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Ephesians 5:15–16 (KJV 1900)
15 See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
I. “With all lowliness and meekness”.
A. Our attitude and our character are a big deal in living a Christian life.
1. Jesus taught that God blesses those who are of a lowly and meek spirit.
2. If we are going allow the love of God to be shed abroad as Romans tells us, then we must allow that love to form our character!
B. “Forbearing one another in love.”
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To forbear in the original means: to hold up; to hold one’s self erect and firm; to sustain, to bear, to endure.
2. I will address this at great length later on in our study of “Learning to Walk Circumspectly”.
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That being said I do want to give one Scripture that we should ALWAYS keep in mind.
C. We should constantly be striving to stay in alignment with the Spirit of God, or the Holy Ghost!
1. Jesus desire was that we would be ONE with Him!
2. When we are in alignment with His Spirit then we will find righteousness, peace, and joy!
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The role the ministry plays.
A. The Word of God will help us to change if we will receive the Word of God with meekness!
B. Unity must be present in a church.
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In the beginning of Ephesians 4, the Apostle Paul calls for the unity in the church.
2. We ought to be unified in accordance to the true apostolic doctrine!
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Because we ought to endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit based upon the Apostolic Doctrine of understanding that there is only One God, there is only one Faith, and that there is only One Baptism.
God gave us gifts so that we could come to this knowledge.
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By His grace we are able to come to the knowledge of the Truth because of the gifts that He gave to us!
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The gifts that Christ gave.
A. The gifts that were given is the ministry!
1. God is looking for a church that is united based upon the Apostolic doctrine.
2. In order to obtain that he gave to us, the church, the gifts of the ministry:
a) The apostles
b) The prophets
c) The evangelists
d) The pastors and teachers
B. Why was this necessary?
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In order for anyone to be saved you need to have a preacher in your life, because God chose the foolishness of preaching to save them which believe!
(1) The Bible does teach us to “Study to shew thyself approved”.
(2) However, the word of God is clear that for us to have a complete understanding of the Scripture, faith comes from hearing the Word of God.
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These gifts were given for the perfecting of the saints, for the edifying of the body of Christ.
1. So, it seems to me that we must have a preacher in our lives!
D. We were given these “gifts” so that we could be perfected and edified!
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The preacher’s responsibility is not to just make you feel good about yourself, but rather to equip you for the work of Christ and to build up the Body of Christ!
2. The Apostle Paul said the reason he did what he did was so that those who followed him could be followers of Christ and not enemies of the Cross.
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Conclusion
A. We need preachers that will preach the truth.
When we hear a preacher we ought to thank God for His precious gifts to us.
B. As a result of these gifts from the Lord we now know that there is only one way to God, not many ways!
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Through Jesus is the only way to be saved!
C. Each time you find people receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost.
You also find the preacher there teaching or preaching to them.
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