Part 2 | Love the Truth and Grow UP

Ephesians 4:11-16

What Christians do: They in .

📖 Isaiah 59:14-15 (ESV) Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the streets, and uprightness cannot enter. 15 Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice.

How Do We Grow?

1. Jesus gifts to His .

📖 Ephesians 4:11 (ESV) And He gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers

Apostles – “ ”.

Prophets – Tell the and .

Evangelists – “One who brings ”.

Shepherds – Care for .

Teachers – people about the .

All together:

The Church is an ever- -telling, good to people in God.

2. Jesus these gifts to His .

📖 Ephesians 4:11-12 (ESV) And He gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

📖 Matthew 4:21 (ESV) He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them.

📖 Ephesians 4:16 (ESV) joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

📖 James 4:13 (ESV) until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

Four listed:

1. UNITY.

2. KNOWLEDGE of JESUS.

3. MATURITY.

4. STATURE.

3. Jesus gifts to His in firm of the .

📖 Ephesians 4:14 (ESV) so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

First effect of GROWTH:

A. to false and false .

no longer be children, tossed…carried about

📖 2 Timothy 4:3-4 (ESV) For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

= Truth is what we to but might not to .

📖 2 Corinthians 10:5-6 (ESV) We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 6 being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete.

Second effect of GROWTH:

B. , , and to the .

📖 Ephesians 4:15-16 (ESV) Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.