As

As

as As Christians, we're called to live godly lives.

But what does that mean?

How exactly do we do that?

Today, on Truth for Life, Alastur Begg examines essential characteristics that should be evident in our lives,

and we'll see how in the process

of living life God's way, we're able to bless even those who hate us.

We're studying 1 Peter Chapter 3.

How can such a diversified group of people, as those to whom Peter wrote and continues through the centuries to write

ever come to a united common interest and outlook? Well, the answer is actually very, very simple.

Turn to Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 13.

The only way that men and women in our day amongst the family of God can ever come together in this harmony

will not be upon the basis of a human agenda, but will be upon the foundation

of divine authority.

Verse 13 of Ephesians 4.

He's talked about the responsibility of the various functions within the church to evangelize

and to edify.

And he says, when this begins to happen, when the word of God is communicated

in truth and is brought home by the spirit, then he says, until we all reach unity in the faith

and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

So we need be in no doubt as how we come to this harmony. We come to this harmony under the

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