Ephesians Chapter 4 Discussion Page 9

My Comment is a response to Joel's comment on Ephesians Chapter 4, Verse 11. I don't actually know, myself, but I think There's Some More Criteria on being at least an Overseer, and on being a Bishop of a Church in either 1 or 2 Timothy, and I think anyone wanting to be a Pastor, could learn from That. But like I say, I don't really know. There are Ways you can test whether or not you're in the Faith in 1 or 2 Corinthians, 1 and 2 and maybe 3 John as well, cause I know you've got to be in the Faith to be a Pastor. I'm more familiar with God's Calling on my life to be an Evangelist. God just started Telling me to tell strangers on the street that Jesus Loves them when I was 17, and that He was going to Train me to Hear His Voice. And I later got some training and human qualifications to be an Evangelist, much of this training though, I don't remember. I only remember What God Taught me. We have an Anointing, Which is not a lie, but the Truth, and have no need of any [human] teaching us, according to the Bible Somewhere. Once you figure out Knowing God's Voice, It should be easier to know whether or not, God has Called you to be a Pastor, or for That Matter, Anything Else. I hope This Helps.

We must be made new in our minds. We can't just patch up our old mental attitude, but we have to put on a new one. This involves reading God's Word, praying to God for His holy spirit, and then putting forth the effort to be made new in the spirit of our mind or our dominant mental attitude.

This verse shows how important it is to watch what we say. People say so many vulgar and filthy things today and they completely disregard this scripture. This shows that God judges us not only for what we do but also for what we say.

walking in self-righteousness and not in God's righteousness caused them to have their hearts and minds darkened. This leads to a reprobate mind if not repented of in sincerity and truth.

Sometimes it can be difficult to forgive, that why we have to pray for help to achieve this.

ephesians 4:26 is saying to me i can be angry at sins in a person but not at the person,and if i have a wrath with someone, i must confess my sins to that person before i go to sleep, because tomorrow is not promise, jesus may return while i am a sleep! i dont want that to happen.

To be very honest, I struggled with this particular chapter at first. Only because I'm always a person who wants to negotiate. I didn't like the first part of this chapter, but the second part I could do...lol; it was just a process. By the grace of GOD I'll get it together.

All scriptures are inspired by God, and is good for teaching for those that believe.Amen

Am happy for a good job done,may GOD bless you much that i can read my bible wherever i am and find anything i want to know.

COMMENT ON EPH 4;13 Till we all come to the Unity of Faith.- Let Understand that in Eph 4;5 The Bible speaks of one Faith. Jude, in Jude 1;3, he says he we should earenstly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints, which p***ed through the process from prophecies to do***entation that is from part to perfect 1cor 13 ;8-13. to the hand of every Christain to read, study and understand Eph 3,3-5 under the guidiance of The Evangelist, Teachers and Pastors who preceed Apostles and Prophets that did the do***entation under the guidiance of The Holy Spirit, Eph4;11-12. Thus the "Unity of Faith" is within us now to enable us attain the full Knowledge of the Son of God unto a Perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ "according to God's standard as revaled in the Scripture. 2Peter 1;3 That we hanceforth be no more Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men,and cunning craftiness where by they lie in wait to deceive Eph 4; 14.

I love the book of Ephesians, it is a great book of what, and how God wants us to be. and what Christ sacrificed for us. to know the truth of his word.

I love this whole book. So many instructions on how to live and be acceptable to God. So easily understandable and precise.

Neither give place to the devil.
A popular conception of the Devil originated during the middle ages as a red demon with a pitch fork, cloven footed and horned. But this is not at all the Bible description. The Bible says “that Satan himself is transformed as an angel of light.” 2 Corinthians 11:14.

The Devil will never walk up to you and say Hi I am the Devil. I am out to destroy you. He does it in a more settle way. He does not throw spears, he throws darts. Takes you a while to realize that you have been hit.
He causes us to walk in darkness, and we don’t even know it. He does not turn off all the lights at first.

What we must not loose sight of is that Satan although a fallen angel is still an angel, a rebel angel. Satan’s fall did not deprive him of his angel nature, or his original beauty, only his character changed.

1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”
The silliness of this world some people are continually laughing and treating everything as a comedy, as though they are drunk on silliness.

17-24it talks about ghange,we no longer have to crave the things of this world,our old selfish behavior put it away,it talks about being changed buy renewing our minds,the way to do this is buy spending time in Gods word study/prayer/and meditation we have to replace the bad habits with new good ones.it will not happen over night,but if we do this daily you will begin to change

Ephesians is my book of life. It reveals my true identity. I am always exposed to my real self; it gives me confidence in the word as I read this book. I recommend this book to all Christians. Ephesians 1:4.

Great to forgive.

