A Walk That Fits the Talk

Ephesians 4:1 & 4-6 “Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father, who is over all and in all and living through all.” 

The good thing about small group studies is that the setting and size is conducive for the sharing of backgrounds, personalities, prospectives and experiences from the gifted members that make of the body of the Believers. We learn the doctrinal principles and position of the Christian faith as communicated from the Bible’s Holy Scriptures and the application for the godly performance of our duties in our daily walk as a “fitly framed” body of valuable components, called the church, working together in harmony to function as God intended in the purposes of the Lord as “Light” in their life and to the world, for Christ is the head of the body. Our Friday night home Bible Study continued to explore the questions of “How are those who have been saved by grace to life?” and “How critical is it that our walk matches our talk if we bear the name “Christian?” A life pleasing to God.

Ephesians 4:11-13 “And He gave some as apostles, and  some as  prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ;  that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

Saints is ἅγιος hagios, means “holy ones”, those set apart from the sins of the flesh, the God-rejecting world system and the lies of the devil. Set apart because they now belong to God through salvation from their sins – a salvation that came through believing that Jesus Christ died for their sins as their substitute and rose from the dead three days latter as the Scriptures foretold. Set apart for a purpose, a particular reason and function fit for the walk which they was designed. Equipping is the translation of the Greek word καταρτισμός katartismos, used in New Testament times for mending nets, setting a bone, and realizing a purpose. It means “perfecting”, making fit or to “put right”. Ask yourself: “How you are measuring up to this description of maturity?” When all the parts of the body of Christ, all true Believers, are working together as a body, attaining the unity of the faith, and being ministered to by gifted men who are equipping them, then the body is going to grow and we will see the church building itself up in love. Then we will see a walk that fits the talk.

In Christ, Brian 

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