Grow up!

Paul shared with the Ephesians that the goal of discipleship was to grow to maturity, and from that posture, we would be able to speak the truth to each other in love. Today, the only thing that people want to hear is what makes them happy, or only what they agree with. Paul said that in the last days, people would have itching ears: 2 Timothy 4:3-4 – For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. We are seeing this today. It’s time to grow up in Christ and put away anything that would turn one away from the truth. Jesus called Himself the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Let’s speak the truth in love, and help others to find the truth!

Ephesians 4:15 – Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of Him who is the head, that is, Christ.

 

In all your getting, get wisdom!

The scriptures state: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). Paul stated in the book of Ephesians that God provided His Body with the tools and resources for their maturity and “perfection.” We have HIs Word. We have Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers who are gifted and anointed to train, mentor and prepare His Body for the work of ministry. God doesn’t want His children to be ignorant of the plans and strategies of the wicked one. Knowledge and wisdom is power. In all your getting, get Godly knowledge!

Ephesians 4:14 – that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,