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To expose unfruitful works of darkness means the uncomfortable work of confronting them, rebuking them, and showing them to be wrong.

Is it true that we are so sinful that nothing we can do could please the Lord?

The lifestyle of those who walk in light is full of fruit and goodness. The lifestyle of those who walk in darkness is barren and full of evil.

All the effort of holiness flows from the new birth, the new heart. If you reverse the order, you don’t have Christianity; you have legalism.

Once we were lost in darkness as children of darkness. But now, we are light in the Lord. Therefore, walk as children of light.

How do you think of yourself? If you are in Christ, do you consider that he already calls you “light” in the Lord?

No one is justified because they stayed sexually pure. But no one inherits the kingdom of God while living a sexually impure life.

Foolish talk, crude joking, and shameful speech have no place to grow when our communities are filled with explicit thankfulness to God.

The apostle Paul rarely, if ever, calls believers “Christians,” but he often calls us “saints.” What does the name mean?

What does it mean that sexual immorality should not even be named among Christians?

If Christ is not the King of your heart on earth, he will not be the King that satisfies your heart for all eternity.

Those marked by sexual immorality, impurity, and covetousness will not inherit the kingdom of God. Are such warnings aimed at Christians?

If the Father crushed the Son on our behalf, could he also be pleased with his Son while he died?

Loving others as Christ loved us is not a safe or convenient enterprise. It is a sacrificial love that bleeds.

The love of God is too great to leave us as we were. Anyone who has experienced the love of God has been transformed by the love of God.

Can you forgive someone who doesn’t repent of doing you any wrong? Can there be real forgiveness?

If you are a Christian, you are a new person. You are not what you were. You are fundamentally, profoundly, deeply new.

Whenever we get hurt, we become vulnerable to bitterness. But God calls us to be kind, tenderhearted, and forgiving.

God seals us with his Holy Spirit to ensure we make it home. And this sealing by the Spirit leads to a life of love on earth.

What does it mean that God can be grieved? Isn’t he unable to feel human feelings?

Keep your eyes on fellow Christians. Are they worn out, discouraged, downcast? Ask God for an upbuilding word.

What does stealing reveal about our hearts? It shows a lack of love for people and a lack of contentment in the Lord.

Falling asleep with anger is an invitation to the devil to sow bitterness into your life and relationships.

Going to bed angry is dangerous. It invites bitterness into your life, but more than that, it invites the devil.

When Paul says, “Be angry, and do not sin,” does that mean we should be angry?

He who loves the church loves himself because he’s a part of the church. Take care how you love your fellow members in Christ.

If you don’t love the truth, you don’t love the gospel. If you love the gospel, you will love being a truthful person.

Christ does not simply tell us to put off our old lives. He tells us to put on his character.

Our minds must have more than new ideas to be made new. It must have a new inclination, disposition, and ruling principle.

Are you still living according to your old sinful life? Put to death old desires and be transformed by truth in Christ.

What can save us from our suicidal desires for sin? The truth as found in Christ.

The Christian is not just one inwardly. We put on a new man, a new uniform, a new identity that others can see.

What does it mean to learn Christ? And if you were studying Ephesians for yourself, how would you answer a question like that from the Bible?

The heart that loses God as its greatest desire becomes a cauldron of desires for sensuality.

Underneath every rejection of Christianity is a hardness of heart and rebellion of life.

The reason God gave us reason was so that we might know God. When we refuse knowledge of him, we are left with futility.

Christianity is not just a worldview to be believed in, but it is a way to live by.

The church is the corporate representation of Christ to the world. This privilege is great, and the task of maturity is serious.

In the church, the redeemed build one another up in love into the dwelling place of God.

Every part of the Church needs to function as God made us to function in order for the church to grow into maturity.

Pastors and teachers are given to the church so that we might stop being children and grow up in Christ, so are you growing?

Immaturity in the Christian life is often exposed by us being easily swayed by new and false teaching.

In order for the church to stand mature before God, each child of God needs to grow up into Christian maturity.

We often say that Jesus is the “Son of God,” but what exactly does that name mean?

Right now, our faith is imperfect, our churches are imperfect, our love is imperfect. When Christ comes, the imperfect will be made perfect.

When we only unify over an intellectual assent to truth, we miss out on the true beauty and benefit of biblical unity.

When the pastors equip the saints and the saints do the work of ministry, the body of Christ builds itself up into maturity.

Pastors have the challenging task of teaching and inspiring their people to maturity in the faith for the health of the church.

Is there a call to the ministry? Does God still appoint pastors to specific local churches?

Apostles and prophets are different from evangelists, shepherds, and teachers. Do you know how?