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We're going to look at your face in chapter 4, this morning, going to start and verse 27.

And then we'll go back to the beginning because in verse 27, Paul is telling the Church of Ephesus is he's a do not give place to the devil.

Do not give place to the devil.

How often in our lives?

Have you?

And I individually given place to the devil.

We know we probably shouldn't go.

There we even though maybe we shouldn't say this or we shouldn't do it but we do it anyway.

Knowing we shouldn't We give place to the devil.

When we disobey the things that God is asking us to do when we aren't doing it, God's way, when we do it, maybe the way the world was or or how those around encouraged us to do it right or wrong.

A lot of wrong things have happened in life because a multitude of people have encouraged other people to do the wrong thing.

Paul is here, he saying to the church as we've been going through Galatians in Ephesians.

He said to the glaciers, he saying, to Ephesians, we need to just do what God is asking us to do no matter what, no matter where we're at life, no matter where we are in any situation, just do what God is calling us to do.

And when we do, what God is calling us to do, there's blessings involved.

Yes, it might be a little harder.

Sometimes it might be a little more painful to do, the things that God is warning us and asking us to do.

But think of the pain of the sorrow and the suffering that we end up with when we do things the devil's way or begins.

Well, it feels good in the beginning, doing the things I can say to, you is calling us to do because if Sam was did not have some sort of a fun point about a we wouldn't want to do it.

If every time we said, we got poked in the eye with a stick, we stopped doing that, wouldn't we?

The problem is a poke in the eye comes later.

When sometimes it's too late, you know, when we sometimes we've gone and we've done something, we said something, or we made an action that now, how do we get back from it?

And now, the devil will use that against us, the rest of our lives, when we strive to do something wonderful, and tremendous for a God and the devil.

But remember when, and then all of us, everything we tried to do those out the window or so, we think But understand this, everything that we do for God with the right heart, everything we do for God with the right, heart does not get thrown out the window.

What if we decided this morning?

We're going to get buckets of water and we're going to wash people's feet.

What kind of church is this?

It's not about the washing of the feet.

It's the heart condition.

What it comes down to.

We're going to wash people's feet now, do you want to be the person first in the water or the person last, in that same water?

you'd probably want to be the first person in the water because you don't know what the person that or maybe you do know what the person speak next to you is like

And if that's our aspect will let me get first so I don't have to deal with the nastiness of our hearts wrong.

Am I right?

The cleanliness of, I understand that aspect but if that's our attitude in our heart is not in the right spot me first.

So I don't have to deal with the mess of other people.

And yes, when that would happen, they would to empty out the water and get another pail of water and start all over again.

But it's the same person's hands that are cleansing your feet.

That's cleansing.

Somebody else's feet.

Right?

Did they wash their hands correctly?

Are their nails done?

I don't know what, all the fuss or processor that we would have just don't want somebody touching my feet.

That's me.

I'm very particular about my feet and I don't care to have somebody else touching my feet.

So you know, you touch my feet there going to be a knee-jerk reaction if I don't see it coming by.

See it coming?

I move my feet.

I just have I don't like people touching my feet.

What else can I say?

Never been to a podiatrist in my life, I probably will never go.

Now that I say that I'll be there next week, right?

But that, but the point is not because I don't want him play.

It's just I don't like I don't want you touching my feet.

Touch my head, find my feet.

Leave it alone.

Here's the point.

If my heart is, I don't want that person touching my feet.

But something is wrong.

I don't want that individual.

What?

We're giving way?

Play Space to Satan.

And guess what?

Satan doesn't pay rent.

Did you notice that?

He doesn't pay rent, usually cost you more when he takes place in space in your head than what it's worth.

What's a good place to?

The devil is to allow unconfessed sin.

In your life, that give Satan an opportunity to take over.

And I don't confess and maybe something that you've been harboring for a while.

It could be something that just took place and now you just going to continue to go on with it.

I see you in the society that we live in today night and I fear that Things have changed in our society.

I don't fear that I know it has but I don't like it.

Because as we've sort of stayed home from covid and did our own thing and and everything and every thought that we had has to go out on on social media.

It's better for us to be silent thought a fool than open, your mouth and remove all doubt.

Why, why do we need to rent to the devil?

Why do we need to allow him to take up space in our heart and in our life, when Jesus says, hey, I got it all figured out for you.

You're standing on Holy Ground.

You're standing here.

And if you obey, you will be blessed if you disobey there's consequences.

So as you said to Moses, Moses, take your shoes off, take your sandals off stand before, God in the presence of him.

Knowing that he's in control S10 chapter 4. We see this aspect.

He's talking about walking in unity in verse 1, through verse 13.

Will look at this.

This usually he's going to talk about what this is disunity is all about.

I therefore the prisoner of the king of the Lord beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called there.

Again, he tells us he did last week, I'm a prisoner on the Lord.

But he says, I'm in prison Because of You Gentiles, God called me to be a minister to you.

So I'm a prisoner of the Lord.

Because of you, I'm here, because God call me to minister to you.

He wasn't putting them down, he's saying I'm here because this is what God has called me to do for you.

With all loneliness in gentleness with long-suffering and bearing with one another Endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of a beast.

You know what that endeavoring means to me, it shows working towards making it happen, not waiting for it to happen, right?

Making it happen.

Endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of Peace.

Why?

Because there is one body, and one Spirit, just as you were called in the one, hoping you're calling.

One Lord, One Faith, one baptism, one God.

And the father of all, who is above all and through, all in in you all, if you're here this morning, you're a child of God.