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Reason for Unity

Ephesians 4:3 NASB95

being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

a. for protection of the body

Ephesians 4:14 NASB95

As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;

Ephesians 4:4–7 NASB95

There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

b. truth is being threatened

ephesains 4:14

Ephesians 4:17–19 NASB95

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

b.

Colossians 2:6 NASB95

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

Colossians 2:8 NASB95

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

c. this is what is threatening unity

c. this is what is threatening unity

Gifts that bring Unity

Ephesians 4:4–7 NASB95

There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

epehsians 4:4-7

Ephesians 4:4–6 NASB95

There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.

Ephesians

a. reminder of what unity is

Ephesians 4:16 NASB95

from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

b. meaning of unity

Colossians 2:6,7,9,11,12

Colossians 2:9–10 NASB95

For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;

c. Christ is the unity

Christ’s gifts for unity

Ephesians 4:11 NASB95

And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,

a. for the church

Ephesians 4:12 NASB95

for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;

Ephesians 4:12

b. are purposed

Ephesians 4:16