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Ephesians 4:7-16
The Master’s Carpenters Shop
Imagine the Master Carpenter’s tools holding a conference: Brother Hammer presides, but several suggest he leave the meeting because he is too noisy.
Brother Hammer replies, If I have to leave this shop, Brother Screw must go also.
You have to turn him around again and again to get him to accomplish anything.
Brother Screw then speaks up.
If you wish, I’ll leave.
But Brother Plane must leave, too.
All his work is on the surface.
His efforts have no depth.
To this, Brother Plane responds, Brother Rule will also have to withdraw, for he is always measuring folks as though he were the only one who is right.
Brother Rule then complains about Brother Sandpaper: He ought to leave, too, because he’s so rough and always rubbing people the wrong way.
And so goes the discord.
In the midst of all this discussion, in walks the Carpenter of Nazareth.
He has arrived to start his day’s work.
Putting on his apron, he goes to the bench to make a pulpit from which to proclaim the gospel.
He uses Brothers Hammer, Screw, Plane, Rule, Sandpaper, and all the other tools.
After the day’s work, when the pulpit is finished, Brother Saw arises and remarks, /Brethren, I observe that all of us are workers together with the Lord./
Introduction
Last Sunday morning we learnt that God wants us to */Walk Together/*.
We saw 3 important grounds for Christian Unity; */Holiness, Meekness and Oneness.
/*In today’s passage Paul continues talking about unity.
/He discusses the *Spiritual Gifts* that God has given to believers so that we can *Work Together* in the Church./
There is a great diversity of gifts and therefore many ministries in the Christian Church.
Just like our body has many different organs.
Yet these many gifts should work together in unity.
Today we will see 2 things; /Firstly,/ */The Gifts For Unity/* and /Secondly/, */The Growth From Unity.
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The Gifts For Unity
/a.
Gifts For Believers/
*Ephesians 4:7-8:* /But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s *gift*.
Therefore He says: When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, and *gave* *gifts* to men./
One point that we must not miss in this passage is that it is God who gives the spiritual gifts to His children.
*/3 times /*in this passage it says that /God gives gifts/.
He chooses what gifts we will receive.
God is in complete control of the gifts and their functioning.
*1 Corinthians 12:4-6:* /There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.
And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
/Paul doesn’t list all of the gifts in *Ephesians chapter 4.* *1 Corinthians 12* and *Romans 12* have much larger lists.
Paul’s main point here is that God has given different gifts to believers to enable Christ’s body to grow into maturity.
/How does the believer discover and develop his gifts?/
By fellowshipping with other Christians in the local assembly.
Spiritual Gifts are not toys to play with.
They are tools to build with.
And if they are not used in love, they become weapons to fight with, which is what happened in the Corinthian church.
Christians mustn’t live in isolation, for after all, we are members of the same body.
/To exercise a spiritual gift a believer must be in the body of Christ.
*My heart functions well.*
*Yet it can do so only while it works inside my body.
If my heart went and lived by itself I would die.
So would my heart.*
I need my heart and my heart needs me.
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*1 Corinthians* *12:14-26:* /For in fact the body is not one member but many.
If the foot should say, because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?
\\ And if the ear should say, because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?
If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing?
If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.
And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
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/And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, but our presentable parts have no need.
But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it./
Spiritual Gifts
Paul compares the possessors of spiritual gifts to members of the human body because as the members of our body are none of our doing or deserving, neither are the spiritual gifts we possess.
They are God’s gifts entrusted to us for a purpose.
If that purpose isn’t fulfilled, His gifts are wasted.
/What’s the use of having an eye or a hand that doesn’t serve the entire body/*?
/A test of the genuineness of any gift is whether it benefits the body of Christ as a whole, or only the possessor./*/
Does it tend to unite the body or to divide it?
Does it make members who are different from us feel estranged or fellow members with us of one and the same body?/
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Gifts For the Church/
*Ephesians 4:11-12a:* /And He Himself *gave* some to be *apostles*, some *prophets,* some *evangelists*, and some *pastors* and *teachers*, for the equipping of the saints./
An */apostle,/* *ajpostovlo"*, was one sent with authority.
The 12 saw the risen Lord and were appointed by Him to serve as apostles.
*Eph 2:19-20: *says that they */laid the foundation/* of the church.
/How?
*By planting Churches, writing the New Testament, overseeing the early Church and establishing Church government*/.
They spoke with Christ’s authority and confirmed the Word with miraculous signs.
Apostles ceased with the death of the 12.
Only 1 foundation is needed.
Missionaries serve in a similar way to the Apostles, but don’t have an apostle’s authority.
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*/Prophets,/* *profhvta"*, worked alongside the apostles in laying the Church's foundation.
They preached the Word by direct revelation because the New Testament didn't exist yet.
*Acts 13:1*/ lists 5 prophets, *Barnabas, Simeon, Lucius, Manaen and Saul*./
Paul told the Churches to test all prophecies to ensure they were from God. Prophecy ceased after the writing of the N. T.
*/Evangelists /- **eujaggelistav"* boldly proclaim the Gospel.
They preach on sin, righteousness and judgment.
Unlike the other spiritual gifts evangelists exercise their gift primarily outside the Church amongst the lost.
*Acts 21:8*/ *tells us that Philip was an evangelist*./
Those who don’t have this gift are still commanded to evangelize the lost.
*/We are all witnesses./*
*/Pastor/, **poimevna"~/ /Teachers,/ **didaskavlo" - *Elders, Bishops Shepherds, and Pastors all refer to the same office.
*Pastors* have 2 responsibilities.
*/Firstly, the word pastor means/* shepherd.
One who watches over the sheep.
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