Category: Today’s Truth

The Gospel truth is for every person: man, woman, and child. It knows no race or culture. It represents freedom for all. Ephesians 3:6 tells us, “And this is God’s plan: Both Gentiles and Jews who believe the Good News share equally in the riches inherited by God’s children. Both are part of the same body, and both enjoy the promise of blessings because they belong to Christ Jesus.” What a beautiful truth! God’s plan from the beginning of time was to offer the Gospel for all man. God cares for every single person; He is the Creator God who cares for us.

We are living in a time of division. People against people. Truth versus lies. Righteousness versus unrighteousness. Good versus evil. Division is everywhere you look, and the enemy, the devil, wants nothing more than to feed it and further cause division in the hearts of the people, some of them even God’s people. We must seek to bring unity to our churches and help them reach people all over. We must be the ones who radiate God’s love.

God is a God of unity and seeks to heal what the enemy wants to destroy. Praise God for His perfect plan that offers redemption for all mankind!

God has shown His people His purpose in everything through the Word of God. Ephesians 3:10-11 states, “God’s purpose in all this was to use the church to display his wisdom in its rich variety to all the unseen rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was his eternal plan, which he carried out through Christ Jesus our Lord.” His plan involves the church and using the church to display His wisdom. Isn’t that an amazing thing to think about? We, as His people (the church) can be His ambassadors and bear His name.

I have seen some churches who honor Him through their peace and unity and others who deny Him with their own selfish actions. I have been in services where I felt the Spirit leave because of the disunity amongst the body of Christ. I have also sat in services where the Holy Spirit was moving and working amongst the body of Christ. We, as a church, can either decide to be a part of His plan and work for Him, or work against Him for our own desires. We cannot do both.

Spend some time in prayer today for your own church, that they can serve the Lord and maintain peace and unity.

Ephesians 4:16 says, “He 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.” If you are a Christian, then you are part of the body of Christ. Each part of that body has a different function just like every part of your own body has a function and serves a great purpose. Christ is the head of that body and holds the entire thing together. Just like this verse says, the body of Christ fits together perfectly. Think about that for a minute. God created a perfect puzzle to fit together.

Are there people in the body of Christ that you do not get along with, or perhaps do not like? According to this verse, they have a purpose, and they fit together perfectly with you and the rest of the body. As Christians, we should want to strengthen all parts of the body. If there’s a part that maybe isn’t as strong, then we should want to encourage and support that part of the body. Just like if you hurt your arm or another part of your body, you would need help to strengthen it back to where it was before, maybe through physical therapy, or another means. If a part of the body of Christ is struggling, then it is our job to strengthen and encourage that person.

Think about this the next time you get in an argument with someone, or get mad at someone who knows the Lord. Spend some time today, in prayer, asking God to help you love all members of the body and thanking him for Christ, the head of the body.

After Jesus descended to the earth to live, walk, and breathe just as we do, He ascended back to heaven. Ephesians 4:10 says, “And the same one who descended is the one who ascended higher than all the heavens, so that he might fill the entire universe with himself.” He ascended into heaven to take His place beside God the Father. The purpose was to fill the entire universe with Himself!

What a great purpose Jesus has! He is meant to fill the Universe! How does it accomplish this? Through the work of the Holy Spirit. When we are following the words of Christ and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we are allowing Him to fill us up! When we meet with other believers, we are allowing the Holy Spirit to fill the place! We take Him with us wherever we go and allow Him to fill the universe when we submit to Him and follow His leading!

How can you follow Him and serve Him? Pray and ask God to give you opportunities to do just that!

“There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, in all, and living through all,” Ephesians 4:5-6 says. God is authority over all creation. This is hard for the non believer to understand. If you believe that the earth came to be in a different way than through God’s spoken voice, then it will be hard to understand God as the authority over Earth. However, if you believe that God created the earth and everything in it, then you probably have a good understanding of His authority as this verse states.

God is, over all. Everything will bow down to Him and submit to Him. Through Him. So through Him are all things. God is in His creation. His fingerprints on every living thing. Just as an artist puts pieces of his experiences, his voice, himself into his work, so was the same with God. He created us in His image. This means that we belong to Him. We are like Him. We have His qualities. He is living through us!

