{"id":29478,"date":"2025-02-02T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T18:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immanuelfamily.org\/?post_type=cpl_item&#038;p=29478"},"modified":"2025-03-17T16:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:59:41","slug":"walking-worthy-of-our-calling","status":"publish","type":"cpl_item","link":"https:\/\/immanuelfamily.org\/es\/sermons\/walking-worthy-of-our-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Worthy of Our Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Walking Worthy of Our Calling\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8JBhCHpkKgY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This sermon emphasizes the importance of maintaining unity within the Christian community, urging believers to embody humility, gentleness, and patience in their interactions with one another. By understanding their calling to live in harmony, listeners are encouraged to actively engage in strengthening relationships among fellow believers, reflecting the unity of the triune God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Transcript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Psalm 133\u00a0<\/strong>A Song of Ascents. Of David.<\/p>\n<p><strong><sup>1\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Behold, how good and pleasant it is<\/p>\n<p>when brothers dwell in unity!<\/p>\n<p><strong><sup>2\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>It is like the precious oil on the head,<\/p>\n<p>running down on the beard,<\/p>\n<p>on the beard of Aaron,<\/p>\n<p>running down on the collar of his robes!<\/p>\n<p><strong><sup>3\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>It is like the dew of Hermon,<\/p>\n<p>which falls on the mountains of Zion!<\/p>\n<p>For there the Lord has commanded the blessing,<\/p>\n<p>life forevermore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sermon Text<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ephesians 4\u00a0<\/strong>I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, <strong><sup>2\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, <strong><sup>3\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. <strong><sup>4\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>There is one body and one Spirit\u2014just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call\u2014 <strong><sup>5\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>one Lord, one faith, one baptism, <strong><sup>6\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The clear instruction we received from this passage in scripture is that we are called to walk in a manner worthy of our calling.<\/p>\n<p>That is the clear admonition of this text.<\/p>\n<p>That we as Christians are called to walk in a manner worthy of the calling that we receive from God. Obviously, that compels us to ask the question, well, what is our calling?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, before we answer that question, I want us to consider the reality that we\u2019re all sinners here.<\/p>\n<p>All of us here are sinners. We sin in one way or another. And because that is true, we naturally move away from one another. Sin at its essence is divisive. If you recall the story of Adam and Eve, what is the first thing that Adam and Eve do after they sin? They hide. Why? Because sin necessarily separates. It is in essence divisive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why do you think the first story after Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis? What\u2019s the story?<\/p>\n<p>A fight between two warring tribes? Is it a fight between two opposing political parties? It\u2019s between two brothers. And so, sin is by nature divides between Abel and Cain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was, I mean, no politics to argue about, no inheritance to fuss about, no favoritism to complain about, but yet here, Cain takes it upon himself to kill, of all things, his brother. He could\u2019ve yelled at him, he could\u2019ve admonished him or he or he could\u2019ve done anything but he decides to kill. And so, sin by its nature separates us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just think about it. Especially those who have been married. Who have you argued with the most in your life? Has it been your boss or a coworker? It\u2019s often, if we\u2019re honest, our spouses when there are disagreements. Sin by nature is divisive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And so, God in undoing sin, he is bringing us together. And so, for that to happen, there\u2019s vertical reconciliation between us and God. And then there is horizontal reconciliation. It\u2019s the shape of the cross. The vertical, between us and God, and then horizontal. We\u2019ve been reconciled to each other. That\u2019s the cross shaped gospel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We just read in Psalm 133. It says that there is a blessing when we dwell together in unity. And it says, at the end that God has determined that blessing be there: life forevermore.<\/p>\n<p>Where? Were people dwell in unity, forever. So, sin by nature separates us. God and his mercy is gathering us from all tribes, language, and tongues to bring us together in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And so, Paul here is helping us understand that we are to call, we are called to walk in a manner worthy of our calling. And so, we saw last week that we have received this beautiful redemption. The focus of that redemption is to unite all things in Christ. And that\u2019s why Paul says in Ephesians 2:19-22.