Talk, Edification, the Holy Spirit, and the Glory of…
The Lord's Day Morning May 21, 2006 Ephesians 4:29-30 “Talk, Edification, the Holy Spirit, and the Glory of God” Dr. J. Ligon Duncan III Amen. If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Ephesians 4. In this whole passage from Ephesians 4:17, running all the way to Ephesians 5:4, Paul is calling us to live like Christians: to live out the grace of God in our lives, and, in so doing, to promote the unity that God has created in the body, and indeed, to promote His glory in our witness to the world. And the Apostle Paul has made much in this book, especially in chapter two, of the fact that God has brought a very diverse people into His church. In the Ephesian church there were Jews and Gentiles; there were slave and former slave, and free; there were barbarians…