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Pastor Mike Impact Ministries

Michael L Grooms

A daily chat with Pastor Mike and other resources to encourage listeners to connect with the Word of God and grow in their faith.

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00:05:10

Ephesians 1:7-8 - Abounding Grace for Freedom from...

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/28

Thisis what we are talking about today as we look at Ephesians 1:7-10: "Inwhom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins according tothe riches of His grace." In the first six verses, we found the blessingswe have from God the Father. In God the Father, we have been chosen. We havebeen adopted into His family. We have been accepted in Christ. Now in theseverses we see the blessings that we have from the Person and the work andministry of Jesus Christ because of His

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00:05:14

Ephesians 1:7 - The Evidence of Being Forgiven

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/27

How do you know you've been forgiven? Do you have assurance thatyou've been forgiven for every sin that you've ever committed? Well,the evidence and the proof is in the fact that you now have the ability toforgive others. You have the desire to forgive others instead of being a bitterperson, speaking evil against others, being full of malice and envy and wantingto get even and all those sorts of things and carrying a grudge on your shoulder.I'm telling you, my friend, the proof, the

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00:05:19

Ephesians 1:7 - Forgiven and Forgotten

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/26

I am thankful that I have been forgiven for all my sins. That God now is my Father in heaven. That He loves me. Hecares for me. He meets all our needs according to His riches and glory inChrist Jesus. I have been so blessed with His forgiveness. Now that's what weread about in Ephesians 1:7. “In whom we have redemption through His blood.Yes, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace”. Wedon't deserve this kind of forgiveness, but God gives it to us. He forgives usbecause

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00:05:03

Ephesians 1:7 - Forgiven According to the Riches of...

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/23

Ibelieve what we're talking about today is one of the most important things wecan talk about in the Bible and especially in the New Testament, and that is theforgiveness of sins. The forgiveness of sins, and knowing that we'reforgiven. Yesterday we started looking at Ephesians 1:7, and there it tells usthat “in Him we have redemption through His blood”. We explained thatyesterday. Redemption through the blood. How His blood has redeemed us, has setus free from our sin, has paid the ransom

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00:05:04

Ephesians 1:7-10 - "Redemption Through His Blood"

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/22

Remember,the theme of Ephesians is about the riches that we have in Christ Jesus. We arein Christ the moment we trust Him to be our Lord and Savior. The Holy Spiritbaptizes us into the body of Christ (Romans 6:3). In the first long sentence,verse 2-6, we have seen how God the Father has given us at least threewonderful rich blessings. The first blessing was we are “chosen”. We are“chosen… to be holy and without blame before Him in love” (v. 4). Secondly,we are “adopted” into His family as His

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00:05:16

Ephesians 1:3-6 - We Are Accepted in the Beloved

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/21

Thethird great blessing we learn from verse 6, is that we are “accepted in theBeloved”. The first time the word “accepted” was used is in Genesis 4:7,where God accepted Abel's sacrifice, but He rejected Cain's sacrifice. Cain wasvery angry and God told him: Genesis 4:7 “If you do well, will you not beaccepted? And if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And its desire isfor you, but you should rule over it." God was saying that if Cain would do the rightthing by bringing the right

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00:05:23

Ephesians 1:3-6 - Chosen and Adopted As Sons

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/20

Whenwe look at the words “election” or being “chosen” in theScriptures, we're speaking of the fact that God has a special people set apartfor a specific purpose. Just like He chose Abraham and chose the people ofIsrael to be His people. It didn't mean that they were all saved. It means thatthey were called to as a special people to special purpose. As believers, weare born into the family of God. But as His sons and daughters we are chosen byHim to be holy, to be a “chosen” people, an

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00:05:11

Ephesians 1:3-6 - Blessings From God the Father

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/19

Ephesians1:3-6 is one long sentence. Today we are looking at the blessings that we havefrom God the Father. “Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,who has blessed us…” (v.3). Verses 3-6 are speaking of our blessings thatwe have from God the Father. When Jesus Christ wrote His last will andtestament for His church, He made it possible for us to share in His spiritualriches. Instead of spending it all for Him, (as some do when they receive aninheritance), Jesus Christ paid for it all

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00:05:04

Ephesians 1:1-3 - We Are Rich In Christ

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/18

Todaywe are talking about the riches that we have in Christ Jesus. Sometimeswe think of the wealthiest people on earth such as Elon Musk being worth over$430 billion and Jeff Bezos, the owner and founder of Amazon, over 200-plusbillion dollars, and other wealthy people. The top five billionaires in theworld altogether—their wealth is over a trillion dollars—and we go, wow,wouldn't we like to have that? Well, my friend, I am telling you, you havesomething better than that. You have eternal

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00:05:05

Ephesians 1:1-3 - Peace With God

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/17

We have talked about God’s graceand how important it is that we experience God's grace before we can experienceHis peace—peace with God. The Bible definitely teaches that we'reat enmity with God before our salvation. We're enemies of God. We're alienatedin our minds by wicked works away from God (Colossians 1:21), and we needreconciliation. Justnow the world is looking for peace in the Ukraine in the Middle East. But there will be no peace without the Man of peace.That's Jesus

