Our church family recently celebrated the marriage of a young couple. There is another couple in our church family who will celebrate 60 years of marriage this week. Marriage has been in the spotlight for a few weeks in our church family, so we took time to study the purpose of marriage as defined by … Continue reading Marriage – A Picture of Jesus and His Church PT 1
God revealed through Paul that the unity in the one body produced by the Spirit is based in seven glorious truths. In our last post we learned that there is only one body. The universal church is the body of Christ. This body is made up of all true believers in Jesus from Acts 2 … Continue reading There Is One Spirit (Ephesians 4:4)
In a previous post we looked at the basis of our unity as a church body. Ephesians 4:1-3 tells us that the Holy Spirit has produced unity in the body of Christ. This unity has been purchased through the death of Jesus Christ in the place of His saints. Ephesians 4:4-6 tells us the nature … Continue reading There Is One Body (Ephesians 4:4)
Christians are called to guard the unity that the Spirit has already produced in the body of Christ (Ephesians 4:1-3). This is the peace and unity that the Spirit has produced through the death of Jesus Christ in the place of His saints. This is discussed in Ephesians 2:11-3:13. God has created a new body … Continue reading The Basis of Our Unity
The following is an outline from our church family's study on June 30, 2019, with some revisions for clarity. This is a study on Ephesians 4:1-3. If you would like to have more information on the term "saint," you can read my previous article titled "Walking Like a Saint" (found here: https://bibleliving.blog/2019/06/30/walking-like-a-saint/.This) is a rather … Continue reading Walking Like a Saint – Humility, Gentleness, Patience, Unity
In Ephesians 4:1 Paul urges us to come along with him and habitually live in a way that matches the calling to which we have been called. What is this calling? Chapters 1-3 have covered this calling in great detail. Can we narrow down the teaching of Ephesians 1-3 into one word that describes the … Continue reading Walking Like a Saint
Our church family is studying the Letter to the Ephesians in our Sunday Morning services. We just finished Paul's great prayer in Ephesians 3:14-21. Here is the outline for the word of praise in Ephesians 3:20-21. Doxology – A Word of Praise Ephesians 3:20-21 The Person Praised – God the Father (cf. 3:14-15) The Ability … Continue reading Ephesians 3:20-21 – Doxology – a Word of Praise
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