Ephesians 4 (2)

Fit life.. we have to walk.. walk together.. use our gift

Grow…

Fit life is built by love

How does the church Grow

In order to grow we have to workout..

Justice Ace lifting its all about them gains weight bench

Goal

Ephesians 4:13a

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood

Unity of the faith

The ohio state.. the university of miamii.. the u

The MACC.. macc 2 macc 3. Macc 4

The FAITH

We are called to grow towards each other no separate each other..

Well how do we get there.. ?

Knowledge of Jesus

Philippians 1:9-11 (ESV)

9 And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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We all have to use the same play call

Colossians 1:9 (ESV)

9 And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Last week tim taught the importance of good teachers and pastors who rely on Gods word to guide people.

This morning I am not letting you off the hook so easy

1 Thessalonians 5:11 (ESV)

11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

As prisoners in the lord..we are called to walk together using our gifts to encourage and build.. each other..grow..

Maturity

Mature manhood

1 Corinthians 13:11 (ESV)

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

Coaching.. first 5 years.. when we are immature we tend to work out of our impulses…

Maturity take time..

1 Corinthians 3:1-4 (ESV)

But I, brothers,[a] could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? 4 For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human? People in church All their life and stll immature

Are you eating the proper diet..

This is a sign of immaturity

doctrine (bad),

Wrong doctrine

Ephesians 4:14a

14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine

Violent storms..

Easily swayed. Wind the other day

Since the beginning of time.. the serpent and Eve Gen 3

Did God actually say you could not eat.. pretty much.and if I do I will die.

Nahh you wont die.. you will be ok.. so she ate it

Bad doctrine leads to division,

How do we stay away from bad doctrine ..well

J. C. Ryle What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.

Philippians 2:12-13 (ESV)

12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Deception

Ephesians 4:14b

by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Human deceit

Carbenaro effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR_-ogWm-eg

time in .15. time out 2:00

Slain in the spirit, miracle water, burning records, blowing up abortion clinics,

2 Corinthians 4:2 (ESV)

2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice[a] cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.

Deception leads to disobedience

So we are to Grow up

Measure the growth

Ephesians 4:13b (ESV)

, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Measure of stature

boys Boys as tall as me..

2 Corinthians 13:5 (ESV)

5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

Jesus is where we find everything.. oour service, vision, purpose and meaning.

Acts 17:11 (ESV)

11 Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Jesus gives us salvation the spirit gives us sanctification and the Father brings his glorification

Fullness of Christ

2 Corinthians 3:18

18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.[b] For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Sun on my face.. no mask..

Do you have a soul touched by the glory of God? It should be evident

Grown up

Speak truth in love

Aletheuo..which means not hidden

Proverbs 27:6 (ESV)

6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend;     profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

What is the worst place on earth?

Dentist..

Love without Truth is Hypocrisy

Truth without love is Cruel

In love

1 Corinthians 13:1-8 (ESV)

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

If we love like Jesus

What is the depth of his love

It cost him everything.. he left heaven, put on flesh

He was beatend, bruised, mocked, betrayed and crucified unjustly

Do we deserve this love?

We caused the need in why he went to such depths and still do.

Romans 5:5-8 (ESV)

5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Benefits of that love.. (married up)

Forgiveness.. hope peace.. Eternal life.. gods glory

John piper says we know the depth of someone's love for us by the freedom with which they love us.

Ephesians 4:13-16 (ESV)

13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.