I am in love with the book of Ephesians, it emphasizes on how much Jesus sacrificed for us and how we should always appreciate his love.

God called Prophets anciently both during the time of Christ's mortal mission and long before (Moses, Noah etc.). God is the same yesterday, today and forever. God continues to call Prophets today for which I am grateful.

All this chapter is centered around the Unity in the body of Christ. How essential it is!!!

Verse 5 is so concise. No matter who man decides to follow, it is settled here - THERE IS "ONE LORD." If the bible refers to our LORD and SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, then ONLY Jesus Christ is Lord! "ONE FAITH" means there is only ONE true doctrine. The bible says that they continued steadfastly in The APOSTLES’ DOCTRINE, which is recorded in Acts 2:38-39. That passage also shows us the "ONE BAPTISM" accepted as TRUE Baptism-in THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST for the Remission of Sins. JESUS is the ONLY NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN UNTO MAN Whereby we must be saved! False religions are intent to name there gods publicly. Our GOD has ONE NAME--JESUS.

As Christians, we must walk in unity, in all humbleness and submissiveness, showing one another love, as Jesus Christ did when he walked this earth showing us Our Heavenly Father's way.

Ephesians 4:32 Be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, and forgiving even as God for Christ sake has forgiven you. When we do this, we can overcome any conflict that we are having with anyone. Anger and malice must be put away. Speaking the truth in love to everyone, and we can be at peace. If you are struggling with forgiveness, go to the cross, and there you will see how much it cost Jesus to forgive us. We all owed a debt that we could not pay, and God commended His love toward us, in that while we were sinners Christ died for us. This is the same love that God commands us to have for one another.

I thank God for Ephesians. I have experienced the most devastating thing in my life, and I am very angry, only because I don't understand why all of this had to happen to me. The only defense that I have is to be mean and speak harsh words to the person that hurts me so bad. But one day God sent me to the book of Ephesians. I had never read this book in life and could not understand what the urgency that I had to look at this book. Verse 27 is where God started dealing with me. All I could do is cry because it seemed as God was dealing with my about my mouth and the evil things that I had said on because of my hurt. But what I have learned is that God is the only one who heals such pain, no need to fight God said, vengeance is his and God does not want filthy communications coming out of our mouth. We must not let the sun go down on our anger.

I just love you Jesus, Jesus is so awesome, look; Jesus is telling us here that he is above all, with all and in all. Is it not wonderful to know that Jesus is for us with us and in us he had made us champions over all circumstances? I am proud of my father please anyone who has not yet made Jesus the lord of his life is missing all these. So go for him, he is waiting for you. GOD BLESS YOU.

In Christ's church is the apostle the head. That was and is. Apostle Paul had not "seen Christ's resurrection and Christ chose him", but came a while after the resurrection. Thus, if I am looking for Christ's church, I need to firstly see if they have an apostle as their head.

I think that we should hold up to he word. We know that he word is in us as it is in him.

This chapter is such a blessing to read because it is Paul\'s teachings to the church in the \"grace age,\" which is us. \"For by grace are ye saved through faith (faith of Jesus Christ, not our faith) and that not ourselves (not baptism), it is the gift of God.\" and Paul said in II Timothy 2:15 \"Study to shew thyself approved unto RIGHTLY DIVIDING the word of truth.\" Baptism for salvation was to the Nation of Isreal after the assention and the Nation of Isreal rejected salvation through Jesus Christ. Read Acts Chapter 2 \"ye men of Isreal,\" is all the way through that chapter. The King James Bible is divided 7 times (number of completion). Know your divisions.

Ephesians 4:4-5 states "There is but ONE body, ONE spirit, ONE Lord, ONE faith and ONE baptism." This is true. In Matthew 16:18 Christ said; "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Christ said I will build MY CHURCH. Not everyone’s church but Christ’s. I am proud to be a Christian and part of the Church of Christ. I am forever grateful for Jesus Christ. God bless everyone and if you are not part of the Lords church I pray that you obey the gospel as soon as possible. Because just as the days of Noah Christ is tenderly calling for you to obey the gospel and not end up as the many who perished during the days of Noah because they leaned to there own understanding. There is no understanding greater than that which the Bible gives us. Hear, Believe, Repent, Confess and be Baptized for the remission of your sins. God has a place for those who obey & live faithful unto death. I pray that on this time side of life many will hear the gospel and be pricked in their hearts so that they may began working toward making heaven their eternal home. God bless you all.

v22: At times this can be the hardest thing to do, but all things a possible through Christ! We being made in the image of the Father posses the power of freewill, therefore "we" must make the choice to do away with the foolishness and allow the holy spirit to renew our minds, so that our thoughts and steps be ordered by Him!

I think that Ephesians 4:7 is a great verse because it is telling you that GOd gives you grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.