Bound Together by These Things

Bound Together by These Things

Bound Together By These Things

Text Eph 2 :19-22

As God’s dear children, there are many things to unite us.

There are certain fundamental and vital truths that all true believers embrace—such as

The deity of Christ,

The virgin birth of the Lord Jesus

Salvation by grace through faith in the Son of God.

If we are truly saved by God’s grace, there are some things that bind us together.

Each one of these thoughts begins with the word "fellow."

  1. We Are Fellow-Partakers Of One Calling.

Eph 3:6That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

  1. Our calling to salvation was from heaven.
  2. God’s plan involved bringing both Jew and Gentile into one body through faith.
  3. That body is the Church of Jesus Christ.
  4. It was not revealed in the Old Testament that both Jew and Gentile would become one body.
  5. The mystery of the church is that of New Testament revelation.
  6. Our calling is both a heavenly one and a holy one.
  1. We Are Fellow-Citizens Of One Country.

Eph 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

  1. We are fellow-citizens with God’s people.
  2. God’s true household is not a building of brick and mortar, but people who have been redeemed by the grace of God.
  3. Gods church

a)It is a new nation,

b)God’s family,

c)God’s building,

d)A growing organism,

e)A world wide temple (or the church universal),

f)And a local temple (the local church).

  1. The country, of which we are citizens by faith, is a perfect, peaceful place.
  1. We Are Fellow-Members Of One Body.

Rom 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved

  1. It is "saved" people that make up the body of Christ.
  2. Salvation involves confession with the mouth, and faith toward Christ in the heart.
  3. Salvation brings deliverance and delight into ones life.

Rom 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

  1. saved people don’t fear hell
  1. We Are Fellow-Laborers With Jesus.

Phi 4:3 And I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow laborers, whose names are in the book of life.

  1. In that verse Paul uses the term "yoke-fellow."
  2. A yoke was a collar that bound two oxen together for plowing.
  3. The collar held them tightly so they might pull together and get the job done.
  4. A "yoke-fellow" is one who pulls and works cooperatively with others.
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