Guarding The Fellowship Ephesians 4

It's not meant so that like, the Lord doesn't give us gifting so that we can get in some competition with one another, or we can get filled with pride and think that I'm more important than this person, or or you know what? My voice matters more than so and so. No. No. No. No. The reason why God does that is so the church can be stronger together. The church can be stronger together. [00:56:16] (22 seconds)  #GiftsForUnity

Now now check this. So what happens in this moment is that, man, when when when those roles begin doing their job, then the church doesn't get swayed or persuaded by cultural ideologies that run against God's good holy standard for living. The church doesn't become corrupt with false spirits. They tend to manipulate and try to control people. No. The church, no matter what the rest of the world is doing, stands strong. The church stands strong because in this fellowship, the Holy Spirit has welded us together, and he's matured us, and he secured us. [00:58:19] (54 seconds)  #ChurchStandsStrong

The counselor, the holy spirit, whom the father has sent to us, holds us together in peace and gives us strength to endure with one another out of his great love. And he secures us in that peace. The church is not a place that's meant to be hostile, but we are welded together by this peace of the Holy Spirit. [00:53:09] (31 seconds)  #PeaceByTheSpirit

We walk worthy of this calling by God that we have received, and we do so with humility, with gentleness, with patience bearing with one another in love. And so what is the Holy Spirit doing? The Holy Spirit is making a people, transforming their lives, and in the body of Christ, we don't function like the rest of the world. This is not arrogance when I tell you that the church is meant to be better than the rest of the world. We are meant to be better than secular society in how we live, in the transformation that the Holy Spirit is doing, and how we function as a church. [00:48:32] (43 seconds)  #WalkWorthyInChrist

He is clear again. It's not backbiting anger. He says, malice, foul speech. It's it's it's not letting anger grip you and and the devil steal from you the unity and the peace of the Holy Spirit. No. It looks like somebody who is enduring with one another in love, who's put away the bitterness and the anger and the wrath and the shouting and the slander, and what they've replaced it with is the holy spirit has made them kind and compassionate and forgiving because what they know is how much they've been forgiven by Christ. [01:07:51] (39 seconds)  #PutAwayMalice

That's that's not it. Because what we are focused on is raising up the next generations of of pastors and leaders. We are focused on building disciples who will see their home as the mission field and begin discipling their families in the word of god so they could be transformed and bonded together by the peace of the holy spirit. I can go on and on and on. But but what we are focused on is the ministry of this word and how it takes shape and shapes all of our lives. We're not focused on gimmicks and tricks, and we're not going to be. [00:59:59] (38 seconds)  #RaiseNextGenLeaders

But that sending capacity, where we measure out how many we're sending out to the mission field, that's something that we should start celebrating again. Thank goodness for David for hanging our mission banners back up. We gotta order a Guatemala banner sometime soon. I just gotta figure out the dimensions. But we we we wanna celebrate that because what God is doing is we are celebrating the fact that he's given good gifts to all of us for his good works, and we're seeing those good works do great things for the Lord Jesus. [01:01:52] (35 seconds)  #CelebrateSending

What what has been given to us in the body of Christ are ministers of the word, apostles that are messengers of the word, prophets who speak God's word at a particular point in time, evangelists who help carry the gospel, pastors and teachers who diligently not just preach the word, but shepherd people in the word. [00:57:57] (22 seconds)  #MinistryGifts