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He says so, \u201cyou Gentiles are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.\u201d That\u2019s reconciliation language. He continues, \u201cbuilt on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, (God\u2019s word) Christ himself being the cornerstone in whom the whole structure being joined together.\u201d Notice the language of reconciliation \u201c[the household of God] grows into a holy temple in the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, we, as God gathers us, [we] are a holy temple and there, God has sent his Spirit to dwell.<\/p>\n<p>And so, our calling if this is true, our calling is this, we\u2019re called to live in the unity that God has accomplished through Christ. If God is purposing to gather all things in Christ, then our calling is to live in a manner that exemplifies, exhibits the unity that God is going to one day fully manifest. In other words, the church is called to be the manifestation of the unity that we are going to experience for eternity. We display god\u2019s manifold wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve said this before but I\u2019ll say it again. Local churches are embassies of heaven. If you go to Botswana and you go to the US Embassy in Botswana, the values of this nation and the laws of this nation are also in Botswana, in in that embassy. In other words, that embassy, even though it\u2019s in a land that doesn\u2019t have our constitution, that doesn\u2019t have our values, that embassy does.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an outpost of the United States of America and we as a church are an outpost of heaven.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, this morning, Paul is going to challenge us this morning. This is the main point of the sermon. He\u2019s gonna challenge us to this: We must fight to maintain our spirit produce unity. I\u2019m using that word fight purposely because the aggression that we should feel, the competition that we should feel, should be towards unity and not division. The competition that we should exhibit, the enthusiasm that we should exhibit should be towards unity and not division.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, the main point is we must fight to maintain our Spirit-produce unity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And so, look at again at Ephesians 4. He says, \u201cI therefore.\u201d And when you know that\u2019s like the normal question, whenever you see a \u201ctherefore,\u201d you ask, why is it therefore or something like that. I forget how it goes but \u201ctherefore,\u201d always presupposes that the apostle is drawing on what he has said previously. And what did he say previously? He says that he is praying that our hearts will be full of love. Why? Because\u2026well that\u2019s not the only thing he says. He says that we are united, that God is gathering all things and uniting all things in Christ. That we were dead in our trespasses but now have been reconciled up to God and in in chapter 3, he says that the church displays God\u2019s manifold wisdom and then he prays that the church would be full of love and it the reason he prays for that is because what he\u2019s going to command that they do net requires love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Harold when he was doing the confession was speaking about love. Love is hard and love can only be genuine if it\u2019s Spirit empowers and so he says, \u201ctherefore,\u201d making a transition from the doctrinal section of the letter to the Ephesians to the practical section.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then he says, \u201cI exhort you.\u201d And that has a sense of authority. Paul is saying, \u201cI\u2019m telling you, not as an inferior, but as a superior, as an apostle I\u2019m telling you what you are to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And he tells them, \u201cyou must walk in a manner worthy of your calling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And again, the calling that we have received is to walk in unity. That means our lifestyle has to be compatible with what God is doing. Say for instance, you ask a doctor, which has a calling to seek the well-being of his patients. So, a doctor walking in a manner worthy of their calling would be to uphold the Hippocratic Oath.<\/p>\n<p>It it would be to show compassion and mercy and to help those they are tending to.<\/p>\n<p>Just imagine if the doctor just comes in and says, \u201cWell, I think this.\u201d And you respond, \u201cwell, I\u2019m actually feeling this.\u201d \u00a0But he don\u2019t care and says, \u201cI think it\u2019s this and this is what we\u2019re gonna do.\u201d You\u2019d be like, \u201cwait, wait a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That that\u2019s a doctor not walking in a manner consistent with their calling. They\u2019re called to help not to come and bulldoze the patient. \u00a0Or imagine a judge. Just imagine if the judge is inventing laws or making judgments that are unconstitutional, not upholding equal justice. They would not be walking in a manner worthy of the calling and when we walk in this unity, we are not walking in a manner worthy of our calling.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our calling is to walk in union with Christ and by extension, union with his body. \u00a0How do we do this? How do we do this?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I want us to consider first the mindset of unity, the mindset of unity.