INTRO: The first unit of Scripture in Ephesians 4-6 dealing with the worthy walk of the saved deals with church unity in verses 1-16. We have looked at the call to unity and saw the reasons why there ought to be unity. There should be unity in the church because there is one body; and because there is one Spirit; and because there is one hope; and because there is one Lord and because there is one faith and because there is one baptism and because there is one God. In verses 7-16, the next 10 verses, Paul will now tell us what God has provided by which to achieve this unity. These 10 verses are very complicated. Before I preach on a section I diagram it to find out as precisely as I can what the divine Holy Spirit had in his mind when He inspired the passage. Bible interpretation is a huge task. Let me mention as well that one must distinguish between interpretation and application. There may be many different applications to any single Scripture but there is only one correct interpretation. One has only rightly interpreted a passage when one has in his own mind that which the Holy Spirit had in His mind when He inspired that passage. I certainly would not want to give the idea that I think I am always right, but I can say this, I make every effort I know how to seek to interpret correctly. Then I seek to apply that passage to our lives whenever I can. The interpretation of the passage before us is difficult. So Paul, having come alongside the Ephesians to exhort them to walk in unity in the church now further proceeds to explain what God has provided in order to achieve this unity.
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