being

being

a bit of

being Being in a church regularly, or even being in membership at a local church doesn't necessarily mean you are in Christ.

Today on Truth for Life, Alastair Begg explains the difference by describing the unique bond shared by

genuine believers and why this union should cause us to stand out from the surrounding culture.

I invite you to turn to Ephesians and to chapter 4 as we continue our studies in Paul's

letter to the church in Ephesus.

Well, let's read verses 4, 5, and 6, which is where we are.

We won't get into this hardly at all, but at least we can break in this morning. 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.

You'll notice that this is a Trinitarian passage.

Verse 4 refers to the Spirit of God, verse 5 to the Son of God, and verse 6, to God the Father.

Now, interestingly, having belabored the point that he is moving from the doctrinal to the

practical, in actual fact, when you look at this, he's actually right back at the doctrinal

again, isn't he? Because he's now giving us instruction on the nature of the church. And we're

going to have to wait really into verse 17 until he gets back to, now I say and testify in the

Lord that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do. He started that in verse one, walk in a manner

worthy of the calling, do it like this and this and this, and then he says,

then he starts to give instruction about the church. And many of our problems as Christian

believers is because we don't understand the church. We don't understand the nature of what it

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