The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

It's time now to open your Bible to the book of Ephesians.

We have been in Ephesians for quite a while and with a brief apology to those who are

here visiting for the weekend, we'll sort of drop you in in the middle here.

But I think the word of God will penetrate your heart and be helpful to you, at least

that's my prayer.

In the book of Ephesians, you have a kind of a model of Christian instruction.

You have six chapters, the first three are about doctrine and the second three are about

practice, orthodoxy and orthopraxy.

And all doctrine is for the purpose of practice.

All the biblical doctrine is but a foundation for how we live our lives.

And so we are in the fourth chapter which puts us in the second section which is where we apply

our theology in the way we live.

And we've entitled this series, The True Christians Walk.

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