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Adrian Rogers Sermon Archive The Body of Christ
Ephesians 4:1–8, 11–16
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I Once heard a story about a king that was childless. He was starting to advance in years and had no heir to the throne. So his solution consisted of an adoption. And so The King sent out his Servants to scoure the Kingdom in search of a suitable son. A son that would one day rule the Kingdom in his place. A son that would one day keep the family name alive, A son that would live with the charter of the Father and Rule His domain well. And so after much searching they found a little orphan boy that was living on the streets . And so the King went and approach the young boy who was filthy. His hair was matted up, and is clothes were tattered and torn. He was in the middle of one of his latest schemes to provide and protect himself when the King came upon him. And the King looked down at the young man and greeted the small child. And the king gave him a deal of the lifetime, invited him to become his son, told him that he would never have to scrounge for found. That he would be taken care of the rest of his life. But the little boy declined the offer. And so the King a bit dumbfounded asked, well what is the problem?
The little boy said you are going to make me take a bath and I don’t want to take a bath. He said, do I have to take a bath in order to be your son? The King thought about the question for a moment and then said no, you do not. So the boy said great!@ I will do it. I will become your son!
They got back to the castle and the King showed the boy his room, and immedietely ordered the boys maidservants to give him a bath. And the Little boy immedietly protested, “You said I didn’t have to take a bath to become your son. And the King said, yes that is true, you didn’t have to take a bath in order to become a son, but now that you are my son, your going to take a bath.
There is so much truth to that story, rather it is a real story or not, the truth is the same.
In the first three chapters Paul has been laying down some deep truths, some solid theology about your position before God
So we are continuing on in our study of the book of Ephesians. And in the first three chapters Paul has been laying down some deep truths, some solid theology about your position before God. He lays out what you used to be, slave to sin, alienated from the life of God because of your ignorance, a puppet for the devil… to Child of God, renewed in knowledge, new revelation from on high that changes dead things into living things, now the rest of the book He lays out what that looks like.
HE CHOSE YOU, YOU DIDN’T CHOOSE HIM. YOU ARE ADOPTED, CLEANSED
You have been purchased with a price, redeemed from sin, ransomed from Satan, Relinquished from the penalty of Darkness
And now you must be renewed in Knowledge
And now you must be renewed in Knowledge
slave to sin, alienated from the life of God because of your ignorance,
. He lays out what you used to be, slave to sin, alienated from the life of God because of your ignorance, a puppet for the devil… to Child of God, renewed in knowledge, new revelation from on high that changes dead things into living things, now the rest of the book He lays out what that looks like.
You were once dead in your sins, that old heart was calloused and desperately sick
a puppet for the devil… to Child of God, renewed in knowledge, new revelation from on high that changes dead things into living things, now the rest of the book He lays out what that looks like.
If you love practicality, you are going to love the next few chapters.
There are now some things tht depend on you to change. God has changed your destiny, he has cleasnesed your sins, now it is up to you to maintain your fellowship and get yourself into a place of obedience
The next few chapters Paul is going to be laying out what order is to look like:
You freely became a child of God, Now you have to take a bath. Now you have to put on some new clothes, Now you must learn what it means to be a Child of God. What does it look
in the Church,
The family, What Biblical marriage looks like,
what it looks like in the family, and then ends the book with our battle with evil
and then ends the book with our battle with evil
10 so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 3:10
It is important that you understand the role of the church
God’s love for the church, God’s plan for the church
We are going to be talking about Spiritual warfare here in the next week or two, and I wanted you to see this passage.
Because Through this thing that we call, The Church, God uses this vessel called the church.
And Paul tells us that there is a mystery with the church that wasn’t made known to previous generations.
That through the church God would put the powers of darkness to flight, that the manifold wisdom of God made be know to the rulers and authorities.
The powers of darkness. I say this because I want you to know that God loves the Church. Its his bride, and he doesn’t take lightly when people damage the church, speak negatively of the Church.
No more than I would appreciate if you spoke negatively of my Bride Stacey, In fact there are very few things in this world that I would get fighting mad over, but I tell you if you tried to do damage to my wife, I’m coming at ya bro. God feels the same about his bride. It is his love, in spite of her failures, her flaws and her missteps He loves her
18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3
And as Paul has prayed so too I have prayed that we as a body would have this same type of understanding. But in order for us to wage a good war, there must be unity in the body. Look at Chapter 4
1 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.
Ephesians 4:1-
if you haven’t picked up on this, God is big on unity. Not uniformity. We don’t all have to walk talk and put our pants on the same. We don’t have to have the same hobbies, like the same music, but we all must learn to maintain the Unity of the Spirit But unity is big in God’s eyes. And when we are adopted into this family we have to learn how this family handles its conflicts.
