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Last week we talked about what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit. My prayer for you is that each day your desire is to walk with God, being Spirit-filled. We also talked about being able to always give thanks to God, even when we walk through the valley of the shadow of […]
I left you hanging last time on the subject of being filled with the Holy Spirit. We had the contrast within Ephesians 5:18, where Paul basically tells us, don’t get drunk on wine to handle life’s problems (like the world does), but live a life filled with the Holy Spirit. As we begin to examine […]
I ended last week by saying if we do our part as believers by imitating God, we will have all our “bases covered,” as they say. It would go without saying, if we imitate God and have the “mind of Christ,” we will most assuredly be loving those around us. As we’re living this way, […]
Synopsis of Chapter 4 – Unity, Gifts, Maturity, you learned Christ, do not grieve the Holy Spirit. Eph. 5:1 “Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.” Again, we see Paul using the word “therefore.” Why is he using it? This time he’s referring back to the last verse in chapter 4, where we are […]
So far, in chapter 4 we covered a lot of ground. The way I see it, in the first part of this chapter, Paul has been pulling us together as a church. He said the church itself has many parts, which points to all of us, meaning that each individual belongs to the church and […]
Looking back at last week, we know that Jesus left His throne in heaven to come down to our sin-soaked earth (Jesus descended to the earth), and He suffered and died at the hands of sinful man. While His body laid in the grave for three days, Jesus went to the good part of Hades […]
It’s been about 3 weeks since we’ve been in our study of Ephesians chapter 4, so let’s do a brief recap. • Don’t ever take your calling by God for granted, know that you were bought with a very high price. The believer’s life should match the excellency of Christ’s calling. In other words, this […]
As we closed out chapter 3, we learned how important it is that Jesus would be at home in our hearts, and that if He’s not at home with us, it might be an indication of some kind of unconfessed sin. We also talked about being rooted and grounded, which speaks of how we’re doing […]
Last week we talked about being good stewards with the grace that God has given us. Paul was a good steward and continually preached everything that God had given him, regardless of any suffering that came from it. God used Paul to bring Jews and Gentiles together through the blood of Jesus Christ. This was […]
Looking back at chapter 2, we see that there are some doctrinal things to observe. First is the answer as to how a person is saved. “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast” (vs. 8 […]