Ephesians 4

by Jay Scher

Eph 4:1 I call upon you therefore, I the prisoner of the Master, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Eph 4:2 with all humility and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, Eph 4:3 being eager to guard the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace – Eph 4:4 one body and one Spirit, as you also were called in one expectation of your calling, Eph 4:5 one Master, one belief, one immersion, Eph 4:6 one Elohim and Father of all,1 who is above all, and through all, and in you all. Footnote: 1Mk. 12:32,34, 1 Cor. 8:6, 1 Tim. 2:5, Mk. 12:29-34. Eph 4:7 But to each one of us favour was given according to the measure of the gift of Messiah. Eph 4:8 That is why it says, “When He went up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.” Eph 4:9 But what does “He went up” mean, except that He also first went down into the lower parts of the earth? Eph 4:10 He who went down is also the One who went up far above all the heavens, to fill all. Eph 4:11 And He Himself gave some as emissaries, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as shepherds and teachers Eph 4:12 for the perfecting of the set-apart ones, to the work of service to a building up of the body of the Messiah, Eph 4:13 until we all come to the unity of the belief and of the knowledge of the Son of Elohim, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the completeness of Messiah,

This is so important that so many people take for granted and do not. The teachers are for the building up of messiah until we all come to the unity of belief. If the teacher is not going by scripture then he is a false teacher. It is that simple; you dump him and go to one who is. You search and find the right one. This is not always easy. You don’t make your decision based on how nice the playground is and how many acres they have or how many buildings they have on the property to worship in. All these things can blind you. I know I have been there. You are thinking wow they have all these things, they keep the Sabbath and the Feast days. Then after many months you realize they don’t really keep the Sabbath that well and they are actually playing basketball and volleyball on the Sabbath, along with teaching the kids that this is OK, because no place in scripture does it say we can’t do this! You might be laughing by now, but this is a true story that happened to me several years back. I never noticed they were doing this until they put the basketball hoop about 30 feet from the Tabernacle door! I was always in the bible study that they had right after the pot luck in the same building. When I talked to them about it the main pastor said it doesn’t say in scripture they can’t play basketball and Volley ball in the scriptures. I told him it says we are not to do our own pleasure in Isa 58:13 “If you do turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My set-apart day, and shall call the Sabbath ‘a delight,’ the set-apart day of יהוה ‘esteemed,’ and shall esteem it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, He actually looked at me with a straight face and said “well we have just decided to turn our heads the other way on this one”. TURN OUR HEADS THE OTHER WAY. After that he said “I have nothing more to say to you” and he started changing the oil on his car. His other elder wouldn’t even talk to me about it. I started talking to him and he just actually turned his back to me and started talking to another person. His wife told me “this had actually gone to their doctrinal comity, they voted on this and it passed. So it is their doctrine to play basketball and volleyball on the Sabbath. The kicker of the story here is I had given a sermon the day before at their podium and I told his entire Assembly and other people, because it was during the Feast “that it was breaking the Sabbath to play basketball and volleyball on the Sabbath”. Little did I know it was their doctrine? LOL Several people from out of the area came up and thanked me for the message I gave. They said “they could feel the Ruach in the message as I was speaking”. Father Yah had given me the message to give and I had no Idea it was their doctrine. I was just Yah’s servant messenger coming to them and following his instructions. We left the feast the next day in the middle of it. It doesn’t matter how nice he seems to be or how entertaining he is or how many kids they have to play with your kids you turn and run! If you find yourself in a similar situation and we all do , so I am sure you will. You need to make the right choice no matter how hard it is or if you have kids, especially if they are giving you a hard time, because they want to stay and play with some kids they have met, they will almost always meet kids they like. You have to turn and run!!

Eph 4:14 so that we should no longer be children, tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men, in cleverness, unto the craftiness of leading astray,1 Footnote: 15:6, also 2 Cor. 10:5, 2 Cor. 11:3-14, Gal. 1:6-9, 2 Tim. 3:1-8, 2 Tim. 4:2-4, 2 Peter 2:2-22, Jud. vv. 10-19. Eph 4:15 but, maintaining the truth in love, we grow up in all respects into Him who is the head, Messiah, Eph 4:16 from whom the entire body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the working by which each part does its share, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

This is what we don’t see today “The Love Aspect of it all. People say the name of the father and the son differently. We should have love until we all come to the unity of the faith. If everyone is keeping the Sabbath the right way, along with the other Feast days, eating clean foods and keeping the other commands in Torah that apply to us. We should not be causing division with each other and putting each other down because we say the names different. We are all still in the body of Messiah. Maintaining the Truth in LOVE!! People need to be exercising the fruits of the spirit with each other if you have truly impaled your flesh with Messiah. Let the Father reveal the name to people and stop thinking we know everything. If you are truly in Messiah then why are you hammering other people for saying the name just a little bit different or saying they can’t be in your group, Assembly or Congregation if they don’t say the name just like you. Where are the following things that are supposed to be in you???? Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustworthiness, Gal 5:23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no Torah. Gal 5:24 And those who are of Messiah have impaled the flesh with its passions and the desires. Gal 5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Gal 5:26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Eph 4:17 So this I say, and witness in the Master, that you should no longer walk as the gentiles walk,1 in the futility of their mind, Footnote: 11 Cor. 12:2, and Jer. 10:2. Eph 4:18 having been darkened in their understanding, having been estranged from the life of Elohim, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart, Eph 4:19 who, having become callous, have given themselves up to indecency, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Eph 4:20 But you have not so learned Messiah, Eph 4:21 if indeed you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as truth is in יהושע: Eph 4:22 that you put off – with regard to your former way of life – the old man, being corrupted according to the desires of the deceit, Eph 4:23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, Eph 4:24 and that you put on the renewed man1 which was created according to Elohim, in righteousness and set-apartness of the truth. Footnote: 1Rom. 8:1. Eph 4:25 Therefore, having put off the false, speak truth, each one with his neighbour, for we are members of one another. Eph 4:26 “Be wroth, but do not sin.” Do not let the sun go down on your rage, Eph 4:27 nor give place to the devil. Eph 4:28 Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands what is good, so that he has somewhat to share with those in need. Eph 4:29 Let no corrupt word come out of your mouth, but only such as is good for the use of building up, so as to impart what is pleasant to the hearers. Eph 4:30 And do not grieve the Set-apart Spirit of Elohim, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Eph 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and displeasure, and uproar, and slander be put away from you, along with all evil. Eph 4:32 And be kind towards one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as Elohim also forgave you in Messiah.

YAH’S SHALOM & BLESSINGS TO ALL THOSE WHO WALK IN>> “the Way” AND KEEP HIS COMMANDS TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITITY! Num 6:24 “יהוה bless you and guard you; Num 6:25 יהוה make His face shine upon you, and show favor to you; Num 6:26 יהוה lift up His face upon you, and give you peace.” Hearted

With brotherly love in the body of Messiah in the Way Brother Jay

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