Posts with the tag “ephesians”

Believers cannot live the Christian life apart from the presence of the Holy Spirit who lives within us. "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord." - Ephesians 5:18-19  Read More

People in our world are divided for many reasons. Many wonder if there is any peace to be found. There is peace in a person, and that person is Christ. "For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us." - Ephesians 2:14  Read More

Salvation makes us new creatures in Christ Jesus and gives us a new spiritual identity. Then God calls us to walk in newness of life. "That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." - Ephesians 4:22-24  Read More

We learn quickly after coming to faith in Christ that there are battles to fight in the Christian life. And the Lord has provided us with the whole armor of God so that we can live victoriously. "Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked."  - Ephesians 6:16  Read More

As sinners, we have nothing in ourselves to commend us to God. All our talents, strengths, and other advantages could never earn God‘s favor, because they all come from Him. His grace is what makes the difference. "Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ." - Ephesians 3:8  Read More

Love is certainly not merely an emotion that comes and goes. And love is not an accident. We really don’t “fall” in love. Love is a choice made possible by the grace of God working in us. "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour." - Ephesians 5:1-2  Read More

Part of the evidence of a cleansed and transformed life in a Christian is a cleansed and transformed tongue. We should no longer speak as we once did before we were saved. "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers." - Ephesians 4:29  Read More

The Scriptures use many words to describe life before salvation in Christ. One of them is being dead in sin. "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience." - Ephesians 2:1-2  Read More