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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 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.

The True Christian was basically defined in the opening three chapters,

and now we see how true Christians live. This is a definition for us. This is what describes

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