INTRO: We are now in Ephesians 4. We have completed the doctrinal section of the letter which was chapters 1-3 and have entered the practical section which is chapters 4-6. And this practical section has to do with the walk of the believer. The walk of the Christian is the life of the Christian. As walking is one step at a time, so the Christian life is one step at a time.
Now one would think that the Christian life would start out difficult and then get easier and easier as life goes along. Looking back over my own Christian life, it started out wonderful. I had been under tremendous conviction, knowing I was on the way to hell. And when I surrendered to the Lord, as I have described my first while as a Christian the sky looked bluer and the grass looked greener.
But then the real life began to set in and I saw myself responsible to study the Bible and help others, and trouble began there. Maybe I have told you. I was burdened for the young people in the traditional church I was attending. I began to work with them and we did help a lot of young people. Many of them are still walking with the Lord. But trouble set in. One day I got a call from a restaurant to come pick up, I think it was fifty hamburgers, I had ordered. But I had not ordered any hamburgers. Although I didn't see it as such at the time, it was a form of persecution. Well, I offered to pay for those hamburgers but the restaurant didn't accept my offer.
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