THE ONE WAY!!!

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One Spirit, One God The Father Of Us All ( In Jesus Christ).

Elder James R, Winfree, Sr, God's Sent Voice To His Churches & Believing Nations, God's Sons And Daughters:

GOD CHOSEN, GOD ORDAINED LEADERS ALWAYS MAKES MORE LEADERS, NOT MORE FOLLOWERS:

Unceasing And, Unleashing Relevant Jesus Christ New Covenant Truth!!!

Our Gentile Churches Apostle writes, I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing forbearance to one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you 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 through all and in all.

God's Apostle Paul,  pleads with the Church to walk worthy of our calling. Specifically, the way he wants to emphasize is that we be "diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace" ( Verse.3 ). We walk unworthily of our calling in Christ if we disregard the unity of the body and don't expend any effort to safeguard what Christ died to obtain. "Be diligent," Elder Paul says, "Be eager, be earnest" to keep the unity given by the Spirit of God and obtained with the blood of Christ ( 2:16 ).

This is Big Brother Paul's prison burden for the Church at Ephesus. If we have any empathy for a suffering saint, it should make us say, Yes, that is utterly crucial. How, brother Paul? How shall we do this?

His answer is found in verse 2. The character traits that will preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace are humility, gentleness, patience, forbearance, and love. So he says that a life worthy of our calling and leading to the unity of Spirit is "with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing forbearance to one another in love." If you are humble, you will be gentle, and if you are patient, you will be forbearing or enduring. And if you are gentle and forbearing in love, you will be a peacemaker and a unity preserver. So be diligent and eager to be a humble and patient person by the power of Christ.

That is what he is doing in verses 4–6. Here he gives the objective ground in reality for the subjective experience of unity that we are to pursue. The unity of the Spirit that we should be so diligent for is based on a given, objective unity outside ourselves that we have nothing to do with creating or defining. It is there, and we are humbly to recognize it and submit to it and rejoice in it and live it out.

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you 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 through all and in all in Christ Jesus.

One body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one Father. This is the objective foundation of our diligent efforts to preserve the unity of the Spirit. It is not a fragile or ultimately vulnerable thing. It rests on the oneness of God, the oneness of faith, the oneness of baptism, and the oneness of the body. Those things are one, no matter what you or I do. They are fixed realities. Our task is to walk worthily of the truth of Jesus Christ. For He Is, The One LORD, One FAITH, One BAPTISM, One GOD The FATHER IN THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST. PERIOD.

This is what Jesus came to do, make a path to heaven for rebellious sinners; and there is only one path. If you know Jesus (if the light of the glory of God in the face of Christ has shone in your heart), you know the way. The one Lord, the one faith, the one baptism.

My prayer is that each of us would feel what Teacher Paul felt when he discovered this—that he was a debtor to the Greeks and Barbarians, the wise and the foolish, to all those who had not yet named the name of Christ. To know this truth is to be a debtor to all the nations as the Lord Ministers and God's sons and daughters must be, not just in religious buildings on Sundays Morning and during the week. Amen.

Written And, Shared By, Apostle James R, Winfree, Sr, Christ Jesus Biblical Transformational Voice. 

apostlejrwinfree@gmail.com

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