Riddle on the long grinding of Mark and Ephesians 3 .9 in light of the claims of modern text criticism

Riddle will by necessity have to use two different standards in defending The Long Grinding of Mark and

But the ECM of Mark is about to come out, please, faster than, sooner than later.

The longer ending of Mark is Mark 16 -9 -20. Now, those three are the, what we would say, the granddaddy of the textual variants. And they tend to eat up the biggest amount of time in this conversation because these are the ones people will literally go to the mat over.

From until the doxology in 20 and 21. 14 to 19 is one of eight long sentences in the book of Ephesians

That's how you defend a defensible reading, like the Long Grinding of Mark, which is defensible, it has

Pradeep, could you also read verse 28? Thank you. Amen. You see there, mature in Christ. What's a mark of maturity? Who is Paul toiling and struggling and fatiguing and exhausting himself and being weary over?

We're gonna get Luke 9. We're gonna get acts 28 favorite part to camp out on here acts 28 then 27 through 28. And we're gonna mash it all up together and we're gonna take it smack it over the top of Romans chapter 9.

We then picked up Mark verse by verse as we got to see our Savior, as he would do wonderful works and

Oh, Father, that's what we long for this morning. We long to be sanctified. We long to be more like our Savior. So help us, mold us, work in us, in Christ's name, amen. Well, now that we've reached the second half of the Apostle Paul's letter to the church in Ephesus, it's obvious that he has switched gears as to the subject matter in certain ways.

We are in Titus 3 still, and while y 'all turn there, I'll just say a couple of things to get us where we're at right now. If you guys remember the past several weeks, we've been pretty much in verses 4 through 7, really kind of honing in on each one of those, one after the other.

We'll go ahead and open up your copy of God's word to Ephesians 3. Ephesians 3, we're going to seek to cover today verses 2 through 6. We'll see how that goes. However, let's read starting in verse 1 all the way through verse 13 so that we can get within the context and mindset of what the Apostle Paul is saying here in this text.

But in verse 29, through the end of our text, through chapter 2 verse 5, Paul explains his work ethic on behalf of the church. He toiled, he struggled, and I believe him. I believe if you were an eyewitness to Paul's life, you might have been moved in your heart to encourage him to pace himself a bit.

And working my way back, in order to establish the context that Colossians 2 .9 lands in, I once again found myself amazed by, one, the Word of God and the depth of it, but also by the Apostle Paul's writing style.

We should, and I stand with a long list of men who believe likewise that we should read and study and

During the second half of this chapter, Paul once again draws a distinction between who the Ephesians used to be versus their present unity in Christ. Chapter 3 starts with an exaltation that Paul was chosen by God to be a minister of the mystery of God, finally revealed to all men, and a prayer for spiritual strength that, quote, "...according to the riches of God's glory, He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God," unquote.

Two sermons per chapter and we finished Ephesians in 12 weeks my flesh wants to say I told you I could

Go home and read through the book of Ephesians.

Thank you, Becky. In our study of the gospel of Mark, we're finishing up chapter nine today as Jesus gives the disciples instructions on discipleship. I'll begin reading here in verse 38 and we'll go through verse 50 out of the Legacy Standard Bible.

According to Ephesians chapter 4 we grow up into all things.