Thursday, October 1, 2015

Maintain the unity of the Spirit. 10/1/15

Day 272- Reading the New Testament in one year.

Ephesians 4

Unity in the Body of Christ

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. 8 Therefore it says,

“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,

    and he gave gifts to men.”[a]

9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?[b] 10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds[c] and teachers,[d] 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood,[e] to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

The New Life

17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self,[f] which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

The prayer of God October 1st

“Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.” LUKE 6:12

One of the most striking examples in the Gospels showing how the Lord Jesus spent time with the Father is the record of His spending a whole night in prayer. The phrase “in prayer to God” may be translated more literally “in the prayer of God.” Although most versions of the Bible translate the phrase as an objective genitive — “in prayer to God,” it is equally proper to translate it as a subjective genitive — “in the prayer of God.” This simply means that in the prayer, God is not only the object to pray to, “to God,” but He is also the source of the prayer itself, “of God.”

In his Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Frederick L. Godet brings out the more literal translation of Luke 6:12: “The term proseuch`/`tou`'qeou,`' literally,prayerofGod,isalsoauniqueexpres- sion in the New Testament. It does not denote any special request, but a state of rapt contemplation of God’s presence, a prayer arising out of the most profound communion with Him.” Such a unique description of the Lord’s all-night vigil in prayer discloses some- thing of what took place during His prolonged and concentrated time with the Father. “The prayer of God” indicates that in and as a result of His “profound communion” with the Father, the Lord merged with the burden and prayer of God. He so allowed the Father to pass through Him during His communion and fellowship with Him that He became perfectly one with God. He merged with God. This meant God could pass through Him unhindered. He was emptied of self and completely open to the flow of prayer coming directly from God.

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