Sermon Notes Ephesians 4:1-6 (part 2)
“I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”
Recap:
- Urged to walk in a manner worthy of our calling o Calling is discussed in chapter 1-3 of Eph
Then Paul talks about how to walk worthy
• Humility (Lowliness)
• Gentleness (meekness)
• Patience (endurance)
• Forbearance …show more content…
• There are many other things that are different about us, but the sphere we exists in, the empowering person indwelling us, our only hope, and our calling to God, our master, our beliefs, our identity as Christ’s and our God, in all these fundamental ways we are united o To allow unnecessary divisions to weaken our witness to the world is foolish in light of the glorious faith that is ours
• I must emphasis this is not saying be united
• This is Paul saying we are a united body o But our experience of that unity varies depending on the barriers that we put up in our sinfulness
• I want to close focusing on the language of body o The phrase body describes more than the phrase family (though that is a favourite term in scripture for the church)
Body is intimate, personal organic
• We need each other like parts f the body need each other o You would not be here this morning if:
Your heart, lungs went on strike
leg having a gossip session with your elbow about your toes
• Paul uses this intimate physical description to describe the connection we have as believer o We are a body that literally needs one another o Public worship we gather not only to bless the Lord and receive the blessing of being in the Lord presence but you become a blessing to your bothers and sister because you are part of the
“I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”
Recap:
- Urged to walk in a manner worthy of our calling o Calling is discussed in chapter 1-3 of Eph
Then Paul talks about how to walk worthy
• Humility (Lowliness)
• Gentleness (meekness)
• Patience (endurance)
• Forbearance …show more content…
• There are many other things that are different about us, but the sphere we exists in, the empowering person indwelling us, our only hope, and our calling to God, our master, our beliefs, our identity as Christ’s and our God, in all these fundamental ways we are united o To allow unnecessary divisions to weaken our witness to the world is foolish in light of the glorious faith that is ours
• I must emphasis this is not saying be united
• This is Paul saying we are a united body o But our experience of that unity varies depending on the barriers that we put up in our sinfulness
• I want to close focusing on the language of body o The phrase body describes more than the phrase family (though that is a favourite term in scripture for the church)
Body is intimate, personal organic
• We need each other like parts f the body need each other o You would not be here this morning if:
Your heart, lungs went on strike
leg having a gossip session with your elbow about your toes
• Paul uses this intimate physical description to describe the connection we have as believer o We are a body that literally needs one another o Public worship we gather not only to bless the Lord and receive the blessing of being in the Lord presence but you become a blessing to your bothers and sister because you are part of the