Our text for this week is Ephesians 4:28: Let him who steals steal no longer; but rather let him labor, performing with his own hands what is good, in order that he may have something to share with him who has need. “Thou shalt not steal” (Exodus 20:15 KJV) is one of the Ten Commandments that was...

Our text for this week is Ephesians 4:26-27: Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity. This raises a good question. Can we be angry and not sin? The answer is “yes.” We are called to be like the Lord, and to abide in Him, and...

Our text for this week is Ephesians 4:25: Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth, each one of you, with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. When we think of truth and error, we often relate it to doctrinal truth and error. Doctrinal truth is of course important, but walking in...

This week we will look at Ephesians 4:20-24: But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the...

This week’s text is Ephesians 4:17-19, This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them,...

For the last few weeks we have seen that the ministry the Lord gave to His church is a team. When the church is led and equipped by this team it will: be built up by the saints doing the work of the ministry, the people will grow until they attain to the unity of the faith, the knowledge of the Son...

The verse for this week’s study is Ephesians 4:15: But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ. This is another one of those verses that could be worthy of a lifetime of study. If this one verse had been heeded it is likely that literally...

This week we continue our study with Ephesians 4:14: As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming. This mature condition is stated as being the result of...

This week we continue the study of the purpose of equipping ministries listed in Ephesians 4:11 with what must be considered one of the most amazing verses in the Scriptures, Ephesians 4:13. It states that these ministries are given: “until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the...

For the last few weeks we have briefly discussed the functions of the five equipping ministries listed in Ephesians 4:11. Now we will proceed to discuss their purpose in a little more depth, which is stated as being “for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the...