Text:
Ephesians 4:1-3 (HCSB)
1 Therefore I, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received,
2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, accepting one another in love,
3 diligently keeping the unity of the Spirit with the peace that binds ?us?.
Observation:
In this passage the Apostle Paul is writing to the church at Ephesus about unity in the Body of Christ.
Paul warned the church that there is a thief that will break in, and attempt to steal your peace, and destroy your unity.
Ephesians 4:26-27 (HCSB)
26 Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger,
27 and don’t give the Devil an opportunity.
The church is not the first institution that God created. The first of God’s creation was the family.
Genesis 2:18 (HCSB)
18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.”
The thief of peace and unity has been at work since the beginning, and here is his attack on the first family.
Genesis 3:1 (HCSB)
1 Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
Whether in the Body of Christ, the big church, or in the family, the little church, we must be diligent to live in unity with one another in the family, and in the church. Don’t give the Devil an opportunity to destroy your family or your church.
Galatians 3:27-28 (HCSB)
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ ?like a garment?.
28 There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
How do we do this? It’s an inside, outside thing. It is Christ in you that gives you the ability to live in unity with people that are different from you.
Philippians 2:12 (HCSB)
12 So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
Philippians 2:13 (HCSB)
13 For it is God who is working in you, ?enabling you? both to desire and to work out His good purpose.
Prayer:
Father, hallowed be Your name. Father, we praise You because we are fearfully, and wonderfully made by You.
Father, thank you for making us one, and depositing the power of Your presence in us.
Father, help us, by Your power, to workout what You have deposited in us for the glory of Your name. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
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Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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