So what's the lesson for us today? Harkening back to the beginning of this letter, there is a marvelous mystery: God's grace which draws us all together as one. The gospel message flows from the love of the Holy Spirit and the grace of God that we experience through Him. This means that our responsibility as members of the ekklesia is living humbly and in unity under the power of the indwelling Spirit. In other words, the Holy Spirit fills us and enables us to live a life of love, creating a church where everyone is willing to serve rather than be served.

Isn't it interesting that everything comes back to love! Paul's prayer for us is that we might be strengthened and filled with the Spirit of God and understand that God has given us all of Himself. We learn that the indwelling presence of Jesus in our hearts is rooted in love and it is this love that allows us to be filled with the fullness of God.

We often talk about a "relationship with God." This might be too simple a phrase. God doesn't just want a relationship with us, He wants to exist with us. He wants to be one with us. He wants us to experience victory and He wants the spiritual authorities and powers to know who we are and what this mystery is. We, the church, gets to announce it! However, this is only possible through Holy Spirit. Will we choose Him today?

The gospel is a great mystery, but not a great secret. Paul explains that God has made the mystery of the gospel known through the Holy Spirit. When someone has an encounter with the Spirit, their lives are forever changed and the mystery is revealed. As the mysteries of His Word are revealed through the Spirit we also become students of the Word, drawing ever closer to Him.

Isn't it amazing that we have all been made one in Jesus?! Isn't it amazing that the wall that used to divide us has been torn down?! This is what it looks like when we live as a community of Spirit sourced followers of Christ. We cannot remain unchanged and prejudiced. We have been called to something deeper, something that looks like the Kingdom of God!

Great message about the movement of the Holy Spirit, by Pastor Steve Pettit from One Hill Rescue.

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Here's where we are today. God is calling! Can you hear Him? Come as you are. Join Him in this great adventure of life and invite others to join you. We are a generation who is being raised up for this time! What are we doing? We love like Jesus so lives are changed. We love people who have lives as messed up as ours. We are all invited because no one is better than the other. No one's righteousness matters, because we are all made one under God's grace. Once we were dead, but we have been made alive through Jesus Christ.

We have been chosen by Christ! Predestined to follow Him. When we choose to step in to that destiny, His manifest presence is deposited into our lives. It is His presence that brings life change that becomes apparent to others. His presence doesn't only bring life change, it changes the way we live. We begin to see things like Jesus does and we have power to conquer the trials in our lives. The freedom we have available in the Spirit is unmatched. Won't we step in to that life-changing freedom today?!

It is important we understand that our God is a God who chose us. People have been struggling with the idea of Grace and a God who is angry and vengeful for a long time. Don't get me wrong, God is holy and we must honor Him, but he also desire to bring unity to ALL THINGS…which is us! Let's embrace the grace of God as we lean in to our identity as a church committed to an inward journey of spiritual practices and an outward journey of  missional engagement.