One Lord; Jesus Christ.
One faith; in respect to both its object, its origin, and its inward character. It is faith in the one gospel of Christ, it is wrought in our souls by the one Spirit of God; and it is one in its nature and effects, being a faith which works by love, purifies the heart, and overcomes the world.
One baptism; for all are baptized into one Saviour.
Verse Ephesians 4:5. _ONE LORD_] Jesus Christ, who is the governor of this Church. _ONE FAITH_] One system of religion, proposing the same objects to the faith of all. _ONE BAPTISM_] Administered in...
ONE LORD - This evidently refers to the Lord Jesus. The “Spirit” is mentioned in the previous verse; the Father in the verse following. On the application of the word “Lord” to the Saviour, see the no...
II. THE PRACTICAL MANIFESTATION IN THE LIFE OF THE BELIEVER (4-6) 1. Walking worthy of the Calling CHAPTER 4:1-6 _ 1. The walk in lowliness and meekness (Ephesians 4:1)_ 2. Keeping the unity of th...
GOD'S CALLING INVOLVES A UNITY OF LIFE. The writer, appealing to his imprisonment, beseeches his readers to walk in a fashion worthy of their calling, _i.e._ in humility, gentleness, and forbearance,...
So then, I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to behave yourselves in a way that is worthy of the calling with which you are called. I urge you to behave with all humility, and gentleness, and patien...
Ephesians 4:1-32 INTRODUCTION (Ephesians 4:1-10) With this chapter the second part of the letter begins. In Ephesians 1:1-23;...
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called with one hope of your calling. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, a...
LORD. App-98. FAITH. i.e. doctrine; by Metonymy, App-6. See App-150. BAPTISM. Greek. _baptisma._ App-115. The baptism of the Spirit by Whom we are baptized into the one body. (See _How to Enjoy the...
_one Lord_ Jesus Christ; Possessor and Prince of all His people equally. _one faith_ Is "faith" here the "Christian creed," or "trustful acceptance" of Christ, "saving faith"? Probably the latter, in...
5. The ‘subjective’ unity of the Spirit in love and hope has an ‘objective’ counterpart in the service of a common Lord, confessed by a common Creed sealed by a common Sacrament of incorporation. ΕἾΣ...
ΒΆΠΤΙΣΜΑ (G908) крещение. Это может относиться к крещению в Духе, которое делает верующего единым с Христом, превращая в орган тела Христова, церкви....
DISCOURSE: 2107 CHRISTIAN UNITY Ephesians 4:4. _There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 4:1-16) II. Duties. Ephesians 4:1-32; Ephesians 5:1-33; E
(4:5,6) We share, "one Lord", the Lord Jesus Christ; "one faith", that measure of faith given to us by the Father to bring us to the Cross; "one baptism", the baptism into Christ by the infilling of t...
One Lord, one faith, one baptism, Similarly "faith" and "baptism" (the sacramental seal of faith) are connected (; ). "Faith" is not here that which we believe, but the act of believing, the one me...
__ Summary of the Present Grace 2 The present secret administration of which there is no hint in any Scriptures before this epistle was penned, consists essentially of three separate items, all of w...
UNITY OF THE NEW LIFE. RULES FOR THE NEW LIFE The Apostle passes, as usual, from doctrinal statements to practical exhortations; but doctrine is here and there introduced to support exhortation. 1-6...
'One Head, to which each member is united by one Faith and one Baptism.' 6. 'One God, the supreme Source and Sustainer.' IN YOU ALL] RV 'in all.' Throughout the v. the 'all' is vague and may be neute...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 4 What Paul taught in Chapter s 1-3 was first about God and his Son Jesus Christ. Then it was about th...
(1) Ephesians 4:1, although cast in a hortatory form contain the final summary of the great doctrine of the Epistle — the UNITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH — in words which have all the glowing freedom of...
ONE LORD, ONE FAITH. — From the idea of “the calling,” the Apostle passes naturally to Him who calls — the “one Lord” — and to the method of His calling to Himself, first, by the “one faith,” and then...
CHAPTER 16 THE EXHORTATION ON CHURCH LIFE. CHAPTER 4:1-16 THE FUNDAMENTAL UNITIES Ephesians 4:1 This Encyclical of St. Paul to the Churches of Asia is the most formal and deliberate of his writings...
With the fourth chapter begins the second main division of the Epistle. As in others of Paul's Epistles the doctrinal statement is followed by the practical enforcement of duty. Doctrinal consideratio...
εἷς Κύριος, μία πίστις, ἓν βάπτισμα : _one Lord, one faith, one baptism_. “One Lord,” that is Christ, He alone and He for all equally whether Gentile or Jew. “One faith,” _i.e._, one belief having Him...
KEEPING THE “UNITY OF THE SPIRIT” Ephesians 4:1 Paul here admonishes lowliness in the presence of another's excellence; meekness in suffering injury; long-suffering under provocation; forbearance tow...
The apostle at once proceeded to apply this great doctrine to the present life of the Church. From the heavenly calling he passed to the earthly conduct. The matter of first importance is maintenance...
God's Plan For Unity To have unity, we also must have a plan. The Spirit's message will cause us to realize there is only one body, or church (Ephesians 1:22-23). There is only one Holy Spirit to give...
This contains some more reasons why Christians should love one another. We are all servants of the same God, believe the same mysteries, and receive the same sacraments, whoever may be the dispenser o...
(1) В¶ I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, (2) В¶ With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one anothe...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
_THE APPEAL FOR UNITY_ ‘There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, Who is over all, and t...
I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week as we studies Chapter 3 of the book of Galatians, Paul told the Gentiles that they were equal with the Jews in Christ! 1. In fact we are all equal at the Cross! B. In C...
