Sunday January 30, 2022

Why humanity? Humankind was made, is made in the image (model, idol, or copy) of God, and so they are to reflect God.

We were made to reflect God. We fell but remained in God's image. We didn't reflect Him, at least most did not, and those who did struggled greatly with personal sin.

for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2567

Thursday January 27, 2022

"What is the theme which has run right through chapter 4 and spilled over into chapter 5? These chapters are a stirring summons to the unity and purity of the church; but they are more than that. Their theme is the integration of Christian experience (what we are), Christian theology (what we believe), and Christian ethics (how we behave). They emphasize that being, thought, and action belong together." [John Stott]

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Wednesday January 26,2022

We are summarizing the final three chapters of Ephesians. We have seen that in this letter Paul teaches us the way of life of the new humanity in Christ, both individually and as member of the body of Christ. Paul uses exhortations, commands, and warnings.

"Nowhere does the apostle say so much of 'the will of God' in regard to the dispensation of grace as He does in this epistle." [G.G. Findlay, The Epistle to the...

for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2565

Tuesday January 25, 2022

Paul gives us a map through a mine field with a mature believer and a mature church on the other side.

A big part of this exhortation is the warning that there exist many things that oppose our growth and our walk with the Lord and our service and unity with one...

for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2564

Sunday January 23.2022

This section is a bio of the maturing believer and a description of his church. It is also a description of the schemes of the enemy that wants to destroy both.

But who is this believer in Christ? He is blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ. He is elected before the foundation of the world. He was predestined to adoption into God's family by the kind intention of God's will. Therefore he is forgiven of all sin. To him is made known the mystery of God's will. He...

for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2563

Thursday January 20, 2022

The prize, the upward call, is being like Christ. The reward is a life exceeding, abundantly beyond what could be thought and imagined as well as reward in eternity (JSOC).

Man was created in the image of God and in God's likeness, Gen 1:26. Man was blessed (all blessing comes from God)...

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Wednesday January 19,2022

Eph 4:14-16

As a result, we are no longer to be children [spiritual infants], tossed here and there by waves, and carried about [twirled around] by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming [method of getting believers off the right path and onto a wrong one]; 15 but speaking the truth [living and being the truth] in love, we are to grow up in all aspects [things] into Him, who is the head, even Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, being [continually] fitted and held together [fitly joined and knit...

for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2561

Tuesday January 18, 2022

We must grow up in time in order to experience God's love, joy, and peace in our marriages, families, churches, and communities. Only in time is there an enemy who has made war against it.

God did not create and plan human history without a grand design. Man is at the center and...

for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2560

SUNDAY JANUARY 16, 2022

Title: Ephesians 4:15-16 -The body is fitted together by the Head and made for growing up and attaining shalom.

The spiritual gifts are for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ until we all attain the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God to a mature man.

for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2559

Thursday January 13, 2022

Last time we read Paul's disclosure of the malady that arrests the church's growth, which was spiritual immature Christians who believe false doctrines and lies from teachers who with trickery spread propaganda for the wrong path. These tricksters and hacks have a method from which to dupe the unknowing and infantile.

for full notes: https://www.cgtruth.org/index.php?proc=msg&sf=vw&tid=2558