Wednesday February 16,2022

The life that is exceeding, abundantly, beyond all that we could ask or think is the only form of legitimate self-interest. The reward to this life is wonderful, like heaven is wonderful. It is not selfish to want heaven in your life, since in contrary to human selfishness, heaven is a selfless place.

Living in a manner worthy of our calling demands being convinced of who we are in Christ and how fitting and necessary is the...

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Tuesday February 15, 2022

We are still wrapping up this section in Ephesians that reveals the life of the new self. It is a walk worthy of the calling. We have sufficiently overviewed and clarified everything from 4:1 to slaves and masters in 6:5-9. We're adding some finishing touches.

Last time we saw the power of sin compared...

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Sunday February 13,2022

From Cornelius Plantinga's book Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: "Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1978 commencement address at Harvard University, a defining moment in the twentieth-century culture wars, condemned Western godlessness, materialism, and consequent superficiality. The West has thrown away God, said Solzhenitsyn, as well as the accountabilities and depths of purpose that used to be attached to belief in God; it has substituted for these weighty things faddish variations on the pursuit of freedom and happiness. Any return to greatness must begin with a reappraisal of the goal of human life, a recognition of its spiritual nature, and the recovery of a sense of responsibility to God and for...

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Thursday February 10, 2022

How do we live in a worthy manner of our calling when we're prisoners of some kind of suffering?

Paul's and Peter's commandments to slaves answers this question.

In our last two classes we have documented the lamented life of a slave in the...

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Wednesday Fbruary 9,2022

Every role, both authority and subordinates, have a role of subordination to one another in the way of Christ.

The parents are to be careful not to discourage their children or provoke them to anger. The masters and slaves have the same Master, the Lord Jesus Christ and masters must be careful not to threaten their slaves. In Christ's new humanity, the roles remained but everyone was made equal, not in society, or even in the home, but in Him while they submitted in their various...

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Tuesday February 8.2022

The new humanity is elevated to heaven spiritually, though he may not see any earthly promotion.

This includes earthly slavery, which we could argue is man's lowest place or at least among the lowest, and to be clear, Paul is referring to a person being owned by another person. Slavery is not condoned in the Bible. In the NT it is clearly revealed as wrong, but it is acknowledged as being a part of the world's kingdoms. Christ did not come into the world to overturn kingdoms....

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Sunday February 6,2022

Our main idea remains: walk in a manner worthy of your calling, and the idea behind that is that Christ through His death and resurrection has made all things new.

Christ has made all things new, which things can only be entered by faith - individuals, church, marriage, family, and work.

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Thursday February 3, 2022

Our main idea remains: walk in a manner worthy of your calling, and the idea behind that is that Christ through His death and resurrection has made all things new.

Christ has made all things new, which things can only be entered by faith - a family with wise, divinely loving parents, and...

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Wednesday February 2,2022

The main idea: The redemption of Christ is aimed at removing the results of sin and of the fall in every way.

The true pattern of marriage is Christ and the church and not the Garden of Eden. If we based our hope on the Garden of Eden then we might imagine that in our marriages and homes that we can create something perfect - a perfect environment with two perfect people who are perfectly in love. We definitely strive for perfection, but we also know that it is not...

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Tuesday February 1, 2022

The main idea: The redemption of Christ is aimed at removing the results of sin and of the fall in every way.

In our study of Eph 4-6 we have seen that Paul's main theme is walking or living in a divine way. God made every believer the new humanity, or "new man" as Paul puts...

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