<\/p>\n<p>The mindset of unity is found where Paul says in verse two, he says, the mindset that we have to have is that of humility, gentleness, and patience. That is the mindset that we\u2019re supposed to have as Christians. A mindset is, a belief, an attitude, a way of thinking that shapes how one lives.<\/p>\n<p>If you think about history, and you think about, for example, Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had a mindset that failure wasn\u2019t something detrimental but failure got him closer to the goal.<\/p>\n<p>He had a mindset of perseverance and that\u2019s why he says, \u201cI have not failed, I have just found ten thousand ways that won\u2019t work.\u201d That is a mindset.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He could\u2019ve said, he could\u2019ve quit, you know, at the hundredth time but he said, \u201cI found ten thousand ways that don\u2019t work, that don\u2019t bring about the light bulb. But he persevered, he had a mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We as Christians have to have a mindset. What is our mindset? Our mindset is that we have to be humble, gentle, and patient. And the one who exhibits this the best is God himself. And that is our example par excellence. If we don\u2019t look to Jesus, we don\u2019t get the full grasp of what we are being called to.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You see, humility, gentleness, patience, those were, you know, bad words in in in the in the Greco Roman world. You wanted to be powerful? You couldn\u2019t be humble. You wanted to be prosperous. You couldn\u2019t be gentle. You wanted to be successful in life. You couldn\u2019t be patient.<\/p>\n<p>Those these were liabilities in that culture. Yet, Paul is saying, these aren\u2019t liabilities. These are our mindset. We hold on to humility, gentleness, and patience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But just think about Christ being God, <em>Amazing Love <\/em>is what we sang earlier. \u201cHow can it be that you are our king should die for me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And just think about that. The second person of the trinity takes to himself human flesh and he experiences death. You can say God died. Just think about that. That he took the form of a servant and sought our good. He is the king of, not the world, not a nation, not the world, but the universe. He sought to do us good. He put our needs before his.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He was gentle. The Bible describes Jesus in Matthew 11 as the one who is gentle and lowly. He is kind and compassionate. He is the one who exhibits tender care for his people. So, those whom he call to himself, he doesn\u2019t berate them. He doesn\u2019t crush a bruised reed. He deals with us gently and compassionately.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is also patient. He is a patient God. We are reading through the Bible, and those who are reading are beginning to see Israel and their stubbornness and their rebellion against God. Yet, again and again, God is merciful to his people. He is kind. He is patient. One of the best expressions of patience is found in Exodus 34, where God reveals himself to Moses. \u201cI, I, the Lord am compassionate, abounding in steadfast love and mercy.\u201d That\u2019s the God that we serve and that\u2019s the mindset.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If we are gonna move towards one another and not away from each other, our mindset has to be that we are humble, gentle, and patient with each other. This is the mindset that we are to exhibit as Christians. Like Edison, we must be willing to endure resiliently for the sake of our unity in Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Church, we must fight to maintain our Spirit-produced unity by having a mindset of unity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But you ask yourself, how do we exercise this mindset? Paul uses basically two participles.<\/p>\n<p>So, remember grammar, you have the main verb, walking worthy, and that main verb is now modified by these two participles. So, how do we walk worthy? Number one, bearing with one another at the end of verse two, in love. Bearing with one another in love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you all recall the story of Hosea? And how he in chapter three of Hosea he is told, \u201cGo love a woman who is loved by her lovers.\u201d His wife had abandoned him and gone to the to be with other lovers and yet God tells Hosea to go love this woman who has abandoned him and has gone into prostitution and then he says, \u201cjust as I love Israel, that\u2019s the same love I have toward Israel.\u201d God was bearing with Israel in love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You say, \u201cWell, that\u2019s disgusting. That\u2019s terrible. God did this for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And so, this is the manner of our unity. First, the manner of our unity is we first bear with one another in love. And the second, it it says in verse three, \u201ceager to maintain the unity of the Spirit and the bondage of of peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The keywords here are \u201ceager to maintain.\u201d The word \u201ceager\u201d is like being almost in a crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The exhortation is be throw yourselves wholeheartedly to maintaining this unity. Like, exercise yourself. Sweat a bit Maintaining this unity. It\u2019s not, you know, you know, La-Z-boy kind of maintaining unity. It\u2019s, you know, in the gym, squatting type of maintain. You\u2019re exerting energy is what the apostle is saying here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The other keyword is maintain. \u00a0Maintenance presupposes abuse. I remember having a discussion with my boss and he was complaining. I did something that he didn\u2019t want me to do, and he got a little upset at me. And I said, \u201cWell, you know, at least I did it.