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Everybody will serve me.

If you will this morning to Ephesians chapter 3, as we continue on and our study through the Epistles, the book of Galatians in Ephesians as we've been through seeing how Paul is encouraging the church, how they got to act how they all live, how they out of work, together doesn't always work the way.

Paul wants it to where God wants it to because people are involved and when we do things our way and not God's way then where we have a tendency to mess it up, we need to understand the purpose that God has for us.

And that's where he starts off here in Ephesians chapter 3.

He says, for this reason, What reason did you talk about?

He says that inverse Give me a verse 1.

He also talks about that verse 14, scuse me.

My water guy did not show up today, so I'm going to fire him.

The Waterboy is not here, but in versus XIII for this reason, what reason is he talking about?

What, where is he, what is he dealing with in this aspect?

And he says, I Paul the prisoner of Christ.

For you gentiles.

Think about that this morning pulse is high, Paul a prisoner of Christ for you Gentile.

So this morning we're either Jew or Gentile if you're not a Jew or a gentile.

So he says here I am God Blinded Me on that Damascus Road.

We know that story Acts chapter 9. Took care of this situation.

He blinded me so that I would be a minister for him.

I became a slave to him on that Damascus rule I was going to come down the stairs with Chris's water from him or whatever you're drinking it.

I don't really care.

Just

tears.

Maybe God doesn't want me to preach his message or maybe the devil doesn't want me to resend message.

I don't know.

But anyway, I got you guys coughing now, right?

What reason is Paul talking about this servanthood?

Being a Slave.

the Jesus that we don't like that because it has a tendency of Imprisonment has a tendency of being told what to do, being told how to live being told every aspect.

I'm pretty much that's where Paul was on that.

Damascus Road God, blinded him.

God said, hey, I got a job for you and Paul said, Saul of Tarsus, Lord, what would you have me to do?

And he says, here it is.

You're going to go and you're going to suffer many things for my namesake.

I mean, after all, you have been persecuting Christians, after all, you have been tearing lives, apart, and murdering those of my children.

And yet, God still loves him and yet God still provide it for him.

And yet God still used him.

There is not one of us here today who cannot be used of God.

There's not one of us here today that God does not want to use and put in to make sure there's not one of us who who cannot say that.

There's nothing for me to do.

There is something for you to do.

If there is something for Saul of Tarsus Paul, the Apostle, there's something for you.

For this reason to reverse what Paul wrote about in the end of chapter 2 and we're going to read those for you versus a 19.

Through verse 22.

Scott didn't have those on the screen or I didn't give them to him this morning.

I don't really know what's behind me if you had a man, I don't know.

He's pretty cool back there, but he says there's an 2:19 now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the Saints.

And members of the household of God having been built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets.

Jesus Christ himself being the Chief Cornerstone in, whom the whole building being fitted together, grows into a holy Temple in the Lord and whom you also being built together for a Dwelling Place of God in the spirit.

Is it, hey, hey, here's a job.

Here is a Ministry.

Here's what it's all about.

We are built together.

We are here.

We're fitted together.

we are pieces in this big puzzle that God has of his ministry in his work and each one of us as a Believer, have a position to fill Have you put a puzzle together?

I like the ones that are grandkids but together they're about this big.

The pit puzzle pieces in about 8 or 9 of.

It doesn't take long for the kids to put them.

To get takes me a little longer to put them together.

I am not one to sit down and put a 1000 piece puzzle together.

they just I saw the picture on the front of the box that was cute and that was good enough.

I don't need to see it put together, I know what it looks like, right?

But in the ministry of God we are all puzzle pieces that sometimes have to fit together.

And what if, as a puzzle piece, your put next to a piece, you don't want to be next to.

And if you don't go there than the puzzles, not going to be put together or if that puzzle pieces missing.

And that's the last piece.

And where is it?

You can't finish the puzzle.

I've never had those problems cuz that they said, I just put the big ones together with those little ones man.

It takes a lot of work to put those together and we will work more on putting a puzzle together.

Then we will at working out relationships with other Christians and other believers.

And being the part that God wants.

He said, for this reason, we are part of the body of Christ built together, brought together working together to minister.

As God wants us to not necessarily, as we want to hit Matthew 16:18.

Jesus says, I will build my church.

Who is the church?

This building is not the church.

This is just a building This building could be anyting.

Somebody buys it.

And want to make it to be the church, is you?

The church is me.

The church is US individually, but us collectively coming together.

For, if you are a child of God Christ, dwells within you, and he wants to build your life.

He wants a guy, you he wants to directly.

He wants you to be all that you can be for him.

He uses people.

To get the job done.

Can you do it himself?

Sure he can't.

He's got to go do whatever he wants.

But what's his glory?

What's the joy in that?

Doing it himself.

When he's got people that he says, hey here's a job for you.

Here's a Ministry for you go and do it to the best of your ability, as I have called you, and I have given you talents to do working together not separately.

See all those puzzle pieces really have to work together to hold each other in place.

I mean, you got your corner pieces.

You've got your metal pieces that are hard to find but man, those Corners we can find because they're, they're squared off those edges when they're square puzzle easier to find.

now, you just gotta put them in place, find the part that fits together with the other part and that's the hard thing sometimes and Ministry finding out where we fit together as God wants us to I was shared this morning, somebody had mentioned that.

Our church is a cult Church.

I was sweating this morning, I thought they thought they were talking about her condition and they weren't talking about their condition cuz somebody had walked in and nobody's even recognized.