Ephesians 4
Grieving God’s Spirit by The Way we Live
We can grieve the Holy Spirit by the way we live. Paul’s advice is sound because the longer we postpone mending a quarrel, the less likely we are ever to mend it. If there is trouble between us and anyone else if there is trouble in a Church or a fellowship or any society …
Be Holy And Not Sinful
Let the Spirit change your way of thinking and make you into a new person (v. 23). You were created to be like God, and so you must please him and be truly holy (v. 24). Paul was not content to name a principal and then leave it. He even names specific sins which many preachers a …
Gifts From The Risen Messiah
This passage states that all men are not born equal (v. 7). Paul describes how Jesus Christ in his crucifixion and resurrection was victorious over Satan (vv. 8-10). When you were born into this world God gave you certain natural abilities. This could be in the area of mechanics, …
Walk As a New Person in Christ
The Ephesian believers were Gentiles. Paul tells them to make a clean break with their old ways of life and stop living by the standards of the unsaved people around them (v. 17). These pagan Gentiles had given themselves to a lifestyle without any personal standards. Their minds …
Spiritual Unity
The first three chapters of Ephesians deal with doctrine while the last three chapters explain our responsibilities as Christians. The word “therefore†shows that Paul is basing what he now has to say on the doctrines he has taught in the first three chapters (v. …