GIFTS FOR THE FAMILY

HOLY SPIRIT, HOLY FRIEND

Sermon Series by Rev. Richard Jones

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“Gifts for the Family”

Ephesians 4: 4-13

 

THE GROUND OF UNITY

Ephesians 4:4-6 (ESV)
4  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.

 

THE GIFTS OF UNITY

Ephesians 4:7-11 (ESV)
7  But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ”™s gift.
8  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.) 
11  And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

2 Corinthians 12:12 (ESV)
12  The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.

1 Corinthians 14:29-32 (ESV)
29  Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
30  If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent.
31  For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged,
32  and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.

Ephesians 2:19-20 (ESV)
19  So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
20  built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,

 

THE GOAL OF UNITY

Ephesians 4:12-13 (ESV)
12  to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
13  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,

Ephesians 3:14-19 (ESV)
14  For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,
15  from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,
16  that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
17  so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith””that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18  may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
19  and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

 

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