# Undying Love - Preparing for Awaken | Ephesians 6:24 Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054/undying-love-preparing-for-awaken-ephesians-6-24 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054/undying-love-preparing-for-awaken-ephesians-6-24.md Podcast: [Church at the Cross : Sunday Messages](https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054) Published: 2026-02-16T19:33:59+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/catc-media1/episodes/Undying-Love---Preparing-for-Awaken--Ephesians-624-e3f68t8 Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/10cf92420/podcast/play/115597672/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-1-16%2F69a84e93-e660-daae-4536-521d67097c5e.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054/episodes/undying-love-preparing-for-awaken-ephesians-6-24 Duration seconds: 2578 ## Resource Scripture: Ephesians 6:24 + What you love most is the most important thing about you. “ According to Augustine, ‘There is a scale of value stretching from earthly to heavenly realities, from the visible to the invisible; and the inequality between these goods makes possible the existence of them all.’ God is one thing, angels are another, as are people, terriers, red oaks, squash, rocks, and dirt. Each item fits in God's overall scheme of creation. The nature of things in the hierarchy is unchangeable, and so is the kind of satisfaction it can provide when we are related to it through love. Because of these actual differences in things, the outcome of loving each actual thing will be different. There is a divinely designed fit between our needs, the character of the things that can satisfy them, and the way we should love them in order to be satisfied. Even though each thing God made is good, delightful, legitimate, and a source of satisfaction as an object of our love, we "must not expect more from it than its unique nature can provide." We must give love and praise to things apportioned to their worth. - David K Naugle, Re-Ordered Loves; Re-ordered Lives. "Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship...is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things—if they are where you tap real meaning in life—then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally plant you...Worship power—you will feel weak and afraid, and… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054/episodes/undying-love-preparing-for-awaken-ephesians-6-24/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/church-at-the-cross-sunday-messages-2054/undying-love-preparing-for-awaken-ephesians-6-24.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.