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WALKING WORTHY OF OUR VOCATION: EPHESIANS 4

OVERVIEW The author of the letter to the Ephesians is St. Paul the Apostle.  Paul dictated the letter to a disciple by the name of Tychicus between 60-62 A.D. during Paul’s imprisonment at Rome.  Tychicus was also the one who Paul entrusted to deliver the letter to the Church at Ephesus.  Paul wrote four letters while in prison.  They were written in the following order: Colossians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Philemon.   “I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,…” (verse 1).    In the first three chapters of Ephesians, the Apostle Paul extols the beauty and power of God’s great gift of grace to man which is found in Christ Jesus.  With forceful and majestic phrases like:   ·         “He [God] hath chosen us in Him [Christ] before the foundation of the world,” ·         “Having predestin...
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ARISE THEREFORE, AND BE DOING

It is important that every child of God know and understand that they have been given complete victory over sin, the flesh, and the devil.   This victory is ours in Jesus Christ our Lord.   It is part of the gift of grace that God has given us through the offering of His dearly beloved Son, and we find that God’s great and abundant grace is sufficient to meet any and every need that we may encounter in our lives.   Although there are times when we may feel that we are very weak and that the victory is out of our reach, yet the power of God’s mighty strength is perfected in us despite our infirmities and weaknesses! (2 Corinthians 12:9).   Jesus has overcome all things, and now His triumph has become ours through our faith in Him and in His finished work of redemption.   Now we can say with the Apostle Paul, “But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ .” (1 Corinthians 15:57).     Consider the following promise...
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THE CHAMBERS OF IMAGERY

"And He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.  Then said He unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.  And He said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.  So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about .  And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel…with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.  Then said He unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth ." (Ezekiel 8:7-12).   Ezekiel prophesied to the Jews during the time of their captivity in Babylon.  The Prophet Jeremiah was a contempor...
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