\u201d And he replied, \u201cWell, if I did it, it would be done right.\u201d \u00a0And I basically replied by saying his tools were never used. In other words, he wasn\u2019t exerting himself at the work and I was just telling him to calm down. \u201cI\u2019m exerting myself. I\u2019m doing this maintenance. I\u2019m working towards this project, and you haven\u2019t used your tools in a long time.\u201d Maintenance presupposes use and that we\u2019re working at something, and that effort is being expended.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To stay in that same kind of realm, I used to work at Moody as an electrician and there were two crews and I worked on both. One was new install and one was maintenance. On which one do you think I liked to work on the most? It was new install. Why? Because when you do maintenance, it is hard because you gotta deal with mistakes that were done by people who did half jobs in the past or you have to, you know, tear out something that is all messed up. Maintenance is always harder than new install. But Paul is saying, \u201cWe must maintain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We must observe ourselves in maintaining the unity that the spirit has created upon us.<\/p>\n<p>And so, since the church has been this is a quote by commentator O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p>He says, since the church has been designed by god to be the masterpiece of his goodness and the pattern on which the reconciled universe of the future will be modeled.<\/p>\n<p>Believers are expected to live in a manner consistent with this divine purpose to keep this unity must mean to maintain it visibly. We must maintain the unity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if you recall that the Australian crocodile guy. Y\u2019all remember that guy back in the early 2000\u2019s? When he would encounter a difficulty, he would say, \u201cdanger, danger, danger!\u201d And so I wanna address three dangers. Danger, danger, danger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first danger is direct sabotage. This is when you and I participate in disunity purposefully.<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 6:16-19 says, \u201cthere are six things that the Lord hates.\u201d And hate is a strong word.<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs continues and says, \u201cSeven [things] that are an abomination to [God].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaughty eyes, a lying tongue, a hand that sheds innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and notice the seven one, the one who sows discord among brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When you sow discord among brothers, when you sabotage unity, you are working not against a leadership. You\u2019re sabotaging God\u2019s work of bringing us together. That\u2019s why the Bible sets out a pattern for how to address particular grievances. Matthew 18 shows us that if you have a complaint, address your brother. If that brother doesn\u2019t listen to you, bring one or two or three more. And then if they don\u2019t listen to you, then bring it to the church.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is dangerous thing to work against what God, is accomplishing. It\u2019s a dangerous thing to work against what Christ died to accomplish. And so, there\u2019s direct sabotage where you, participate in disunity by actions, and then there\u2019s the opposite, which is passivity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Passivity is a way that you just take it easy. Going back to maintenance, mechanics here in the room will know what PMs are. I don\u2019t know if anyone else would know what PMs are, but PMs are preventative maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remember having a car I would wait until the low oil light would turn on before I did my oil change. And one time, I was with a friend. He was sitting in the car. He\u2019s like, \u201cWhy is your low oil light on?\u201d I explained to him, you know, \u201cI just wait until the low oil light is on and that\u2019s when I do the oil change.\u201d He\u2019s like, after he almost hit me, he was like, \u201cdon\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n<p>Like, you\u2019re gonna mess up your car.\u00a0 You\u2019re gonna ruin it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And so, preventative maintenance is, it is anticipating something that will potentially go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>So, passivity is the lack of preventative maintenance. It\u2019s like when you pass by a house and the bushes are overgrown, there is no preventative maintenance. It takes time to mow the grass, trim the bushes. So, PMs are necessary to prevent problems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, PMs can\u2019t solve everything, but it is a way that you prevent disunity from happening.