Immeasurably More // Unified in Love // Tim Lovell // March 16, 2025

Immeasurably More: The Book of Ephesians: Unified in love

 

Ephesians 4:1-6 (NIV)

“As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 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. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”

 

Ephesians 4:2 (NIV)

“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”

 

Ephesians 4:3 (NIV)

“Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.”

 

Ephesians 4:4-6 (NIV)

“There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”

 

Seven essentials to hold true to keep unity:

-       One Body

-       One Spirit

-       One Hope

-       One Lord

-       One Faith

-       One Baptism

-       One God and Father

 

The Wesleyan Confession

In the essentials unity. In the non-essentials liberty. But in all things, charity/love.

 

Philippians 2:1-8 (NIV)

“Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness, And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death - even death on a cross!

 

The desire of Jesus is that we would walk in love and unity and be his witnesses and his ambassadors can even begin to imagine!

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