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Oct28WEEK44
Our text for this week is Ephesians 4:26-27:
Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity.
This raises a good question. Can we be angry and not sin? The answer is “yes.” We are called to be like the Lord, and to abide in Him, and He very definitely gets angry at some things. This is righteous anger.This should cause us to want to understand what those things...
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Oct21WEEK43
Our text for this week is Ephesians 4:25:
Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth, each one of you, with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
When we think of truth and error, we often relate it to doctrinal truth and error. Doctrinal truth is of course important, but walking in truth requires far more than just doctrinal truth. We can know all doctrines accurately, but if we are prone to deception and cheating in our relationship with others, we are walking in deception and... -
Oct14WEEK42
This week we will look at Ephesians 4:20-24:
But you did not learn Christ in this way,
if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
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Oct07WEEK41
This week’s text is Ephesians 4:17-19,
This I say therefore, 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;
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Sep30WEEK40
For the last few weeks we have seen that the ministry the Lord gave to His church is a team. When the church is led and equipped by this team it will:
- be built up by the saints doing the work of the ministry, the people will grow until they attain to the unity of the faith, the knowledge of the
- Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ,
- as a result of this maturity, the people will not be immature, tossed around by ...