Do you believe this? Do you believe that there is one God, one faith, one baptism, and one God? Spend some time in prayer today, thanking Him for His authority over your life!

Ephesians 3:18 says, “And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.” Do you really understand how deep and wide the love of God really is? God’s Bible is a love letter from Him to mankind. He used many people throughout time to write His love letters. Some of them were first hand accounts of what the Lord did for His people.

Ephesians is one of those accounts. Paul tells in His letters all that the Lord did for Him. When He rescued him from his sins, He made him an ambassador for the message of Christ. Paul understood the love of God. The Gospels are another example of accounts of men who experienced the miracles and the love of Jesus Christ. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all tell about Christ in different ways. They all experienced who He was and what He did for everyone around Him.

If someone asked you what God has done for you, what would your account look like? If you honestly think about the love of God, how would you describe it? Spend some time praying about His love and think about the impact it has had on your life.

“I was chosen to explain to everyone this mysterious plan that God, the Creator of all things, had kept secret from the beginning,” Ephesians 3:9 states. Paul tells of the provisions of God over His life. He was someone who persecuted Christians, but had been rescued by God. He believed wholeheartedly in the plans of the Lord, and especially Jesus Christ.

Why would God choose to keep this mysterious plan a secret? Why hadn’t he revealed it to generations before. These are difficult questions to answer. However, everything God did, He did as part of His plan. He never changed His plan or messed up His plan. It was and still is perfect in every way. Throughout history, He has been gracious with man. He was gracious with Israel when they continuously denied Him and turned from Him. 2 Peter 3:8-10 says it is not His will that anyone should perish. So He is longsuffering, waiting for people to turn to Him, always drawing them and leading them toward Him. We are part of His plan. He longs for us to explain His plan to everyone we meet just as Paul did.

Romans 1:14-15 Can be a difficult verse to understand unless we really look at the words and what they mean: “I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.” What does Paul mean when he says he is obligated? Why would he feel obligated to both Greeks and non-Greeks, wise and the foolish?

According to Webster’s Dictionary, the word obligated can mean legally or morally bound or committed. As a Pharisee, Paul was obligated to keeping the law and the traditions of his religion. However, once saved, he was free from these obligations, so what does he mean here? I think the word obligated means morally bound or even committed pan this verse. Paul felt a moral obligation in his heart to make the name of Jesus known. He had previously been Christians, but now it was time to make His name known to all the world, every culture, every religion. He was also committed to Christ in every way and wanted to show that commitment by preaching the gospel.

What about you? Do you feel a sense of obligation to bringing the name of Jesus to your family, your work, the world around you? If not, spend some time in prayer, asking that God would place a sense of urgency in your heart today.

Since the beginning of time, God has been revealing himself and his power to man. We see this in the flood with Noah. He flooded the entire earth to destroy sin because of his hatred for it. The creation of the world also shows the power of God. In just seven days he made everything come to life. Take a look into the human body and you will see the intricacies and power of our God. Every cell, every hair on our heads shows the power of God. Romans 1:20 says, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”

Man has no excuse for rejecting God. He made a way for people to know Him generations before and is still making a way today in this digital age. He has planted the gospel in the hearts of His people, so that they would bring His message to a dying world. In the end, we will all stand before God, and there will not be a good reason anyone could give about why they did not accept Jesus as their Savior.

Pray for those you know today, that they will come to know the Lord before it is too late. Pray that they will accept Jesus and stop giving excuses.

Paul says in Romans 3:5, “But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.” Our past sins can serve a purpose if we allow them too. We should never dwell on our past sins as a way to prevent us from moving forward, but instead we should let them drive us toward the Lord.

When Jesus went to the cross, He was taking on the sins of the world. We needed His forgiveness for every single sin that stained our lives. So He died for those sins. We do not need to dwell and remember those sins, but instead think about how He rescued you from those sins and gave you a new life. Our sins and unrighteous living shows how righteous the Lord really is.