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Worthy of the Calling (Ephesians 4:1-16) - Gage Henry

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Religion & Spirituality

4.9525 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Spiritual maturity is an awareness of how much you need God.

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0:00.0

So we've been going through this series, Ephesians, and so I'm actually going to be the next

0:03.6

installment of our Ephesians series, and I'm so grateful at just the way that Paul even writes,

0:09.6

honestly, is incredible because he establishes this unbelievable truth that what you believe

0:15.6

informs you of your identity and out of your identity, your behavior flows.

0:20.3

And so for me, it's been this unbelievable unpacking of what do I even believe to be true?

0:25.6

What do I believe?

0:26.7

And not just like what do I believe, but what do I actually act on because of what I believe?

0:31.0

And so if you need a little recap, I don't have time to go into all the messages, but just

0:35.4

real quick, the recap is the chapters one through

0:38.4

three of Ephesians are all about belief. Say belief to your neighbor. Belief. Yes, it's all about

0:45.5

belief. And we're about to turn the page and go into the next chapter, chapter four,

0:50.1

which is all about behavior. Tell your neighbor behavior. Say behave yourself. All right. Some of y'all

0:57.8

really meant that. All right. Ephesians 1 through 3, belief. Ephesians 4 through 6 is going to be

1:02.1

behavior. And so in order to start this off, I feel like there's a quote from a guy who has really

1:07.4

meant a lot to Christian thought for so long. And we've talked about this

1:11.2

thought actually, and it's by a man named A.W. Tozier. And he's a guy who actually has

1:16.1

helped pastors think for generations and generations. So he says this. I'm going to put on the

1:21.8

screen, what comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. What comes into our minds

1:29.8

when we think about God is the most important thing about us. And to be honest with you,

1:34.6

I actually googled this quote because I was like thinking about belief and how it informs

1:38.8

our identity and I was wrestling with this. And I actually Googled it wrong. I said, I googled

1:43.5

this thing and I said, what comes into my I said, I googled this thing, and I said,

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