The morning Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.

Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 7, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: “The seven ones of Paul for Ephesians 4 for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Ephesians”.

The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God."

The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 87ff.

The SSnet.org site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God speaking also to your heart.

Why do you not click on this now?

 https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ323_07.pdf

---Or try in alternative this one:  https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less06.html

---Paul is using seven “ones” here. Body and Spirit is one. 1+1. A Trinity blessing.

---Paul is mixing the recipe of a good Christian life here with all the good sauces you can find.

---The best sauce for spiritual food is….well hunger.

---So every now and then Paul uses the word agape=Godly love. Whatever he is going to expect or say, it is connected to this word. You need it.

---It is the 1 Corinthians 13 fabric. The thread is weaved through the tapestry.

---The engine part of Paul in this chapter requires agape love.

---Then he says also that the church is one (4:12, 16) in the one Spirit (4:4).

---The Holy Spirit is brought in at every corner. A necessary component.

---Love and the Holy Spirit. The Father is agape and gave Christ as savior to us.

---“one Lord” (a reference to Christ).

---“one faith” (meaning the content of what Christians believe, Eph. 4:13.

---“one baptism” (compare Eph. 5:26).

---“one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in all” (Eph. 4:6).

---Paul is not talking about pantheism with God inside nature view.

---Or with panentheism with nature caught up in His being not exhausting it at all.

---He does believe that God is transcendent to our nature, loose from it.

---He does believe in immanence through the Spirit that He can connect with humans and by cooperation great things can be done and achieved.

---In fact cooperation is required. There is no salvation or success without cooperation.

---Paul advocates a growth, a movement, nothing static, a transformation not by oneself only, but with the essential ingredient the help of the Holy Spirit.

---Convicts, blames, fix, praise, convicts, blames, fix, praise. For every fruit of the Spirit there will be trials and temptations necessary to strengthen the character until all come to the completeness that is in Christ unto a perfect man.

---Have you ever wondered why Paul is writing so difficult? Peter said it. Well he is doing it because it was the common popular style of Jurisprudence in those days. They loved long disputes and discussions and the public use to sit for hours listening to it.

---The rhetoric had patterns and Paul is knows them. So is his learned scribes writing by his dictation to them in jail. Now you know why Paul is always talking difficult rather than normal.