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do you do The Apostle Paul encouraged unity and diversity among God's people. He taught that the Ascended Christ pours out unique

spiritual gifts on his followers. What's the purpose for these gifts? That's the

question we consider today on Truth for Life.

Alistairbegg is looking specifically at the gifts of preaching and teaching God's

word. Ephesians 4 verse 1. I therefore a prisoner for the Lord urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been

called with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

eager to maintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.

There is one body and one spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your

call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and

father of all who is over all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's

gift. Therefore it says when he ascended on high he led a host of captives and he gave

gifts to men. In saying he ascended, what does it mean,

but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might

fill all things. And he gave the Apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

to equip the saints for the work of ministry for building up the body of Christ.

Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the son of God to mature

manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be

children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about

by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness and deceitful schemes.

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in

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