August 24/25, 2019
Patrick Conrad

Ephesians 4:11-16 (NLT)
¹¹Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. ¹²Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. ¹³This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. ¹⁴Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. ¹⁵Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. ¹⁶He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.

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WHY is spiritual maturity important for me?

v. 13, This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.

1 - Maturity is not an

to God.

2 - Maturity is

that Christ is at work in you!

I Corinthians 3:1-3 (NLT)
¹Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ. ²I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready, ³for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world?

WHAT is required for me to mature spiritually?

v. 14, Then we will no longer be like children…

1 -

the struggle.

2 -

those thoughts, perspectives and worldly views which support and supply oxygen to your old sin nature…

• Reveal Answer
  attitude toward sins of omission.
• Reveal Answer
  attitude toward sins of commission.

3 -

the change required to mature your faith

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• “I”
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HOW do I become spiritually mature?

vv. 15-16, Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does it’s own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.

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