The Apostle Paul is “testifying” as if he was at a court hearing, and he tells the whole truth and nothing but the truth (as he will say in verse 21 – as the truth is in Jesus); Paul testifies to the way of living the God life, is by learning of Him, and then walking out by faith what He has taught us. We will see it is not trying harder, but simply walking with Jesus.

Summary: God equips His Church with gifts, as He has promised, and you are His gift to your church and community. He has done this for 2,000 years and still does it today, and today is your day; You are the next man/woman up.

Ephesians 4:11–16 (NKJV) 11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

The Resurrection Changes Everything - Come and See!

Summary: Have you ever stopped to consider how much grace you've actually received? Not in abstract theological terms, but in concrete, life-changing reality? The answer to that question might surprise you—because the measure of grace given to us is directly tied to the measure of Christ's gift. And when we look at the cross, when we examine the Gospel promises scattered throughout Scripture, we discover something astonishing: His grace is immeasurable, unsearchable, and continually flowing into our lives at this very moment.

Summary: So after three chapters of doctrine, we come to three chapters of duty, of doing, of walking; it comes to the question, “Then How Should We Walk?”, and so we start with that today, and once again a rich Word from the Lord for all of us today. A Word, that if taken to heart, will change your heart, will bring you a peace and a power in your life that is exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think. This passage literally could change you whole marriage today if you will choose to walk in accordance to what the Lord calls of you today, it will surely change your relationships with not just some people, but every person you have a relationship with

Summary: We are led in one of the most powerful and effective prayer models in the Bible, and we sharpen our prayer life, and our confidence in the power of prayer as we study this passage before us.

Summary: Paul writes and prays that the recipient of this epistle will claim all their spiritual inheritance, and Paul in these short verses will give us keys to how he did, and we can. So let’s get into it, and “search” for the “unsearchable” riches of Christ.

Summary: We see in our passage today the word “dispensation, (Greek: oikonomia ), it is where we get our word “Economy” . A lot of people struggle with this word, and theologians come up with books upon books to explain it, but it simply means a “set order of how things work.” God saying I’m setting the order of how things are going to work and nothing can change it. Satan, evilness, terrorism, prosperity, will not change my plan, or how I run my plan, and it will all happen in the “fullness of time, on my timetable (remember 1:10). Paul will show in these verses that the fullness of time has come, and the church is now in the period “of the grace of God.”