5._One Lord. _In the first Epistle to the Corinthians, he employs the word _Lord, _to denote simply the government of God. “There are differences of administration, but the same Lord.” (1 Corinthians...
The faithful were to seek in the dispositions mentioned above to maintain this unity of the Spirit by the bond of peace. There are three things in this exhortation: first, to walk worthy of their call...
ONE LORD,.... The Lord Jesus Christ, who, by right of creation, is Lord of all; and by right of marriage, and redemption, is the one and only Lord of his church and people; he has betrothed them to hi...
One Lord, one faith, one baptism, Ver. 5. _One baptism_] The author to the Hebrews speaketh of baptisms, Ephesians 6:2. But either he puts the plural for the singular; or else he meaneth it of the ou...
The apostle proceeds to remind the believers at Ephesus of some of the many very powerful considerations which had force enough, if attended to and laid to heart, to induce them to cultivate and prese...
ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM,...
APOSTOLIC ADMONITIONS TO UNITY, TO PERFECTION IN KNOWLEDGE, TO HOLINESS, AND TO PEACE. Ephesians 4:1 Paul exhorts to unity:...
RESPONSE IN PRACTICAL UNITY (vs.1-6) In this letter to the Ephesian saints, Paul first presented the basic truth so essential for individual saints (Ch.1:1- 2:10) and for the Church, the body of Chri...
CHAPTER 4 Even though Paul is a ______________, he still urges us to walk in our __________. This walk must be a ____________ one. What does it mean to walk worthy? Paul gives us some words to consi...
“ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM” “One Lord”: Jesus Christ. “This phrase indicates unity of authority and leadership. The term _Lord_ means more than simple acceptance of Christ's exalted position....
1-6 Nothing is pressed more earnestly in the Scriptures, than to walk as becomes those called to Christ's kingdom and glory. By lowliness, understand humility, which is opposed to pride. By meekness,...
ONE LORD; Christ, viz. as Redeemer, Head, and Husband of the church, to whom, by God's appointment, she is immediately subject, 1 CORINTHIANS 8:6 1 THESSALONIANS 13:13 ACTS 2:36. ONE FAITH; i.e. one
Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians Since also "there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all."[49] Epistle of Ignatius to the P...
Ephesians 4:5 one G1520 Lord G2962 one G1520 faith G4102 one G3391 baptism G908 one Lord - Acts 2:3
EXHORTATION TO ONENESS (4:1-16). Paul calls on them therefore now to be as one, and walk worthily of their calling....
Ephesians 4:4-6. Meyer gives this analysis of these verses: ‘Objective relations of unity to which the non-observance of the precept in Ephesians 4:3 would be opposed. These are: (1.) _The Church itse...
II. MOTIVES FOR PRESERVING THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT. In this passage the leading thought is ‘ the unity of the Spirit; ' the duty of preserving it is not directly enjoined, but motives are presented:...
Ephesians 4:5. ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM. Here we have the way and means of salvation, presented as facts on which unity among Christians rests. A misapprehension of the second and third terms...
ONE LORD (εις Κυριος). The Lord Jesus Christ and he alone (no series of aeons).ONE FAITH (μια πιστις). One act of trust in Christ, the same for all (Jew or Gentile), one way of being saved.ONE BA...
Ephesians 4:5 I. The Apostle speaks first of one Lord. Those words would have at once recalled to a Jew the sentence which had been repeated to him since he could speak: "The Lord thy God is one Lord....
Ephesians 4:5 I. How is the lordship of Jesus constituted? Not by the suffrages of men, but by the will of God. It consists in the exaltation, the reward of servantship, and is constituted by God dir...
Ephesians 4:4 Church Unity. In these words, which unite the passionate enthusiasm of thanksgiving with the clear-cut precision of a creed, St. Paul draws out to us explicitly that which is the great...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,-_ «You are called to be sons of God, you are called to be one with Chri...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you-_ Paul puts force into the argument by his manner of speaking; you can hear in his words the rattle of his chains. Here is a man who...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one anot...
CONTENTS: Walk and service of the believer in Christ. Ministry of gifts of Christ to His Body. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit, God, Paul. CONCLUSION: Considering to what state and condition God has...
Ephesians 4:1. _I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you_ a pathetic argument, for if I hear of discords among you it will add affliction to my bonds; _that ye walk worthy of the vocation wh...
ONE LORD. Jesus Christ (Acts 2:36), who by his bloody-death bought men for God and is head of the church which he built (Matthew 16:18). ONE FAITH. One living, life-giving confident trust which center...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 4:1 Unity of the Body of Christ. Paul shows how to apply the truths he has been teaching. There are three subsections: vv. Ephesians 4:1,...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 4:5 ONE LORD. Jesus Christ. ONE FAITH. The spiritual truths Christians believe. ONE BAPTISM may refer to the baptism of all believers into one body (see...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 4:4. ONE BODY … AND IN YOU ALL.—“Seven elements of unity St. Paul enumerates.… They form a chain stretching from the Church on earth to the throne and being...
EXPOSITION PRACTICAL PORTION OF THE EPISTLE. EPHESIANS 4:1 CHURCH PRINCIPLE OF GROWTH AND PROGRESS; THE CHURCH A BODY
Now Paul begins the fourth chapter again with the reminder that he is a prisoner of the Lord, and I beseech you, [I beg you, I implore you] that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are call...
1 Corinthians 1:13; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 12:13; 1 Corinthians 12:5;...
Faith. The principle of faith; not that which is believed - the body of Christian doctrine, which does not promote unity. See on Acts 6:7. Baptism. The external sign of faith, but of no significance w...
THE HIGHER CHRISTIAN LIFE Ephesians 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A prisoner of the Lord. One would hardly expect to find a prisoner in a Roman jail, the author of such a remarkable letter. We are accus...
One outward baptism....