Not like our earthly family, where there was fighting, and screaming, and years upon years of unresolved junk. But when you come into the family of god you have to have to put your big boy pants on and learn how to deal with conflict.
You have to learn how to receive and accept people that are not like you People that may not be in the same stage of life as you are
You have to learn how to receive and accept people that are not like you People that may not be in the same stage of life as you are
3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Eager : to do something with intense effort and motivation
Eager : to do something with intense effort and motivation
So Paul is saying that it is going to take being intentional to maintain the Unity within the body. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard people bashing their pastor, bashing others in the body
Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., Vol. 1, p. 661). New York: United Bible Societies.
to maintain. One of the most accepted sins within the body is the sin of Gossip.
9 Whoever covers an offense seeks love,
but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.
Proverbs
8 The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
they go down into the inner parts of the body.
Proverbs
Let me say this as clear and as plain as I can get it across. It doesn’t matter if you are a little teenage kid or a sweet little 80 year old woman, gossip is a n abomination to the Lord
2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Eph 4:
I. The Unity of the Body of Christ
Verse
A. Five Attitudes We Are to Have
1. Lowliness
Humility, Again these are things that you have to work at. no more well this is just how God has made me, no if you claim Christ youa re a new creation. God has done the heavy lifting of your sins, but now these are attitudes that you must adopt.
Whatever you are becoming it should be looking more and more like Jesus
You know I know some pastors that are not approachable, but I’ve also known homeless people tat are not approachable. Why? Because there is not any humility.
2. Meekness in contrast with harshness in one’s dealings with others—‘gentleness, meekness, mildness.’
Another word for this being ateachable. In the old days when someone broke a horse, they called makeing a horse meek a horse. Being a meek person is not being a meek person
Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains (electronic ed. of the 2nd edition., Vol. 1, p. 748). New York: United Bible Societies.
Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains 88.59 πραΰτης, ητος; πραϋπαθία, ας
in contrast with harshness in one’s dealings with others—‘gentleness, meekness, mildness.’
3. Longsuffering
4. Forbearance
5. Love
B. Seven Affirmations We Are to Make
1. There Is One Body
2. There Is One Spirit
3. There Is One Hope
4. There Is One Lord
5. There Is One Faith
6. There Is One Baptism
7. There Is One God
II. The Diversity of the Body of Christ
A. The Grace That Delivers the Gift
B. The Glory That Delivers the Gift
C. The Guide That Develops the Gift
1. Apostles and Prophets
2. Evangelists
3. Pastors and Teachers
III. The Maturity of the Body of Christ
A. Mature In Stature
B. Mature In Stability
C. Mature In Speech
Rogers, A. (2017). The Body of Christ. In Adrian Rogers Sermon Archive (). Signal Hill, CA: Rogers Family Trust.
Adrian Rogers Sermon Archive Outline
Introduction
I. The Unity of the Body of Christ
A. Five Attitudes We Are to Have
1. Lowliness
2. Meekness
3. Longsuffering
4. Forbearance
5. Love
B. Seven Affirmations We Are to Make
1. There Is One Body
2. There Is One Spirit
3. There Is One Hope
4. There Is One Lord
5. There Is One Faith
6. There Is One Baptism
7. There Is One God
II. The Diversity of the Body of Christ
A. The Grace That Delivers the Gift
B. The Glory That Delivers the Gift
C. The Guide That Develops the Gift
1. Apostles and Prophets
2. Evangelists
3. Pastors and Teachers
III. The Maturity of the Body of Christ
A. Mature In Stature
B. Mature In Stability
C. Mature In Speech
Hello
Citizenship
· You are made a part of God’s family
Introduction
I. The Unity of the Body of Christ
· The Jew is our family
A. Five Attitudes We Are to Have
1. Ephesians 2:1818
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens
1. Lowliness
2.
2. Meekness
so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places
3. Longsuffering
4. Forbearance
· Today we are going to be discussing spiritual Warfare. And let me tell you that if you are not a part of the church you are going to live defeated when encountering the Powers of darkness, because as Paul tells us here, that the
5. Love
B. Seven Affirmations We Are to Make
1. There Is One Body
2. There Is One Spirit
3. There Is One Hope
4. There Is One Lord
5. There Is One Faith
6. There Is One Baptism
7. There Is One God
II. The Diversity of the Body of Christ
A. The Grace That Delivers the Gift
B. The Glory That Delivers the Gift
C. The Guide That Develops the Gift
1. Apostles and Prophets
2. Evangelists
3. Pastors and Teachers
III. The Maturity of the Body of Christ
A. Mature In Stature
B. Mature In Stability
C. Mature In Speech