Sermons about Ephesians 412 416 (2024)

FAQs

What is the message of Ephesians 4 14 16? ›

No prolonged infancies among us, please. We'll not tolerate babes in the woods, small children who are easy prey for predators. God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love—like Christ in everything.

Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.

Ephesians 4:11–16 discusses both the gift of spiritual leaders and the importance of mature, loving, unified Christianity. Some people are endowed with gifts of teaching, preaching, and so forth. It is crucial to the health of Christian congregations that these members use their God-given talents appropriately.

As members of the body of Christ, we are "fitly joined together" (Ephesians 4:16). This means we are closely connected and work together harmoniously. We are also "compacted" (Ephesians 4:16) which means we are closely knit together mentally and share a unity of understanding.

Ephesians 4:14. The voice of God is speaking to us through His Word, and there are many voices that we will hear; but Christ has said we should beware of them who will say, Here is Christ or there is Christ.

Ephesians 4:13–14 tells us that the only way for believers not to be deceived by all kinds of false doctrines believers must to the unity of the faith and to a full knowledge of the Son of the God.

God does not give His spiritual gifts for our own selfish use but to serve others, and in so doing, we serve Him. We are all given different gifts to be used at different times and in different ways. But they are all to be used in love for the “edifying of the body of Christ” (Eph. 4:12).

Christians are to be more mature, wiser, and more perceptive so that they recognize and withstand the cunning craftiness of those who would deceive. Of course this is possible only as our minds and hearts are formed in Christ. We must know sound doctrine. Our leaders are equipping us to do the work of ministry.

Ephesians 4:15 in Other Translations

15 God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love - like Christ in everything. We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do.

Each individual part must work together, according to its design and purpose, and in the intended way, in order for the body to function properly. This means that when one person is weak, the rest of the body of Christ suffers.

What is the lesson of Ephesians 4? ›

The way we walk is seen in how we treat others. Ephesians 4:1-3 - I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, accepting one another in love, diligently keeping the unity of the Spirit with the peace that binds [us].

“Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:” When we grow in unity and in the knowledge of Jesus, we mature.

We maintain unity when we grow from the gifts Christ has distributed to us. Growing up into Christ means a greater harmony and unity in the body. Christ gave various roles in the body of apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, and teachers so that we would grow, and by growing, maintain unity in the bond of peace.

What is the main message of Ephesians? The main message of Ephesians is that believers in Christ are reconciled not only to God, but to each other. They are to maintain unity of purpose within their families and church, while resisting the temptation to fall into the sin of the world surrounding them.

Verse Ecclesiastes 4:16. There is no end of all the people — This is supposed to refer to the multitudes of people who hail the advent and accession of a new sovereign; for, as Suetonius remarks, A plerisque adorari solem orientem, "Most people adore the rising sun."

Ephesians 4:15–16 Prays To Speak His Truth

In love, with the compassion of Christ, with the meekness and gentleness of Christ, and as an expression of his love for them. So let's pray accordingly. God, we pray that you would help us as followers of Christ. As members of the body of Christ, to speak your truth.

Ecclesiastes 4:14-16 New International Version (NIV)

I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king's successor. There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

A spiritually mature person actively honors all beings and recognizes we are all interconnected, diverse and unique. We are all created in the "image" and "likeness" of God/the sacred, according to Genesis 1:26, with the capacity to discover that potentiality.

He begs us, “Rend your hearts, not your garments” (Joel 2:13). The Hebrew custom of tearing one's clothing was an expression of extraordinary emotion, usually of grief, terror, or horror. And indeed, we should be grief-stricken and horrified when we sin against our holy God.