Part 1 | Never Walk Alone

Ephesians 4

📖 Ephesians 4:1 (ESV) I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

📖 Ephesians 4:3 (ESV) eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

If you want to be strong – alone.

📖 Ephesians 4:3 (NIV) Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.

The of our in Christ is .

Fight for the Family Means: 

1. your for the sake of God-given .

📖 Ephesians 4:2-3 (ESV) 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.

First Tool: Humility.

Definition: “Humility is not thinking of , it’s thinking of .”

📖 James 4:6 (ESV) God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

Second Tool: Gentleness/Meekness

Definition: Meekness is not , it is under .

📖 Matthew 11:29 (ESV) Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Third Tool: Patience

Definition: Long-suffering/Patience is the ability to without .

📖 1 Peter 2:23 (ESV) When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly.

Fight for the Family Means: 

2. friends are but family is .

📖 Ephesians 4:4-6 (ESV) 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.

We tend to divide over the of God’s grace instead of over the of God’s grace.

📖 1 Corinthians 12:21-25 (ESV) 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

Fight for the Family Means: 

3. my to the .

📖 Ephesians 4:7 (ESV) But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 

First: I have a .

Second: I have a to .

📖 Romans 12:6 (ESV) Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;

📖 1 Peter 4:10 (ESV) As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace

📖 Ephesians 4:8-9 (ESV) Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.” 9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 

Third: My gift to makes an .

Sermon in a Sentence:

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