Post by VR on Jun 19, 2016 5:05:15 GMT
2016 | June 19th | 171 of 366 | EVENING | Ephesians 4 | PAULINE EPISTLES | BOOK 49 of 66 | EPHESIANS 4
Signpost Words | ‘TRUE LIPS-TRUE LIVES’
Highlight Verses | Ephesians 4:17-24
This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. NKJV
Some Observations |
The church, the body of Christ possesses its own immune system provided by God. It’s servants, from the marrow of the five-fold ministries, keep it clean, build it up, grow it up and keep it upright. Truth is fed to the ignorant mind, obedience to the truth transfers the protein of strengthen to the new man, and the church then self-propagates growth though preaching forgiveness. The church is designed by God to puts its own spiritual health first, that it might be edified together into maturity and all of this is for the glory God.
A Call To Action |
The opposite to ignorance is understanding and an understanding church knows the depths of the riches that is in Christ. If the very person of Christ is not becoming more expansive and wonderful to us