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00:05:15

Ephesians 1:1-3 - "Grace to You"

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/16

Paul writes, "Grace to you and peace from God ourFather and the Lord Jesus Christ." We could spend several weeks juston this one small verse, that starts with the word grace. The word graceis used 12 times in the book of Ephesians. It refers to the kindness of Godtoward undeserving people. Some people abbreviate that by saying that grace is God'sunmerited favor. That's what grace is. Overthe years I have also expanded the description of Biblical grace to say thatgrace is God

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Ephesians 1:1-3 - Saints and Faithful in Christ Jesus

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/15

Iremember when I was a child growing up in a family that was very poor. I tell you what, my friend. The moment I found Jesus Christ as a 19-year-oldteenager, I became the richest person in the universe in Christ. And that'swhat Ephesians is about: knowing and understanding the riches of the glory theHis inheritance that I have in Jesus Christ. And that's why these three versesare so powerful to help us begin to understand what we need to learn and knowfrom this book. Verse1 tells us that

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00:05:26

Ephesians 1:1-3 - Your Faith, Your Love and Hope

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/13

Paul pray forthe church at Ephesus during their time of tremendous persecution they wouldknow how blessed they were in Christ. Today we want to give a little backgroundhistorically of this church and the reason Paul wrote this letter. Nowas you read these first verses of this chapter, you find verse number one, Paulis the writer of this epistle. And we need to remember that the Apostle Paulwrote at least 13 of the 27 books of the New Testament. And he wrote them asletters, as epistles to churches

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00:05:07

Ephesians 1:18-20 - "That Your May Know..."

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/12

Wefinished the book of Luke several days ago and today we're going to start ourstudy in the book of Ephesians and will be looking at it for the next severalmonths. I love the book of Ephesians. I love it because I believe it gives usthe essence of what it really is to live out our Christian faith. The reasonmany people give for not becoming a Christian is because they meet a so-calledChristian who is not living out their Christian faith. I believe that Ephesiansis a powerful book that gives us a

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00:05:15

2 Corinthians 1:8-11 - “Through Your Prayers… and the...

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/11

Forthe last few days, I have been asking for prayers for some 600 pastors in eastIndia that we partner with to take the gospel to every creature. InJanuary of this year, I met with 400 of these pastors and promised them I wouldfind at least one person in America to pray for them. I promised them that Iwould connect them with a believer, who loves the Lord, who believes that thegospel is what changes and transforms lives, to pray for them. I've been askingyou to join me in our India pastor's

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00:05:14

Ephesians 6:19-20 - "And Pray on My Behalf,..."

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/10

Iread through the New Testament at least twice a year, sometimes even three andfour times a year. I love reading the New Testament, especially the epistles ofthe Apostle Paul as he writes to the churches. And I noticed these last fewtimes as I've been reading how many times the Apostle Paul asked for prayer.And I'm thinking about how if he, this anointed man of God, who writes 13 booksof the New Testament, asks for prayer on many occasions, how much more do I asa pastor, and pastors, need

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00:05:03

Mark 16 - "Preach the Gospel to Every Creature"

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/09

Whenyou read all the Great Commission passages in the Gospels and Acts, Jesus sentthe disciples to preach and share the message of the His suffering, death,burial, and resurrection to all the nations and every people and language group.But we need to remember salvation doesn’t happen in groups but in individuals,one at a time. Each individual person is loved by God, and they experience His graceand salvation one at a time. That’s why today in our chat we are focusing onthe numbers of individuals

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00:05:21

Matthew 28:19-20 - Reaching the Unreached

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/08

Last evening I was in Roanoke, Virginia, at the GoCenter. You can learn more about the Go Center at: https://www.gpartners.org/gocenter Iwas called to ministry in April 1971, on in a Sunday night service at LandmarkBaptist Temple in Cincinnati Ohio under a missionary named Bob Hughes. Withina few weeks of that night I heard that Thomas Road Baptist Church was startinga brand-new Bible college called Lynchburg Baptist College, I registeredimmediately and went there with my heart set on going to

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00:05:03

Luke 24:48-53 - Joyful Hearts Sharing His Gospel

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/07

Thursday August07JoyfulHearts Sharing His GospelLuke 24:48-5348And you are witnesses of these things. 49 Behold, I send the Promise of MyFather upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued withpower from on high." 50 And He led them out as far as Bethany, andHe lifted up His hands and blessed them. 51 Now it came to pass, while Heblessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven. 52 Andthey worshiped Him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53

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00:05:04

Luke 24:46-49 - Jesus Gives Us the Great Commission

Pastor Mike Impact Ministries ·

2025/08/06

We'recontinuing to look at the last verses of Luke 24. In these verses, Jesus givesHis last words to His disciples before He ascends into heaven. It is what wecall the Great Commission, the commission to go into all the world and sharethe gospel with every creature. We have this recorded in Matthew 28:19-20. ThereJesus said, "Go into all the world and make disciples of all thenations." In Mark 16:15, “And He said to them, "Go into allthe world and preach the gospel to every

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