Ephesians: Things Money Can’t Buy Ephesians 4:1-10: The Unity of the SpiritNovember 18, 2012Please turn in your Bibles to Ephesians 4:1Vs 1: Using all Circumstances for God’s gloryApp: To see whatever situation you find yourself in as opportunity for the KingdomApp: Are you walking in the calling God has on your life?Worthy (ax-ee'-oce: axiom: equal weight): walk according to the blessing you have receivedVs 2: Attitudes toward unity “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35•“be humble and gentle”: Jesus, as our model“…I am gentle and humble in heart…” Matthew 11:29Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. 1Peter 5:6•“be patient, bearing with one another”App: Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. John 17:20-23 Vs 4: What we share in commonVs 7-8: Intro to Charis (grace) + mata (gift) App: Are you being faithful with what God has given you, or envious? App: Are you living in bondage or are you living out of the liberty and gifts that God has made available through Christ?Vs 9-10: Controversy: Where did Jesus descend?14Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—15and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. Hebrews 2:14-15What is God’s Spirit speaking into your life today? How must you respond?