While united as a body, our passage says there is diversity, by nature of the different gifts that we have all been given. Our gifts are to be used. They maintain unity and it is part of our calling to use them. We also recognise that we need to be...
Ephesians 4:1-3 - Walk in a manner worthy of your calling.
In light of all Paul has illuminated for us about salvation as a gift of God's free grace and of his choosing his children according to his own will and of our salvation by grace alone, Paul says that God should be glorified. He is to be glorified in the church...
We look at one of Paul's prayers where he prays that they may be strengthened with power through the Spirit so that Christ may dwell in them. To have Christ dwell in us is no small things. The heavens cannot contain him!...so how can we, unless he strengthens us. Being indwelt by Christ...
Paul as a minister of the gospel is to bring to light the mystery hidden for ages which is the unfolding plan of God's design for the world. It has now though been revealed to us in Jesus. God himself has come to earth to live in the lives of his children...
Paul begins this chapter but gets sidetracked as he describes himself as a prisoner of Jesus Christ on behalf of the Gentiles. To remember Paul's previous way of life as a persecutor and opponent of Jesus who tried to destroy the church, helps us to see the incredible salvation God...