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons unity is not maintained in congregation is not so much by direct sabotage. It\u2019s not like we are going out and sowing seeds of discord, but we\u2019re passive. And passivity is detrimental to unity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ladies, just imagine if you\u2019re the only one planning dates, planning vacations, taking initiatives with the kids, or setting goals for the family and your husband has checked out. That would be detrimental to the relationship. Or vice versa if the husband\u2019s doing all this. So, we must be proactive in maintaining unity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When there is low engagement in our lives with one another, there is a lack of maintaining preventative maintenance in our unity. We can actually work against our unity when we passively engage with one another with no intentionality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One example of this, and I was encouraged, not too long ago where Evy and Roseanne visited several ladies of our congregation. And you can say that that\u2019s preventative maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because they are seeking to maintain them. These are ladies who are haven\u2019t been able to attend, and they were providing maintenance for them in the sense that they were being loved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is an investment by these women, and this leads me to the third danger.<\/p>\n<p>The last danger is privatization. We live in a world that is very individualistic and we just like our to isolate ourselves. And so, we live lives unknown by others or we try to live too private of a life. No one knows our struggles, our discouragements, our uncertainties, our doubts, nothing.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I think Paul commanded hospitality for the church, so that they can throw themselves into knowing each other in relationships. Paul doesn\u2019t command the church to do this just because. Paul is doing it intentionally and a reason for this is to know one another, we have to live life with one another.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a guy at this gym that I go to and he\u2019s pretty cool. Every morning, he says hi to me and I say hi back. I feel our relationship is great. But if you ask me what his name is, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because there\u2019s a way to be related to someone where I just don\u2019t know who they are.<\/p>\n<p>And when we are so private in our lives that we guard ourselves against the intrusion of the body of Christ, then we are in danger of not maintaining the unity of the spirit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Paul, when he goes to Thessalonica and he\u2019s preaching to the church there, he tells them that he not only shared his the gospel with them; he shared his very life.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, his struggles, his hardship, his joys, his laughter, his sorrows, his anxiety, the things that caused him pain. He shared it with the Thessalonians. He didn\u2019t just share the gospel with them.<\/p>\n<p>He shared his life with them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That is the beauty of the church, that we\u2019re known. \u00a0One of the hardest realities in life is to live our lives unknown by people. In the church, we known by God but we\u2019re also known by his people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, if we\u2019re gonna fight to maintain our spirit, produce unity, we must understand the manner of our unity: Bearing with one another in love and eagerly maintaining the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, in verses four to six, Paul anchors our unity in this theological oneness, this foundation.<\/p>\n<p>He uses the word \u201cone\u201d seven times. And he says that our unity has a Trinitarian anchor. The anchor of our unity is Trinitarian.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He says, \u201cOne body, one Spirit.\u201d And then he says, \u201cOne hope,\u201d and then he says, \u201cone Lord, one faith, one baptism.\u201d So, you have the Spirit and the Lord is Jesus and one God and Father of all.<\/p>\n<p>Our unity is anchored on the triune God of the gospel who is one God in three persons and so as a congregation, we reflect the unity that God shows us in his triune nature when we maintain, when we eagerly maintain the unity that the Spirit has produced in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, this morning, you are being invited to walk in a manner worthy of your calling. God is calling you to live in the unity that you have been called to. The question is, will you fight to maintain our spirit produce unity? Will you throw yourself into this glorious work? Will you find our unity to be good and pleasant? Will you believe that it is in this place, in the unity of the church, that God sends forth his blessings forevermore? Will you fight for our Spirit-produced unity?<\/p>\n<p>This is the exhortation and that\u2019s the question. Let us pray.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ref.ly\/logosres\/esv?ref=BibleESV.Eph4.1&amp;off=28&amp;ctx=+the+Body+of+Christ%0a~4%C2%A0I+therefore%2c+m%EF%BB%BFa+p\"><em>The Holy Bible: English Standard Version<\/em><\/a> (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Eph 4:1\u20136.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary This sermon emphasizes the importance of maintaining unity within the Christian community, urging believers to embody humility, gentleness, and patience in their interactions with one another. By understanding their calling to live in harmony, listeners are encouraged to actively engage in strengthening relationships among fellow believers, reflecting the unity of the triune God. 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