Our Great Salvation: The Unity

Ephesians: Our Great Salvation • Sermon • Submitted 2 years ago

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Since all believers are given a new identity individually and corporately, Paul exhorts believers to walk in keeping with their identity having humility, gentleness and patience with one another, preserving peaceful unity that is based on and reflects the Triune God.

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I. The Exhortation to Unity

III. The Attitudes and Action that Preserve Unity

A. The Three Attitudes

1. Humility

2. Gentleness

3. Patience

B. The two Actions

1. Bearing with one another

2. Eager to maintain/keep the unity of the Spirit

IV. The Basis for Unity

To keep this unity must mean to maintain it visibly. If the unity of the Spirit is real, it must be transparently evident, and believers have a responsibility before God to make sure that this is so. To live in a manner which mars the unity of the Spirit is to do despite the gracious reconciling work of Christ. It is tantamount to saying that his sacrificial death by which relationships with God and others have been restored, along with the resulting freedom of access to the Father, are of no real consequence to us! (Peter O’Brien, The Letter to the Ephesians)

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