Found In the Triune God

God’s people are to Maintain unity. People seeking to keep up unity is like working out. Many have a New Year’s resolution to work out more and get into shape. This is the time health club memberships go up. With the promise of people to exercise more.

Exercise involves one to endure the pain and discomfort that comes. You work out to the moment of being tired and worn out just to stop and think you can’t make it. Only to forget all that and do it again. You rotate days to work on legs, arms, then cardio to give each part time to recover and bear the stress they are going through. This is devotion to working out is to be seen demonstrated in seeking U-N-I-T-Y.

1. God Has Called You To Unity

Live out your calling

God the great supreme creator of all has called you.

New Living Translation Chapter 4

2 Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.

God has called you from life of sin to life of holiness.

New Living Translation Chapter 4

Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.

Remember what your calling involves.

Called by the Hope of our salvation.

This great hope was revealed through Son of God!

Know your calling demands submission.

Live your life to the fullest potential. You need to live worthy of your calling. In other word you need to behave in a suitable manner as God has given you. Do not act a fool.

Paul is referring here to his prayer for them to walk in the hope of their calling in Christ Jesus. They are to live out this great hope. This hope is the salvation of Jesus Christ by faith through grace. They are to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit seeking life. They are not longer living in the sinful way of life before Christ. This is now the the Year of the Lord. The BC, before Christ, days are behind and the life with Christ is before us until eternity.

Live to serve the Lord God.

Live with the conduce that reflects the office you hold.

Live to show all that Christ is Lord of your life.

Unity implies forgiveness for all involved.

Ephesians 4:2 NLT

Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love.

Keeping unity calls you to make allowance for others.

This tolerance, longsuffering, bearing is all done in love.

Love is also demonstrated through tolerance.

When you are making allowance for others is forgiveness.

You forgive people and tolerate their mess.

You know your friend will be late picking you up more times than not and you love them anyway and tolerate their tardiness through love.

Bearing someone is the attitude to endure their messy life with the love and forgiveness.

To Forgive is to let go.

To tolerate is to put up with the irritation.

Walk worthy of your calling.

Walk worthy of your calling.

Unity is demonstrated in Humility.

How do you live a life worthy?

Ephesians 4:3–4 ESV

eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

2. Unity is having one purpose.

Purpose keep the unity of the Spirit.

This involves seeking peace.

God is the God of peace and the Prince of Peace.

Ephesians 4:3 ESV

eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Unity is kept by the Holy Spirit.

We must submit to the Holy Sprit’s will.

Ephesians 4:4 ESV

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

This a theme in Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus.

Ephesians 5:18–21 ESV

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

A. Serving with all humility for the glory of God!

Take time to reflect your work in keeping unity.

Ask yourself some questions, “is what I am doing giving glory to God?”

Is what I said for the building up of the church or for me?

Is this issue I have a personal issue or am I prayerfully seeking God’s will?

We are called to love one anther out of reverence of Christ.

What ever we do we should do it for the glory of God.

B. Serving for the great One Hope

Ephesians 4:4 ESV

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—

There is one hope that is in or call.

This one hope is our faith in God, our salvation.

This hope is the purpose we are to live out in in our life.

We have one Purpose one hope.

Stay focus on being one and being united by this great hope.

Serving the great hope in the ONE BODY.

We are all part of ONE SPIRIT

We are all to work for the ONE HOPE of our calling.

God is the Great One God

Ephesians 4:6 ESV

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Ephesians 4:5–6 ESV

one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Ephesians 4:6–7 ESV

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

One Lord

One God who is Elohim - God our Creator.

YHWH/Adonai - I Am that I Am

We are to worship Him for who he is.

One Faith that lead us to One Baptism.

Our one Hope leads us to submit to God’s will.

Our Faith unites us with God in our Baptism.

Our Communion reminds us of our Union, covenant.

We serve one God in three persons.

God the Father

God the Son

God the Holy Ghost

One God is over all of us.

One God is in us all.

By our faith in Son of God.

Under the influence of the Holy Spirit.