drop us an email. Bold steps at Moody's.
Thank you for that, Mark. But let's go back to
your message now called what you'll know will change you.
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There's something very devastating when people lose hope. You lose hope.
You fall into depression. You lose hope. You no longer
look for solutions. You lose hope. You become cynical. You
lose hope. You lose energy. You lose hope. You just
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hang on. There is no sense of a future. When
people lose hope. Secondly, not only that, you may know
the hope of your calling, but that you may know
the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, that
you may know the riches of the glorious inheritance in
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the saints. Oh, that you may know what God has
in store for you, what is coming your way. All
the riches that God possesses and wants to grant you,
because they're his first of all, and he can give
it to whomever he well pleases to give it. If
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you knew the riches that God has, if you knew
the the wealth of his mercy and grace and goodness,
if you knew the resources that God has and his
willingness to give him to you and what is coming
your way, what is your inheritance? If you knew that,
it would change the way you live? If you understood it,
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the depth of it, the power of it, the greatness
of it. If we don't understand eternity. And we don't
understand what's waiting for us on the other side of
this life, then we will live a life in which
we seek to be fully fulfilled just here on earth.
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And we become consumers, not God followers. Listen, if your desire,
if you think that all of your payment, all of
your fulfillment will come just in the 60 years that
you live, or 70 years that you live, then you
live for yourself. But if you understand that life is more.
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If you understand what the Bible teaches? The Bible teaches
that everyone, everyone will live eternally. Your body will die,
but your spirit and your soul continues into the next round.
Some will live eternally. Some will die eternally according to Scripture.
Those that have put their trust in Jesus and are
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following him and are walking in him. There's this incredible
wealth that God that that is coming our way. And
we need to understand that we live our life has
eternal consequences, that it's not all over when our obituary
is read, but that the beginning of our eternity has
just begun. Amen. Need to understand that it's huge. The
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older I get, the more I think about it. And lastly,
so our call is about the. The hope of our
call is about our past. The riches of our glorious
inheritance is about our future. This is about the present.
And he says in verse 19, and his incomparably great
power for us who believe. The word power there is
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the word dunamis, which is where we get the word
dynamite from, and the incredible dynamite power at work within
us who believe. What is this power? Oh, this is
power that you already have. A power that is latent
within you because the Holy Spirit lives inside of you,
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and this power is already in your being. You possess
it already. Once in a while, you run into someone
that just feels like they have no power. Living defeated.
It's kind of like going in the house of someone
and their lamps and lights are unplugged. And you walk
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in the house and you say, and they walk in
the house and they say, I have no lights. And
they change the light bulb and they rattle the lamp
And then they pull out their candles and they start
lighting candles and putting candles all over the house. And
they're kind of dark and and someone walks in and
they say, what's wrong? And they say, I have no power. Oh,
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there's no power. No, I have to live by candles
and just kind of try to survive on candlelight. And
your neighbor walks in and says, well, why don't you
plug the lamp in? Plug the lamp in. The light
turns on. A lot of us Christians are living in
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candlelight when we have power. It's not that we have
no power, it's that we haven't plugged into the power
that we have. The power is there. The power is available.
The power is at our disposal, but the power has
to be plugged into in order to access it. It's
the same with the power of the Holy Spirit inside
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of us. The power. Listen, what kind of power is it? Listen.
It's the power. Verse 20, which God exerted when he
raised Christ from the dead and seated him at the
right hand of the heavenly realm. Far above all rule
and authority, power and dominion, and every title that can
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be given not only in this present age, but also
in the one to come. And God placed all things
under his feet, and appointed him to be head over
everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness
of him who fills everything in every way. That same
power is yours. The power that raised Jesus from the
dead is inside of you. The power that raised Jesus
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to the right hand of the father is in you.
The Bible says that you are seated with Christ in
heavenly places. The power that has dominion and authority over
the demonic and sickness and disease, that same power is
available in your life as well. That same power that
exercises authority. That is your power. Not an outside power,
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not a distant power, but a power that lives within you.
It's the power of the Holy Spirit. It's already there.
You say, well, pastor, pray for me because this is
really hard to get up on Sunday morning. I mean,
I just barely make it to the 12:00 service. Are
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you kidding me? You have the power that raised Jesus
from the dead, and you can't get out of bed. Seriously?
And we have a serious disconnect in accessing that power.
Because it should be more than just getting out of bed. Hello?
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The power that's inside of you is the same power
that said death. You have no authority over me. It's
the same power that made demons tremble and flee. It's
the same power that exercise authority over the supernatural. It's
that power that is already inside of you. So don't
tell me you can't quit a habit. Don't tell me
you can't have victory over this. Don't tell me you
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can't forgive. Because the same power that raised Jesus from
the dead is there to give you power to do
whatever God has called you to do. It's already there.
The power of God. If we. The church. Walked in
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the power that's already ours. Watch out! We are the
sleeping giant. But when the giant is awakened to the
power it has in God, watch out.
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A reminder about the power of God that is living
inside us through the Holy Spirit. This is the daily
Bible teaching program, bold steps with Mark job. And did
you know that you can hear this program every weekday
on your local radio station or online, 24 hours a day,
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like this month's Bold Step gift. It's a book that
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mentor of young boys. So let me ask you, do
the boys in your life believe they're too young to
make a difference? Are they convinced that reading the Bible
isn't for them? These are just two of the dangerous
lies tackled by lies. Boys believe written by parents of
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four boys. This engaging resource helps young men separate truth
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sign up today, please online at Bold Bird-stamps.org. Well, Mark.
Today's message was a great reminder of the hope and
riches and power we have through Christ. And next week,
you're continuing this study from the book of Ephesians.
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Ephesians chapter two says, we have been made alive in Christ.
What does that mean? This has powerful, deep implications.
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Thanks, Mark. Sounds like a great message and we can't
wait to hear it. So be sure to join us
next week for Made Alive. And while you're waiting, don't
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